The automotive industry and many countries have already made a decision for the near future:
the use of electricity
as a source of energy to move vehicles.
It may be that other alternatives will appear later, such as hydrogen, for example.
But in the immediate future, electromobility is the one that is imposed to replace combustion engines.
That is why the bill presented in Wyoming, United States, in which it
seeks to prohibit the sale of electric cars
in that state as of 2035, draws a lot of attention.
The initiative was run by Republican legislators and basically has more of a political intention than seeking to ban electric cars, something that sounds quite absurd considering the path that automakers have chosen.
Little by little, charging stations are more common in US cities. Photo: AFP
In fact, the date chosen in the proposal is the same one in which the state of California seeks to ban cars with internal combustion engines.
Cowboys, oil and gas
Called Senate Joint Resolution 4, the initiative "to phase out the sale of new electric vehicles in Wyoming by 2035," outlines a series of arguments for why they want to ban the sale of electric cars in the U.S. state.
cowboys
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The text points out a number of problems with electric cars.
For example, that
battery-powered vehicles are not suitable for Wyoming roads
due to the vastness of the state and the lack of charging infrastructure.
In that sense, he adds that improving the infrastructure "will require massive amounts of new power generation to sustain the misadventure of electric vehicles."
A Tesla recharging batteries in an American city.
Photo: AFP
It also mentions that oil and gas production "has long been one of Wyoming's proud and valued industries" and that countless jobs depend on both sectors.
Lawmakers also argued that the United States has a
limited supply of the minerals needed to build a battery pack
.
They also stressed that recycling them at the end of an electric vehicle's life cycle will require garbage collectors to invest in new recycling techniques.
The legislation's sponsor, Republican Sen. Jim Anderson, told
Cowboy State Daily
that the reason he introduced the resolution was "to repeal bans on new sales of internal combustion engine cars in states like California and New York." ".
For his part, Senator
Brian Boner said, "I'm interested in making sure that the solutions that some people want to the so-called climate crisis are actually practical in real life. I just don't appreciate it when other states try to force through technology that isn't ready."
Unsurprisingly, the resolution failed to gain ground and was eventually toppled.
Of course, it was only after a long debate.
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