You know whats funny, yall are complaining about something thats not actually happening. Everyone here is driving a ~20 year old car (our TJs). The bans are for NEW sales, you can still drive older cars... so that truck you love for long haul towing, you can still drive it.
I swear I come in peace. I enjoy having discussions where I'm disagreed with, as long as we both are actually sticking with reality. That's a great way to learn something and that's all I'm wanting to do about this subject and unfortunately there's politics involved in this subject.
With that said....
Don't get too much freedom all over yourself
. You're happy because they aren't stealing your stuff directly yet? Though I've seen some articles about banning pre-2010 trucks. I didn't read too much about it, because I don't care, it's CA and neither do you probably.
Banning new sales isn't putting your thumb on the scale. It's throwing away the scale. I'm interested in what the black market is going to look like.
If you look at the progression of CARB and all the other non-sense mostly from CA they're just incrementally going in 1 direction and it's mostly political science or at best single factor analysis. The only slippery slope they seem to be looking at is how far until they get recalled and removed from office. Good luck.
This non-sense though is also driving away would be buyers and adopters of this product. I simply want the best product, but CA is clearly showing they have other motives in the thinnest of veils of saving the world. Yet until they ban ALL ICE in vehicles then most of CA is going to be driving old vehicles with older or no emissions equipped vehicles and I'm just guessing but if your finances aren't wonderful and your taxes are high and your cost of living is outrageous, then it may be harder to purchase and keep a $60k vehicle paid for, taxed, charged, insured, not stolen, not vandalized etc even if it's cheaper in the long run.
I do love your Field of Dreams government and hopefully it works out well. The problem is that the "if you build it they will come approach" is, is that the tech is constantly in flux. The standards are still going to be in their infancy and CA will have already banned new ICE vehicles. That approach works for a regulation baseball field in a fictional story, but it's more complicated in real life when people are still trying to figure out what the field looks like and ordinary people that are used to spending $35k on a vehicle are going to be looking at $60k + whatever the gov credit is and many just aren't going to want to be a Beta tester. And what people think it'll look like isn't going to work properly and this stuff needs to be approached from a different angle than the gasoline fill up model.
I had planned on being an early adopter of EV, but my wife was able to work from home and then changed jobs so she drive 35 mi per week compared to 400-500 mi/week, so we didn't buy an EV eventhough I think it was pretty much a toss up financially with something like another Prius, probably slightly used. I'm still here and interested and I WANT EVs bashed, because I want to be critical until EVs PROVE their worth and though cool I care very little about 0-60 as long as it eventually hits 60. I'm an engineer, being critical of designs is what engineers do, because it makes the best products. I'm a cheerleader when something is proven, but we are not there on EVs.
We drive old Jeeps that resemble even older Jeeps, please expect old men to act like old men. We're going to be critical, because we haven't seen it work, but we've seen a lot of stuff fail and I seem to remember EV failures a decade or so ago, doesn't mean we aren't quietly rooting for them, but we've bumped our heads on reality enough to not drink the cool-aid and grab a beer instead.