Gavin Newsom’s battery-powered virtue-signaling

A previous effort to ban automobiles that burn fossil fuel by 2040 was never able to gather enough support to be approved by the California legislature. Yet through the power of a pen, a phone, and a stylish California bear jacket, Gov. Gavin Newsom has decreed that they must be gone five years sooner.
Executive order N-79-20, which the governor signed Wednesday at a news conference with the locked gates of Cal Expo at his back, declares that “it shall be a goal of the state that 100%