The Senate has voted to do away with California’s EV mandate. Under the mandate, all cars sold in the state must be electric by 2035. But, seriously, how many people can afford to pay sixty to one hundred thousand dollars for a car? And remember, if the battery dies, it can cost up to forty thousand dollars to replace it. What will people do for transportation? The high-speed rail won’t be completed for another 120 years.
Of course, 94% of all EV cars are still on the road. But that is only because they ran out of tow trucks. The good news is that the other 6% made it home. Biden signed a waiver, or at least someone with his autopen signed a waiver, allowing California to enact a policy much tougher than the federal standard. The resolution to overturn the mandate passed along party lines, with one Democrat senator voting for it as well.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Senate Votes To Overturn California’s EV Mandate in Resounding Defeat for Climate Activists
The Senate approved a resolution Thursday that would revoke California’s federal waiver allowing it and several other Democratic-led states to mandate electric vehicle sales, dealing a blow to activists’ efforts to push green energy and fight global warming.
The resolution, introduced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) in April, passed in a bipartisan 51-44 vote Thursday morning. Just one Democrat, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), voted in favor of the resolution alongside every Republican who voted. Five lawmakers were absent from the vote.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“The impact of California’s waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process,” said Capito, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
The vote is a significant loss for both California, which passed its EV mandate in 2022, and for climate activists who loudly defended the law…
Thursday’s vote is also a win for President Donald Trump and other critics of policies forcing consumers to buy EVs. On the campaign trail, Trump said the “crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’” would devastate auto workers and decimate Michigan’s auto industry.
CBS News reports that California is planning to sue over this:
California filing suit over U.S. Senate vote revoking state’s EV mandate and strict emission standards
California is fighting back a day after the U.S. Senate voted to put the brakes on the state’s clean vehicle policies.
Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a statement Thursday saying the state will file a lawsuit after senators voted to revoke California’s emission waivers that set stricter standards than federal regulations. One of the rules, the so-called “EV mandate,” would phase out gasoline-powered cars and require new vehicle sales to be zero-emission by 2035.
I’d be willing to allow California to secede from the union.
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