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Dem governor withdraws electric vehicle mandate

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(12-01-2023, 02:51 PM)copycat Wrote:
(11-30-2023, 09:54 PM)mikesez Wrote: Your point about affordability is spot on.  The government has some limited powers in this area, not rights, but the affordability to the end user is one of the main limits on their power.   At one time the government may have had the power to say, "these cars pollute too much, everyone adopt this unaffordable clean tech or else go back to horse and buggy." But that was long ago, if ever at all.   The only reason anyone in government, CA, CT, federal, or otherwise, was able to mandate catalytic converters or unleaded gas was affordability. The industry experts said they could make it affordable if the market was mandated and they delivered. Industry experts don't really believe EVs will ever be as practical or affordable as gas cars, even with a guaranteed market.  That could change.  But no one thinks the tech is there today.

You say affordability is what restricts them.  I believe the exact opposite is the end game.  It appears to me like the mandates are an attempt to price the common man out of the market and force him to use public transportation, which is the ultimate goal of the government.

Maybe Ned Lamont feels that way, but obviously a majority of the CT legislature, and any other legislature in the US, does not agree that cars should be made unaffordable.
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copycat - by copycat - 12-01-2023, 02:51 PM
RE: copycat - by mikesez - 12-01-2023, 04:59 PM
copycat - by copycat - 12-01-2023, 06:03 PM
RE: copycat - by mikesez - 12-01-2023, 07:37 PM
copycat - by copycat - 12-01-2023, 07:51 PM
RE: copycat - by mikesez - 12-02-2023, 12:05 AM
copycat - by copycat - 12-01-2023, 05:37 PM
RE: copycat - by mikesez - 12-01-2023, 07:27 PM
copycat - by copycat - 12-02-2023, 05:44 PM
RE: copycat - by The Real Marty - 12-03-2023, 09:34 AM
RE: copycat - by americus 2.0 - 12-03-2023, 05:36 PM
RE: copycat - by The Real Marty - 12-03-2023, 05:53 PM
copycat - by copycat - 12-03-2023, 08:37 PM
RE: copycat - by WingerDinger - 12-03-2023, 10:56 PM
RE: copycat - by The Real Marty - 12-04-2023, 06:58 AM
RE: copycat - by americus 2.0 - 12-04-2023, 01:53 PM
copycat - by copycat - 12-03-2023, 08:21 PM
RE: copycat - by p_rushing - 12-06-2023, 01:02 AM
copycat - by copycat - 12-06-2023, 11:44 PM



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