Finally, some people are pulling their heads out of their butts. Three states have recently opted to back off from imposing electric vehicles on the citizens of their states. Maine sacked the idea in March:

Then Virginia followed early last month:

Last, but certainly not least, Connecticut dumped their EV mandate late last month:

As demand for electric vehicles slows, Connecticut lawmakers have discarded plans to follow California into requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electrically powered by the middle of next decade.

Citing a lack of support for the more aggressive deadline, Connecticut’s Democratic leadership left out California’s mandate to require all new cars to be equipped with electric or plug-in hybrid engine technology by 2035 from the Constitution State’s long-awaited EV bill. This move follows the Biden administration’s decision to defer adoption of the federal EV transition timeline, which is significantly less aggressive than the California plan.

Though the number of states backing away from electric vehicles is small, it is significant since it shows cracks in the electric vehicle or zero emissions movement’s armor. A recent op-ed at RealClearEnergy details the insanity:

Without an EV in the garage, air conditioning uses nearly a fifth of household electricity, followed by space heating and water heating (a combined 25%). But adding just one home-charged EV changes that calculus dramatically. The EV takes up about 30% ot the much higher total electricity use, dropping the share for all other uses significantly.

Two home-charged EVs would eat up nearly half the household’s total electricity usage – and require thousands of dollars to upgrade the house’s electric panel. Today’s 50-kva transformers, which cost about $8,000 each, can power about 60 homes; that number drops closer to 40 if each of those homes houses one electric vehicle, closer to 30 with two EVs using home chargers.

For a city with 120,000 homes, which today may require about 2,000 transformers, the addition of 120,000 home-charged electric vehicles means adding 1,000 transformers, about $8 million. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, because distributing 50 to 100% more household electricity requires generating 50 to 100% more electricity.

Like Ayn Rand once said:

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