Senate Votes To Kill PRC’s EV Mandate

Once again I will state that I am not against EVs. If you want one, get one. What I am against is government forcing citizens to buy them, especially when the people mandating it aren’t driving them themselves

Senate votes to revoke California’s EV emissions waivers

The Senate on Thursday voted to revoke three vehicle emissions waivers in California, a controversial move that the chamber’s parliamentarian says Republican lawmakers may not have the right to make.

The vote was 51-44, with Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan joining Republicans in voting in favor of revoking the waivers.

Ahead of the vote, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called it “the nuclear option.”

The three waivers the Senate revoked set stricter vehicle emissions standards than federal regulations. Two waivers relate to reducing tailpipe emissions from medium and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as limiting smog pollution from trucks.

The last is what’s frequently called California’s “EV mandate,” a rule that aims to phase-out gas powered cars and require all new vehicle sales in California be zero emissions by 2035. The rule to phase out gas powered vehicles goes into effect in 2026.

I wonder if all the media outlets who are for mandates would be willing to run polls across the country, see if We The People want the mandates. Especially in the People’s Republik Of California.

1. Do you approve of mandating that citizens be forced to no longer be able to purchase fossil fueled vehicles, even hybrids, and can only purchase electric vehicles?
2. Do you agree with government forcing truckers to only drive EV trucks, which will slow down deliveries and raise costs?
3. Do you think that the politicians and bureaucrats forcing the mandates should be required to drive an EV before passing mandates?
4. If you agree with number one, do you own an EV right now?

I’d love to see the outcome

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican who supported revoking the waivers, said in remarks Tuesday on the Senate floor that “the EPA has submitted the waivers to Congress as rules — which is all that Congress has ever needed to decide to consider something under the Congressional Review Act.”

But Democrats say such a vote is illegal, and argue overruling the parliamentarian and bypassing the filibuster sets a dangerous precedent.

I don’t care, Margaret. How many of you Dems are currently driving EVs?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday that they would sue the Trump administration over the vote.

“This Senate vote is illegal,” Newsom said. “Republicans went around their own parliamentarian to defy decades of precedent. We won’t stand by as Trump Republicans make America smoggy again — undoing work that goes back to the days of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan — all while ceding our economic future to China. We’re going to fight this unconstitutional attack on California in court.”

Is Gavin driving around in an EV, or a fossil fueled SUV?

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