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Colorado did it as well, yet Democrats in Colorado scoff at those who worry about Colorado turning into a mini California.
15 or 16 or more states are looking into this idiotic garbage.
The best we can hope for is to chip away at the blue to bring it back to at least purple. Let's start by ousting Bennet first.
Let's take a glance at what an electric car looks like the resources that go into one... or even just the battery for one of those electric cars;
One electric car battery; requires 50 tons of ores, that's 100,000 lbs of ores, 30 lbs of lithium, 60 lbs of cobalt, 130 lbs of nickel, 90 lbs of copper, 190 lbs of graphite, 500 lbs of steel, aluminum, manganese, plastic, and other materials. How about the amount of copper to run all the wiring in that car?
It is asinine. Now, California is to be 100% of new vehicles to be non-fossil fuel by 2035, so how many cars will that be?
Now, it's time to dispose of that spent battery, the refuge is going to go where? How will this affect our ground water? Our EPA standards for air quality, drinking water, wastewater, landfills, etc?
Now, these idiots who tell us what to drive like to fly around in private jets, which emit as much carbon into the air in 1 hour in the air as our homes do in 3 months. Commercial jets do 15 times that of a private jet, but here's the difference; a private jet flies one Taylor Swift from here to there, while the commercial jet flies up to 200 or at least 150 Taylor Swifts from a to b.
So the day these idiots decide to ban their own flying from A to B, and gift all of their beachfront properties to the homeless, I don't believe squat they spew.
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Why can’t Youngkin just ignore that law, like Democrats ignore laws they disagree with?
Well, he likely won't be in office then but whoever is might. And then get immediately sued by the Sierra Club, the Audobon Society, the Young Socialist Party, as well as numerous other co-plaintiffs while others will file Friend of the Court briefs asking the law be implemented.
Why can’t Youngkin just ignore that law, like Democrats ignore laws they disagree with?
Because he's a Republican governor in a Democratic-leaning state, where institutional bodies are full of Democrats ready to end any act he takes.... A government held hostage by a Democratic Senate that is not approving anything he proposes. ...and to make matters worse for Youngkin this year there will be elections for the Virginia House under new district lines with a strong Democratic bias... it is very likely that Youngkin November 8 will dawn with a 100% Democrat legislature... becoming governor who does not govern for the rest of his term.
Have they taken into account where all of the addition electricity generation will come from to charge these vehicles? Don't they experience brown-outs on occasion now?
You can ask that question a thousand times..
And a thousand times you'll hear nothing but crickets
Why? If you can't buy a gas powered car in CA after 2035, then you can't register a gas powered car purchased out of state either. The CA DMV will not allow any new cars in California after 2035. I suppose you could move to Arizona for a year, buy a gas powered car, and then move back to California.
Once you buy a new car, it's no longer new.
They'd have to specify a year of manufacture in the legislation, regardless of whether it's "new" or used.
Regardless, unless major advances in battery/charging technology and the generation of electricity along with miraculous improvements to the electrical grid are made between now and 2035, none of this is actually going to pan out.
The result would be a massive exodus from California and other states that try to actually implement these pie in the sky laws.
Democrats still think they can wish and legislate technology into existence.
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