Posted on 03/20/2024 11:29:14 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
"Outlaw your car" sounds like such an outrageous phrase, and technically speaking, it isn't true — but only barely. What practical difference is there between outlawing something, and regulating it out of existence? That's exactly what the EPA intends to do this week with strict new rules going forward against gas- and diesel-powered cars and light trucks.
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The EPA Is About to Outlaw Your Car STEPHEN GREEN | 12:45 PM ON MARCH 19, 2024
AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino "Outlaw your car" sounds like such an outrageous phrase, and technically speaking, it isn't true — but only barely. What practical difference is there between outlawing something, and regulating it out of existence?
That's exactly what the EPA intends to do this week with strict new rules going forward against gas- and diesel-powered cars and light trucks.
Expected as soon as Wednesday, the Biden EPA "is poised to finalize emissions rules that will effectively require a certain percentage — as much as two-thirds by 2032 — of new cars to be all-electric," according to Inside EVs. Politico sells the expected rule as one that would "tackle the nation’s biggest source of planet-warming pollution and accelerate the transition to electric vehicles."
The rule would require carmakers to cut their average emissions of carbon dioxide by 52% between 2027 and 2032. EPA projects that the standard would push the car industry to ensure that electric cars and light trucks make up about 67% of new vehicles by model year 2032.
Originally set to be announced in April of 2023, but again according to Inside EVs, it "received a strong rebuttal from dealer groups, car manufacturers, and petroleum companies."
Where is “our side” on all this?
Investigating Hunter Biden in a quest that will result in nothing.
Remember Obama’s cash for clunkers? That was a big sucksess.
I bought a nice-ish new ICE car in Dec because I saw this coming.
If allowed to stand, it’s going to be a disaster for the country. We will end up looking like a latter-day Cuba with legacy vehicles maintained long after they would have been replaced.
EPA is just one of the agencies needing to be closed.
Screw ‘em. I like walking anyway.
Another reason to vote for Trump. He will end this insanity.
Remember the pictures of the streets in Havana with 60-year-old cars kept running because that’s all they could get? Get ready for something like that here - if you’ve got an ICE automobile, learn how to keep it running - who knows if you’ll ever by able to buy another one.
Every last pig in that agency should be homeless and destitute.
The dems will do what some cities in China did. They just stop issuing license/registration renewals for the vehicles they no longer want on the road. They did that in my wife’s home city with motorcycles. Within 3 years, not a single one was legal to drive in the city by a local.
When I look at the cars on the road, especially at times of high traffic volume, there is NO WAY 2/3 of those cars will be electric for many reasons, including that eventually Americans just won’t put up with the nonsense.
The car dealers in Mexico must be salivating
From my cold greasy hands.
Plus he will get more votes
Is this the “Don’t say gas powered!” mandate?
I just bought an Audi S4. 350 hp. Vroom! FJB!
The EPA is Nixon’s legacy.
Thanks Tricky Dick. /s
This is insane
Where is the GOP, automakers etc..??
This should be the #1 campaign ad
It is by design.
The purpose is to be a disaster for the country.
“This is insane
Where is the GOP, automakers etc..??
This should be the #1 campaign ad”
They’re all in on it. Politicians want the power of expanded government that “green energy” brings. They also must protect their donors, who they forced into going green.
That’s how it looks to me.
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