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 why bother ...california is a filthy ....servile .....repugnant........ bung hole of  humanity ......it has droughts ....floods .........earthquakes.....mudslides......all sorts of  fucking shit going on ......drug problems ...homelessness  ....thanks demos ......the  rich  live  in luxury overpriced  mansions ....and the rent is  extortionate .......no one can afford to live in their means .......and they want electric cars ....its a filthy debt ridden shit hole .....what are they thinking .......i hope  it slips into the ocean or they have  a major  earth quake  ....its a  fucking  shit state ......was  great in the  seventies  and that is  /.........oh and  porn .........

california Is Banning the Sale of Gas Cars

Ryan Bort

Wed, August 24, 2022 at 2:52 PM

In this article:

• Daniel Sperling

  American academic
• 

  Gavin Newsom

  Governor of California

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California is expected to vote on Thursday to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

“The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.

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The landmark move toward electric vehicles would be phased in over several years, with a target of 35 percent of new vehicles that don’t emit fossil fuels being set for 2026, a target of 51 percent for 2028, 68 percent for 2030, and finally a target of 100 percent for 2035.

The California Air Resource Board will vote to implement the measure on Thursday, with board member Daniel Sperling telling CNN that he is “99.9 percent” confident that it will pass. “This is monumental,” Sperling added. “This is the most important thing that CARB has done in the last 30 years. It’s important not just for California, but it’s important for the country and the world.”

The news comes on the heels of President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest environmental investment in American history, into law. The IRA allocates nearly $400 million toward climate action, but as Rolling Stone‘s Jeff Goodell noted after Biden made it official, it only marks one step of what is still a very long road toward staving off a global climate catastrophe: “Let’s not wonder if this bill is ambitious enough to stave off the climate crisis. It is not. The climate crisis is not like a broken leg, where you find a good doctor and he puts you in a cast for six weeks, and you’re back to normal. There is no ‘fix’ for the climate crisis.”

California banning the sale of gas-powered cars marks another step in what must be a multi-dimensional effort to take on the climate crisis. Activists cheered the news on Wednesday. “Start thinking now,” author Bill McKibben wrote on Twitter, “if you buy a new gas car will it have any resale value?”

California air agency to ban sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035

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Camille von Kaenel

Wed, August 24, 2022 at 3:28 PM

In this article:

• 

  Gavin Newsom

  Governor of California

California's air regulator is poised to require all new cars sold in the state by 2035 to have zero emissions — a sweeping rule that could pave the way for other states to adopt the requirement, transforming the nation’s auto market.

The ban on new gas-powered vehicle sales — first announced by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom nearly two years ago — would also require automakers to make sure that 35 percent of all new passenger cars sold by 2026 have no emissions, a threshold that would increase to 68 percent by 2030. About 16 percent of new cars sold in California so far this year have zero emissions, significantly higher than the national average of 6 percent.

“This regulation is one of the most important efforts we have ever carried out to clean the air,” Liane Randolph, chair of the California Air Resources Board, told reporters on Wednesday.

California has a special ability to set clean car rules under federal law, and typically sets more stringent and far-reaching rules than its federal counterpart. More than a dozen states are expected to adopt the zero emissions vehicle mandate soon, meaning the rule will cover roughly a third of the country’s auto market. That has the potential to make a significant dent in the amount of harmful greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, which currently surpass those from electricity.

The agency's rule would give teeth to Newsom’s September 2020 executive order, which first set the 2035 target.

Under the program, the agency would impose a civil penalty for cars sold in violation of the targets. It would use other means to enforce new requirements for durability or battery warranty, which are designed to keep zero emissions vehicles on the road long enough to make it to the used car market and reach a wider swath of the public.

Automakers have been mostly outwardly supportive of the program, with many of them investing in zero-emission vehicles. Toyota acknowledged California’s authority to set stringent vehicle rules in a letter to the air agency yesterday, a letter that Lauren Sanchez, Newsom’s climate adviser, characterized as “old foes coming on board.”

Demand for zero-emission cars grew as gas prices spiked earlier this year, particularly in California. But even with the uptick in sales, they still remain less than 1 percent of all cars on U.S. roads.

The air agency has been refining the proposal for months. The latest changes to be presented to the board Thursday focus on strengthening durability requirements and encouraging automakers to participate in programs designed to reach lower-income Californians. Some environmental justice groups had urged the air agency to make participation mandatory, but it won’t be.