‘They’re Coming for Your Cars’

Not that it will be easy to get consumers to give up their gasoline-powered cars. Mr. Mills writes:

. . . policies unprecedented in scope and consequence are planned to ban the sale of the type of vehicle that 99% of people use—that is, vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine (ICE). Instead, government policies are being launched to mandate, directly and indirectly, electric vehicles (EVs).

Rarely has a government, at least the U.S. government, banned specific products or behaviors that are so widely used or undertaken. Indeed, there have been only two comparably far-reaching bans in U.S. history: the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the consumption of alcohol (repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment); and the 1974 law prohibiting driving faster than 55 mph. Neither achieved its goals; both were widely flouted, and the first one engendered unintended consequences, not least of which was criminal behavior.

The data show that there is nothing to the belief that people in general, or in the rising generation, are giving up driving...

Another pillar of the peak-car thesis is that urbanization diminishes the need for cars, especially the need for people to drive long distances. Census data, however, show that the urbanization trend ended around 2010, when net migration to nonmetro and rural areas began. ...

The disruption is HUGE!!!

UAW feels an intense and passionate dislike for EVs!

VW uses about 30 hours to produce one of their new ID EVs, whereas Tesla needs just 10 hours to make a single Mode3.

The CEO of VW, Herbert Diess ( THOUGHT TO BE AMOUNG THE TOP AUTO EXECS) was fired because he wanted to be like TESLA.
The German state Lower Saxony holds a voting share of 20.2 percent of VW and the unemployment would be very expensive.

There are 889,964 people employed in the Gas Stations with Convenience Stores industry in the US as of 2023.
https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/gas-stations-with-convenience-stores-united-states/

I believed EVs were a good idea until A-hole biden started the government cram-down.
As with most government interventions, it will turn to shite, waste billions and favor an inside group.

Organic growth of the EV market shows it could be a useful product.
Attempting to speed the process and it becomes a tower of Babel.

BUT WAIT, IT GETS WORSE!

Need a ball joint for your old Dodge? NO PROBAMBLO.
Need a ball joint for your XYZ EV? Good luck with that one, 100k were manufactured, 20k imported to the US, and 3 different versions of the part that look similar.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT ONE.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.