Posted on 03/20/2024 9:29:19 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
President Joe Biden has issued a new environmental federal regulation to begin phasing out gas-powered cars, requiring American automakers to produce Electric Vehicles (EVs) as part of his sweeping green energy agenda.
On Wednesday, Biden announced the rule to require that a majority of new cars sold in the U.S. market are EVs or hybrids by 2032, the New York Times details:
Nearly three years in the making, the new tailpipe pollution limits from the Environmental Protection Agency would transform the American automobile market. A record 1.2 million electric vehicles rolled off dealers’ lots last year, but they made up just 7.6 percent of total U.S. car sales, far from the 56 percent target under the new regulation. An additional 16 percent of new cars sold would be hybrids. [Emphasis added]
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A buddy of mine in the car business says that this is all smoke and mirrors to get people to accept hybrids.
Ten to fifteen years ago hybrids were polarizing. Many of the complaints you hear about EVs - the batteries are expensive, are bad for the environment, the cars have poor resale value, etc. - people were saying about hybrids.
Then the big push began on EVs. They were everything bad about hybrids...squared.
Next thing you know, laws are being passed requiring EVs by a certain date...except that the laws REALLY say EVs OR hybrids.
Compared to EVs, hybrids don’t look so bad.
If they had tried to pass laws ten years ago requiring people to buy hybrids, it wouldn’t have worked. Now it is going to look like a reasonable compromise.
Umm, over my dead body!
I was watching a video last night about a Brit who was rebuilding a house in Italy. He said gasoline there was $8/gallon. Therefore, there were a lot of vehicles that ran on PROPANE.
Not just commercial vehicles like fork lifts. Automobiles that burned propane because it was more economical than diesel or gasoline.
In other news, on Fox Business this morning the USA was producing the most petroleum EVER on record.
One day we hear car manufacturers are done with EVs because the do not sell. The next day Joe pulls a “RULE” out his butt and gas powered vehicles are over.
I am so sick of this nonsense. I hate these people. They need to be gone. If they were gone we would have a happier world.
The buses here in Nashua, NH run on natural gas.
It seems logical that any type of delivery vehicle that returns at the end of each shift to a warehouse could be better off using Natural Gas.
Meaning UPS, the US post office jeeps, Amazon vans, etc. Instead of stupid battery operated electric buses.
We have so much NG sitting in the ground all over the USA that we never would need to import petroleum. I also suspect burning methane instead of gasoline or diesel is less polluting.
FYI, I understand that we import heavy sulfur petroleum and then turn around and export gasoline or diesel fuel.
So who made Biden emperor to rule by decree? I know Dr. Jill already thinks she is empress and wants everyone to call her “Your Highness”. /s
“..I didn’t know that we were living under a King… who can rule by decree....”
Why, yes! Yes, we are. So now you know.
We live in what was once known as America, but it has been conquered with a shot being fired. It no longer exists. It is now known as: Bidenland.
Bidenland is ruled by King pedoPIG, The First. He rules by edict and decree.
All hail, to the King!!!! /s
Oh,....and FJB and his merry band of faggot flying monkeys.....
If Trump is able to become President, he will immediately drop these rules, pushing their re-imposition back to 2029 at the earliest. Automakers will be unlikely to go forward with converting to increased electrical vehicles until the outcome of this year's election is decided.
Before wider use of diesel engines in the 60s, a lot of big trucks ran on LP gas. The same with farm tractors.
They're doing it with your past education.
The price of older used cars just doubled!
All will be set to right on November 5th 2024. These will be cancelled by the new president!
There is going to be a run on new gas powered vehicles. Get em while you still can.
Reading their next set of orders in the destruction and looking to see if last week’s payment from the puppet masters cleared their bank accounts.
On the front of Monday’s Seattle Times was the story:
Surge in Power Use Could Upend Climate Goals;
“Something unusual is happening in America. Demand for electricity, which has stayed largely flat for two decades, has begun to surge.”
Then goes on to note the problems of the grid, green energy, etc.
And the solution appears to be more laws.
“It is entirely feasible to meet growing electricity demand without so much gas, but it requires regulators to challenge the utilities to push for less-traditional solutions.”
I don’t like this rule. I don’t like the justification for it; I don’t like the govenrment mandates; I don’t like the absence of legal authority; I don’t like the inaction of Congress that allowed this action in such an absence.
But it should be noted that this is a major compromise which renders the rule almost moot. By including hybrid autos, he made the targets super-easy, barely an inconvenience. I predict that hybrid plus electric surpasses 50% market share by 2028
2029. Typo.
Sorry. The returns are in. But let them try.
No. One. Is. Buying. Them. (Don't work. Dangerous. But at least they're impossibly expensive.)
The consequences of that Great Nothing may be what makes all those billions in government and corporate cash for the Enviro-scare disappear in a one-month, almost-inaudible "Poof!"
Automakers will have 2 choices. Keep building vehicles that no one wants and continue to lose their a$$ doing so OR build vehicles that people want and are profitable and pay the Dane Geld to the US Government for failing to meet their mandated EV target. Either way they eventually go bankrupt. Of course that’s where the Government steps in and bails them out and essentially become nationalized. I figure this will happen within the next 8–10 years.
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