And from the Office of the Governor
About Banning the Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars in 2035
And from the Office of the Governor
And from the Office of the Governor
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I have commented on this before. Sorry if I repeat myself. This will have many detrimental effects on the state of NJ. One would be most people can’t afford the additional cost. Another>>> the car mechanic will be nonexistent. NJ sales tax revenue will plummet. Out of state vacationers will opt out and go someplace else. What about gas tax revenue, NJ like other states, use for road construction? To me it’s all “feel good legislation”. Most politicians in this state are dumber than a tire.
I have commented on this before. Sorry if I repeat myself. WE’RE USED TO IT. This will have many detrimental effects on the state of NJ. DO TELL. One would be most people can’t afford the additional cost. HYBRID VEHICLES AND EV VEHICLES ACTUALLY COST LESS OVER THE LIFESPAN AND YOU’LL STILL BUY AND SELL EXISTING GAS VEHICLES. Another>>> the car mechanic will be nonexistent. THIS MAY SURPRISE YOU BUT ALL VEHICLES, WHETHER GAS POWERED, EV, OR HYBRID, REQUIRE MECHANICS. NJ sales tax revenue will plummet. NOT SURE HOW NJ SALES TAX WOULD BE AFFECTED. Out of state vacationers will opt out and go someplace else. UM WHAT? WHY? THERE ARE ZERO RESTRICTIONS ON VEHICLES FROM OTHER STATES. NOT A BIG READER, ARE YOU. What about gas tax revenue, NJ like other states, use for road construction? AGAIN, THERE WILL STILL BE PLENTY OF GAS POWERED VEHICLES ON THE ROAD. PLUS THERE ARE USER BASED FEES AND ELECTRIC CAR SURCHARGES. To me it’s all “feel good legislation”. Most politicians in this state are dumber than a tire. THIS LEGISLATION, LIKE ALL LEGISLATION, IS SUBJECT TO CHANGES, EDITS, AND, OF COURSE, FAILURE. LIKE THE PLASTIC BAG BAN, WHERE FOLKS LIKE YOU WENT ALL CHICKEN LITTLE, NOTHING HAPPENED. THERE ARE JUST LESS PLASTIC BAGS BLOWING AROUND EVERYWHERE. I’M A LITTLE CONCERNED FOR ALL THE INCONSIDERATE ****** THAT SIT IN THIER RUNNING VEHICLES AT THE BEACH OR THE STORE POLLUTING THE AIR AND EXACERBATING PEOPLES ATHSMA SO THEY CAN BE ‘COMFY’, BUT MAYBE THEYLL MOVE OUT OF STATE.
The pool of buying and selling existing cars will dry up. Mechanics for gas powered is much different then electric. NJ sales tax will plummet because fewer cars will be sold. People can’t afford the high cost of EVS. i hope this legislation will change. CANCELLED. You sir a just a liberal without facts. NJ, just like CA, is run by feel good politicians. Go buy a gas mask for your asthma.
Haha. I love how you get so angry. Does your Chrystal Ball tell you who’s gonna win the Super Bowl next year?
You, like me, have no idea how this will play out. You, unlike me, enjoy pretending that you can see the future. You, unlike me, get very angry at things that haven’t happened.
I don’t have asthma, but your concern for the people who suffer from that disease is heart warming. Very Christian. My favorite bible passage is ,”screw thy neighbor so thoust never has to be slightly uncomfortable”.
Thank you Biden
“This ban of the sale of new gas-powered cars … in such an expedited time does not take costs or feasibility into account,” Ray Cantor, deputy chief government affairs officer for the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, said in a statement. “It does not take the lack of local and highway infrastructure into account. It does not take grid capacity into account. It ignores consumer choice. It doesn’t take New Jersey residents into account, especially low-and moderate-income families.”
Volvo Group has purchased Proterra’s assembly factory in South Carolina and a development center for battery packs and modules based in California in a bankruptcy auction in the US. The electric bus and battery maker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late this summer, in a surprise move that jolted the EV industry.
