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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?
(Score: 3, Informative) by KiloByte on Sunday October 01 2017, @12:06AM (1 child)
The article says "gasoline and diesel", not gas. Gas might be little used as car fuel in the US, but is very popular in Poland, Australia, Lithuania, Turkey, Italy -- around 18% of cars in Poland, 3% worldwide.
Using some weird US slang that conflicts with both "gas" as a state of matter and with a car fuel (when talking about car fuels!) is not appropriate. The article got it right, it's either the submitter's or editor's error.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:21AM
The overwhelming majority of personal vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) in the USA run on gasoline (or more accurately gasohol, which is gasoline adulterated with corn-based ethanol). Diesel cars are relatively rare in the USA, and diesel pickup-style trucks are common, but also likely in the minority.
Diesel fuel is, however, in huge demand in the US transport industry, in terms of cargo trucks and freight trains.