Electric vehicle mandate in California

Reisender wrote:

Yah that sounds plausible. Around here it seems different than that but your sceenario is obvious the case in many places. I think so much depends on infrastructure, fuel cost, electricity rates etc. All of which make EV’s very good candidates as a principal vehicle if the conditions are right. In American dollars gas is close to 3 bucks a gallon here. Power is under 10 cents a kilowatt hour. Infrastructure is good and new apartment buildings are mandated to have charging facilities making older building owners upgrade to be competitive. Lots of restaurants putting in charging facilities etc. If you commute a 150 km a day here a significant portion of your car payment is payed in fuel savings. I realize this is not the case everywhere but it’s easy to see why it’s taking off here.

And building all of this to handle even a 50% BEV market share will increase the cost of living which will put more below the poverty line.

In order for the apartment building to compete due to the mandate, they will have to put in chargers. Who will pay for the chargers? The renters which will mainly be high end renters who can afford it driving out all of the lower end renters. In order to cope with the added energy needed, the underground wire going from the substation to these apartment building will have to be cut out and increased. Who will pay for that? All the people using the power so electric bills will increase. This has a chain effect on all businesses using utility and property values going up which will cause the general cost of living to go up for everyone due to a progressive mandate.

This is one of the big reasons why places like California have become so expensive to live in, and why you see so many middle and lower class people move out with wealthier people moving in. The progressives make these mandates or regulations without any regards to what kind residual effect it will have. All they care about is their agenda and forcing people to comply with that agenda regardless of whether it pushes middle class citizens below the poverty line or not. Same thing with the EPA and the overly strict diesel emissions rules its progressive bureaucrats enacted without congressional input.