California Didn’t Ban Gas Cars, 14 Bureaucrats Pretended They DidSee you in court.
by DANIEL J. FLYNN
September 8, 2022
California did not, despite what the headlines say, ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles. Fourteen unelected pretenders feigning to wield California’s legislative powers unanimously declared the 2035 deadline on such sales.
The ukase recalls those issued by a Californian far less anonymous, and far more accountable to the people, more than a century ago.
“WE, Norton I, by the Grace of God Emperor of the Thirty-three States and the multitude of Territories of the United States of North America, do hereby dissolve the Republic of the United States, and it is hereby dissolved,” Joshua Norton proclaimed in July 1860.
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The 14 voting members of the Air Resources Board exude an Emperor Norton quality. Californians appear fooled rather than in on the joke.
The word “whereas” appearing 99 times in the document banning petroleum-fueled cars serves as a clue, or rather as 99 clues, that it constitutes a nonbinding resolution. The 21 pages of rambling rationalizations sees people with no legal authority forbidding, by force of what they do not say, the sale of new vehicles propelled by internal-combustion engines in 13 years.
Where did they get this power? Like the inhabitants of so many Third World countries, they took it.
As the Air Resource Board’s website explains, of the 14 voting members, “12 are appointed by the Governor” with Senate confirmation. These 12 include “six who serve on local air districts, four experts in fields that shape air quality rules, [and] two public members.” The other two voting members “represent environmental justice communities” and are appointed one each by the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the Assembly speaker.
In other words, they represent, in some unelected way, interest groups, not voters.
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Source:
https://spectator.org/california-didnt-ban-gas-cars-14-bureaucrats-pretended-they-did/
