Should the U.S. set a national deadline to stop selling new gas-powered cars?
The fight over gas-powered cars reignited after the Trump administration moved to weaken federal fuel-economy rules in late September 2026.
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Hard deadlines have some appeal when talking about a common good like the environment. I generally prefer carrots to sticks, though.
The deadline should be aggressive but realistic. Considerable infrastructure needs to be built out as a leading edge; a fleet of EVs without dense nationwide charging capacity simply trades one problem for another.
If you picked "leave it to each state," what happens when your neighbor state bans gas cars and yours doesn't, who eats the price swing at the pump.