Posted on 08/05/2021 1:04:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Thursday encouraging 50 percent of all auto sales by 2030 to be electric vehicles, according to Biden administration officials.
The executive order will rely on commitments made by two of the nation's largest auto manufacturers, General Motors and Ford, as well as Chrysler parent company Stellantis N.V., according to the Wall Street Journal. Executives at the companies have tied the 50 percent voluntary target to the fate of the Senate's more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which will provide federal funding for manufacturing and research as well as a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Biden administration officials have been criticized in recent months for cozying up to electric vehicle manufacturers. The Washington Free Beacon reported in June that former vice president Al Gore lobbied the administration to include green energy priorities in Biden's infrastructure proposal. Some have personally profited from the arrangement. Biden's energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, earned $1.6 million after selling her shares in the electric bus maker Proterra. The president and Vice President Kamala Harris have touted the green company while promising to fund infrastructure, like charging stations, that would help support it.
Electric vehicle sales comprised just 3 percent of the U.S. market in May and June.
PING!................
Major long term blackouts on the horizon
We need to start stockpiling coal and natural gas to generate the electricity needed to fuel these fire traps.
You can’t mandate the market.
They try.........................
Better get the child labor in Africa on overtime. We’re going to need a lot more lithium and cobalt in our future.
we got away from building better mousetraps a long time ago. now the government mandates what you can buy.
The plan is to drive up prices on petroleum fuels and subsidize electric vehicles.
It won’t be mandated per se, but it will certainly happen.
Easy goal to meet. With the rate of government expansion, all they need to do is mandate electric vehicles for all government personnel and the goal will be achieved. Let all private citizens continue to chug along on gas and diesel vehicles.
“...to generate the electricity needed to fuel these fire traps.”
Why don’t we set up a bunch of turbines and cisterns filled with water, and use the battery fires to heat the water? Wouldn’t need more than one every block...
>>The executive order will rely on commitments made by two of the nation’s largest auto manufacturers, General Motors and Ford, as well as Chrysler parent company Stellantis N.V., according to the Wall Street Journal. Executives at the companies have tied the 50 percent voluntary target to the fate of the Senate’s more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill<<
So they get they money for just trying. Probably no status reports needed that cannot be created by a simple Java status report generator.
No need to DO anything that the market is not demanding. And by 2030 old gropey joe xiden will be long dead and new administrations will have done God Knows What.
More proof the “infrastructure bill” has nothing to do with infrastructure.
Just as soon POTUS Retard exchanges his super limo ride #1 for one of those exploding golf carts.
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Biden has always had Corvettes, and still does.
And, it’s what attracted Jill to her previous, rich husband, and her current rich husband.
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…. Why don’t we set up a bunch of turbines and cisterns filled with water …
Well played sir!
And just like that, American will have a command economy, where the State usurps the role of the consumer as the determinant of demand, that of the manufacturer as the determinant of supply of goods and services, and will establish control of the labor market by setting wages and, eventually when inflation starts to rapidly rise, fixing prices for goods and services.
President Bai-Den is being a good lackey by continuing to fulfill his master Obama’s wet Marxist dream.
Where’s the damn power going to come from Joe? You marxists don’t plan on letting us have personal vehicles at all down the road, do you?
Everything’s just a con job with these evil lying bastards.
What will happen when they're up to 5%...10%...20%?
That's what they're determined to stop at all cost.
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