SUN JOURNAL • February 29, 2024
Maine has adopted the Advanced Clean Car II rules, which encourage dealers to sell 43% electric and/or plug-in hybrid new vehicles by 2027, increasing to 82% by 2032. This change has elicited a firestorm of protest about EVs, but it is based on misinformation. The rule does not force people to buy an EV. The world must make the transition away from fossil fuels. In Maine we are already paying for decades of delay with hotter summers, rainier winters, bigger rainstorms and floods, and erosion of beaches and waterfront property. Eventually switching to all-electric vehicles makes sense. ~ Ben Lounsbury, Auburn