Re: Oregon bans sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035

On 12/21/22 11:53 AM, Lee wrote:
> BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
> 
>> On 12/20/22 9:56 PM, John Dillinger wrote:
>>>   oregonlive.com
>>> Oregon bans sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035
>>> Updated: Dec. 20, 2022, 9:16 a.m.|Published: Dec. 19, 2022, 4:54
>>> p.m.
>>>
>>> Gas-powered cars, light-duty trucks and SUVs are on their way out in
>>> Oregon.
>>>
>>> Policymakers for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on
>>> Monday approved a rule that bans the sale of new gasoline-powered
>>> passenger vehicles in Oregon by 2035.
>>>
>>> The effort comes as Oregon aims to cut climate-warming emissions by
>>> 50% by 2035 and by 90% by 2050. The transportation sector accounts
>>> for almost 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon and is
>>> the biggest source of pollution in the U.S.
>>>
>>> The new rule, based on vehicle emission standards adopted by
>>> California in August, requires car manufacturers to sell a certain
>>> percentage of zero-emission vehicles – electric cars, plug-in
>>> hybrid electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles – as
>>> part of their total sales, starting with 35 percent in 2026 and
>>> increasing to 100 percent by 2035.
>>>
>>> The rule allows for sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles, which run
>>> primarily on electricity but also are able to run on gas, to provide
>>> flexibility for Oregonians, especially those in rural areas with
>>> fewer charging stations.
>>>
>>> The ban on gas cars does not affect cars already on the road and
>>> does not require Oregonians to stop buying gas-powered vehicles.
>>> Used gas-powered cars will continue to be available for sale within
>>> the state. Customers who want a new car that runs on gasoline will
>>> have to shop out of state.
>>>
>>> But more than a dozen states also are looking to follow suit. Oregon
>>> will be the third state to adopt the standard. Vermont and
>>> Washington just adopted a similar standard. The Clean Air Act
>>> allows Oregon and other states to either follow federal vehicle
>>> emission standards or align with California’s more stringent
>>> rules.
>>>
>>> The new rule also requires manufacturers to increase access to
>>> affordable zero-emission vehicles to low-income households and
>>> communities of color. It offers incentives to manufacturers to sell
>>> electric cars to community car share programs, to produce lower-cost
>>> zero-emission cars and to direct used electric cars to dealerships
>>> participating in low-income assistance programs.
>>>
>>> “These rules are a support mechanism, they are not the driving
>>> force.  They would create a signal in Oregon: Bring your zero
>>> emission cars here, bring the infrastructure, and for the grid, get
>>> it ready,” said Leah Feldon, Department of Environmental Quality
>>> interim director.
>>>
>>> The Environmental Quality Commission, which oversees the department,
>>> voted to approve the rule at a special meeting. Commissioners
>>> amended the rule to include more frequent check-ins starting in
>>> 2028 to evaluate the program.
>>>
>>> “It’s a great opportunity for us to put ourselves on a
>>> strategic and more equitable path,” said Commissioner Amy
>>> Schlusser. “If we don’t adopt the rule, the system will still
>>> electrify. We just won’t have the same options and we won’t
>>> upgrade the grid in a strategic proactive way.”
>>>
>>> Commissioner Greg Addington, who voted against the rule adoption,
>>> acknowledged many Oregonians, especially in rural parts of the
>>> state, do not support the rule and do not have access to electric
>>> vehicle charging.
>>>
>>> “There are a lot of people in the state who don’t get where
>>> this is going,” Addington said.
>>>
>>> The new requirements will help Oregon meet its goals, adopted by the
>>> Legislature in 2019, of at least 90% of new vehicles sold annually
>>> to be zero emission by 2035. Those goals came with no consequences
>>> attached, while the newly adopted rule includes penalties to
>>> manufacturers for non-compliance.
>>>
>>> “By creating a regulatory certainty for manufacturers, EV charging
>>> providers and utilities, it sets a clear path forward for the future
>>> of zero-emission passenger cars and trucks in Oregon,” said Rachel
>>> Sakata, senior air quality planner at the Department of
>>> Environmental Quality.
>>>
>>> It will take time for Oregonians to retire all of their gas-powered
>>> cars. By 2035, about half of the passenger vehicles on Oregon roads
>>> will still be gas-powered, Sakata said. To limit their pollution,
>>> the rule includes more stringent emission standards for the
>>> remaining gas cars.
>>>
>>> To make sure electric cars are durable and a worthy replacement to
>>> gas-powered ones, the new rule requires electric vehicles to meet
>>> certain technical requirements, including a minimum range of 150
>>> miles, a parts and battery warranty and a fast charge capability,
>>> among others.
>>>
>>> The Environmental Quality Commission received more than 700 comments
>>> on the rule. Five-hundred of them were in support, Sakata said.
>>>
>>> Oregonians who spoke out against the rule during the public comment
>>> period cited the expense of electric cars and lack of charging
>>> stations. Sakata said the new standard will expand the market for
>>> new and used zero emission vehicles and bring down prices. She also
>>> said the upfront costs are offset by decreased operations and
>>> maintenance costs.
>>>
>>> Low- and moderate-income Oregonians are eligible for rebates to buy
>>> electric cars.
>>>
>>> Oregon has over 2,000 public and private electric vehicle chargers
>>> across the state, with more being built in the next few years,
>>> Sakata said. She said she expects the infrastructure to grow and
>>> for the electric grid capacity to be sufficient to support
>>> additional electricity needs from expanded electric car sales.
>>>
>>> Department officials also said that while for now about half the
>>> electricity that fuels electric vehicles is still produced in Oregon
>>> by fossil fuels, including coal, utilities are moving toward cleaner
>>> sources such as wind, solar and hydroelectric.
>>>
>>> House Bill 2021 requires the state’s investor-owned utilities –
>>> Portland General Electric and Pacific Power – to reach zero
>>> emissions by 2040 and prohibits any utility expansion or new
>>> construction of power plants within Oregon.
>>>
>>> – Gosia Wozniacka; [email protected]
>>
>> The world collapsing around them and the idiot Democrats in Oregon
>> choose to waste time and money and valuable energy, to follow their
>> failed Utopian plan.
> 
> 
>     Tell that to all the Republican
> governors (Texas, Florida, Alabama,
> Mississippi, Oklahoma) that are
> pushing EV's. Even Trump included
> an EV tax credit in his 2017 tax
> overhaul.

