Posted on 05/15/2024 8:59:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday it is false that his administration is restricting consumer choice in the automobile market, but his administration recently finalized a rule that will force electric vehicles (EVs) to make up a much larger share of overall auto sales over the next decade.
Biden made the remark during a Tuesday speech about his administration’s decision to significantly bolster tariffs against Chinese products including steel, semiconductor chips and EV batteries. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule in March that requires manufacturers to make EVs constitute between 35% and 56% of new cars sold in 2032, according to CNN.
“Americans, I want to make this clear, notwithstanding what the other guy is saying, can buy any kind of car they want, whether it’s gas, electric or hybrid,” Biden said, referencing former President Donald Trump. “But we’re never going to allow China to unfairly control the market for these cars, period.”
Trump has slammed the Biden administration’s EV push, including from a New York City courthouse on Tuesday. Trump has also suggested that the EV agenda will hurt blue-collar auto workers and consumers while providing opportunities for Chinese companies to capitalize on the U.S. market.
While Americans will be able to buy gas-powered cars in the 2030s, the EPA’s final tailpipe emissions rule and a proposed update to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) fuel economy standards would drastically reshape the auto market to favor EVs over gas-powered models. These regulations, as well as subsidies that the Biden administration has pushed to facilitate the EV transition, will also likely increase the costs of new and used gas-powered vehicles, making those models less accessible to consumers, auto market experts and economists previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Critics of the Biden administration’s EV agenda have characterized the EPA rule as an “EV mandate” because of these economic impacts, and also because relevant policies are projecting huge increases in EV adoption relative to the 6.5% of all new sales that were EVs in February 2024, according to Edmunds.
i favor the gas powered car over the battery car
the gas powered car will be easier for my horse to pull
they are lighter you know
You're right - we've seen this movie before...
I want to buy a 2025 Chevy Malibu, Joe.
You can’t buy from Mexico the China BYD ‘Shark’ Plug in Hybrid Pick-up truck.
https://equalocean.com/news/2024050720844
Taxpayers can make up the reported $32,000 Ford loses on each EV.
Was about to say the same thing…
I don’t know what is worse. Canada’s full mandate by 2036, or an unelected body like the EPA mandating limits in the USA.
TRANSLATION:
WE’RE GOING TO PUT AMERICA’S AUTO INDUSTRY OUT OF BUSINESS
I can deal with an Edsel or a Valiant.
I have a 1966 convertible, without those items built in. I did add a rollbar, seatbelts, and digital radio. No power accessories, no computer. I rebuilt the engine 24 years ago, and the car runs great. I can tune it easily, adjusting the distributor points, spark plugs, and the carburetors my self. Smog exempted here in California. One can easily buy vintage cars or cheap and they are easy to maintain.
Diamond Blue 1954
The California won’t let your register, title , or drive a diesel that is older than 2010 unless it has been retrofitted with at least a 2010 engine and emissions control system. Expect the other blue states to do the same thing with not only commercial diesels but all internal combustion vehicles. If it’s older than 20XX it’s no longer legal to drive on State roads only takes a law signed by a states governor or a veto proof majority in the state houses. People who think it will be like Cuba are delusional the blues will never allow it. Red Texas already has multi spectral.cameras they deploy along the sides of highways usually at on ramps that scan the exhaust of the passing vehicle looking for those who did a catalysts delete it snaps a pic of the plates and the drivers face then mails a summons to a state certified emissions testing shop. If the vehicle fails it has 30 days to retest and pass or it’s plates are.voided and it is no longer legal to drive. Its title is flagged so it also cannot be sold it can be scrapped or taken out of state. The diesel bro bros get caught all the time this way. Driving without a valid plate is a class A mis that’s up to a one year jail term and up to $10,000 fine...each time the person is caught each municipality can issue a new charge as the person crosses jurisdictions which in North Texas could be 8 in a single day. With most cop cars now having automated plate scanners as well. This is Texas a supposedly red state they take their emissions laws seriously.
You can buy any car you want as long as it’s an EV.....................
Echoes of “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black”.
The Texas legislature has abolished the state mandated annual vehicle inspections beginning next year, but you will still have to pay the same $7.50 inspection fee, because no government ever gives up a tax or fee.
Of course, that will change if democrats ever succeed in their dream of turning Texas back into a democrat controlled state, and even if they don't, the democrats can and will do whatever they want the next time there is a democrat president and the democrats control both houses of Congress.
Yea the.emissions is only in counties that do not meet Federal clean air criteria. Those counties will still have emissions testing it’s a federal level thing not state level. There won’t be a safety inspection but there will still be the annual OBDII scan and systems check that’s mandated by the EPA the state has no say on it. You will still pay the $7.50 emissions scan fee and must submit to it. The exhaust scanners don’t care what county your vehicle is registered in if it detects a out of compliance vehicle it sends a summons even in none emissions counties here again it’s federal level emissions the state just enforces it or they lose all highway funding.
I’m glad I live in a rural county.
Rural only matters about the ODBII or tail pipe testing. If you take a rural registered vehicle with a exhaust delete into the city and pass one of those emissions scanners it will send a notice to appear in 30 days even to a rural registered vehicle. There is no special.exemption for rural vehicles the emissions limits and laws are Federal the state enforces them or they lose all highway funding. My SAAB got hit with one of those scanners it has straight 3.5” pipes behind the huge aftermarket Garrett turbo. I trailered it to the testing location and told them it was an off road rally car. They then took my on road plates away right then and there or I could have paid the fine and out back on the cat and come back in 30 days or less to test and passed at that point they would have reissued my plates but I couldn’t keep the plates or registration until it had cats back on it. So it’s now titled and registered as an off road only car driving it on the public roads is at least two class C and one class B misdemeanors. So it gets the trailer to the track now. Texas is serious about it’s emissions compliance.
The EV promotion is just an excuse. The real problem is that Americans are not buying cars. They especially are not buying trucks and Jeeps.
Dealer inventories are stagnant. Many models have no sales to speak of and the dealer has a 365 day supply. The floor plan interest costs are bankrupting the dealers.
What the American manufacturers have shown is that they can’t make electric vehicles. They lack the engineering talent to do so.
People who want an EV by Tesla and state of the art engineering and manufacturing. Tesla’s are also not selling well because the interest rates are presently very high.
Stellantis and Ford may not be by the time of the Presidential election. Biden can’t save the UAW
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