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    U.S. Voters Supporting Full Transition to Electric Cars by 2030

      Washington state was the first state in the USA to pass a 2030 auto electrification through both chambers marking an end to ICE sales in the state. Since then additional states have passed legislation or signed executive orders halting the sales of ICE such as New York and California by 2035. Now polling of registered voters is telling a message of support for this.

    According to the latest poll from Yale University, George Mason University and Climate Nexus commissioned by the nonprofit Coltura, finds that 55% to 35% margin in requiring all new autos sold in their state to be electric starting in 2030.

    As per multiple scientific and university groups, carbon pollution biggest source is gasoline powered cars and world leaders coming off the heels of the COP26 climate gathering are trying to address this mounting climate crisis. Yes, not everyone will agree with these polls or the science behind climate change and as a multi-cultural society, we must work to at times agree to disagree and still find a way to move forward. Humanity has always come together for the good of society.

    Polls are now showing strong voter support for aggressive climate action. This is of course based on a number of understandings such as the following positive impacts:

    • 73% believe a positive impact on air quality
    • 64% believe a positive impact on climate change
    • 61% believe a positive impact on individual health
    • 58% believe a positive impact on energy independence
    • 52% believe a positive impact on urban communities
    • 51% believe a positive impact on suburban communities

    This is clearly a generational belief when one looks at how phasing out ICE auto sales are looked at by voter groups.

    • Voters aged 18-34 (71%) believe 2030 is when ICE auto sales should end.
    • 69% of Black voters believe 2030 is when ICE auto sales should end.
    • 67% of Hispanic voters believe 2030 is when ICE auto sales should end.

    This is even more interesting to review when you look at the full transition to electric auto's broken down by state.

    • Michigan voters support this change by a 55 to 33% margin
    • Nevada voters support this by a 52 to 39% margin
    • Colorado voters support this by a 50 to 38% margin
    • New York voters support this by a 66 to 24% margin
    • Massachusetts voters support this by a 62 to 28% margin
    • New Jersey voters support this by a 58 to 30% margin

    Some will ask and the voter survey was of 2,678 registered voters across the nation's states. Some were as low as only 153 respondents from Hawaii to 350 in New York, Massachusetts and other states.

    So yes, one can say this is a small pool to sample to the almost 168.31 million registered voters in the US.

    The focus on posting this is to encourage civil discussion on if this is not only reachable, but if it should be done or not, why and why not and to encourage the discussion on the future of the ICE versus EV industry.

    Many states have committed billions of dollars over the next few years to installing electric charging stations across their state to help the transition to EVs. Some auto makers are taking it a step further such as Hyundai / Kia that is supporting not only the highspeed 800V plug in charging but also wireless charging of their auto's so that end users can use wireless pads that are installed at their home be it a house, condo or apartment for constant full charge at the start of each day.

    Some places such as the West coast and even the East coast that is catching up in charging installation are leading compared to the Mid-west that is trailing. Change is inevitable and for some, a strong resistance to change will keep them in ICE for a long time while others will embrace the change of fueling from home as a dominant way to get to work, run errands, live life.

    Post your thoughts on these latest polls on how you think this will play out. Please be polite, do not get political, but focus on the technology, the change to society and the pro's and con's of what you think moving to EV sales only by 2030 or 2035 depending on where you live will do for the world, country, state economy.

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    Maine sees issues with meeting their emissions goals.
     

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    Here's some bar-napkin math.

    An estimated 50%+ of ME's emissions are from the transportation sector.
    ME has 1,000,000+ vehicles registered, and they want to drop emissions by 45% in 8 years.

    In order to drop emissions by 45%, they would have to replace 45% of the existing 1,000,000+ vehicles with BE's. That would be 450,000 brand new BE's that REPLACED existing IC's. The entire U.S. only bought 295,000 BE's last year.

    Goals are all well & good, but you do your cause a disservice if it's wildly out of reach.
     

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    One area that needs to change in regard to commercial business vehicles is the ability to register them out of state and not pay any road taxes from the licensing of them. If a business is here in the state working, the vehicles that they use be it diesel, gas, Hybrid or BEV needs to be licensed in that state and they pay the same taxes as everyone else.

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    18 hours ago, balthazar said:

    School districts are fiscally out of control... but they make sure to hit the kids first with real tangible, gut checks, like 'we can't afford tissues anymore' when pleading for millions.

    I've railed before here about the local city high school. They tore down the existing building, moved to a new site and built a $190 MILLION dollar building "for the future leaders of the country. $190,000,000 for 2300 students, or $93,000 per student. Could only find a couple pics of the interior, but the entrance had marble flooring and stained woodwork everywhere. Expensive as hell to build. Client of mine worked there, told me the building has TWO nurseries for babies. Maybe that's indicative of the unchanged mid 70% graduation rate and the national school ranking of 10,8xx.

    What angers me the most is that energy-efficiency wise, the building footprint is horrible. In order to make it look absurdly upscale in a depressed city, they gave it a disproportionately high exterior surface area (TONS of jogs & levels & glass). But it was pitched 'for the children', so how dare you speak against it (I do not live in the city). 

    You're here trying to tell me that a government-funded entity is mismanaging public money?!? 

    The nerve you have. 

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    33 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

    You're here trying to tell me that a government-funded entity is mismanaging public money?!? 

    The nerve you have. 

    Philosophically speaking...

    Who in power and in charge with massive amounts of money, regardless if that person in charge is from the private sector or public sector, does NOT 'mismanage' money?

    In the private sector, isnt that called fraud?  And there are many forms of financial fraud to boot? 

    Not putting up a fight with you regarding your statement, just philosophically speaking and acknowledging that when it comes to money :

    thieves thieves everywhere - Buzz and Woody (Toy Story) Meme | Make a Meme

     

    And yeah...mismanagement of public monies by different levels of government IS thievery in my honest opinion...

     

     

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    5 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

    And yeah...mismanagement of public monies by different levels of government IS thievery in my honest opinion...

    That's not an opinion,

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    The literal responsibility in the public sector is ethical management of funds- the problem is there's no accountability unless the mismanagement is blatantly criminal.

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