Posted on 10/17/2024 3:04:19 PM PDT by CFW
A coalition of 24 states, led by Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, have signed a brief against a federal electric truck mandate.
On March 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a new electric truck mandate to increase sales of electric semitrucks from 2027 through 2032.
EPA will require electric models to account for 60% of new urban delivery trucks and 25% of long-haul tractor sales by 2032. The cost of electric trucks are typically two to three times more expensive than diesel trucks, according to the Institute for Energy Research.
Truckers will also have to invest $620 billion for charging infrastructure and it will likely cost utilities $370 billion to upgrade their networks.
On Wednesday, Hilgers filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stop the Biden-Harris Administration from imposing this mandate on truck manufacturers. A coalition of 24 states, including Louisiana, teamed up in the Nebraska v. EPA challenge.
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The other states in the coalition are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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Defund the EPA.
Trump should force the DOJ to hit the EPA with gross violation of the recent Chevron Ruling out of the USSC. Since ‘fining’ the EPA would do no good, the consequences should be actual prison time for the EPA proponents.
Not only is EV technology not ready for prime time. It will never be able to replace gas/diesel
“invest $620 billion for charging infrastructure and it will likely cost utilities $370 billion to upgrade their networks“
Don’t worry, there’s an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve.
He doesn’t need the DOJ. He can just order them to repeal the rule.
Mandates need to be off limits for governments
Pulling this same garbage with municipal vehicles and school buses. Budget busting...and inefficient.
Bttt
Trump has said it would cost trillions of dollars to re-build every bridge in the U.S. to accommodate the additional weight of each truck.
Left-wing insanity. Two words that go hand in hand.
President Trump needs to do away with all of the agencies created during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s for the main purpose of placating rioting hippies. It should be an item on the Day One agenda. All these agencies now are pressure groups designed to advance Leftist causes.
Uh-huh. And the Constitutional authority for the Feds to tell you what you can make, and tell me what I can buy is . . . WHERE?????
Truckers will also have to invest $620 billion for charging infrastructure and it will likely cost utilities $370 billion to upgrade their networks.
The EPA can only count to 20 if they take their shoes off but also has NO COMMON SENSE
Dims are trying to make everyone drive EV’s, while making the grid less reliable.
All of these agencies need to lose the ability to impose any type of mandate or rule that acts as if it has force of law. Chevron is a first step but we have to get back to Congress making the laws and executive enforced. Let the agencies make all the recommendations they want or serve as experts for Q&A to the various subcommittees, but only as recommendations. And then Congress can vote - and none of this omnibus crap or attached to must pass legislation. Each item must stand or fail on its own merits. So wish we could be an actual Republic and not the democracy stuff the left loves to use and abuse. I also like and would expand on President Trump’s original plan that for every new regulation three old ones have to come out. I suppose while I am wishing, is to also add term limits and take a hard look at qualified immunity for government acts. Well, dinners ready so I can go back to my imagination.
Supply lines will be further hobbled, causing inflation and shortages. Price controls will be imposed to stop “gouging”. Shortages will lead to rationing of essentials.
I might be naive or misinformed but have power companies planned for the uptake in electric vehicles? What exactly are their plans? How and from where will they produce more electricity. As I understand it, California imports electrical power.
Don’t vote ‘Rat.
Then, don’t vote RINO.
I thought the Supreme Court said they couldn’t make law.
We’ve lost our minds.
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