Posted on 04/15/2023 3:11:32 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Regarding electric vehicles, President Joe Biden cannot simply use his bully pulpit to preach EVs’ virtues. Gift-wrapping them in lavish taxpayer-funded subsidies is not enough for Biden, either.
So, this dictator rules by fiat. Rather than ask Congress to enact a pro-EV law, Emperor Biden issued a decree on Wednesday, via the Environmental Protection Agency.
By 2030, 54% of new passenger vehicles must be electric. Just two years later, that mandate would grow by more than one-fifth, until 67% of new cars and light trucks are electric in 2032.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“EO’s commanding private companies and private citizens are unenforceable in court. (Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to be)”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248633
Excerpt.
“The EPA is about to issue a monster rule that essentially requires the capture of all CO2 emitted by power plants. This is impossible to do at any economically-reasonable cost. It will force up power prices dramatically and likely force offline many natural gas power plants, along with all the remaining coal-fired ones.
This in turn will make your “much loved” electric car much more expensive to fuel since of course you have to plug it in, destroying any alleged “advance” it has in operating cost (which I’ve gone over before, and is a lie to begin with.)
This comes after the EPA attempted to issue such a rule in the past and the Supreme Court ruled that CO2 was not a pollutant and thus outside the EPA’s remit, as the Congress had not granted it the power to do this. The Inflation Reduction Act specifically included the power for the EPA to do this...”
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