California won’t reach its clean car goal without China

Jerry Brown (D), American enemy #1, looking to take jobs from Americans and ship them overseas

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) wants Chinese companies to fill the state's demand for electric vehicles.

Brown signed agreements Sunday and yesterday with two Chinese provinces to work on clean energy and climate change policies and called for Chinese companies to begin selling more electric vehicles in California to help it meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals.

In the wake of President Trump's announced withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement (the Paris deal was a redistribution of American wealth to overseas countries. Obama loved taking from the USA and giving it to others) Brown has said he sees China as the world's best hope for leading global emissions reduction efforts. He is in China this week to drum up support for climate policies, including emissions trading and renewable energy generation (of course this is complete BS as there are plenty of American companies making EVs with many more on the drawing boards to meet the demand).

Brown also sees China's manufacturing capacity as the best hope for reducing California's own emissions. Transportation accounts for 40 percent of the state's greenhouse gases, and state law requires cutting emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Adoption of zero-emission vehicles has been a stumbling block for state regulators, particularly when it comes to trucks, buses and other large mobile sources.

"We want 4 [million] to 5 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030," Brown said at a clean-tech conference in Jiangsu province yesterday. "We're not going to get there unless Chinese businesspeople, Chinese government leaders make it a priority to develop electric batteries and electric cars."

Brown also hammered home the EV argument at the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Jiangsu later that day, and with reporters on Sunday in Sichuan province.

"The forces of the status quo, the forces of fossil fuel are very powerful," he said. "They're the reigning power, as it were, and to shift away from that takes finding allies wherever you can find them and building on every possible alliance that I can find and anyone else can find."