The sale of diesel-powered RVs is about to be banned in Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts on January 1, 2025. The vehicles aren’t being banned because the people voted on it. They’re being banned because their leaders are following the example of California’s climate-zealot-in-chief, Gavin Newsom.
New motorhome sales will be stopped in those states if they don’t meet the new emissions rules being set by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Naturally, these states are disrupting an entire nationwide industry to battle a fake problem involving the weather.
Gavin Newsom, who has completely wrecked the formerly great state of California with his global warming retardery, wants to be the next President of the United States. You should keep that in mind whenever you hear about what a dump California has been turned into on his watch.
Back in October, Newsom’s handpicked global warming high priests on the CARB board amended the state’s Advanced Clean Truck regulations. Starting January 1, all vehicles that weigh over 8,500 pounds are required to create zero emissions. They gave the industry just two months to adopt a new scientifically impossible standard or go out of business.
Beginning on the first of the year, people living in those six states will no longer be allowed to register a diesel-powered RV because they’re not in compliance with the new climate standard set by California. A big part of this is obviously driven by money and crony capitalism and has nothing to do with the weather.
It’s the Obamacare principle in action. Once the politicians figured out that they could force people to buy a product (health insurance), they started applying similar principles to other industries. Why allow people who want an RV to pay $80,000 for a diesel-powered Winnebago when you can make their only option a $450,000 electric Winnebago?
Winnebago is made by Ford, incidentally, which spends about $4 million a year lobbying politician in California. It’s also purely a coincidence that three of Newsom’s top 20 donors are from the EV industry. (Wink, wink.)
So, why is the RV industry in Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts required to go along with California’s retarded global warming rules? Whatever happened to federalism?
The answer is the Clean Air Act, a federal law that’s been irrelevant since the 1980s. The Clean Air Act requires states to meet federal pollution requirements related to air quality.
That’s all well and good, but the automotive industry solved that problem decades ago. They made scientific advances to reduce emissions from gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, and it cleaned up the air. When was the last time you even heard a person use the term “smog,” when they weren’t talking about China or India?
One of the provisions of the Clean Air Act allowed states in non-compliance to either follow the federal standards or follow California’s standards. California was cracking down on air quality from the 1970s onward because Los Angeles was the only major city in the country that really had a lot of smog. (It had to do with Southern California’s weather patterns.)
Anyway, Democrat governors in Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts all opted to adhere to California’s insane air quality regulations, which are set through CARB. That’s how California has the authority to wield power over entire industries in five additional states.
This is a huge problem that President Trump and congressional Republicans need to fix. Imagine living in another state and you suddenly have new rules and regulations imposed on you by California, which your own legislature never even voted on. The Clean Air Act should be amended to take this magical power away from California.
If the buying public actually wanted electric vehicles, it would be buying electric vehicles. We don’t want them because we know they’re a scam. As of this year, only 7% of the new vehicles on the roads in America are electric. Half of EV owners say they’re ready to switch back to gas-powered vehicles.
EVs are a pain in the neck to own, they have this odd tendency to randomly explode, they’re inconvenient, and the power grid can’t support them. So, realistically, the ceiling for desired EV ownership is 3 to 4%.
President Trump: Please take away Gavin Newsom’s power to disrupt the entire automotive industry just because his donors are pushing this global warming scam!
