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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the ban-gas-instead-of-passing-it dept.

France and the United Kingdom are doing it. So is India. And now one lawmaker would like California to follow their lead in phasing out gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.

When the Legislature returns in January, Assemblyman Phil Ting plans to introduce a bill that would ban the sale of new cars fueled by internal-combustion engines after 2040. The San Francisco Democrat said it's essential to get California drivers into an electric fleet if the state is going to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets, since the transportation sector accounts for more than a third of all emissions.

"The market is moving this way. The entire world is moving this way," Ting said. "At some point you need to set a goal and put a line in the sand."

California already committed five years ago to putting 1.5 million "zero-emission vehicles," such as electric cars and plug-in hybrids, on the road by 2025. By that time, the state wants these cleaner models to account for 15 percent of all new car sales.

Could the hills surrounding Los Angeles one day become visible?


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Saturday September 30 2017, @08:41PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Saturday September 30 2017, @08:41PM (#575375) Homepage Journal

    After all, what's the root difference between a republican government banning you from land you owned so it can be used be someone else, and banning you from owning or using an ICE vehicle you owned?

    A minor point, but perhaps an important one: Where exactly does it say in TFS or TFA that ICE vehicles on the road or sold before 2040 would be banned?

    IIUC, the proposal to to ban the sale of *new* ICE vehicles after 2040, not to ban the use of them or even to ban the sale of used ones.

    But perhaps I missed something somewhere.

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