Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing to require all new passenger automobiles, pickup vehicles, and SUVs offered in NY be zero emissions by 2035.
Don Pollard
In an all-too-tellingly-empty stunt, Gov. Kathy Hochul final week ordered the state Division of Environmental Conservation to concern rules banning the sale of gas-powered automobiles, pickups and SUVs by . . . 2035.
It’s not simply that she’ll be lengthy passed by then, or that she was merely marking Nationwide Drive Electrical Week by pretending to maintain up with California’s equally doubtful 2035 only-electric rule.
Nor that, as even The New York Occasions admits, electrical automobiles are nonetheless far too costly and impractical for all however the wealthy — with huge technological and industrial progress wanted earlier than they make sense even for the center class.
To not point out constructing lots of of hundreds of charging stations (New York now has simply over 10,000) to make mass EV use remotely sensible.
No: It’s that Hochul’s insurance policies are already making electrical energy way more costly, and the ache’s solely begun. John Howard, the previous head of the Public Service Fee (the primary electrical regulator) warned this 12 months that the state’s carbon-free-energy regulation will value New Yorkers “lots of of billions” in larger power payments.
As with the supposed 2035 all-electric-car rule, that madness received’t absolutely kick in ’til lengthy after Hochul’s gone.
So long as New York stays a one-party state, the Democrats who run issues can preserve blaming ConEd and different unfortunate messengers for the mounting ache. It’s another reason to vote out each Dem you possibly can this Election Day.
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