California is banning the sale of non-electric vehicles by the year 2035, despite the fact that these vehicles largely still draw power from fossil-fueled power grids.
The state was only able to gain the authority to ban the sale of combustion engines due to power handed from the Biden Administration.
The Daily Caller reported, that California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) finalized a rule Thursday that will outlaw the sale of gas-fueled cars by 2035. The law may push an increasing number of states to adopt similar rules and force Americans to exclusively buy electric vehicles (EVs) as numerous Democrat-run states such as New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland routinely adopt California’s “clean car” standards, according to data from the Maryland Department of the Environment.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, said, “during the Trump administration, we tried to codify and articulate that California did not have the authority to set greenhouse gas standards.”
The Biden EPA in March restored California’s Clean Air Act waiver which gave the state the legal power to limit emissions and even outright ban the sale of nonelectric vehicles.
In September of 2019, Donald Trump revoked the waiver taking the ability to impose strict emission standards.
Now that the waiver has been reinstated, some believe that other blue states will follow California’s lead.
“Blue states will follow California’s lead and hand manufacturers a mandate to make only EVs, regardless of what is economically or physically possible,” said Steve Milloy, a former member of President Donald Trump’s EPA
The Joe Biden White House has been hyper-focused on the EPA and climate change. The new Inflation Reduction Act along dedicated $400 million to climate change proposals.
The bill dedicates no resources to inflation reduction but dedicated 3.33 times more money than the United States spent on the Vietnam war to climate change.