Washington State Democrats will ban most non-electric vehicles in the state by 2030. The lawmakers who supported the bill said the plan is to eventually get rid of any vehicle that uses gasoline in Washington.
Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill last week that sets a target for all vehicles of the model year 2030 or later that are sold, purchased, or registered in the state to be electric.
“On or before December 31, 2023, the interagency electric vehicle coordinating council … shall complete a scoping plan for achieving the 2030 target,” the new law says.
The bill is part of a $16.9 billion “Move Ahead Washington” package. Inslee signed it on Friday. The governor said this legislation will combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
“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 in a statement. “This package will move us away from the transportation system our grandparents imagined and towards the transportation system our grandchildren dream of.”
The sweeping legislation includes funding for several infrastructure projects to facilitate electric vehicles. They’ll give free rides to youth 18 years and under to get them used to public transportation.
THEY ARE COMING FOR OUR CARS
Democrats are after our cars. They don’t care that electric vehicles can’t work for most Americans. A Seattle Times journalist named Gordon Padelford said in 2018 that B.C. and Washington State need to ban polluting cars ASAP. They must reorient transportation investments to walking, biking, transit, and an equitable transition for car-dependent people.
The Sierra Club has been pushing for this as have all dangerous environmental groups.
As Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says — people can take a bus. That’s while he rides in his gas-guzzling van and Inslee flies back-and-forth to DC frequently.
MAKING GAS EXPENSIVE
Inslee and his comrades in the legislature are adding a $.48 a gallon tax on gasoline. They are taking an inexpensive form of energy and making it expensive artificially.
Democrats are forcing the price of gas up as high as possible. That makes unaffordable electric cars look more desirable. The poor and middle class who can’t afford electric cars will be forced onto public transportation.
“The war in Ukraine and the burden of high gas prices on families demonstrate the importance of ending our dependence on gasoline and preparing for an all-electric transportation future,” said Matthew Metz, co-executive director of Coltura. Coltura is a radical nonprofit that advocates for phasing out the use of gasoline. “By targeting 2030 as an end date for the sales of gasoline cars in Washington, Clean Cars 2030 gives confidence to consumers, automakers, utilities, investors, and others that now is the time to go all-in on an all-EV future.”
Coltura worked with Washington Democrats to pass the bill.
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Inslee is a dullard democratic machine politician, and a union tool. He is corrupt in a moral sense, and also stupid enough to believe he is doing the right thing. State residents should plan to leave before life there is too expensive and housing cannot be sold.
Funny but most kids I know want a high performance sports car that can make the trip to the Florida Gulf Coast pulling the boat in under 6 hours. It can’t be done with any Electric Vehicle.
The West Coast thinks it has rolling Blackout problems now, their Electrical Grid will Collapse before 20% Electrical Vehicle ownership. The average home uses about 25 KWh per day. Charging a “Cheap” Tesla takes about 50 KWh. That would more than double Daily Energy Demand and that demand would be at night when Solar is useless and Windmills marginal. To support that increase in Electricity, we would need a lot of new power plants and they will need to be Fossil Fuel since Greenies don’t like Nuclear. At least a 1/3 will need to be Coal fired which will produce more pollution than gasoline vehicles. Liberals need to learn how to do math.
Last Thanksgiving a friend with a Tesla followed me to New Orleans from Miami, a 900 mile trip. He had to stop and charge 6 times and this added 8 hours to the Trip so we ended up stopping at a motel for the Night. I normally do this trip in under 14 hours with only 3 stops for fuel. My fuel stops are under 10 minutes. All electric car for long trips are real dogs!
Then there is the fast Charge, it takes an hour plus. At $0.60 per KHw at a fast charge station, the cost is at least $30.00 per charge which will equate to about $0.18 real per mile “fuel” cost. EVs don’t get 260 miles at 70 mph, it’s more like 180 miles. At $3.00 a gallon, my 10 year old pickup has a cost of $0.15 per mile and I had twice the range of a Tesla on a full tank. Back when gasoline was under $2.00 the Fuel Cost was under $0.10 per mile. Traitor Joe and the Liberals had to at least double the cost of gasoline (over $4.00) for EV’s to compete with gasoline vehicles in “Fuel Cost”. When you put the EV up against a more fuel efficient gasoline sedan getting over 30 mpg the EV’s aren’t even close.
EV’s aren’t ready for prime time and I don’t see them competing with internal combustion engine vehicles for at least 40 or 50 years. With the exotic materials they use, they will be an Environmental Disaster in 10 years. not to mention they have a habit of blowing up in floods. At 10 years old, EVs will need their batteries replaced. I don’t expect to even consider an engine overhaul in my 10 y/o truck for another 10 or 15 years.
Liberals continue to prove they are morons!
Real experiences are informative. You are practical.
No one mentions the huge subsidies for the cars, money taken from us, as part of the cost equation.
A very important point you make is that electric capacity does not, and will not, allow the entire nation to charge cars. It’s a trap. They want to force us to electric cars we cannot afford, and will be unable to use. It would result in an incredible loss of liberty, the inability to freely move. Sheep will fall for it.
Cars=freedom.
It is still a great country when you can hop in your jalopy and drive to the other side.
This is intolerable to statist utopians.
Power and Control is always the real issue.
Commies never care about the environment and we are all equally worthless with some limited political usefulness that eventually expires.
That will create an interesting problem, I am restraining a huge belly laugh.