No EV mandate in Maine:

[Mick]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ec786f5&ei=214

The Maine Board of Environmental Protection was set to discuss a California-style electric vehicle mandate, but the meeting was postponed due to a severe storm leaving 400,000 residents without power.

The mandate would require 82% of new vehicles to be zero-emission by 2032. Democratic Rep. Jared Golden opposed the plan, citing grid insufficiency and lack of charging stations.

Despite opposition, the Democratic governor and the Maine BEP are pushing for the mandate, disregarding grid strain and the impracticality during severe weather. (Trending: Judge Announces Historic Ruling In Jeffrey Epstein Case)

The Maine Board of Environmental Protection said in a statement, “Governor Janet Mills declared a State of Civil Emergency for 14 Maine counties following a significant wind and rain storm that has left hundreds of thousands of people without power and that has caused significant flooding and infrastructure damage, including to town and state roadways.”
“In consideration of the challenges facing Maine citizens who may wish to participate in the upcoming Board meeting in Augusta, the Board is postponing its meeting scheduled for December 21, 2023,” read the statement.

Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden said, “In two days, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection will vote on proposed rules that would establish a California-style set of mandates forcing Maine auto dealers — and ultimately their customers — to purchase zero-emission vehicles.”

“Earlier this year, I submitted testimony in opposition to such a mandate and have taken every opportunity in Congress to vote against policy that amounts to de facto electric vehicle mandates,” he continued.

Adding, “Forcing Mainers to purchase cars and trucks powered by electricity when our grid is insufficient, charging stations are few and far between, and a storm like yesterday’s would render 80 percent of cars useless is, to say the least, ill-advised.”

The situation reflects a disconnect between promoting electric vehicles and acknowledging the state’s fragile electrical grid.

Discuss.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Mick

Discuss.

Liberals are idiots.

[Tikiman]

They should mandate that all snow plowing equipment be electric. That will shut their state down.

[Raazor]

MSN?

Didn't know Moe was a Lib.

Huh!

[Bruze]

So they buy the premise of the Climate Changers, that everyone must have a government-controlled EV, "but we can't do it now until we get more infrastructure up."

Buying the left's premises is not "pushback." Rejecting the ridiculous idea out of hand is pushback.

20-30 years ago the mushy middle was saying, "Well I don't care what two adults do behind closed doors." So with that acceptance, now pedophilia has been normalized and even encouraged, and the corrupt medical system is mutilating kids' sex organs.

Caving is not a winning strategy.

[Unsuspicious]

Should be no EV mandate in any state that sees snow, at the very least

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Unsuspicious

Should be no EV mandate in any state that sees snow, at the very least

Government does not have the legitimate power to mandate ANY of this. They are just seizing the power because no one is objecting.

To accept mandating EVs but only south of the snow latitude is caving and accepting the left's premise that natural fuels are destroying the climate.

It's about controlling your life, nothing more.

[Onebadcad]

Buying an EV supports the socialist agenda, this cannot be argued.
Akin to voting for them instead of TRUMP while claiming to be a life-long conservative.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Raazor

MSN?

Didn't know Moe was a Lib.

Huh!

This is why we need a "no thanks" button.

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by LATB

Liberals are idiots.

#1 - they are not Liberals

#2 - EVs = controlled movement = greater control of the masses

[Bill]

Let us rise to the call of freedom- loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the US. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . no EV mandates today . . . no EV mandates tomorrow . . . no EV mandates forever.

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by Unsuspicious

Should be no EV mandate in any state

Fixed.

[Mick]

I'm surprised this didn't catch anyone else's eye:

The mandate would require 82% of new vehicles to be zero-emission by 2032.

With or without the mandate, unless the electric vehicles are getting their batteries charged by fairy dust, or they plan to introduce a new vehicle with a sail that will take you wherever you want to go, in 2032, 0% of new vehicles will be "zero emission".

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Mick

I'm surprised this didn't catch anyone else's eye:



With or without the mandate, unless the electric vehicles are getting their batteries charged by fairy dust, or they plan to introduce a new vehicle with a sail that will take you wherever you want to go, in 2032, 0% of new vehicles will be "zero emission".

It's not about science, other than using science to trick the already duped masses to go along with whatever is forced upon them.

But you already knew that.

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by Bruze

It's not about science, other than using science to trick the already duped masses to go along with whatever is forced upon them.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Onebadcad

Buying an EV supports the socialist agenda, this cannot be argued.
Akin to voting for them instead of TRUMP while claiming to be a life-long conservative.

Even if it's a protest vote?