Bugs - it's what the WEF says every one else can eat for dinner - while THEY, the Globalist Elites, dine on lobster, steak, etc.
Posted on 07/29/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT by Libloather
The Biden administration proposed a new and ambitious set of fuel economy standards for cars and light-duty trucks Friday, its latest move to prod American consumers towards adopting electric vehicles (EVs).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a subagency of the Department of Transportation (DOT), unveiled the updated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which would require cars and lighter trucks to improve their respective fuel efficiencies by 2% and 4% starting in 2027, according to a DOT press release announcing the proposal.
The rule would also mandate work vans and pickup trucks to increase their fuel efficiencies by 10% each year, starting in 2030, according to the DOT press release. If manufacturers fail to meet the stipulations of the proposed CAFE standards, they will have to pay punitive fines to the government, according to the rule’s text.
General Motors voiced its concerns to the Biden administration about prospective new fuel economy standards, telling administration officials in mid-July that such standards could cost American automobile manufacturers as much as $100 billion in 2031 and $300 billion over a five-year timeline, according to Reuters. The administration reportedly dismissed General Motors’s concerns, telling the company that their analysis was incorrect.
“This is an EV mandate and further evidence that the elites want normal people to hoof it or take the bus,” Dan Kish, senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Americans had better wake up, because cars will soon be so expensive that people won’t be able to afford them.”
The NHTSA believes that the proposal will save Americans money at the gas pump while boosting American auto manufacturing and reducing reliance on foreign oil, the press release says.
However, the agency has conceded that the rule would saddle the auto manufacturing industry...
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India is already the biggest population - 1,429 million.
USA 332 million
Hook two of these together
https://www.totalmotorcycle.com/MotorcycleFuelEconomyGuide/best-scooter-MPG
And....here is bigger difference.
Average age in India is way lower than in United States.
India is a country of young people eager to get into work force. There are no food stamps or medicaid in India. People have to work to make a living.
America has many more seniors, who rely on younger workers to fund their social security and Medicare.
You’re right. Nobody with half a brain thinks electric vehicles are ready for prime time. Oh how I loathe the idiots who voted for this monstrous administration.
The rule would also mandate work vans and pickup trucks to increase their fuel efficiencies by 10% each year...
This will increase the operating expenses of all tradesmen increasing all expenses of homeownership.
bttt
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