By Irina Slav – Nov 18, 2019, 11:30 AM CST 
California state agencies will stop buying gas-powered vehicles from a number of carmakers after the latter joined the White House in their opposition to the state’s new, stricter emissions rules.
UPI reports that the ban will be effective immediately and it will affect the local sales of makes including Toyota, GM, and Fiat Chrysler to state agencies. However, the ban is not complete: it will make an exception for public safety vehicles.
“The state is finally making the smart move away from internal combustion engine sedans,” California Governor Gavin Newsom told CalMatters in a statement. “Carmakers that have chosen to be on the wrong side of history will be on the losing end of California’s buying power.”
California is the single largest car market in the United States, but it is also the most environmentally conscious. Newsom has led a true crusade against the fossil fuel industry and emissions, which in September culminated in an executive order to advance the state’s environmental agenda, which includes generating 100-percent clean energy by 2045 and adding five million emission-free vehicles on California roads by 2030.
But the state also wanted to set its own emission limits as part of its efforts to become the greenest of them all, and this put it at even greater odds than it was already with the White House. Following the executive order by Newsom, Trump revoked California’s right to set its own emission limits, which led to the expected outcry, which was joined by another 22 states as well, which together filed a lawsuit against the U.S. president.
HT/Juan S
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It’s also apparent that the Governor prefers tradition, “Due to limited resources, responses to inquires via mail may take longer than those submitted using the email form below.
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Governor Gavin Newsom: (Commanding) “Slave in the magic mirror, come from the farthest space, through wind and darkness I summon thee. Speak! Let me see thy face.”
Magic Mirror: “What wouldst thou know, my Green?”
Governor Gavin Newsom: (Preening) “Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the greenest one of all?”
Magic Mirror: “Famed is thy eco-activism, Your Greeness. But hold, a young maid I see. Rags cannot hide her scowly face. Alas, she is more green than thee.”
Governor Gavin Newsom: (Angry) “Alas for her. Reveal her name.”
Magic Mirror: “Expunges travel by air. Sails the ocean blue. Pig tails adorn her hair.
Governor Gavin Newsom: (Screams) “HOW DARE SHE!”
I thought the definition of an ’emission free’ vehicle in California was an electric car for which the power is generated in Nevada……
Ca does have a few reliable dispatchable Zero Emission generating sources…
Geysers geothermal
Helms Pumped storage
Lake Folsom
Lake Oroville
Lake Shasta
Diablo Canyon
Too bad the state government is so stupid
Except we’re closing Diablo Canyon early, Lake Shasta runs low most decades at some point, Oroville Dam has shut down a couple times in recent years because the emrgency overflow clogged the power plant outlet, and pumped storage is not a source.
It’s the high speed rail of electric state vehicles to nowhere.
CalEPA employees need to be assigned bicycles instead.
To accomplish this the entire Mojave Desert will be covered with windmills and solar panels.