WRITTEN BY BEN ZEISLOFT ON APR 1, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Climate-Obsessed Washington State Plans To Ban Most New Gas Cars
wash state carsWashington state is preparing to ban most new gasoline-powered vehicles within the next eight years.
SB 5974 — a piece of legislation recently signed by Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) — establishes a target that “all publicly owned and privately owned passenger and light-duty vehicles of the model year 2030 or later that are sold, purchased, or registered in Washington state be electric vehicles.” [bold, links added]
An “interagency electric vehicle coordinating council” created by the new law is directed to “complete a scoping plan for achieving the 2030 target.”
“Transportation is our state’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. There is no way to talk about climate change without talking about transportation,” Inslee said at the bill signing.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-obsessed-washington-state-plans-to-ban-most-new-gas-cars/
