By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – A West Virginia lawmaker led the successful push Thursday in the U.S. Senate to block California’s electric vehicle mandate, a rule that could have impacted a third of the country.
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., speaking to West Virginia reporters during her weekly media briefing, said the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed her joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to repeal California’s EV mandate.
Had that rule been allowed to stand, it would have mandated that 30 percent of the country would have to transition to electric vehicles over gas powered vehicles, Capito said.
“Today, this morning early, under my leadership in particular, we took down the California EV electric vehicle mandate,” Capito said. “It was going to mandate that 30 percent of this country was going to have to next year sell — 30 percent of the cars would have to be full-out electric vehicles. And then by the year 2035 every vehicle sold would be electric. Not hybrid. Not gas powered. All electric. An unreasonable, incredibly far reaching and I think very damaging to the economy, very damaging to auto jobs and other jobs all across the country.”