Wow, they only need like seven more bankruptcies to catch up to Trump.
Weren’t you the one who defended all his bankruptcies as “taking advantage of bankruptcy laws”? So are you applauding these two companies? Or are bankruptcies bad now? I can’t keep track of the flippin and the floppin.
Oh, and you realize that conventional auto engine manufacturers also go out of business from time to time.
My point is, and you know damn well, electric vehicle mfg. are having a tough time.
I know damn well that I’m just a little concerned with someone being so happy about an American business suffering. Plus the hypocrisy you so blatantly exercise.
Answers in caps….read this
The free market economy is impacting President Biden’s plan to push for electric vehicles (EVs) in the US.
Rising prices of minerals needed for EV batteries are causing producers to scale back production, threatening the administration’s goal of transitioning away from gas-powered cars.
So there you go. You’re all worked up about nothing.
Ever since the EPA was founded by Nixon in 1970, the government has been trying, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully, to make people and businesses stop treating the planet like their own personal garbage can. Unfortunately, there are still a significant amount of folks in this country who would rather screw over the younger generations than make a few sacrifices today.
Seems the government screws the next generation by not reducing the debt. Both parties.
That’s true. But if I had to choose, I’d rather my grandkids have a deficit in the federal budget than a dead planet.
That is a dumb comment from a liberal democrat
So preferring debt to a dead planet is dumb? As a conservative, are you not at all concerned with the financial impact of climate change? I mean it is staggering the amount of money spend on dealing with it. Forget the tree hugging aspect and concentrate only on the dollars and cents. If you aren’t concerned about the impact of that on debt and taxes, then you aren’t really a conservative. Your an ideologue.
You’re worried about the “debt?” Here’s how to take care of it real fast. Do away with the FED and round up the officers before they can flee the country and punitively punish them for their perfidy.
Maybe you should look at buying health insurance on the private market before you abolish the fed. The premiums for a person your age? You’d be living in the street inside of a year.
Wait till Joe D finds out about the dispensary that is coming to Belmar.
It’s in the works coming 2024/2025.
More **** from the dumb democrats
Joe D will continue to scream at his TV set in a fit of misunderstanding.
Dispensaries are like gift shops. They operate at regular hours and are frequented by white collar types and blue collar types. Doctors, lawyers, housewives, and construction workers. But as soon as angry republicans hear the word ‘weed’ they break out in hives. Meanwhile, the bars in this town cause more trouble than a thousand dispensaries ever could. It is the plight of the head in the sand crowd. Always mad, always at the wrong thing.
Glad you have the analysis of weed. I’m not an angry republican. You, on the other are a dumb liberal. The taxes gotten from alcohol and now weed maybe spent on free education for illegals, people who refuse to work, and other ancillary free stuff to the leeches that inhabit NJ. Go ahead and dispute my facts.
Ok, I will.
Illegals don’t get ‘free education’. The school budget is paid through property taxes. Everyone who owns a property pays property taxes. That includes landlords. Landlords who, despite your anger towards them, are more than happy to rent to illegals.
As far as ‘people who refuse to work’. I assume you mean unemployment insurance? That is covered in payroll taxes and has many onerous rules and regs. It is also temporary. If you mean welfare, well that also has many rules (fun fact: the biggest change to welfare in the last 40 years was done by Bill Clinton). It is also federally funded program, so NJ weed or alcoholic sales tax won’t be for that. It’s also a tiny percentage of the overall federal budget.
The other ‘ancillary’ stuff is something I don’t follow. Do you mean SNAP? The nutrition program for children? Again, that’s federal and it provided food for children.
For someone so certain about your narrow views, you sure lose a lot of arguments. And if I’m a ‘dumb’ liberal, and I routinely school you on facts, what does that make you?
“Meanwhile, the bars in this town cause more trouble than a thousand dispensaries ever could.”
It’s not the bars that cause trouble. It’s the people in the bars.
How the heck do you know that? There aren’t a thousand dispensaries anywhere in NJ. So, the people smoking weed won’t cause any problems? Now just relax and have a good night’s sleep.
