In an utterly ridiculous and destructive bit of virtue-signaling, Mayor Eric Adams and his Taxi and Limousine Commission say they’ll force Uber and Lyft to shift their fleets entirely to either zero-emission or wheelchair-accessible vehicles by 2030.

Green pie in the sky, bye and bye.

This is supposed to cost the ride-share drivers nothing, but no one’s explained how.

These drivers buy their own cars, often going into debt to purchase a luxury SUV or other passenger-appealing vehicle.

Electric vehicles (or EVs) now cost an average of $20,000 more than gas-fueled ones.

Accessible cabs cost at least $10,000 more than standard ones.

The rule likely forces some drivers to switch to a pricey alternative when there’s ample value still left in the cars they have now.

Or they’ll quit the ride-share gig.

For Uber, with its supply-and-demand price-setting, that’ll hike fares; for Lyft, just leave you waiting to land a ride.

Not to mention that the city’s current number of charging stations can’t support this transition. Plus, charging can take hours longer than gassing up.

All this, when the shift to EVs is fundamentally an environmental con, at least for the foreseeable future.

As the Manhattan Institute’s Mark Mills notes, moving the world from the current roughly 26 million EVs to 500 million “would reduce world oil consumption by about 10%.”

That doesn’t account for the much larger carbon footprint of making an EV, nor the fact that 88% of American electricity is produced by burning carbon fuels (natural gas, oil, or coal).

Once again, the full facts about “combatting climate change” prove pretty . . . anticlimactic.