Posted on 09/21/2024 12:41:12 PM PDT by karpov
The House on Friday voted, 215-191, to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s vehicle emissions rule, with eight Democrats joining Republicans. Kamala Harris says she doesn’t support an electric vehicle mandate, but that’s what the Biden EPA rule effectively is.
The EPA in March finalized greenhouse gas emissions requirements for auto makers through 2032. EPA’s models show that gas-powered cars will make up no more than 30% of sales by 2032. EVs made up a mere 7.6% of auto sales last year and less than 4% for General Motors and Ford. In eight years they will have to increase their EV sales by some 15-fold.
The emissions standards are especially punitive for U.S. manufacturers that mostly sell trucks and SUVs. Companies will effectively have to produce one to two electric trucks for every gas-powered one in 2027 and closer to four to one by 2032. Yet electric trucks cost much more to produce than sedans since they require much bigger batteries.
Ford lost $44,000 on each EV sold in the second quarter, which is more than some of its trucks retail for. Auto makers are scaling back EV investment amid slowing demand. Ford announced last month it is cancelling production of an electric SUV and delaying an electric pickup. The same week Stellantis delayed retooling a shuttered plant in Belvidere, Ill., for EV production. The Energy Department awarded Stellantis $335 million in subsidies to convert the plant to make EVs. President Biden boasted about the plant in his State of the Union address this year.
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Good.
I still think they are doing this the wrong way, they should have passed a law mandating that every last employee under the Executive Branch exclusively use an EV for ALL TRAVEL for work and to and from work.
Funny.
The elites always get the best of everything while the peasants suffer.
Even if their EV limos would break down before catching fire they would be given a new one.
For us?
An old photo from the Dust Bowl days of the Great Depression had a broken down, dilapidated 1930s family car with a sign “California Or Bust” with an X across it replaced by “Busted.”
If it’s a “good law” then Everyone should be held to it without any exceptions, exclusions, immunities, privileges or preferences.
True Equal Protection under the Law.
When people get to choose, they normally end up making the right decisions.
When the political elite make the decisions, we end up with duds.
The people made a choice in 2020, but ended up being denied and we ended up with a dud and a disaster.
EVs look good, but they’re a disaster for the country and the world.
It’s going to take more than strikes for the unions to survive Democrats.
RE: True Equal Protection under the Law.
If-——if we achieve that even to a substantial degree, I would be all for it.
Unless the putative PUTATUS is installed.
Then guess what’s back on the menu, boys!
They’re doing that all over...probably half of the EV business. My hometown has the buses, too...at a ridiculous cost. They had to build a huge building that was heated cuz the stupid things wouldn’t start in the cold. Go NY...to hell!!
I would love to see how far the President’s armored limo could go on batteries.
There would probably have to be pedals inside for the Secret Service to use.
Holes in the floorboards so they can move it with their two feet like Fred Flintstone.😆
This manipulation of the market is enraging
The EV crap is a con.
I saw a video of a guy who just took delivery of a Island Spirit 525e hybrid electric sailing catamaran.
An electric boat with sails that he intends to sail around the world in. Made in Thailand.
He has had all sorts of troubles with his other boats he has owned. This one will leave him stranded somewhere in port if he is lucky and sunk in a storm when he needs power at the worst. I wonder about a big battery fire. Sea water and lithium do not mix.
He takes along many women in bikinis.
Sailing Doodles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsANGvUFiTs
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