Legal Insurrection readers may recall that back in 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the California Air Resources Board phase-out plan that would require “have essentially adopted California’s ludicrous rules: Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Vermont, Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, New Mexico, and New Jersey.
Intriguingly, board members brought up issues I have raised time and time again at Legal Insurrection: The lack of infrastructure to support significant numbers of EVs and the inability of current grid capacity to Board members also questioned if it would be realistic to expect the Maine to go from having only a small percentage of new car sales be comprised of EVs to increasing this share to 51 percent over the course of just a few years.What’s interesting is that the genesis of this mandate drive for the whole state was spurred by activists and a progressive governor – Janet Mills – jumping on a measly 150-person signature petition.
It appears that real climate scientists and energy realists are beginning to prevail. Let’s hope that other states follow Maine’s example and just say “No” to California crazy.California’s energy woes are getting worse. According to the latest numbers from the Energy Information Administration, the state’s residential electricity prices, already among the highest in America, jumped by 3 cents per kilowatt-hour last year, an increase of 11.9%. The average California homeowner now pays 28.
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