That is some impressive hair splitting. You ever think about a job in DC?
People smoking weed will cause problems. However, alcohol has, and continues to, cause incalculably more problems. Emotional, physical, and financial. The bars is this town, and Lake Como, are a zero sum game. They cost as much (or more) in services than they produce.
Someone dies in this country from drunk driving every 39 minutes. That doesn’t include the families shattered and the lives ruined.
Wonder if Murphy got a copy.
A coalition of more than 3,000 auto dealers nationwide is sending an open letter to President Biden, calling on him to “tap the brakes” on his administration’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) push.
Who knows if he’ll ignore.
Trump received an open letter from all 10 living defense secretaries about his irresponsible rhetoric on the military. He also received an open letter from 7 retired four star generals accusing him of dereliction of duty. Plus the one from hundreds of prosecutors saying he should be indicted. I’m pretty sure they were all ignored.
So maybe a request from auto dealers to an actual sane person will have more weight.
Well shall see.
Let me guess- All former defense secretaries (both republicans and dems) are all dumb liberals? The four star generals are, what, RINOs? And I’ll bet those hundreds of prosecutors (law enforcement) are all idiots? Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Pray to your orange God. Ignore what he does but condemn others for doing less. Hypocrisy, thy name is Mr D
Most you mentioned are “star members of the swamp.” You probably will need to go into hiding after Trump gets back in.
Hahaha. You poor man. You clearly have no idea what it takes to become a four star general.
Mr Bankruptcy made the swamp more fetid and filled it with snakes. I love how people like you have diluted yourselves into believing he isn’t ‘the swamp’ personified. PT Barnum was right, there’s a sucker born every minute.
Sir. You never say anything concrete. Just quote BS.
Hiding? I don’t think so.
I am a firm believer in the rule of law. I believe that everyone has the right to due process, and that the criminals, if found guilty, should pay for their crimes. I believe in the constitution and that no one, regardless of position, is above the law.
I believe, based on evidence and sworn testimony transcripts, that the man you so nakedly worship will be in prison. Now you can still vote for a convicted felon if you are that blindly loyal (lots of criminals have admirers that write love notes to them in prison), but I’m not too concerned that he’ll be back in the oval trying to destroy our great nation.
Drink Up
I’m guessing that the US drug problem causes more deaths than alcohol. Don’t know but both are not good for you.
What color is the sky in your world? Seriously, do you ever think before you speak? The drug death epidemic in the US is caused by heroine overdose and fentanyl use. The root cause was the over prescription, then abuse of, opioids.
No one has ever died from a marijuana overdose. Although many people have died from alcoholism.
Your ignorance has proven my point. Narrow minded hypocrites like yourself are unable to distinguish marijuana from dangerous drugs like heroine, meth, and cocaine. You haven’t seen the studies that show that alcohol, not weed, is the ACTUAL gateway drug to these harder and more dangerous drugs.
I’ve said this to you like 20 times and you refuse to even try…EDUCATE YOURSELF. Sheesh it’s exhausting trying to reason with you.
So not one person has died form an overdose of marijuana? I assume you checked all the coroner’s offices in the US. You also checked all police reports in the US. I know the other drugs are more potent. However what tests would a police dept. run on a dead driver crashing into a tree to determine if he/she smoked marijuana? Alcohol they do. It’s exhausting disputing your verbal ********. You haven’t said it 20 times. Maybe 10?
(Asterisks are mine, Editor.)
No one has died from a marijuana overdose. Marijuana overdoses can occur, of course, but they are never fatal. Just require some time to mellow out basically.
I don’t know how to tell you this but if someone dies because their car hits a tree after they smoked marijuana, that isn’t an overdose. That’s an automobile accident. And, believe or not, the test that the police dept would run is called a blood test. They test the blood of car fatality victims and perpetrators. Now, as you may or may not know, blood tests can determine if marijuana, or any other drug or alcohol, is in a persons system. So yes, there are stats on that type of thing.
