California is using regulation to provide cleaner air and mitigate climate change for its citizens by preferring EVs. Sounds very reasonable unless you don’t like clean air or don’t like paying for your externalities for burning fossil fuels.
The byline reads: Kerry Jackson & Wayne Winegarden ("Kerry Jackson is a fellow with the Center for California Reform at the Pacific Research Institute. Dr. Wayne Winegarden is a PRI senior fellow in business and economics.")
"The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher."
The byline reads: Kerry Jackson & Wayne Winegarden ("Kerry Jackson is a fellow with the Center for California Reform at the Pacific Research Institute. Dr. Wayne Winegarden is a PRI senior fellow in business and economics.")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Research_Institute
"The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. PRI was founded in 1979 by British philanthropist Antony Fisher."