Posted on 10/25/2019 7:26:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Remember "cash for clunkers"? It's baaack.
Sen. Chuck Schumer has a new proposal to have everyone turn in their cars and get in return a supposedly clean, green, nifty, electric vehicle.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, late on Thursday proposed a $454 billion plan over 10 years to help shift the United States away from gasoline-powered vehicles by offering cash vouchers to help Americans buy cleaner vehicles.
Schumer said in a statement that his plan, which would provide rebates of $3,000 or more to individual buyers, would help transition 25% of the U.S. fleet, or 63 million vehicles, away from traditional internal combustion-engine vehicles within 10 years.
The plan would be key to reducing the impact of climate change, Schumer said, noting that the transportation sector accounts for nearly one-third of U.S. carbon output.
Now, pay no attention to the hard reality that electric cars run on electricity, and electricity requires coal to create. His proposal amounts to either a massive subsidy to the coal industry -- or else fuel shortages, the signature shortages of socialism in a "planned" economy. And never mind that the composition of electric vehicles is far from carbon neutral, it's farther, in fact, than gas-fueled vehicles.
But never mind indeed, it's full speed ahead on a cash for clunkers program all over again, this time with a $454 billion price tag, in the name of going green.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Will this be popular in California? Will PG&E offer to subsidize EV purchases?
Coal-powered cars - yep, that's cutting edge. (As I blow by them with my big, honkin', gas-guzzlin' V-8)
Reminder of why these people should not ever be in charge again.
Three thousand dollars? What a piker. In the NEW America, this is all supposed to be free. I should send him a picture of an oil sump or a pile of burning tires, but that would probably get me a visit from the SS.
“...pay no attention to the hard reality that electric cars run on electricity, and electricity requires coal to create.”
Coal? Don’t be silly. You just plug them in to one of the little outlet thingies on the wall. /s
No.
So we get $3000 to buy an electric car, and, voila, all electric cars will go up in price by $3000. Brilliant.
Just gimme gimme gimme $3,000!
Having a car is privilege!
(repeat 1,000x)
/s
Chuck Schumer knows he is lying about vehicle emissions influencing our climates. How can he live with himself? Why is he not in daily mental torment for lying so much?
Funny - the Left is all about being on the side of "science", but every one of their policies is devoid of science.
Electric cars? Like magic....
Question for you, Senator Schumer:
Why go through the trouble of conversion? In the 10-year timeline of your legislation, the Earth will already be an unrecoverable disaster, and New York, Los Angeles, etc. will be underwater — all thanks to fossil fuels.
Let’s enjoy the few years we have left before the Green Deal catastrophe hits Earth and we shall die as a species.
Rather than controlling gasoline, we should be enjoying its benefits. Drink up and enjoy my FRiends, for tomorrow we shall die! /sarc
ANYTHING coming from this NY communist POS should be immediately shot down regardless of how “good it sounds”.
I do find it odd that they don’t want to wait five to ten years for hydrogen vehicles to arrive and be the better replacement than battery cars.
The Future = The Government making you buy CRAP you don’t want
Cash for clunkers?? How much can we get Schumer and Pelosi?
Tell you what Chuck, Texas will just stop shipping our oil to your state altogether.
Problem solved. You freeze in the dark.
Too lazy to crank the numbers, but it should be possible to figure out how much energy is generated by burning the gasoline we use annually, and then converting that number to the amount of electricity that has to be added to the grid to act as a replacement. That number has to be enormous, and in terms of both generation and distribution a number that is really intimidating (if realistic at all).
I’m not expecting Schumer to worry about a fine detail like that, however.
Chuck should set an example and have his Party turn in all their gas/diesel vehicles for Electric even the planes and helicopters they use ,LOL
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