The fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s

&gt; Late in the summer of 2022, a California state agency announced a ban on the sale of new cars containing internal combustion engines.<p>I&#x27;m continually amazed at how many journalists just refuse to do basic due diligence on this regulation. To quote the 2nd paragraph of his source for this claim (his own publication btw):<p>&gt; The new rule will “ensure that consumers can successfully replace their traditional combustion vehicles with new or used [zero-emission vehicles] and plug-in hybrids that meet their transportation needs,” she added.<p>Top-to-bottom and left-to-right no one seems to care that &quot;California to ban all gas-powered cars&quot; and &quot;California to ban all cars exclusively powered by gas&quot; are wildly different statements with wildly different outcomes.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ww2.arb.ca.gov&#x2F;resources&#x2F;documents&#x2F;cars-and-light-trucks-are-going-zero-frequently-asked-questions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ww2.arb.ca.gov&#x2F;resources&#x2F;documents&#x2F;cars-and-light-tr...</a>

(Direct fuel injection) Gas powered cars now are emitting more particulates , which arguably are worse for people than the smog of the 60s because they penetrate deep into the lungs and can even enter the bloodstream (I am paraphrasing) .<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0048969720308123" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S00489...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;32109813&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;32109813&#x2F;</a><p>IMHO gasoline Particulate filters (GPF) for gas vehicles should be mandatory the way they are for diesels (DPF).

The picture of the guy holding a “smog free locomotion” sign and a cigarette is priceless.

The fight to ban leaded fuel was much more important, and ultimately successful.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;30&#x2F;1031429212&#x2F;the-world-has-finally-stopped-using-leaded-gasoline-algeria-used-the-last-stockp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2021&#x2F;08&#x2F;30&#x2F;1031429212&#x2F;the-world-has-fina...</a>

Note that even the bill’s creator only wanted to limit the number of cars per person in the first place, but grew bolder after the initial failure.<p>“”” … his intention to introduce a bill that would limit each California family to just one gas-powered car beginning in 1975. “[The] internal combustion engine is pouring out poison,” Petris … “””

&gt;Petris altered it to simply ban all cars with internal combustion engines by 1975.<p>Never heard of him, but too bad Petris did not succeed. We would be in a far different place now.<p>&gt;the Supreme Court may well be preparing to eliminate California’s authority to set tougher auto emissions standards than the federal government<p>No surprise here, we all know over half the US Supreme Court only cares how much they can extort from the very rich. Doing this will probably head the world into somekind of mild mad max world.

&gt; In fact, just a couple decades before his birth, both electric and steam-powered vehicles — which were cleaner and more powerful, respectively, than early gas-powered cars ...<p>While I agree that electrics are clean steam vehicles still use combustion and were not as efficient as a piston ICE. Plus the driver had to play boiler operator and ensure there was a steady fuel supply and feed water. Kinda stopped reading after that matter-of-fact hyperbole and just skimmed the rest.<p>There are some neat videos of vintage British coal fired steam trucks which are really neat (they sounds like mini road steam locomotives) but the emissions make a burning tire seem clean.

I&#x27;m sorry but I reject the premise of this article completely, we&#x27;re having trouble displacing ICE with electric now the idea that lead acid powered vehicles could have displaced ICE in 1960s is absurd.