Re:Wyoming wants to phase out sales of EVs by 2035
by ElfinTrousers on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:53AM
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Or more likely after eighteen to twenty-four months of Rugged Individualism (TM) everyone will get sick of going against the flow and change the law.
Re:Wyoming wants to phase out sales of EVs by 2035
by slfisher on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:44AM
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I would expect Wyoming residents to have problems with electric cars anyway, due to a lack of charging stations (and I wouldn't be surprised to see vandalism). I don't live in Wyoming, but I used to live in Idaho, and the mentality is similar.
Wyoming will start to look like Cuba: people will drive antiques, and local machinists will crop up to reproduce out-of-stock parts. They've got oil, so presumably they could even maintain their own gasoline supply through corporate welfare. As the second least-populous (people per square mile) state in the union, I think they could even pull it off.
Richer Wyomingians will be able to buy electric cars out of state, but if it gets that far, I suspect such a choice would bear substantial physical risk even driving around in one (which is already a nuisance in some places).