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No, it's not your 'God-given right' to buy a new gas-powered car
By MICHAEL HILTZIKFor years, automakers have pleaded that, much as they’d love to lead the way to a zero-emissions vehicular future, they just can’t wean Americans from their love of SUVs and other gas-guzzlers.
California just called their bluff.
An executive order signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks in the state by 2035.
What we’re sending is a demand signal...The last piece of the puzzle for the automobile manufacturers is that they need the certainty that the demand will be there in the largest domestic auto market in America.
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM
The first-in-the-nation policy is far more stringent than anything the state has implemented before. But given that a dozen states accounting for 40% of the American market already conform to California’s auto rules, the policy could spread quickly.
Newsom placed his order firmly in the context of the crisis of climate change, which is on vivid display via California’s ferocious wildfires.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-25/newsom-order-gas-guzzling-vehicles