The Gateway Pundit reported last week that Joe Biden sued the most sweeping environmental regulations in American history to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles and force customers to drive ineffective electric cars. Now, a new report has revealed that the effort to complete the gas-powered car is well underway in eight states.
As the Daily Mail reported Tuesday, the rules adopted in these states specify that only zero-emission vehicles, which include electric vehicles and some plug-in hybrids, can be sold starting in the 2035 model year. This is known as the Advanced rule Clean Cars II.
The eight states that have pledged to force their voters to drive environmentally harmful electric vehicles are California, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Washington. The District of Columbia also signed the agreement.
Not surprisingly, California was the first to adopt the rule. They want 35% of new vehicle sales to emit zero emissions in two years and are raising the goal to a whopping 68% by 2030.
As the California Air Resources Board notes, the rule restructures and augments the Golden State’s “growing zero-emission vehicle market and robust motor vehicle emission control rules to meet more aggressive tailpipe emission standards and increase up to 100% zero emission vehicles”.
Rhode Island was the latest state to join the list of states pledging to ban the sale of gas-powered cars.
The Mail notes that other states have adopted versions of the Advanced Clean Cars II rule, but have not yet committed to completely eliminating gas-powered cars by 2035.
Delaware and Colorado, for example, last year finalized rules requiring 82% of all new cars to be zero-emission vehicles by 2032. New Mexico announced last July that it will set its own annual goals for the sale of zero-emission vehicles. But none of these states have passed the 2035 ban.
The Gateway Pundit previously revealed that the Biden regime, in a joint announcement with the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has finalized a series of economically crippling environmental regulations to limit exhaust emissions from fuel-powered vehicles gas. These rules were ostensibly in response to greenhouse gas emissions and “climate change.”
Automakers will be forced to rapidly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and particulates from new passenger cars, light-duty trucks and larger pickups and vans, starting with model year 2027 vehicles.
When exhaust emission regulations take effect, automakers will be forced to increase production and sales of electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, traditional hybrids and fuel cell vehicles. Under a “low-cost” EPA model outlined in the rule, automakers must ensure that 56% of light-duty car sales are battery electric and another 13% are hybrid by 2032.
With the Biden regime receiving help from several compliant states, the gas-powered car could soon become a historical footnote, unless President Trump wins this year. It’s the last hope to begin to reverse this environmental madness and perhaps save America altogether.