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The state of New Jersey is putting a stake in the ground. Or rather, a stake through the hearts of taxpayers and citizens. But that's nothing new.

Anyway, Governor Phil Murphy recently announced the state government's goal to reduce carbon emissions 80% by 2050, compared with the 2006 levels. That's great. He plans to do it by massively renovating infrastructure, dramatically changing building codes… and somehow encouraging hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents to buy electric cars.

That sounds iffy, at best.

The initiative is called the New Jersey Partnership to Plug-In and will be co-led by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. So… a huge undertaking to shift the state's economy to a different energy profile won't have one clear leading entity, but rather three government bureaucracies.

That always works out.

The government hasn't put a price tag on the infrastructure build out or increased regulatory costs, but it does think the new move will create some jobs. That seems pretty obvious, since it clearly will require lots of new government clerks, administrators, and inspectors, and probably gobs of consultants.

At least in the auto industry we get a glimpse of the size of the issue.

The governor's plan calls for adding 330,000 zero-emission vehicles (battery electric vehicles, most likely) to the road between now and 2025. On a straight-line basis, that would mean New Jersey consumers buying 66,000 per year, which is about 5% of the total of all new vehicles sold in the Garden State last year. But of those sold last year, only 12,000, or roughly 2%, were electric vehicles.

Clearly, something has to change.

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