Look.... I'm all for not polluting our waterways to protect us and marine life. I don't want to breath a lot of crappy air. And we shouldn't throw trash out the window as we drive down the road.
But one thing about RV travel is you get to learn a lot of stuff you didn't know. I have learned a few things that contradict the whole "we have to abolish gas and oil or the earth will implode" thing.
First..... when we were in Alaska and headed over to hike up to see Exit Glacier. As you drive into the park, we started seeing signs every couple mile. The first sign was something like 1830..... another sign said.... 1855....... another sign said 1870...... and so on until we got to the Visitors Center. While we were doing a Ranger led hike, he told us those signs marked where the Glacier's leading edge was that year.
So that Glacier and all the others were receding long before the first gas powered vehicle was built and certainly before mass produced vehicles were burning has and diesel.
Then another example of how the climate is the climate was what we learned when we were in the Badlands...... In the 1880's before Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for president, he was out in the Badlands to hunt Bison. He was a great outdoorsman and fell in love with the landscape in that part of the country, including Yellowstone. Roosevelt decided he wanted to have a ranch and live there. So he built a ranch and brought in livestock.
The summer of 1886 was hot and dry. There were wildfires and creeks, streams and rivers were drying up. Then when winter hit there were sub-zero temps and blizzards. After all of that crazy weather, 2/3 of his cattle died. He ultimately gave up ranching because he couldn't beat the weather and the rest is history.
Again.... all this extreme weather happened before the evil of oil and gas.
My point is this...... the belief is that there have five major ice ages since the earth began. We are in..... and reaching the end of the last ice ice, which started over 2 million years ago.
What happens as an ice age ends? It gets warmer and ice melts.
Can humans impact the environment? Absolutely.... we can pollute the water, land and air.
Can humans impact the climate enough to stop an ice age from ending and keep the planet from warming? Sorry..... that dog don't hunt.
We can certainly start the next ice age if we set off a bunch of nukes that lead to a nuclear winter. Or if Yellowstone decided to finally erupt or another larger meteor will hit the earth and the next ice age will begin again.
But if the ding-dongs elected by other ding-dongs all think that banning dinosaur juice and driving EV's will save the planet and stop the natural progression of global warming as the current ice age ends, then we all have bigger problems coming down the road.
All these radical states are going to do is hurt themselves and the businesses that invested in those states... and ultimately the people who live there. RV dealerships and shops will slowly close up..... tax revenue will dry up..... the travel industry will suffer.... and smart businesses and people will pack up and move out those states before their next on the list to be impacted.