Posted on 03/23/2024 5:26:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Biden administration finalized its crackdown on gas cars Wednesday, with the Environmental Protection Agency announcing drastic climate regulations meant to ensure more than two-thirds of passenger cars and light trucks sold by 2032 are electric or hybrid vehicles.
The EPA rule imposes strict limits on tailpipe pollution, limits the agency says can be met if 56% of new vehicles sold in the US are electric by eight years from now, along with 13% that are plug-in hybrids or other partially electric cars. That would be a huge increase over current EV sales, which rose to 7.6% of new vehicle sales last year, up from 5.8% in 2022.
Despite the relatively low demand — which has led to auto manufacturers scaling back planned investment in electric vehicle manufacturing — the EPA insisted that carmakers have not had any “change in … intentions regarding PEVs generally or specifically.”
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Transition? What transition?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/transition-what-transition.php
Well past time to scrap the EPA, along with a whole bunch of other FedGov overreach departments, bureaus, agencies and offices.
We can’t afford this bullshit...
I think I read something happened to Julius Ceasar.
Michigan will speak, with a Somali accent...
Waste Vegetable Oil.....
If SCOTUS doesn’t bounce right on Chevron... We may need to start casting our ballots at 3200fps...
EVs are a disaster and they’ll push the date back years or remove it completely
I plan to be in the Proud 33%.
How long before Anytown, USA starts to look like Havana, Cuba?
How long before the US economy looks the same as well?
Hamster wheels. And when they get tired, they’ll upgrade to agoutis, chinchillas, and capybaras.
This may actually be an issue where lots of people will rise up.
He caesed to exist.
Pipe dreams of totalitarian socialists.
America will eventually resemble Havana, provided we can still get gasoline. Cancelling this insanity needs to be a day one priority for Trump.
Not counted in the percentage will be government limos, etc.
“Where is Congress?”
That is what I want to know.
SAME HERE!!! Where in our Constitution do we, the People, assign unilateral and complete power to the Executive Branch? Yes, I understand that certain Executive powers and rights are provided for, but do they properly extend to the way in which we go about freely motivating around our nation? Nope. Let’s Go Brandon.
Fascist National Socialists [for the Workers Party].
Looking back that is why there was a program Cash for Clunkers. To get all the older cars that backwoods mechanics could work on without computers destroyed.
No car is going to be less than $50K in 10 years. What you see in Cuba for cars is coming here soon.
The EPA is a leftist bureaucratic nightmare that is now pretty much only used as an (illegal, IMO) enforcement and political policy tool. IIRC, there was a recent USSC ruling on non-legislative administrative rules and regulations involving the EPA et al that may have some sort of impact or consideration here should manufacturers collectively balk at
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