Will this apply to the People’s Republik Of California Highway Patrol? It just wouldn’t be the same CHiPs if Ponch and Baker had to quietly buzz up to people doing wrong. Well, after charging up, patrolling for a little bit, then charging up again (via Green Jihad)
California is planning new rules that ramp up sales of zero-emission motorcycles in its quest to battle climate-warming gasses. Under the rules, over 280,000 would be sold by 2045. https://t.co/UgI028y8A5
— Spectrum News 1 SoCal (@SpecNews1SoCal) October 28, 2024
From the link
The regulations would impose a credit system for manufacturers so that 10% of motorcycles sold in California would be zero-emissions in 2028 and 50% in 2035, according to the state Air Resources Board. At the same time, a tighter standard for new gas-powered motorcycles would ratchet down their emissions for the first time in more than 25 years.
Under the proposed rules, more than 280,000 new electric or hydrogen motorcycles would be sold in California by 2045 — about eight times more than the total on its roads now. Electric motorcycles make up only 1% of current motorcycle sales.
The state Air Resources Board will vote on the proposed rules on Nov. 7 after a public hearing.
This would be the same unelected board which imposed the EV mandate on Comrades of the PRC, without noting if any of the members drive on themselves. Now they want to do this for motorcycles, and scheduled their public hearing for the day after election day. Weird, that, eh?
Anyhow, an EV bike might be fine for those who are simply puttering around town, but, most folks I know who ride want a motorcycle, not a scooter.
A chilling and cautionary tale of how pre-civil war looked Identical to 2024.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/newspaper-revolution-wide-awakes-movement?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
A Smithsonian historian writes this article.
Donald Trump attorney speaking some heavy sheet to the press as reported by CBS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0KJE_Hh8Y
How, I have to ask, will this change require “over 280,000 (electric bikes) would be sold by 2045”? Couldn’t prospective buyers just go to Montana or Nevada to buy decent motorcycles?
The next step would have to be the Pyrite State refusing to register gasoline-powered motorcycles after specified model years.
Today’s left are pro-choice on exactly one very disgusting thing.
Typical communists. They think that setting a production goal will equal actual consumer demand. The same centralized 5-year plan the Soviets used but never quite achieved.
I guess I’ll hold on to my Suzuki DRZ 400 . Thing could eventually be worth more than I paid for it.