Switzerland bans Electric cars during power crisis.
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Welcome to the future of Commiefornia. The ultimate goal is to ban both gas and electric cars so that the only people driving are the elites like in North Korea. You get the dirty train car that smells like piss, is never on time, and has a homeless junkie who harasses people living in it.
Reminds me of how they moved from paper bags to plastic because "muh trees". Then they started charging for plastic bags because "muh oceans". Now they're banning plastic bags but don't want to give us back paper bags. Instead they want to sell you a fucking tote bag that most people don't wash, usually forget at home, has a higher CO2 cost to make (requiring about 171 uses, or over 3 years of weekly grocery trips to break even [and doesn't get into the energy used to wash it]), and likely results in forests being cut down to grow your stupid fucking textile.
Every environmental policy is usually communist power grab
"Usually"
((Usually))
The remaining of them are capitalist cash grabs.
"Don't dump toxic chemicals in the drinking water" seems pretty benign to me, but I'm willing to hear you out on how that too is a communist power play.
Because they don't care about SSRIs in deranged spinster piss or chemicals turning the frogs gay.
True, but I still don't see the downside to a policy of "don't poison everyone's drinking water with arsenic or whatever industrial waste the local factory is producing." The fact that they're find with dumping mind altering chemicals into the drinking water instead does not change that.
nah, if the democrats tried that shit, they'd get lynched.
you guys seem to forget that even though we are the minority, there are more conservatives in California than any other state.
mostly black and poor babies so nobody cares.
so far they've only been trooning their own kids as a general rule.
lol nope.
What do you mean, if they tried that? They've already done it.
No more gas cars sold by 2035
And before you say it, yes I know it says you can keep using your existing gas car. Until, of course, that breaks down. And you can't buy a new one (cause it's banned), and you can't get a used one because the used market is dried up worse than it was after Cash4Clunkers. Or gas stations start shutting down due to decreased numbers of gas cars meaning they can't stay in business. 2038-2040 it will probably be impossible to maintain a gas vehicle in CA (or in NY, which passed a similar law. Or other places which have or will pass similar laws).
It was only back in September, that California was urging people to stop charging their cars. Yes, it was limited, and yes it was a recommendation not a direct ban on charging, but anyone who has paid attention to anything has seen how quickly recommendations turn into orders.
Oh, and people are already working on tech to suck the energy out of EVs to put it back into the grid when things get stressed. Which from a technical point of view is kind of cool, I admit, but in practice runs into huge issues, namely when you want to drive somewhere only to find that the state or power company has drained your battery to power something else.
So, when is this massive revolt coming?
Horseback riding to make a comeback
dude learn your tenses. 2035 is not "already done it".
Californians will rise up in revolt if you fuck with our cars. just watch.
dude, learn to read the laws on the books.
The revolt you're predicting did not come when the law was passed. So when it is going to come?
In 2026 when the law requires 35% of new car sales to be electric or plug-in hybrid?
In 2028 when the law mandates that less than 50% of new sales can be gas powered?
In 2035 when it's illegal to buy a new gas powered car?
Or never? What is the cutoff for "fucking with your cars"?
Your cars are in the pot and the water's already starting to boil.
there are no "laws" this was a "rule" from some agency that has no real enforcement mechanism.
CA new car sales in 2022 Electrics & Hybrids = 30.6%.
All the regulators did was look at current trends and tried to jump out in front of the trend to take advantage of it and claim it was their doing instead of normal capitalist market forces.
It's a sham, it's politics. If 2026 comes and electric sales plummet and the manufacturers aren't going to naturally meet the targets on their own without significantly warping the market, the rule will go poof.
If conservatives had the guts to physically fight for their rights, would we be where we are now?
If we're going to have blackouts please get on with it. I want to see IRL dystopian movie unfolding on my doorstep.
No private transport for you.
You will own nothing
Electric vehicles save environment - Drake hard pass.
NO vehicles save the environment - Drake approves.
Funny, those little ironies.
you will go nowhere