Why do I feel like I’m talking to a child sometimes? Here comes number 11…EDUCATE YOURSELF.
If there is stats then say them here. Just like covid-19. Surprised nobody has died from the flu in the last few years. The gvt. is to blame with all wrong numbers. Done on purpose. Stop mocking me and give facts. You’re jealous that I’m old and gave still show you up. Dummy!!!
(Not sure if there is a typo here, Editor.)
Ha. Boy oh boy.
I’ve given you stats. But, here you go:
Every 39 seconds or so a person dies from a drunk driving accident in the US. They know these stats because they test the blood of those involved. Being involved in a motor vehicle accident is 15 times greater driving drunk (greater than 0.1) than driving high on marijuana. That’s 15x.
Not sure what you mean by ‘no one dying from the flu in the last few years’. It’s at about 30,000 folks in the US between last season and the season before.
Are you ok?
Not sure it’s ok to claim that statistics are made up ONLY when you don’t agree with them. But that seems to be your style.
I will admit that I am a little jealous of you. I wish I could wonder through life with such willful ignorance. You get to pretend that you’re always right even in the face of reality. There has to be some strange comfort in that.
(One typo corrected, one not sure, Editor.)
Joe D. Fentanyl kills more Americans in a WEEK than alcohol related drunk driving accidents kill in a YEAR. Stick that in your pipe and smoke that “Drink Up”. And NO ONE in the white house cares.
Your facts are a little off. There are about 1,900 fentanyl deaths a week in the US, and over 30,000 deaths from drunk driving incidents per year. Which of course doesn’t include other deaths related to alcohol. So your numbers aren’t accurate.
However, it does point to a very serious problem with hard drug abuse.
When you say the ‘white house’ doesn’t care, do you mean the building itself? Because fentanyl has been around since the early sixties and a staggering numbers of people have been dying from ODing since the mid-90s.
I guess the easy thing to do is blame the current administration.
NO. Your facts are wrong. Typical. On average, over the past 10 years, under 11000 lives are lost per year by drunk driving deaths. A lot. Yes. But please stop skewing your numbers. Over 100,000 per year lost by just fentanyl. So the White House needs to get their priorities straight. Stop wasting money on bombs and criminals jumping the fence and take care of the American citizens. Bye Bye Joe B.
I’m not Joe B. I don’t know where you got that.
Drunk driving deaths in US are around 15,000 per year.
Fentanyl overdoses account for about 67,000 (you’re confusing overall overdose deaths with just fentanyl. Honest mistake)
You said “Fentanyl kills more Americans in a WEEK than alcohol related drunk driving accidents kill in a YEAR”. That is incorrect.
About 1,300 people die a week from fentanyl, while 15,000 die a year from drunk driving.
I’m not the one ‘skewing’ numbers here. I agree with you that fentanyl overdose numbers are terrible. Hell, all overdoses are terrible. But this current White House is doing more than the last White House did. By far. But, more can be done and I have no doubt that you were also very upset at the previous White House. Otherwise that would be hypocritical.
Some people in the WH care. Just some. Fully aware of what fentanyl does.
When you say WH, who do you mean? The crisis has been around for a couple decades.
The previous administration proposed a budget that cut 95% from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The problem with the post office also. Most governmental agencies are a disaster.
Still a little off? Yep, you are still a little off. And you’re a play on words. Stop decieving people with your numbers. I should have prefaced my numbers by telling you I have 30 years in Law Enforcement. I would have to believe you do not. I don’t have time to debate you but your usual contadictions on all topics on this blog have lost you all credibility. Dangerous thing to know a little about a lot from all you google on the net. Stick to your tik tok.
To be more accurate, no one in the previous White House cared. The Trump admin cut the budget of the Office of National Drug Control Policy by 95%. I’m sure you were outraged back then. Right?
Punish the drug dealers.
Total waste of money
Hey Murphy…..Listen UP
Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is withdrawing his plan to mandate future electric vehicle (EV) purchases after the proposal received bipartisan pushback from lawmakers on a key legislative panel
To all you feel good liberal Democrats . Murphy…. read this and cry.
