This announcement out of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s office yesterday is pretty cool news.
In 2021, under the benevolent eye of uber-prog Democratic black-face aficionado Gov Ralph Northam, the completely Democratic-held VA legislature decided to commit the state to follow the California emission standards, which, as everyone knows, are tougher than the federal ones. Progs of a feather flock together.
In 2022, doubling down on their infinite wisdom, VA lawmakers saw fit to impose what’s known as CA’s Advanced Clean Car II regulations on their fellow Virginians. In essence, what that was going to do was impose a 100% EV mandate on the state by 2035.
…The California 2035 ban, first announced by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020 and made official by the state in 2022, is staggered over the next 11 years. According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) plan, 35% of all…