This is five years sooner than the similar ban that was passed in California back in 2020 that bans the sale of other-than-electric new cars beginning in 2035.

It will result – inevitably – in several things.

The first thing being the ramped-up disappearing of other-than-electric cars years before 2030. Whatever's still available now is likely to be all that's available, going forward – because it takes several years to bring a new car design from the blackboard (well, computer screen) to the production line. Why expend the effort – and the money – designing a new-design non-electric car for the 2027 model year, say, that you know ahead of time you'll only be permitted to sell for three years in at least one major non-market?

To be followed shortly thereafter by the biggest non-market in the country, i.e., the People's Republic of California?

Each year that passes brings us one year closer to the dates after which making other-than-electric cars amounts to the same as keeping a popular Chinese buffet stocked with fresh hot food that no one's allowed to buy, as during the forced closing of sit-down restaurants during the "pandemic."

It also brings us that much closer to another inevitability – the banning of older cars that aren't electric cars in places like Washington and California.

Probably, nationally.