Too bad they couldn’t force everyone in the state government of the People’s Republik Of California, particularly Gavin Newsom and the unelected, unaccountable Air Resource Board, drive an EV, while leaving the Comrades to make their own decision
Report: Trump, GOP to Use Congressional Review Act to Revoke Newsom’s Gas Car Ban
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans plan to use a once-obscure law called the Congressional Review Act to revoke the waiver that President Joe Biden gave to California for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gas car ban.
As Breitbart News reported, Newsom announced in September 2020 — mere weeks after a massive statewide shortage of electricity — that California would ban sales of gas-powered passenger vehicles by 2035. After that, electric vehicles (EVs) would be mandated, as part of California’s effort to achieve goals on “climate change” policy.
Newsom’s policy was finalized in regulatory form in 2022, and Biden granted the waiver in December 2024. As CalMatters.org reported: “The granting of the waiver by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows California to move forward in requiring 35% of new 2026 model cars sold in the state to be zero-emissions, 68% in 2030 and 100% in 2035. Nearly all zero-emission cars are powered by electricity.”
Where does the electricity come from? How will there be enough vehicles, because producing that many batteries will be darned impossible. Unless you’re interested in raping the 3rd world for precious metals. And allowing mining in the U.S. But, you know, the doomsday cult always likes to force everyone to comply. Even though they themselves almost never practice what they preach.
Democrats, according to the New York Times, will argue that the Act does not apply: “[T]he California ban is not a federal regulation, it’s a different animal. It’s the result of a waiver that was granted by the Biden administration under the 1970 Clean Air Act, something that has been done more than a hundred times over the years by administrations of both parties. And it is not subject to congressional review, according to a 2023 decision by the Government Accountability Office.”
Except, they received the waiver from the Biden admin, and, what California does leads to other states doing the same.
Of course, on the other hand, if a state wants to do this, I almost think they should be allowed to do this. 10th Amendment. But, hold on, this is Interstate Commerce, with vehicles coming from outside California. So, should the federal government have primacy? Interesting question.
I do love that: right after the Pyrite State suffered major sparktricity shortages, Governor Hair Gel decides that the thing to do is greatly increase the demand for electricity.
Another example of the repugnant Democrats trying to sabotage the will of the electorate. President Trump campaigned on eliminating the silliness of measures to fight
global warmingclimate change, and he won, yet the minions of the dummkopf from Delaware granted the waiver after the election.So, let’s assume that the Trump Administration doesn’t revoke the waiver, and the state’s regulations stay in place. What happens when one out of every three new cars sold isn’t an electric vehicle? That very blue state doubtlessly hates Elon Musk, and won’t want to buy Teslas, but most of the other companies’ plug-in electric vehicles are junk.
The left waxed apoplectic when Jeff Bezos directed The Washington Post editorial staff to orient themselves toward more personal freedom, and at least for now, Californians have the personal freedom to buy whatever cars they want . . . and can afford.
I will point out here that the 2026 models should be hitting the market by September of this year!