Posted on 04/07/2023 3:04:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
President Biden is set to propose new gas-powered car and light truck emissions standards next week as part of the administration's latest push for electric vehicles. Sources familiar with the announcement, who asked to remain anonymous, told Bloomberg that the standards would be the strictest ever proposed, just short of an EV mandate or gas-powered vehicle ban.
In Detroit next Wednesday, the Biden administration is predicted to announce heavy restrictions on tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and other vehicle emissions. The restrictions would impact vehicle models 2027 through 2032.
The Environmental Protection Agency is anticipated to reject requests from environmental groups to apply standards through 2035.
According to Bloomberg, gas-powered vehicle manufacturers have requested that the administration push back the proposed standards, claiming that meeting the emissions requirements and EV production goals largely depends on investments in charging infrastructure, mineral production, and other factors outside automakers' control.
In addition to announcing updated standards for cars and light trucks on Wednesday, the EPA plans to propose additional rules on heavy-duty trucks and smog-forming vehicle emissions that could force manufacturers to implement exhaust controls. Later this month, the EPA will also release new standards for power plants.
The upcoming proposal is another step the administration is taking to meet its Paris agreement commitment, which would require the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 to 2030.
Additionally, the Biden administration aims to push for at least half of all new vehicles in the U.S. to be electric by 2030.
Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Safe Climate Transport Campaign, told Bloomberg that the federal government needs to apply "continuous pressure for improvement."
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might cost him Michigan in next election
The Communists like that they installed a vegetable in the White House.
Nope.
The Michigan Mean Girls have got that state sewn up for the foreseeable future.
As in: "Rigged to a fare-thee-well"
“The restrictions would impact vehicle models 2027 through 2032.”
Pretty much explains why it’s nearly impossible to buy a car now, or for the foreseeable future.
Whatever it takes for these commies to hamstring the US economy and the people. Treasonous acts.
The big auto manufacturers who have committed to going all-electric will be at the forefront of lobbying to prohibit gas-powered competition. Their public arguments to the contrary will be weak and insincere.
With abortion, legal weed, props 1 & 2 passing in the last election, I don’t see Michigan going republican again in my lifetime. I’m 42.
ICE vehicles thru 2032? Well then - drill baby, drill.
Manufactured ballots don’t manufacture automobiles.
No chance. The unionists will get something out of this.
“might cost him Michigan in next election”
Not if the election laws aren’t changed.
Yep. Bridges to no where.
those hi tech cars are more damaging to the worlds envroment than burning gas/diesel
The wizards of technology need a little more time for a viable solution
And rest assured it will come from the west and not a commie nor Islamic shithole.
These fuel efficiency standards are just being used as a way to essentially ban driving altogether, except for a few wealthy elites. And emissions standards should apply to EVs as well by requiring the emissions of the power sources generating their electricity to be included.
This is how they will ban ICE vehicles without banning them. Choke them until it will be impossible to build them.
Plus they’ll tax gasoline up the wazzoo, and up insurance premiums for ICE vehicles.
15-20 minutes on any search engine will tell you all you need to know about the scarcity and cost of miming all these rare minerals
How do they propose to get those things out of the ground, processed and manufactured without fossil fuels?
Like everything with democrats, they never get past Step 1 and consider Step 2
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