Posted on 06/10/2021 6:03:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet applauded President Joe Biden's proposal to spend nearly $200 billion to prop up the electric vehicle market as part of his $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan.
"I view this as our best opportunity in decades to make the long-term investments we have put off for years," Bennet said on a conference call hosted by Climate Power on Wednesday. "The American Jobs Plan puts out $40 billion in our natural infrastructure to restore our forests, protect our watersheds — some of that is based on my Outdoor Restoration Partnership Act that I wrote as a result of the fires we've seen.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars in the proposal to expand clean energy infrastructure and the importance of including clean energy standards would dramatically reduce carbon emissions from electricity. And nearly $200 billion in investments for the deployment of electric vehicles, I could go on."
Currently, the federal tax rebate for consumers who purchase fully electric cars is $7,500. The rebate could increase to $10,000 under the Biden proposal, which hasn't been formally drafted into legislation yet.
"It will give consumers point of sale rebates and tax incentives to buy American-made EVs, while ensuring that these vehicles are affordable for all families and manufactured by workers with good jobs," reads the White House fact sheet about Biden's plan. "It will establish grant and incentive programs for state and local governments and the private sector to build a national network of 500,000 EV chargers by 2030, while promoting strong labor, training, and installation standards."
New Mexico Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich said Biden's plan is needed to help bring electric vehicle chargers to "every corner" of the U.S.
"This is our chance to build charging infrastructure in every corner of our nation for the rapidly growing fleet of electric vehicles," Heinrich said, "and it's our best opportunity to stand up for a 21st century Civilian Climate Corps that empowers a whole new generation of Americans to restore our landscapes and open up new opportunities on our public lands including to sequester more carbon."
Companies like General Motors and Volkswagen have abandoned manufacturing vehicles with hybrid engines to focus on fully electric plug-in vehicles instead.
In 2020, 296,000 EVs were sold in the U.S. compared to 331,000 the year prior.
Toyota Motors President Akio Toyoda has warned that car manufacturers moving to fully electric vehicles could make automobiles unaffordable for the average person. A January 2021 survey shows that some consumers do not see electric cars as a viable option due to the mile range of batteries as well as long recharging times compared to filling internal combustion engines with gasoline or diesel fuel.
Despite this, Senate Democrats are supporting Biden's proposed $200 billion plan that includes replacing diesel vehicles with fully electric vehicles for the federal government, public schools and the U.S. Postal Service.
His proposal would "replace 50,000 diesel transit vehicles and electrify at least 20 percent of our yellow school bus fleet through a new Clean Buses for Kids Program at the Environmental Protection Agency, with support from the Department of Energy."
Buying one or 2 draft horses to pull your gas car would be cheaper.
“The only benefit I see to electric vehicles is smugness.”
You forgot VIRTUE SIGNALING. LOOK at me, I drive an electric car. I’m GRRRREEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN
Already thinking of buying a relative’s minivan for pennies that has a new transmission and get a new engine put in it at my local shop. Then it’s good for another 200,000 miles.
I think the game is scarcity and price.
To get people out of individual means of transportation and to use much less electric on an individual basis is part of their Great Reset nonsense.
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And into their ultimate goal arcologies (you’ve seen them in some dystopian movies) ... where only the wealthy and well connected have any access to the surrounding countryside made up of their multi-square mile estates, vast parks, and preserves.
When the power goes out, the electricity to pump gasoline into your gas tank is gone there too. But if we’re forced into battery-powered cars without building out generating capacity, we are very screwed.
the whole of government, major corporate and media have signed-on to this massive social-engineering scheme, so it seems like it will happen.
Because of this government-corporate project, we can all expect to pay A LOT more for transportation, and have our every movement tracked.
only if you can find gas, and its affordable, and only if you are allowed to drive it on any road. Else get those horses ...
Last year I dropped a new engine and transmission into my 25 year-old Jeep. I’m set for the next ten years or so. It’s beyond EPA regulations and while I have no plans to sell it, I can see a thriving market for restoring 80’s and 90’s SUVs and trucks. Buy NAPA stock.
Buy gasoline by the tanker truck load for your underground storage ... else they gov may halt the production of gasoline for use in private vehicles.
Don’t bet on it.
In Japan, older cars are outlawed by making the license plate more and more expensive till they are unaffordable.
That will happen here at some point.
Insurance will be unobtainable for the same reasons.
ICE cars will be destroyed en masse at trade-in. “Cash-For-Clunkers” was a trial run.
They will crush all old cars, the used car market for ICE cars will disappear, until only EV are on the market.................
the whole of government, major corporate and media have signed-on to this massive social-engineering scheme, so it seems like it will happen.
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Short of CWIII the Convention of States is looking more plausible. Guns and ICE cars (real cars) are a very unifying bulwark. It goes hand in hand with the needs of cities vs. the needs of fly over folks. Except cities don’t eat without fly over folks....
They never mention where the Electricity will come from to charge these vehicles . Every inch of the planet will have to be cleared for wind turbines(need a house sized concrete and steel underground footing) and solar
If I cannot drive 900 miles in ONE DAY it is worthless
They want you close to home or trapped in your home
They don’t want you driving.
Period.
That’s the point.
Bingo!
The question no one wants to publicly ask: where does the energy come from that charges the batteries in an electric car? Electric cars are a scam and forcing them on society to eliminate fossil fuel burning vehicles will in the long term leave everybody stranded. The desired goal is to immobilize society where only government authorities and the military will be mobile. Control!
Where are we going to dispose of all those batteries?
Who will make up the shortfall in Federal and State gasoline taxes?
$10,000 incentive? replace all ICE cars?
How much is $10,000 x 287,000,000? (# of cars in USA, 2020)
$287 billion!
Now we’re talkin’ real money.
Crank up those printers, we have money to “make!”
The batteries are recyclable into new batteries..................
That’s $2.87 TRILLION......................
And the very wealthy........................
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