Red State Legislatures Should Pass Laws Protecting the Internal Combustion Engine by Scott McKay

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 Red State Legislatures Should Pass Laws Protecting the Internal Combustion Engine
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin won’t tie his state to California’s madness. Other states should follow suit.
by Scott McKay
September 5, 2022, 11:21 PM

Give Gov. Glenn Youngkin credit for having fired the first shot of sanity back at the lunacy that is the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and its decision to ban gas-powered vehicles within 15 years.

Youngkin, elected last year as Virginia’s governor, announced in August that he was fighting to reverse a law passed by that state’s formerly Democrat-led legislature and signed by its previous Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam that essentially put Virginia in thrall to CARB’s pronouncements on air quality and climate change.

https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1563305358067527681

The CARB regulations, which follow a pronouncement by California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom, would make it illegal to sell all but a few gas-powered vehicles by 2035. No sooner were they promulgated than California’s politicians were begging the state’s citizens not to charge their electric vehicles during peak demand hours against the state’s power grid.

Because there isn’t enough juice for California’s current rather small fleet of electric vehicles, much less for the number there will be when the whole state is supposed to run on them.

Youngkin might, and hopefully will, succeed in decoupling Virginia from the tyrannical dictates of the climate freaks in California’s regulatory bureaucracy. But some 17 states are currently poised not to be so lucky:

    Several of the 17 states are likely to move forward with the plan, including Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon and Vermont. California’s restrictions are the strictest in the country, mandating that all new vehicles run on either electricity or hydrogen by 2035.

    The mandate is facing fierce pushback in states like Minnesota, where the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association argues the weather prohibits the use of solely electric vehicles….

    Colorado is also among the states where the measure faces firm opposition.

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[Hoodat]

Government should simply get the hell out of the way and let the invisible hand vote for whatever product they want with their dollars.

[Fishrrman]

This is a VERY GOOD idea.

Get these laws onto the books, as soon as possible.
More importantly, the states should confer with each other, to keep the various state laws as "uniform" as possible (with an eye on a Supreme Court challenge down the line).

I would go further than just protecting the use of internal combustion engines in cars and trucks.

There need to be laws on the state level that guarantee "the freedom to use energy" in whatever usages to which that energy can be applied.

To wit, the use of petroleum-based products to operate vehicles, machinery, produce electricity, heat homes, etc.
And the use of natural gas for heating, cooking, power generation, industrial and agricultural production, etc.
The use of wood for heating, cooking and for other traditional uses.
Etc.