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1 posted on 04/02/2024 9:41:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Currently, EV trucks are less than 1% of new sales and, according to the Wall Street Journal, nearly all of those sales “are in California, which heavily subsidizes and mandates their purchase.” To do that, Californians enjoy, as it were, some of the highest taxes in the nation.

The WSJ also warns that “most electric trucks can’t go more than 170 miles on a charge,” and that “electric semis require bigger and heavier batteries, which means they must carry lighter loads to avoid damaging roads.”

Lighter loads mean more trucks — are you looking forward to sharing the roads with even more semis? Because I’m not.

We’ll also need more truck drivers and that’s a labor market that’s been “tight” for 40 years.

“Electric trucks also generate more soot from their wear and tear on roads and vehicle braking,” the WSJ added. In 2020, a group called Emissions Analytics “found that emissions of particulate matter from tire wear can be 1,000 times worse than from tailpipes.”

“The implication of this test is that electric cars may not be free of particulate emissions after all.”


2 posted on 04/02/2024 9:41:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Xiden is wrecking America on purpose to appease his CCP handlers! He’s a traitor of the worse type!


3 posted on 04/02/2024 9:45:10 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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If a Democrat wins in November, we truly are in BIG trouble. Say goodbye to prosperity and freedom.


5 posted on 04/02/2024 9:48:39 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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Good, driving voters to Trump’24!


6 posted on 04/02/2024 9:48:44 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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I bet this will also force businesses to move away from the relatively new and cheaper inventory model of JIT (Just In Time inventory) to having to stock up on goods in the hope that they sell.


8 posted on 04/02/2024 9:50:50 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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This also greatly conflicts with DOT Hours of Service rules. A trucker may be on duty 14 hours a day, 11 may be driving. Then there’s a mandatory 10 hour break. After 70 hours, the driver must take a 32 hour break.

Now imagine, drive 3 1/2 hours then wait in line for four hours at the charger, then charge for four hours. At that point the drive can go another 3 1/2 hours. He cannot charge up because he’s on mandatory rest. The drive, who normally drives 500-700 miles in a day has gone a whopping 300 miles and wasted 8 hours charging or waiting.

Yea, great idea Joe.


9 posted on 04/02/2024 9:51:21 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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If we don’t buy them, what can Biden (or any President/government) do about it? Put us all in jail? Confiscate our REAL cars? Confiscate all the filling stations?


10 posted on 04/02/2024 9:55:14 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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Does it apply to trucks registered in Mexico? I bet not.


13 posted on 04/02/2024 10:05:59 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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Mandates come and mandates go...

Regulations come and regulations go...

with each new administration, especially when the new administration is of the opposite party.

If Trump gets in, those mandates and regulations are gone on day one.

EVs are not wanted nor needed.

Mandates issued for a future that years distant, are as good as never-gonna-happen.

Any mandate that harms the economy wich harms the well-being of the country and well-being os the consumers, will never happen or will be undone soon after taking effect..


14 posted on 04/02/2024 10:08:06 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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15 posted on 04/02/2024 10:09:33 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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Trump will shitcan each and every one of brandon’s edicts next January.
That will buy us 4 additional years until the next election is stolen by a dem. Then it will definitely be over....
17 posted on 04/02/2024 10:10:35 AM PDT by AFret. (.)
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Well it looks like Biden Secured his Elon Musk vote again.


19 posted on 04/02/2024 10:12:02 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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This climate change bullshit needs to be stopped.

We should have done it 20 years ago.


21 posted on 04/02/2024 10:14:16 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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It’s Obama...he is the Destroyer


27 posted on 04/02/2024 10:21:28 AM PDT by Theophilus 7
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Out of control government is out of control.


28 posted on 04/02/2024 10:21:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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BFL


29 posted on 04/02/2024 10:25:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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Did Dear Leader also dictate how many squares of toilet paper we can use each time? I know, it’s to save the planet. Dear Leader loves us and wants us to be happy. Oh, is it time for the 2 minutes of hate? Haven’t we always been at war with Eastasia?


31 posted on 04/02/2024 10:50:49 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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In effect 2027. Again long after Biden will be dead. Which means it ain’t ever gonna happen. 🙄


35 posted on 04/02/2024 11:06:20 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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If only the trucker could get together and shut down operations until this crap is eliminated.


38 posted on 04/02/2024 12:03:24 PM PDT by Revel
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Biden has already done that.


41 posted on 04/02/2024 12:56:36 PM PDT by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe tontn)
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