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Biden Is Coming for Your Truck
WSJ ^ | 21 March | Kimberley Strassel

Posted on 03/22/2024 7:08:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

‘Historic progress’ on electric cars may turn into a historic rout in swing states.

This week’s Environmental Protection Agency tailpipe rule amounts to an imminent ban on gasoline-powered cars

Who else approves? The White House will point to a cheerleading automotive industry, but peek behind the pom-poms and you see an administration with a gun to carmakers’ heads...

“They’re coming for your truck.” An energy trade group has already been up with ads making that point in swing states, calling on Americans to reject Biden’s “EPA car ban.”

Today’s Democratic Party is entirely dedicated to the proposition that all Americans should be told how to live.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: automotive; climatechange; despotism; diktat; epa; ev; gasoline; trucks; tyranny
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From WSJ comments:

Four more years of Biden and electric cars will be the least of our problems.

1 posted on 03/22/2024 7:08:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Well, I have a 2023 Silverado that cost as much as my first house so many years ago. Has a 10-year warranty... wonder if that becomes moot in coming years?


2 posted on 03/22/2024 7:09:50 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Whoever posted that comment is truly ignorant.


3 posted on 03/22/2024 7:10:54 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Reno89519

This is an example of why they want to implement Social Credit Scores like they do in China. You will have a low Social Credit Score so you will not be allowed to purchase gas for that environmentally unfriendly vehicle.


4 posted on 03/22/2024 7:13:29 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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March 19, 2024 Combustion engine vehicles will continue to be available for sale in Louisiana, pending two bills in the House of Representatives.


5 posted on 03/22/2024 7:14:03 AM PDT by ssfromla (All of this is to see how far they can push us and I have to tell)
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To: Reno89519

“Has a 10-year warranty”

Normal warranty is 3/5 years.


6 posted on 03/22/2024 7:18:41 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Parts of it came with 10, I filled that out with the extended. I’m 64 and want no out-of-pocket costs in the coming years. Yes, likely a bit of a waste of money.


7 posted on 03/22/2024 7:20:43 AM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: ssfromla
Combustion engine vehicles will continue to be available for sale in Louisiana, pending two bills in the House of Representatives.

Not if automakers stop building them - and if governments around the world continue to make it too hard for them, they will stop building them.
8 posted on 03/22/2024 7:24:09 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Biden Is Coming for Your Truck”

I almost want to see that day, just for the SATISFACTION of watching all the people here who keep saying:

“Trump is ‘too brash’, no way will I vote for him”
“What’s the point in voting, they’re just going to cheat anyway”
“There’s no difference between the parties, they both agree on everything”
“My Senator is a RINO, he doesn’t deserve to be there, we’d be better off with a Democrat”
“You can take my truck (and guns, for that matter) over my dead body”

It would be a tiny bright spot thinking of you guys, and you know who your are, while this country turns into a total shithole. At that point, we’ll be hearing:

“Why didn’t the Republicans stop Biden” (hint, they didn’t have the votes)
“I still have my guns, but now I can’t use them, take them to the range, or even show them to anyone, and I’ll spend 10 years in jail if anyone rats me out”
“I still have my truck, but no place is left to sell me gasoline”

Again, I will LAUGH at you guys, since you guys ASKED FOR IT.


9 posted on 03/22/2024 7:24:58 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Maybe I will have to stick 5 or 10 thousand into a 27 year old truck. (paid 3k for it in 2017. A beater.)


10 posted on 03/22/2024 7:28:06 AM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Pushing electric everything while sabotaging the power grid.


11 posted on 03/22/2024 7:35:20 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My aging F-150 has a quarter-million miles on it and is just getting warmed up. If one of Xiden’s EV’s showed up FREE in my driveway I’d use my pickup to push it in my pond.

I’ll wait until July 4th forth though and I won’t have to but any fireworks.


12 posted on 03/22/2024 7:36:19 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Uh, is this what they’ve been working on for so long? Another dictated rule that carries the weight of law? 🐂💨💩! 🖕


13 posted on 03/22/2024 7:36:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: TexasGator

Anybody making a cover-shell for the bed, that includes solar cells, so the “solar shell” an trickle charge the battery? (Thanks in advance.)


14 posted on 03/22/2024 7:46:17 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: DUMBGRUNT
That is a very very true statement. Fact is, electric cars are already the least of our problems. We are going down fast and I doubt damage control can save the ship.

Another true statement is that if they come for my truck they had better bring help. I know they will but...

15 posted on 03/22/2024 7:51:27 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“This week’s Environmental Protection Agency tailpipe rule amounts to an imminent ban on gasoline-powered cars”

Ridiculous assertion. The entire economy would come to a halt.


16 posted on 03/22/2024 8:00:44 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

There is a single person, not the entire EPA.

Take out the person first and others will get the message.

The strategy is stop playing their game and start an entire game where you set the rules


17 posted on 03/22/2024 8:05:53 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Reno89519

>Well, I have a 2023 Silverado that cost as much as my first house so many years ago. Has a 10-year warranty... wonder if that becomes moot in coming years?<

If the criminals are still in charge, it will be!


18 posted on 03/22/2024 8:09:51 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I think my 22 y.o. Dodge Ram will be running when I’m in the ground. I paid $1670 for it 6 years ago when some mechanics couldn’t get it to past emissions inspections after a new engine was dropped in. The fault was some water in the gas tank and a missing vacuum line. Now I have a 22 y.o. truck with less than 40k miles on everything. Joe can kiss my butt!


19 posted on 03/22/2024 8:34:37 AM PDT by oldeguy (you can take my firearms when you find the creek I lost them in.)
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To: dynachrome

The big problem will be acquiring gasoline.

Even with stabilizer gas does not last over a year.

The gasoline refineries will be mostly shutdown and prices to the moon.

When I received a company ride I parked my driver for a bit over a year. ran the tank dry... but not exactly there is always some left.

Added fresh gas and primed the fuel pump...
Started right up!!
Ran for a few days and died, fuel filter plugged with jelly.

What a mess to remove.


20 posted on 03/22/2024 8:51:23 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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