Oklahoma Committee Passes Bill To Outlaw Tesla Sales and Service Centers

If a new state legislature bill becomes law, Oklahomans may soon have to go out of state to buy and service their cars.

A new bill that prohibits automakers from selling cars and services directly to consumers passed a House committee unanimously this week, according to local Oklahoma City news station KOCO.

If the bill passes through the entire state legislature, it could force the company to close its existing locations in Oklahoma and prevent it from shipping cars to anyone in the state.

To many, the new bill is part of a larger push to protect the country's existing automotive industry from upstarts likeTesla.

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Even though Oklahoma tried to getTesla to build one of its Gigafactories in the state, the company sees the bill as a way to punish EV manufacturers.

The new bill is part of a larger anti-EV movement that includes Mississippi and West Virginia.

Many of these efforts are symbolic rejections of the Biden administration's green energy plan, which is slated to provide tax incentives to EV manufacturers and fund the construction of EV charging centers across the nation.

While Congress isn't quite as fiery a battleground for the EV debate, state legislatures are more vulnerable to this kind of piecemeal lobbying and, as such, are better poised to take up the mantle on behalf of old-school automakers.

If the new bill in Oklahoma becomes law, it will set a bad precedent as the federal government tries to provide incentives for the manufacturing of EVs.

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