It’s amazing, isn’t it? There’s no push-back on any of the extreme government green agenda by any company. Upstream of the car makers, how did the extreme radical greens capture the entire federal government? The car makers have never pushed back on any extreme regulation by the government whether it’s EV mandates or the horrible CAFE standards.
Only Toyota had the courage to be a vocal skeptic of an all-out rush to battery electric vehicles and not join the madding crowd.
I was in the electric energy industry for 30 years (age 21 to 51). I was sickened by the very same phenomenon in that industry. The government was correct at the beginning when it mandated control of sulfur emissions with SO2 scrubbers; mandated NOx emissions control with selective catalytic reduction systems; and mandated control of particulates with baghouses.
But that left the thousands of regulators with nothing to do so they had to find the next bogeyman. Coal? Shut all of it down and install natural gas. A few years later “natural gas BAD because of CO2, install windmills and solar panels.” All the while never really thinking about whether it was even possible for a massive industrial country could possibly power itself with wind and solar.
But nowhere along the line did any utility tell the government “You are wrong. This makes no sense.” That’s the exact same phenomenon as the EV industry.
Companies just love to suck up to government and cash those huge subsidy checks whether they are for R&D, for new plant construction or rebates to buyers of their products. And lots of those subsidy dollars all along the food chain find their way to Democrat politicians to get them re-elected (see Solyndra).
The whole rack sickens me. Color me cynical, but that’s what I think is going on.
Focus. If only America's increasingly monopolistic federal government could be broken up into 50 independent economic competitors, each specializing in their geographic advantages. That would be revolutionary.