Kevin Rennie: The Mess Connecticut Has Created When It Comes to Electric Vehicles

"Free societies are wonderful innovators."

That's what the editors at the Hartford Courant are saying about Connecticut Gov.

Ned Lamont's plan to phase out the sale and purchase of gas-powered vehicles in the state over the next decade.

Lamont, along with the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Katie Dykes, withdrew regulations on electric vehicles at the end of last year after it became clear they wouldn't pass the legislature's Regulations Review Committee, the Courant reports.

The regulations were to be brought before the House and Senate for approval, and then a special session of the legislature would vote on them.

But last week, the legislature rejected the regulations, so Lamont called a special session next week to vote on them, the Courant reports.

"Major changes in the way we live and spend money require explanations and advocacies, neither of which have been present in early EV policy," the editors write.

"Lamont needs to oversee enormous increases in the state's supply of electricity to propel hundreds of thousands of new EVs at a price that does not make it impossible for consumers to afford," they write.

"Free societies are wonderful innovators.

Human rights activists and others have taken note that one cost of supplying prosperous countries will

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