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Planes, Trains and Automobiles ... and Trucks: Biden administration has announced new stringent emissions requirements for virtually the entire American transportation system
Hotair ^ | 04/03 | Stephen Moore

Posted on 04/03/2024 10:10:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Biden administration has announced in recent weeks new stringent emissions requirements for virtually the entire American transportation system.

The Environmental Protection Agency will mandate by the year 2035 that virtually every car made and sold in America must be an EV. No more gas cars. The New York Times comically declared that motorists don't have to worry because this "is not a ban on gasoline-powered vehicles." Sure it isn't.

Today less than 2% of cars use the electric power grid for fuel. So soon we will see 50 times more demand for electricity from autos.

Then the EPA announced new rules for trains in California to go electric -- even as the Association of American Railroads has declared the mandate infeasible.

But wait. The climate change lobby is just getting started. There is now a new scheme to mandate that the long-haul trucking industry convert to electric battery operation from diesel fuel.

This is a technological and financial nightmare for our trucking industry. A 10-ton long-haul truck is going to carry cargo across the country on an electric battery? Really?

Planes haven't been mandated by the climate lobby to stop using fossil fuels. But stick around.

Even if the technology existed to meet these mandates, this added strain on the electric grid system comes at a time when power production is already in short supply. The Wall Street Journal reports that power demands are expected to double over the next decade due to artificial intelligence and other technologies that use multiple times more energy than does the internet.

It also comes at a time when the Left has insisted that more than a dozen coal and gas plants need to be shuttered. Nuclear plants continue to get shuttered, too. Locally, greens also have started a movement to stop transmission lines and pipelines from being built.

What is the likely outcome of vastly expanding electric power demand at the same time the Biden administration is reducing supply? An energy calamity. Prices could as much as double. In California, which is at the forefront of the go-green movement, residents pay electric bills 29% higher than the U.S. average.

California is also second in the nation in power outages, with 221 from 2019 to 2023, according to Payless Power. This leaves schools, hospitals and millions of homes without electricity.

Some of the more honest green groups concede that a power shortage is coming as a result of their radical "decarbonization" agenda. Their solution is rationing energy. The government will tell you how much power you can use and when you can use it. There is also a move afoot to conserve energy by abolishing air conditioners and "nonessential" air travel -- as well as gas stoves and power lawnmowers.

Energy is the master resource. Everything we have is derivative of cheap and reliable energy. The more energy a country uses, the richer it is. If you want to disrupt a nation's progress, take away its energy sources.

This is usually a tactic that nations use against their enemies when they are at war. We are foolishly and self-destructively turning the lights off on ourselves.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; commerce; despotism; dictator; emissions; epa; fjb; freight; overreach; regulations; supply; transportation
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1 posted on 04/03/2024 10:10:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
They want to destroy the country.

That has been their goal all along.

2 posted on 04/03/2024 10:12:44 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh Dear. Your f—-ed. from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.


3 posted on 04/03/2024 10:16:00 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Regulations announced and implemented without protest or opposition.

If Trump is elected, and tries to rescind them, he will be subjected to endless attacks in media, congress and courts.


4 posted on 04/03/2024 10:19:51 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: SeekAndFind

So, the EPA and Biden can just skirt around the Constitution to fundamentally transform the country. I’m sure this is what the Founding Fathers had in mind.


5 posted on 04/03/2024 10:20:28 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republict)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

LOL.

Great line from that woman following rental car company rules.


6 posted on 04/03/2024 10:21:48 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: SeekAndFind

To truckers and all harmed by this——please remember to NOT vote Democrat.


7 posted on 04/03/2024 10:23:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imbeciles. There is NO grid capacity to charge all those vehicles.


8 posted on 04/03/2024 10:27:34 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Jess Kitting
[They want to destroy the country.

That has been their goal all along.]

Yep.



All according to plan.


9 posted on 04/03/2024 10:30:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Couldn’t even go back to the old days when horses, oxes, etc., did the work to get things done, and people where they needed to go. No poopy allowed except the human feces that RATS allow unlimited supplies of.


10 posted on 04/03/2024 10:48:52 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Congress pass a law?


11 posted on 04/03/2024 10:49:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Obama and his butt PAL are pure trash. Living in Martha’s Vinyard. Unreal.


12 posted on 04/03/2024 10:50:30 PM PDT by Lumper20
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Yep. Absolute destroyers of everything that was good and decent about America.

A Manchurian Candidate.


13 posted on 04/03/2024 11:22:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Jess Kitting

Winner!


14 posted on 04/03/2024 11:23:34 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it ok if I jump in and say “Well you voted for it America!” Like lots on here do when some shitty state does shitty stuff.


15 posted on 04/03/2024 11:27:59 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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Is it ok if I jump in and say “Well you voted for it America!” Like lots on here do when some shitty state does shitty stuff.


16 posted on 04/03/2024 11:28:01 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: rfp1234
Imbeciles. There is NO grid capacity to charge all those vehicles.

They know that. It's part of their plan to eliminate private transportation entirely and force us all to live in 15-minute cities. We're being herded into the chute that eventually will lead to the slaughterhouse.

17 posted on 04/03/2024 11:29:50 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: SeekAndFind

TPTB really, really do not want us to be free to move around and associate.

They want us stuck at home, needing their permission to go anywhere or do anything.


18 posted on 04/03/2024 11:30:28 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: SeekAndFind

scorched earth is coming people


19 posted on 04/04/2024 2:14:44 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank goodness we have a president who can pass laws without congress ever getting involved. /s


20 posted on 04/04/2024 3:57:36 AM PDT by nagant
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