Governor Youngkin today announced the end of the California electric vehicle mandate in Virginia, effective at the end of 2024 when California’s current regulations expire. An official opinion from Attorney General Jason Miyares in response to a request by the Governor and Senate Republican Leader Ryan McDougle confirms that Virginia is not required to comply with expansive new mandates adopted by the unelected California Air Resources Board (CARB) set to take effect January 1, 2025.
“Once again, Virginia is declaring independence – this time from a misguided electric vehicle mandate imposed by unelected leaders nearly 3,000 miles away from the Commonwealth,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin. “The idea that government should tell people what kind of car they can or can’t purchase is fundamentally wrong. Virginians deserve the freedom to choose which vehicles best fit the needs of their families and businesses. The law is clear, and I am proud to announce Virginians will no longer be forced to live under this out-of-touch policy.”
“Today, I’ve issued an official Attorney General Opinion that confirms that Virginians are no longer legally bound to follow the emission standards of California,” said Attorney General Jason Miyares. “EV mandates like California’s are unworkable and out of touch with reality, and thankfully the law does not bind us to their regulations. California does not control which cars Virginians buy and any thoughts that automobile manufacturers should face millions of dollars in civil penalties rather than allowing our citizens to choose their own vehicles is completely absurd.”
Even FILTHY YOUNGKIN knows it’s a Fad, and nobody is buying the EV Propaganda or their Useless Death Traps.
Let the FILTHY LIBERALS Wear this.
Nice statement but I would have included some language about all those lovely open pit strip mines that are needed to fuel these EVs.
Your “lovely” implies that mines destroy landscapes. Well, they are temporarily messy but are restored it to at least equal to original condition as the the works move on. Even if the mining companies were not required to “clean up”, nature would. If humanity disappeared from Earth, nature would quickly clean up all of our works; don’t despair.
That’s true, but the point is that the greenies who push the global warming myth and demand only electric cars are the same greenies who oppose mining, and the mining required/being used for electric vehicles is some of the worst in the world.
Indeed Watermelons like to show pictures of oil sands extraction but not the remediated areas. They like to show clear cuts but not the replanted forests. They like to show the messy pipeline construction sites but not the remediated areas. They sure as $#!t won’t like Mother Earth being raped to extract copper, rare earth or lithium for their supersized golf carts
Yes, exactly!
Not in third world countries. The mines remain as children do not clean up the mining mess they made.
Good for Youngkin
Car companies plan to extend the range of their electric vehicles
https://www.sae.org/news/2024/05/toyota-internal-combustion-future-engines 🤣
Sooooo … they’re going back to hybrids. Makes perfect sense … which is exactly why all the self-proclaimed “green” “eco-leftists” will hate it
Youngkin not dumb.
Good move on their part.
One wonders where all those batteries soon to be produced in Ontario will end up…?
Justin’s New garage..??
As for the Big 3 in Japan…? Still on the ClimaTard bandwagon…
To be honest Hybrids are not a bad idea…for commuter Vehicles ONLY.
Anything else…100% GASOLINE/DIESEL.
The latest thing from Japan looks like it burns hydrogen or ammonia- ’cause fertilizer isn’t expensive enough already.
I never did understand the ammonia thing. It’s a pretty toxic and dangerous hydrogen carrying molecule, that’s about it. H
No direct carbon tax on ammonia. Just the electricity and natural gas used to make it.
I think it only works if carbon is made prohibitively expensive.
It’s not about safety.
That’s why Freon was invented as a refrigerant. Ammonia gas is toxic and flammable. Many accidents occurred in the past involving household refrigerators and industrial size refrigeration plants.
I know nothing about it. Ammonia novice!
Meanwhile in a more “democrat’ stronghold, NY gov Hochul delays congestion tax indefinitely.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/business/ny-gov-hochul-delays-indefinitely-controversial-nyc-congestion-pricing-plan/index.html
“New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday she is indefinitely delaying the implementation of congestion pricing in New York City’s borough of Manhattan just weeks before the plan was set to take effect, dealing a major blow to transportation advocates who have spent decades pushing for the deal and a win for several opponents of the plan who say the toll is a regressive tax on commuters.”
“After careful consideration I have come to the difficult decision that implementing the planned congestion system risks too many unintended consequences for New Yorkers at this time,” Hochul said during a video briefing from her office in Manhattan.
I expect people get grumpy just before an election paying more taxes for nothing.
The New York law should have been called.
“Just because you work in Manhatten, but refuse to, or cannot afford to, buy into our vastly overpriced housing, we will still require money from you.”
Some robust anti-EV arguments:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/3-reasons-theres-something-sinister-big-push-electric-vehicles