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Toyota President: California’s Ban on
Gas-powered Cars ‘Difficult’ by 2035 Deadline

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Posted By: Ribicon, 10/2/2022 10:04:09 PM

Toyota Motor Corporation President Akio Toyoda told reporters Thursday that California’s ban on the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in 2035 will be “difficult” to achieve, given present battery technology and constraints facing the state’s electricity grid. As Fox News reported, Toyoda was reacting to the new mandate imposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the powerful California Air Resources Board (CARB), which will require almost all new car sales to involve electric vehicles in just 12 years.(Snip)“Realistically speaking, it seems rather difficult to really achieve them,” Toyota Motor Corporation President Akio Toyoda told reporters through a translator on Thursday discussing California’s new mandates.

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Maybe not in Japan, but in America, the wave of a crooked politician's hand is all it takes to make dreams come true.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: laurenc 10/2/2022 10:51:41 PM (No. 1293928)
It isn't going to happen by 2035, and everyone knows it. So why isn't anyone in a position of responsibility saying so? Are they waiting until 2034, and then try to blame the GOP for obstruction of the "Green Dream?" And then move the date to 2040? Then 2045?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thomthomp 10/2/2022 11:35:05 PM (No. 1293949)
Difficult AND totally unnecessary. All based on the climate change hoax and politicians' lust for power.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JHHolliday 10/3/2022 12:14:08 AM (No. 1293960)
Go for it California. It will be interesting to see what a state with a fraction of tax revenue will be like in the years to come. Of course, when the state goes teats up, the rest of the country will be forced to bail them out. I used to think that the Confederacy bailing out of the union was a bad idea. No longer. Might have been best to have let us go our own way.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 10/3/2022 12:36:17 AM (No. 1293968)
There is nothing in the universe that a politician cannot dream is possible if only the pass a law to make it so.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: GoodDeal 10/3/2022 1:35:06 AM (No. 1293977)
Just ignore the stupidity and build all the gas cars you can and just sell them in Arizona where I am sure it will not be a problem.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: varkdriver 10/3/2022 5:03:52 AM (No. 1294005)
Two thoughts: 1. On 31 December 2034, look for the grand opening of the world's biggest car dealerships on the Cal-Oregon/Cal-Nevada/Cal-Arizona borders. Our motto: "Varkdriver Motors: It's a Gas!" 2. When a Japanese person says: "[inhaling thru clenched teeth] Oooh, that would be very difficult...", he is essentially screaming at you "Hey! Idiot! Are you crazy? Forget it! That will never happen in a billion years." We used to refer to it as "Molar Wind" when they were inhaling fiercely prior to telling you it was, basically, impossible.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: mifla 10/3/2022 5:32:56 AM (No. 1294010)
Solution: Get a new governor.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 10/3/2022 6:54:10 AM (No. 1294036)
Just refuse. Set up giant showrooms on the Arizona and Nevada borders. Will be largest car dealerships in the world.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Bur Oak 10/3/2022 7:47:19 AM (No. 1294077)
It is easy to ban internal combustion engine cars in 2035. To goal for the socialist politicians is to control the people. To do this they are going to force them out of suburban areas and into high rise apartments by getting rid of affordable cars and forcing them into public transportation or onto bicycles. This has noting to do with carbon dioxide or the climate. The politicians problem is that the people can leave the state.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 10/3/2022 8:21:21 AM (No. 1294098)
He was just being polite by choosing the word, "difficult." We all have dozens of better words for this pipe dream, most of which will not pass Lucianne's filters. As government boondoggles go, this one ranks right up there with the Great Society, the War on Drugs, the Big Dig, the Bullet Trains and Affirmative Action, each of which have failed, cost over a hundred times as much as estimated and accurately shape our opinion of state and federal governments today.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Oldenoughtoknowbetter 10/3/2022 8:43:06 AM (No. 1294116)
Imagine the hurricane evacuation and repopulation that just took place in Florida in electric vehicles. Are you going to take your family, important life possessions and pets into water, something that has to be charged every few hours for some extended time, and that you can't carry extra fuel in? Take all of that on trains that could accommodate millions of people ? Have electric down for days if not weeks or months? When that earthquake or monsoon hits California I suppose we will find out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Old Army Vet 10/3/2022 9:28:51 AM (No. 1294156)
I wonder if the people of Kalifornia see how dumb they look to the rest of the country. IMHO.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: pensom2 10/3/2022 11:56:49 AM (No. 1294285)
Everyone knows it's not going to happen. Sometime around 2028-2030, the California legislature will set back the date by five or ten years. Then a few years later they'll set it back further. Toyota probably wants simply to go on record as having warned the state. They know darn well that the law is just a chimera designed to enhance Mr. Brylcreem's prospects in running for POTUS, to continue Auntie Nancy Pelosi's other wokesters' self-serving destruction of the USA.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bigfatslob 10/3/2022 1:30:36 PM (No. 1294350)
Plenty of batteries when Unicorns start passing Lucky Charms out of their behinds.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: stablemoney 10/3/2022 3:32:47 PM (No. 1294425)
The Japanese are very understated. To interpret, what he means is that it is totally impossible, and it is never going to happen.
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