Steve Breen is usually a pretty good artist, so I’m surprised that he is unable to accurate draw a gradual, carefully-phased in slope. This is over a ten-year period starting three years from now (2025 to 2035) with a higher quota of new car sales required to be electric, with partial credit for plug-in hybrids with a minimum electric-only range of at least fifty miles.
There are incentives and assistance for those making the transition. It will not outlaw selling gas or driving gas cars or even the buying and selling of used cars powered by gas. It will only apply to new car sales. This is very realistic and doable.
Oh, and it is not just California. Because of our unique car culture and air quality issues, the federal government allows California the unique position of being able to establish its own environmental standards. Other states, however, can choose between the California standard and the federal standard, and SIXTEEN additional states have enacted laws to follow the California standard.
These include all west coast states (California, of course, plus Washington, Oregon and Nevada, and some large east coast states including New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia).
Steve Breen is usually a pretty good artist, so I’m surprised that he is unable to accurate draw a gradual, carefully-phased in slope. This is over a ten-year period starting three years from now (2025 to 2035) with a higher quota of new car sales required to be electric, with partial credit for plug-in hybrids with a minimum electric-only range of at least fifty miles.
There are incentives and assistance for those making the transition. It will not outlaw selling gas or driving gas cars or even the buying and selling of used cars powered by gas. It will only apply to new car sales. This is very realistic and doable.
Oh, and it is not just California. Because of our unique car culture and air quality issues, the federal government allows California the unique position of being able to establish its own environmental standards. Other states, however, can choose between the California standard and the federal standard, and SIXTEEN additional states have enacted laws to follow the California standard.
These include all west coast states (California, of course, plus Washington, Oregon and Nevada, and some large east coast states including New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia).