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A Brilliant Idea

“I’ve got a brilliant idea. Let’s pass some laws now that will take effect in 23 years!”

Most rational people would be flabbergasted and would laugh at such a ludicrous
idea . . . except if you live in California! Here, in California, you get used to our Democratic State Lawmakers coming up with, discussing, and then voting on such nonsense. The problem for those of us who live here is that often these absurdities actually make it into law – take for example the addition of a third choice on Driver’s Licenses in the box marked “gender”, which was voted into law and signed by our Democratic Governor Brown this year.
It is Assemblyman, Phil Ting (D, San Francisco), who thinks that it is a brilliant idea to make laws now that will take effect in 2040. Keep in mind that this kind of thinking is what you get from one who was educated at Berkeley and Harvard, as Mr. Ting was. Even though we supposedly have rules about “separation of church and state”, when it comes to “global warming”, the Democrats feel that they are inspired and that they must save the rest of us from . . . something! (If you are not up to speed on this – “Climate change”/”Global Warming” is the new religion of the Democrats.) To make matters worse, we, the citizens of California, pay them to force their religion onto the rest of us.
Mr. Ting’s most recent brainstorm is to ban sales of gas vehicles in California by 2040. He thinks that this is absolutely necessary if the state is to be successful in reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 80% from 1990 to 2050, because the only way to achieve this is by dramatically increasing the sales of Electric Vehicles and simultaneously dramatically decreasing the sales of gasoline powered vehicles. Governor Brown wants 1.5 million E.V.s on the road by 2025,  and at present there are only just a little over 300,000. Mr. Ting and many of his Democratic colleagues realize that this goal of 1.5 million is impossible unless something changes.  Obviously there is a problem with these goals, and so of course the Democratic solution is to “persuade” Californians that they want E.V.s by offering more money in the form of tax rebates.
If one thinks about this issue rationally, many problems become apparent.
The major dichotomy for Mr. Ting seems to be that he recently voted to significantly increase the gas tax to pay for needed road and infrastructure repairs, and now he wants the government to “pay the citizens” to use Electric Vehicles that will not pay the increased gas tax!
From my perspective, I just sit back and chuckle as it is very unlikely that I will be here in 2040 when the government will force everyone to buy an E.V. The irony is that
Mr. Ting is 48 years old, and in 2040, he will be 70, and could well be dead and not forced to suffer the tyranny of his own brilliant idea.

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