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Senate Republicans Kill California’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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You just got the data above that proves that banning gasoline cars will indeed help to combat climate change, and anyways slipped back to generic "banning things doesn't solve anything".
In most cases - probably. In the context of gasoline car, you see the data that transition must happen fast, otherwise we are cooked.