New Jersey will prohibit the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035 to fight climate change, state officials announced Tuesday.
Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Shawn LaTourette, the commissioner of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection announced Tuesday that Murphy would file the “Advanced Clean Cars Rule II” for adoption on Dec. 18, with the policy coming into effect on Jan.1, 2024. [emphasis, links added]
The policy will bind the state to completely phasing out the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, with incremental benchmarks for increasing the minimum share of manufacturers’ new fleets that are zero-emission vehicle requirements along the way.
“Here we see yet another Democrat elected official pandering for votes by interceding in the markets in a way that will create perverse incentives for automakers and inevitably higher costs for consumers,” David Blackmon, a 40-year veteran of the oil and gas industry who now writes and consults on the energy sector, told the Daily Caller News Foundation about the policy.
“This is just one more example of why politicians are literally the very worst class of people in our society to be making energy-related decisions for the rest of us. Everything they do in this space only serves to make our situation worse.”
Tucker Carlson asks New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy where he got the authority to nullify the Bill of rights when he banned religious services in his state:
"I wasn't thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this… The science says people have to stay away from each other." pic.twitter.com/DPQ5d2DFl2
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 16, 2020
New Jersey joins a growing list of states that have adopted 2035 bans on the sale of new gas-powered cars.
Other states with similar or identical policies include California, Vermont, New York, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, Maryland, and Connecticut, according to Coltura.
The state will start restricting the number of gas-powered vehicles that can be sold in the state in 2027, before arriving at zero in 2035, according to Murphy’s office.
The 2027 benchmark will require manufacturers to ensure that zero-emissions vehicles compose 43% of their new car fleets.
The policy does not ban ownership or use of internal combustion engine vehicles, and it will not bar the sale of used gas-powered cars, according to Murphy’s office.
“There is no justification, environmental or otherwise, to ban gas-powered vehicles,” Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, told the DCNF.
“All it does is force automakers to charge more for the types of vehicles that consumers actually want to buy. This power grab by unelected bureaucrats will make it harder for tens of thousands of New Jersey residents to buy their first car.”
Environmentalists and other green energy advocates often tout electric vehicles (EVs) as the future of American transportation and car culture, but they have several significant problems that their gas-powered counterparts do not.
Public charging station performance remains inconsistent, drivers often have range anxiety, EVs tend to perform poorly in cold weather and they cost significantly more than gas-powered cars.
“By filing the landmark Advanced Clean Cars II rule, New Jersey builds upon its standing as a national leader in climate action and its participation in the global Accelerating to Zero commitment,” Murphy said of the policy.
Notably, some of Murphy’s other decarbonization efforts have not gone as smoothly as hoped.
In October, Orsted, a major offshore wind developer, terminated two massive wind farms off the state’s coast that were expected to provide low-emissions power to the state for years to come.
Now, the company is attempting to get out of up to $300 million it owes the state, which could ultimately leave New Jersey taxpayers on the hook.
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Frankly all Liberal Big Government Democrats need to be totally voted out of office Period let them take up a job their better suited to like Sanitation or they can spread this load of Garbage against Gas Powered Cars al over total Lie then they should be made to pick it all up
No, they don’t tend to, the absolutely do. And NJ isn’t the worst for winter weather but they do get socked with cold and snow and couple a major snow storm with their traffic on the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike and every other major highway it would be expected to find EVs that batteries have died along with the potential of their occupants.
He was losing the last election too… until right when voting was ending, then it suddenly tipped over to him. Who does he owe, to be making such tyrannical move?
Then again, any pro abortion, pro covid killing, putting sick people into nursing homes to up the kill etc. jerk deserves jail time. He seems to be part of the WEF globalist plot to destroy this nation.
RE: The policy does not ban ownership or use of internal combustion engine vehicles, and it will not bar the sale of used gas-powered cars, according to Murphy’s office
Right there is a loophole one mile wide. New car dealers can buy gasoline powered cars from a dealers in sensible states, drive those cars to their own dealership, and then sell them as a used car with ultra low mileage – only a few hundred miles on the odometer.
MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO. Murphy has all the intelligence of a Rock Now wants to dictate when their Citizens can drive They need to RED(Remove Every Democrat)they want to ban just about everything we enjoy