In battleground Wisconsin, residents don’t want gas-powered car ban, poll finds

Most people in Wisconsin want to keep their gas-powered cars.

The state’s largest business group, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, this week released a new poll that says 59% of people in the state are opposed a gas-powered car ban.

“The voters want to be able to make their own decision on this. They don't want Joe Biden telling them ‘I'm going to force you into an electric vehicle,’” WMC’s Scott Manley told New Talk 1130’s Jay Weber. “Consumers actually want to have a choice in how they spend their own money instead of having the federal government in Washington D.C. telling them how to live their life.”

The poll says 22%of people support the idea, and another 19% aren’t sure.

No one has introduced a plan to stop gas-powered engines in Wisconsin.

Still, Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol are worried enough that it may happen that they’ve already tried to pass a ban on gas-powered car bans.

That idea, however, hasn’t made it past Gov. Tony Evers.

Manley said that is likely not going to prove popular with Wisconsin voters in the long run.

The poll said 64% of voters said a candidate’s position on stopping bans on new gas-cars is an important factor for them.

“By a super-majority, by better than 2-to-1, voters say ‘I'm less likely to vote for a candidate who's going to tell me what kind of car I have to drive, who's going to take that choice away from me,’” Manley explained. “I think that that is part of an attitudinal shift as to why Republicans are doing better generically this cycle than Democrats. And we're seeing this shift manifest itself in voting behaviors for key voting blocs.”

The same WMC poll that asked about gas-powered cars also asked voters about their choices in the race for president. The WMC Poll has former President Trump leading in Wisconsin by 6 points, 49%-43%.

The poll also said 59% of voters think the country is on the wrong track, while just 34% say the country is on the right track.