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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @12:31AM
Original poster here.
I wasn't thinking of an overall "free market" solution. I was thinking free market in regards to taxing new production of ICE powered vehicles, and associated fossil fuels. Synthetic fuel production and technology would be government funded. A combination of government funding and free market style solutions.
The faster we develop synthetic fuel tech, the better off we'll be. I believe that private industry will be unwilling to fund/invest in a crash development program of this tech. Its too expensive. Thus, government funding and national commitment will be necessary.