For one thing, power plants are being shut down as “progressives” demand more and more things go electric. But they’re not concerned. Because here’s how they think:
Posted on 04/09/2023 5:54:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Take our freedom, take our firearms, take our food and take our cars. The political and physical destruction of our country is right on schedule, and when the majority of our population realizes what’s going on, it will be too late.
[[Where are the Republicans on this?]]
In china’s pocket
Deliberate economic sabotage.
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The state decides what people can buy instead of individuals.
The "invisible hand" being replaced by the weighty foot of government.
“The proposed rule would not mandate that electric vehicles make up a certain number or percentage of sales. Instead, it would require that automakers make sure the total number of vehicles they sell each year did not exceed a certain emissions limit. ... to ensure that two thirds of the vehicles they sold were all-electric by 2032”
Where are the Republicans on this? Crickets.
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AWOL as usual. A totally useless party.
I own a Toyota Avalon. Very sad to learn they have discontinued the model this year. Love that car.
” designed to ensure that all-electric cars make up as much as 67% of new passenger vehicles sold in the country by 2032”
I JUST LOVE how Biden-lovers (Ukraine War cheerleaders) call Putin a dictator, when Biden is about to SIMPLY DECREE the end to gasoline cars (except for the rich).
Long ago, in another country that I grew up in, which didn’t have a One-Party Government capable of ramming a change in lifestyle of this magnitude, would have AT THE LEAST required an act of the US Congress, and even then, it might well have been struck down by the courts as overreach.
But we hear virtually nothing about what the US has become from those Biden-lovers, just complaints about another country, halfway around the world and talk about starting new wars in Asia.
For one thing, power plants are being shut down as “progressives” demand more and more things go electric. But they’re not concerned. Because here’s how they think:
Exactly, no push back whatsoever.
Sounds like they’ll have to burn a lot of fossil fuels to generate that electricity.
Oh, and good luck California with the more frequent rolling blackouts.
They know this. Its to reduce vehicle numbers. Agenda 21 implementation.
I’d like to think it isn’t deliberate.
In either case it’s stupidity.
We can’t transition. The imposed goal will result in both energy instability and energy poverty.
Many of the people that live in states that deregulated and import electricity will either heat or eat. Not both.
They will probably require you to pay an annual "carbon fee" if you decide to continue using the car.
> In China’s pocket <
Yep. For example, GOP leader Mitch McConnell and his wife received a gift of at least $5 million from his Chinese father-in-law. And the father-in-law has close ties to the Chinese communists.
Follow the money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao#Controversies
First they came for the SUVs and I said nothing. Then they came for the Nissan Stanza and I said nothing...
This will be a disaster for the country economically if allowed to proceed. The infrastructure to support this does not exist and cannot be put in place to do so in ten years. We lack:
1) Sufficient electrical generation capacity, and new plants are at least a ten year process. And wind and solar cannot do it.
2) Sufficient electrical transmission and distribution capacity, similarly on the upgrade times. CA and TX have had recent well-publicized issues with their systems.
3) Sufficient mining and materials processing to provide for batteries and conductors for the vehicles and the items above.
Other than that, this is a great idea!
If you want to see future America—just walk across the bridge from El Paso to Juarez.
The cars are all junkers and little children are begging on street corners.
Charging stations need to rely on solar panels and windmills.
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