General Motors is reassessing its investment plans in electric vehicles as sales collapse and shareholders fear that the initial headlong dive into EVs was a major mistake.
And Murphy wants people to go all electric by 2035.. *****
New Jersey earns the top spot as highest property taxes not only in property tax rate, which is over the 2% mark, but in the actual dollars spent in property taxes.
(Asterisks are mine, Editor.)
Again, move. Move to a state that you actually like. The excuse that you are too old is just that, an excuse. There are all kinds of organizations that can help. My grandmother moved to be closer to my aunt and uncle when she was like 92 and could barely walk.
I get that you love to complain (that could be the difference, she would not abide complainers), but you are clearly unhappy. You could move to Mississippi or Alabama or, Heaven forbid, Florida. Think about how happy you would be!
What the heck are you talking about. I’m staying just to aggravate YOU. I’m very happy to make you think. Probably haven’t done that in years.
Mr. Murphy. What say you?
Electric vehicles are much less reliable on average than those with traditional internal combustion engines, according to new data from Consumer Reports.
There are many great books about the birth of the automobile. There was a very vocal faction of people back then who were adamantly opposed to the ‘horseless carriage’. They saw them as unnecessary and unsafe. They complained about the government using tax dollars to build roads and bridges needed to support the new vehicles.
My point- every new thing that comes along is met with naysayers like you. You can rejoice in the various obstacles these lower emission vehicles face. And you can rest assured that you are part of a rich history of folks who hate change. America bias always been a haven for innovation, despite those who oppose it.
I don’t hate change. This change won’t work. People are refusing to spend more money. Bye
Waiting for the Ford Transit EV … Ford is making them now in Europe.
Inasmuch as I haven’t purchased any electricity from JCP&L since 2008 … electric is my energy of choice … electric can replace anything that uses coal, oil or natural gas.
With all due respect, isn’t much of electric made from coal, oil and natural gas? Any theoretically energy is lost when converting from one to the other.
Mr Creamer is referring to solar I think. The sun is a pretty good energy source. Plus no one in Pennsylvania has to deal with having their mountains ripped open for the sweet sweet gas inside.
Mountains aren’t ripped open.
I am so sorry. A more accurate way to describe it is that the mountain is clear cut to allow for vehicles and equipment. That equipment utilizes highly pressurized liquids that are forced into the rock formations, causing cracks and fissures to appear. This is done in order to extract oil and gas reserves trapped deep underground in sedimentary rock formations. The by-product of all this is contaminated water tables, air pollutants, tremors, and all around misery for the folks that live there.
But hey, here in Belmar, no big woop. I’m not sure you’d be very happy if all this was happening in your backyard. Your afraid of a dispensary for Pete’s sake.
If solar is the answer, why aren’t panels on EVERY house in America??????????
It’s getting there but unfortunately there are some extremely powerful and politically connected actors that are vehemently against solar.
Oil companies and OPEC and those who gain from the status quo.
I’m sure it’s all those bad things. The world is coming to an end.
Not if we all get together and do something about it. Will it take some sacrifices, yes. But making sacrifices is a virtue. Just ask the ‘greatest generation’.
Climate change costs money. A lot of money. I don’t know about you, but l don’t want to keep throwing tax dollars at catastrophes.
Yep. Go out and buy an electric car that you can’t afford so the rich can make more money. That’ll stop the world from ending. How bout stop making bombs that kill and ruin populations. No. Then the rich can’t make money. Wokism is done. Go back to your Tik Toc wokies.
Dear moderator. Any reporting of this in NJ newspapers?
Gold Bars found in Sen. Bob Menendez’s New Jersey home linked to 2013 robbery, NBC reports
Mr. Murphy. Put this in your shoe and beat it.
Investors, and car companies, are trying to figure out what’s next for electric vehicles after a slowdown in the rate of growth that is being blamed on everything from higher interest rates to EV technology to Americans’ willingness to go electric.
Whatever the reasons, one thing is certain: the EV bubble has popped.