"Much of this climate change is caused by the massive amounts of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere via the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline, oil and coal."  Biofuels should also be added to this list since their combustion also produced carbon dioxide and other smog-producing pollutants.  One must also remember that even for totally electric cars, if the source of electricity is from the electric utility, that source is also producing carbon dioxide and other pollutants in the generation of the electricity; thus the vehicles are not "clean".  In fact the state's goal of all electricity being produced by "renewable sources" does not mean that it will to be 100% "clean" as long as biofuels are included in the mix.  The goal to   eliminate power generation by combustion of fossil fuels is admirable, but it would be even better is we could eliminate power generation by any form of combustion ..... period.