Sign here: It’s time to Repeal RI’s Electric Vehicle Mandate.
Fill out the form with your name, email, and comments today. Your submission will be sent directly to Rhode Island’s key decision makers.Take a stand—help stop the costly EV mandate and protect our energy future!
RI lawmakers think they know what’s best for you! Soon you will not be allowed to purchase a lower-cost, better-performing gas powered car or truck … as the government will force you buy an EV. It’s time to end
Whereas, per a recent report from the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity:
- Rhode Island’s EV mandate will take away choice from motorists, forcing them to buy more expensive and lower-performing electric vehicles
- Rhode Island’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate will add costly and insurmountable capacity burdens on the region’s electric grid, which could lead to brownouts or blackouts
- Ocean State residents already pay some of the highest electricity prices in America
- NGO energy officials admit that state public policy is the primary reason for these high prices
- Multiple reports have shown that Rhode Island’s “net zero” energy strategy will double these already high electricity prices in the coming decades and will likely result in serious grid capacity shortages during the hottest of days and coldest of nights
- The technology does not currently exist to produce and store enough alternative (green) power to meet anticipated future energy demands
- The federal landscape regarding green energy programs will largely be eliminated, with federal funding already disbanded for EV infrastructure (charging stations) and subsidies for EV purchases
- Rhode Island cannot afford to go the EV mandate route alone and without federal support
Therefore, in order to preserve vehicle freedom for Ocean State motorists; to lessen the burden on our electric grid; and to save taxpayers billions of dollars in infrastructure costs …
By signing this petition, I call on Rhode Island’s Executive Branch – the Governor and the Department of Environmental Management – to follow the lead of the state of Connecticut in 2024 – and immediately repeal our state’s EV mandate and to withdraw our state from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) emissions standards compact.