I have to wonder if the SLEB understands how many people who live in NJ drive quite a bit for commuting, heading into the city, going down to Atlantic City, heading down to the Shore. I also wonder if the members of the SLEB have switched over to EVs themselves. Further, when they are going to do away with the use of fossil fueled vehicles to gather and deliver the news
This action on climate cannot wait | Editorial
Last month, a UN study reminded the world that we are entombed in a cosmic hothouse, and that the window is about to slam shut. The dire conclusion from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: If we do not slash greenhouse gases 50% by 2030, it substantially raises the risk of a catastrophic rise in heat that threatens humanity itself.
Yeah, they’ve been saying Doom for 30 years, we’re still waiting
Transportation is the primary contributor to this problem in the US, the second-largest polluter in the world, so eliminating tailpipe emissions is the last, best chance at making the planet inhabitable.
Accordingly, the Biden Administration sent out an ambitious plan last week that will impose penalties on the car companies that don’t move fast enough to curtail emissions. California, meanwhile, has adopted the “Advance Clean Cars II” rule, which will phase out the sale of gas-powered vehicles entirely by 2035, and five states – including New York – quickly jumped aboard.
New Jersey, however, is still on the sidelines, and that’s problematic.
Gov. Murphy’s stated goal is to join the California initiative and require all new cars and light-duty truck sales in our state to be zero-emission vehicles or plug-in hybrids by 2035, but time is already running short in the effort to stay on that trajectory. And when it comes to doing our part in cooling the climate, time is a luxury we can no longer afford.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, funny how it’s always about forcing Other People to comply, yet, nowhere in this piece is it mentioned that the members have switched to EVs.
The Department of Environmental Protection has held its public engagement meetings, but it has not laid out a specific plan to meet the governor’s mandate. That typically takes months, and in a state where only 1.5% (90,000) of its 6 million vehicles are electric, this failure to establish a timeline does not exactly meet the urgency of the crisis.
You know why it’s just 1.5%? Because of how much people commute. The Garden State Parkway becomes a parking lot. God help you if you make the mistake of going south of the Eatontown exit on a Saturday after Memorial Day. When I grew up there, we took back roads. Why don’t these people just leave everyone alone to live their lives?
These are not bold steps when you weigh them against the consequences of inaction. President Biden is proposing a climate agenda that has teeth, but it still starts locally. New Jersey must get moving.
I don’t see Biden traveling around in an EV. Do you?
0 for 50.
Now about those deniers.
#TrustUs
#WeKnowWhatWeAreDoing
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The Secret Service makes all travel arrangements for any POTUS
Teach you will still be able to buy an ICE vehicle in 2034. Are you going to personally be disappointed in not being able to buy an ICE car when you are 65+?
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“Force them into EVs.. “ Says all you need to know..
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Force them into EVs??? There are long lines of people waiting
In the USA because of high demand there are months or years long waits for EVs
The cheapest Tesla (40k) costs 30% less than the cost of the average car sold in the USA.
Well, johnnie boy, if one wanted a valid comparison it would be between the average cost of a Tesla (not the cheapest) and the average cost of a car sold in the U.S. but we see what you’re trying to do.
Back to you hookah and praise Buddha.
#TheScienceIsSettled
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Pretending that we’re on the right track with the current “green technology” is absolutely psychotic, and it’s not helping the citizenry, the consumer or the planet in the least. The collective “actions” by governments, as usual, have created a cure that’s way worse than the disease. Most of the globalists pushing this agenda are fully aware that it’s a waste of time, effort and money, the rest are simply delusional but they’re all just giddy about the process and agree that it’s nice to line their pockets while gaining social equity within their leftist circles. Every time we’re told by our betters in authority that they have devised some wonderful new green ordinance, it just costs us more and makes everything just a little dirtier while they get richer. Meanwhile, if some actual genius were to come up with something that was genuinely a great advance in the field, someone (usually driving several black Tahoes) would purchase the patent and we’d never see it again. So it goes.
An actual genius did come up with something that was genuinely a great advance in the field. His name was Albert Einstein and his idea was nuclear power. But leftists refuse because nuclear.
Are you certain the Einstein advocated for nuclear power?
You are correct that decades ago libs opposed all aspects of nuclear, arguing it was too dangerous because of potential accidents, long term effects of even small increases of radionuclides in the environment, waste disposal and bombs. Once global warming was identified as being threatening the risk vs benefit balance has changed.
Einstein reportedly said that “An energy source that consumes oxygen may not be a good idea”. N.B. – hydrocarbons + oxygen –> carbon dioxide + water + energy