The politicians and general public have no clue how much more this is going to cost them.
This isn't just medium duty and heavy duty trucks this will be all vehicles. This law forces people to pay luxury car prices. The average car price in California is currently $34K. Expect that number to go to $60K with out counting inflation come 2035. Elon has not solved the problem of why electric vehicles don't make sense. The battery's make the vehicle too expensive and Tesla hasn't solved that problem. People in California will figure this out in 2035. Hopefully the rest of the states don't enact similar legislation.
There's the saying: as goes California, so goes America. When those increased costs hit, it'll be awful here for the non-rich.
A Progressive friend said to me, don't worry, there'll be electric trains all over. Right. I hope our object lesson is heeded.
Yep. And "green energy" will come nowhere near providing the energy of fossil fuels- which are in fact stored solar energy (how else did the organic material that converted to oil grow in the first place?) So how are you going to charge all those electric trucks and cars? Solar panels? Wind turbines, lol? Not even remotely possible.
California government is clueless. Their own experts told them their goals were impossible. But that never stopped idiotic politicians from making idiotic rules and laws.
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/111026/full/478429a.html
We get a bit over 1/3 of electricity from natural gas, which is very cheap and plentiful (my monthly summertime gas bill for a 5BR home is about $15).
It's a FF, so CA wants to eliminate it completely by 2045, even though it is inconsequential in terms of producing global green house gas emissions.
(CA produces about 1% of all global green house gas emissions.)
Which energy company wants to build a gas plant here knowing it will be illegal by 2045?
CA wants renewables to fill the gap, but renewables "compete" via gov't subsidies. Renewables get a lot more in subsidies than the FFI,
and a hellava lot more per gigawatt-hour produced. The CA Progressive's dream is all-electric everything: cars, homes, trains, buses, etc.
Who can afford a $800-1200/month or more electric bill plus mortgage, property taxes, etc?
