Posted on 03/21/2024 10:04:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have a friend who frequently says that, if you control CO2 outputs, you control everything. Let me explain: Every aspect of modern life is dependent on hydrocarbons and, when hydrocarbons are burned for energy, they produce CO2. By demonizing CO2, you demonize hydrocarbons, which means…ta-dah!...you get to block hydrocarbons and control everything.
We’re getting a glimpse of that with Joe Biden’s new energy emission rules, which will effectively make it impossible to build a gas-powered car in a few years, forcing people into costly, dangerous, unreliable, and dirty electric vehicles.
Here’s the report from Fox:
The Biden administration has finalized a slate of highly-anticipated environmental regulations curbing gas-powered vehicle tailpipe emissions as part of its broader efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming.
In a joint announcement Wednesday, the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the most aggressive multi-pollutant emission standards ever finalized. While the regulations target gas-powered vehicles, they are explicitly designed to push wider nationwide adoption of electric vehicles (EV) and, according to officials, are expected to ensure nearly 70% of all new car sales are zero-emissions within a few years.
This regulation comes just as Americans are making it increasingly clear that they do not want to buy electric vehicles. Instead, they’re turning to hybrids. This makes perfect sense because electric vehicles are gimmicks at best and cons at worst.
First, unless you live in a region in which electricity is generated solely through wind, sun, or water, the electricity powering those cars comes from hydrocarbons.
Second, they are hugely polluting:
Electric vehicles release more toxic particles into the atmosphere and are worse for the environment than their gas-powered counterparts, according to a resurfaced study.
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WE are the CO2 emitters that they really want to ban.
I’m still waiting for them to ban carbonated soft drinks to reduce CO2.
Dopey’s law will make NEW gas cars effectively illegal.
The used car market will explode. As will the demand for folks who know how to keep old cars working.
We will have become Cuba.
CO2 is the perfect sin for a facist gummit.
Out of control government is out of control.
Biden won’t be alive in 2030.
I’d say this disappears on day two of the Trump admin.
I predict that 2030 “mandate” trial balloon will be postponed and/or ignored by oncoming presidents.
It may take a Democrat or a Republican as bold as Trump to simply weed out and discard that “mandate” as both un enforceable and ridiculous.
The market and the consent of the governed be damned
Just eliminate the EPA
Battery chemicals on the other hand, like zinc, cadmium, lead, lithium, and cobalt, are all toxic inorganic poisons.
bttt
There are 260 million ICE vehicles in America and 1 million EVs. This is a total scam that some of the Auto manufacturers are in on. I have a 1997 F250 which I will have as long as I live.
It is plant food through photosynthesis. There are green houses that actually pipe in CO2!
CO2 makes up 0.04 % of the atmosphere.
Wanna talk about methane and carbon? Look at a volcano eruption. People are dumb.
In countries like France they are already retroactively applying newer emissions laws to older cars and forcing them off the road.
I would add Central Planning (Fascism) never works.
I thought the SCOTUS outlawed these types of overreach? It is all based on total bull merde anyway, where are the GOPeahens, stopping this?
I think there needs to be a law that says any laws created and signed off on must occur during the current administration. Same with presidential edicts. 2030? No. Make it happen now or leave it to the next congress.
Older, older cars, yes. However, with all the electronics that have gone into the cars in the past 10 years, it's almost impossible for anyone other than the dealerships with their diagnostic equipment, to work on them.
I have a friend with a two year old Jeep that had its transmission go out twice in a three week period. Turned out to be the electronics.
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