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Re:Wyoming wants to phase out sales of EVs by 2035 by __derek__ on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:15PM (#34391013)
Interstate highways are owned/operated/maintained by the states. The federal government can (attempt to) influence what happens along them, but it's not going to build anything itself.
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Re:Wyoming wants to phase out sales of EVs by 2035 by sokoloff on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:22PM (#34391070)
The reason we had a standardized 55 mph speed limit and 21 as the drinking age was via federal interstate highway funding being made contingent on those things.
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Re:Wyoming wants to phase out sales of EVs by 2035 by __derek__ on Sunday January 15, 2023 @12:57PM (#34391388)
Right, "the federal government can (attempt to) influence what happens along them." Of course, that particular brand of influence has waned in recent decades for obvious reasons.
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