General Discussion

Some said they worried that California’s planned ban on gas-powered vehicles would raise the price of cars. Another cited “intense and misleading lobbying” by the oil industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/democrats-california-ban-electric-vehicles.html

Representative Lou Correa, a Democrat who represents parts of Orange County, Calif., drives a hybrid car and wants the federal government to tackle climate change.

But he joined 34 other Democrats last week to help Republicans repeal his state’s landmark requirement that all new vehicles sold in California be electric or otherwise nonpolluting by 2035. In doing so, he helped President Trump and the Republican majority to undercut the nation’s transition away from gasoline-powered cars.

“I don’t like giving Trump a win,” Mr. Correa said in an interview after the vote. But electric vehicles remain expensive and impractical in his heavily blue-collar district, he said.

“We just finished an election where every poll I’m seeing, everybody I talk to, says, ‘You guys need to listen to the working class, the middle class people,’” Mr. Correa said. “I’m listening to my constituents who are saying ‘don’t kill us.’”

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My thoughts:

Many (in bold) of the 35 Dem Yeas were the centrists and conservadems (many of those are No Labels Problem Solvers) and/or those Dems who simply disappointingly too often vote with the Rethugs (in italics). Many of ones listed below also voted for the racist Laken Riley Act.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025114

Representative Party State Vote

Beatty Democratic
OH Yea
Bishop Democratic
GA Yea
Budzinski Democratic
IL Yea
Bynum Democratic
OR Yea
Correa Democratic
CA Yea
Cuellar Democratic
TX Yea
Davids (KS) Democratic
KS Yea
Davis (NC) Democratic
NC Yea
Figures Democratic
AL Yea
Gillen Democratic
NY Yea
Golden (ME) Democratic
ME Yea
Gonzalez, V. Democratic
TX Yea
Horsford Democratic
NV Yea
Johnson (TX) Democratic
TX Yea
Kaptur Democratic
OH Yea
Kennedy (NY) Democratic
NY Yea
Landsman Democratic
OH Yea
Lee (NV) Democratic
NV Yea
McDonald Rivet Democratic
MI Yea
Morelle Democratic
NY Yea
Moskowitz Democratic
FL Yea
Mrvan Democratic
IN Yea
Perez Democratic
WA Yea
Riley (NY) Democratic
NY Yea
Ryan Democratic
NY Yea
Scholten Democratic
MI Yea
Sewell Democratic
AL Yea
Soto Democratic
FL Yea
Suozzi Democratic
NY Yea
Thanedar Democratic
MI Yea
Thompson (MS) Democratic
MS Yea
Vasquez Democratic
NM Yea
Veasey Democratic
TX Yea
Vindman Democratic
VA Yea
Whitesides Democratic
CA Yea