{"id":597971,"date":"2023-01-16T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/wyoming-wants-to-phase-out-sales-of-new-evs-by-2035\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:38","slug":"wyoming-wants-to-phase-out-sales-of-new-evs-by-2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/wyoming-wants-to-phase-out-sales-of-new-evs-by-2035\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming wants to phase out sales of new EVs by 2035"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While jurisdictions like California<\/a> and New York<\/a> move toward banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars, one US state wants to go in the opposite direction. Wyoming\u2019s legislature is considering a resolution that calls for a phaseout of new electric vehicle sales by 2035. Introduced on Friday, Senate Joint Resolution 4<\/a> has support from members of the state\u2019s House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n

In the proposed resolution, a group of lawmakers led by Senator Jim Anderson says Wyoming\u2019s \u201cproud and valued\u201d oil and gas industry has created \u201ccountless\u201d jobs and contributed revenue to the state\u2019s coffers. They add that a lack of charging infrastructure within Wyoming would make the widespread use of EVs \u201cimpracticable\u201d and that the state would need to build \u201cmassive amounts of new power generation\u201d to \u201csustain the misadventure of electric vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

SJ4 calls for residents and businesses to limit the sale and purchase of EVs voluntarily, with the goal of phasing them out entirely by 2035. If passed, the resolution would be entirely symbolic. In fact, it\u2019s more about sending a message to EV advocates than banning the vehicles altogether. To that point, the final section of SJ4 calls for Wyoming\u2019s Secretary of State to send President Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom copies of the resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne might even say tongue-in-cheek, but obviously it\u2019s a very serious issue that deserves some public discussion,\u201d Senator Boner, one of the bill\u2019s co-sponsors, told the Cowboy State Daily<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m interested in making sure that the solutions that some folks want to the so-called climate crisis are actually practical in real life. I just don\u2019t appreciate when other states try to force technology that isn\u2019t ready,\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the resolution has the markings of a political stunt, it does allude to genuine economic anxiety. Wyoming produced 85.43 million barrels of oil<\/a> in 2021, making it the country\u2019s eighth-largest crude oil producer that year. The state\u2019s Carbon County is also home to one of the largest wind farms<\/a> in the US. Something that\u2019s not talked about enough when it comes to climate change is how the world transitions to a zero-emissions economy in an equitable way. People in many rural US states are rightfully mistrustful of so-called green technologies because they haven\u2019t benefited from more recent technological shifts as much as their urban counterparts. Take the advent of the internet, for instance. In 2018, Microsoft found that many rural communities don\u2019t have access to broadband internet<\/a>. That\u2019s something that has contributed to diminishing economic opportunities in those places.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While jurisdictions like California and New York move toward banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars, one US state wants to go in the opposite direction. Wyoming\u2019s legislature is considering a resolution that calls for a phaseout of new electric vehicle sales by 2035. Introduced on Friday, Senate Joint Resolution 4 has support from members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,91,4205],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-597971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"category-wants","9":"category-wyoming"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}