California is taking steps to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles in a little over 14 years..And they also took steps to ban fracking in the state..Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order that requires all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on fracking by oil companies..The are 26 million gas-powered vehicles currently on the roads in California, state figures show. They account for 40 per cent of greenhouse gases in the state..California would be the first state in the U.S. to mandate 100% zero-emission vehicles, though 15 countries already have committed to phasing out gas-powered cars, the L.A. Times reports..While Newsom didn’t take executive action to ban the oil extraction method known as fracking but he called on the state Legislature to do so..“In the next 15 years we will eliminate in the state of California the sales of internal combustion engines,” Newsom told reporters in Sacramento before signing the order..“If you want to reduce asthma, if you want to mitigate the rise of sea level, if you want to mitigate the loss of ice sheets around the globe, then this is a policy for other states to follow..“We’re providing an abundance of new choices and new technology, being agnostic about how we get to zero emissions, but being committed to getting to zero emissions by 2035.”.Newsom said when millions of residents start to clamour for things like electric cars, prices of them with be driven down..He said California is home to 34 manufacturers of electric vehicles and that just under 50 per cent of all the electric vehicle purchases in the country are in his state. . Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .Senate Republican leader Shannon Grove called Newsom’s order “extremist,” adding his time would be better used protecting Californians from wildfires rather than banning cars..“The fact is that Californians cannot survive without oil and gas or petroleum byproducts,” Grove told the Times..“These products are not just the gas in our cars, they are the asphalt on our roads, the plastic holding together electric vehicles, medical equipment vulnerable patients rely on, footballs our children play with, telephones, toothpaste, trash bags, and so much more.”.The moves set California on another collision course with U.S. President Donald Trump who has expressed skepticism about climate change..“It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch,” he said while meeting Newsom last week..State oil industry representatives say phasing out production in the state would force more oil to be imported by train and tanker ships from countries that do not have the same environmental safeguards..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
California is taking steps to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles in a little over 14 years..And they also took steps to ban fracking in the state..Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order that requires all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035 and threw his support behind a ban on fracking by oil companies..The are 26 million gas-powered vehicles currently on the roads in California, state figures show. They account for 40 per cent of greenhouse gases in the state..California would be the first state in the U.S. to mandate 100% zero-emission vehicles, though 15 countries already have committed to phasing out gas-powered cars, the L.A. Times reports..While Newsom didn’t take executive action to ban the oil extraction method known as fracking but he called on the state Legislature to do so..“In the next 15 years we will eliminate in the state of California the sales of internal combustion engines,” Newsom told reporters in Sacramento before signing the order..“If you want to reduce asthma, if you want to mitigate the rise of sea level, if you want to mitigate the loss of ice sheets around the globe, then this is a policy for other states to follow..“We’re providing an abundance of new choices and new technology, being agnostic about how we get to zero emissions, but being committed to getting to zero emissions by 2035.”.Newsom said when millions of residents start to clamour for things like electric cars, prices of them with be driven down..He said California is home to 34 manufacturers of electric vehicles and that just under 50 per cent of all the electric vehicle purchases in the country are in his state. . Defying crackdown, hundreds march against lockdowns in Calgary .Senate Republican leader Shannon Grove called Newsom’s order “extremist,” adding his time would be better used protecting Californians from wildfires rather than banning cars..“The fact is that Californians cannot survive without oil and gas or petroleum byproducts,” Grove told the Times..“These products are not just the gas in our cars, they are the asphalt on our roads, the plastic holding together electric vehicles, medical equipment vulnerable patients rely on, footballs our children play with, telephones, toothpaste, trash bags, and so much more.”.The moves set California on another collision course with U.S. President Donald Trump who has expressed skepticism about climate change..“It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch,” he said while meeting Newsom last week..State oil industry representatives say phasing out production in the state would force more oil to be imported by train and tanker ships from countries that do not have the same environmental safeguards..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