And I chastised any of that, that I saw. Using tax dollars to create cap 
and trade policy is communism and is also unconstitutional. There is no 
delegated power to create transfer payments from one person to another 
person through either appropriations or tax law.

And here's the Constitutional clause that makes it UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

*Amendment XIII*
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, *except as a* 
*punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted* 
, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their 
jurisdiction.


*Slavery is* when one person's life (the slave's) is not allowed to be 
for their own benefit, and another person (the owner) receive's the 
benefit of that work without doing any work.

In modern America that includes FRACTIONAL SLAVERY whereby the slaves 
are created as a pool of slaves who do the work and that are owned by a 
pool of owners created to receive the benefits.

It's all still slavery and according to Amendment 13 above...  it is 
slavery and UNCONSTITUTIONAL unless it's " *except as a* *punishment* 
*for* *crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted* "

It means that tax and appropriations laws to take money or work or 
property from one person to give to another is NOT Constitutional unless 
it is limited to SLAVES and involuntary servitude.

Article I
Section 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, 
Duties, Imposts and Excises, *to pay the Debts and provide for* the 
common Defence and *general Welfare of the United States* ...

It does NOT say the GENERAL WELFARE OF *THE PEOPLE* .

*Amendment X*
The *powers not delegated to the United States* by the Constitution, nor 
prohibited by it to the States, *are reserved* to the States 
respectively, *or* to the people.


And as per Amendment 10 where it says *or* "to the people" it means that 
the PEOPLE are NOT the States *or* THE United States... the people are a 
seperate entity and  Article I Section 8. says *general Welfare of the* 
*United States* so there is/was no delegated power for the United States 
to make TRANSFER PAYMENTS from one person to another via tax laws or 
appropriations laws.

But Amendment 13 would have also cleared up that Transfer payment 
misconception when it made slavery illegal for STATES and for the 
Federal Government  *except* as a *punishment for crime whereof the* 
*party shall have been duly* *convicted*  .



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They became the *Ministry of TRUTH* that was run by the *SHADOW* 
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For those out there that said *the SHADOW GOVERNMENT is tinfoil hat* 
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