Quote:On Friday, Wyoming lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban the sale of new electric vehicles at a time when many states, including Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont, are considering bans on gas-powered cars, while some states, like California, have already advanced such legislation.

Wyoming State Joint Resolution SJ0004 is a bill "expressing support for phasing out the sale of new electric vehicles in Wyoming by 2035" and notes "oil and gas production has long been one of Wyoming's proud and valued industries."

"The oil and gas industry in Wyoming has created countless jobs and has contributed revenues to the state of Wyoming throughout the state's history," the legislation reads.

According to the Daily Mail, the bill was put forward by state Senator Jim Anderson and a group of state legislators.

SJ0004 aims to phase out EVs entirely by 2035 and pushes residents of Wyoming to reduce the purchase or sale of EVs in the meantime.

The bill says the US "has consistently invested in the oil and gas industry to sustain gas-powered vehicles and that investment has resulted in the continued employment of thousands of people in the oil and gas industry in Wyoming and throughout the country."

These measures would "ensure the stability" of Wyoming's oil and gas industry, which has generated "revenues to the state of Wyoming throughout its history" and created "countless jobs."

The legislation says that moving to EVs would "have deleterious impacts on Wyoming's communities and will be detrimental to Wyoming's economy and the ability for the country to efficiently engage in commerce."

"The critical minerals used in electric batteries are not easily recyclable or disposable," the bill adds.

Wyoming ranked as the eighth top producer of oil in 2021 and hosts 30,000 miles of pipelines operated by 100 companies that maintain 68,000 jobs in the industry.

Speaking to Cowboy State Daily, GOP State Senator Brian Boner said the bill was slightly " tongue-in-cheek" but that "it's a very serious issue that deserves some public discussion."

"I'm interested in making sure that the solutions that some folks want to the so-called climate crisis are actually practical in real life. just don't appreciate when other states try to force technology that isn't ready," Boner added.

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Now we're talkin'! Good job, Wyoming! Pansies can leave...or, as Kurtwood says:

Wyoming is the most sparsely populated state in the country (580k).
Who cares?

Apparently you do

In 2022 there were 575k EVs sold in the US. Only about 6% of all cars sold but Wyoming is chasing windmills.

Only 575k sold.

And how many millions of acreage despoiled for these vanity toys?

We’ll wreck this big beautiful blue marble in the freakish name of “saving” it.

Course, some will get very rich doing so.


Sad

(01-17-2023 12:09 AM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  In 2022 there were 575k EVs sold in the US. Only about 6% of all cars sold but Wyoming is chasing windmills.

That's 575k too many. Gotta start somewhere. Kudos to Wyoming. Maybe other states where rationality still exists will follow suit.

I watched a video out of Wyoming, and a guy gets his water out of the well that is his drinking water. One day, the water smelled. So, he did a test by lighten a match to the water, and boom, flames. So, the water was tested, and what they found was chemicals that were used for fracking for oil wound up into the water table in the area. They said fracking is the safest way to get oil, but the oil companies did not realized that they were trying to protect the water suppllies, but the fracking caused cracks in the rocks for the chemicals to leak into the water system. That is why we should move away from oil and fossil feuls. Do you want to drink that crap?

As cold and snowy as it gets in Wyoming and as spread out it is, I'd imagine EVs are dangerous and a strain on resources needed to rescue them.