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Kamala to Double Down on Biden's EV Mandate With Even More Aggressive Plans
Hotair ^ | 07/25/2024 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 07/25/2024 7:14:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

If you thought Joe Biden's electric vehicle mandates were unpopular (and they are) just wait until you see the even more aggressive plans that Kamala Harris has in store if she manages to be elected to the White House.

Rather than giving in to a popular lack of demand, Harris intends to double down, accelerating the schedule for converting the American fleet of vehicles at an even more rapid pace wherever possible.

The Democrats still aren't quite crazy enough to try to make possession of a gas-powered vehicle illegal, but they will bully the automakers to ensure that a full 50% of all vehicles sold are EVs and they will use the regulatory power of federal agencies to enforce their will. It's almost as if Harris and her party are daring the American people not to vote for them. (Free Beacon)

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has emerged as the presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee for president, favors a far more aggressive plan to mandate electric vehicles than even President Joe Biden, whose EV policies have seen declining popularity both in swing states and nationwide.

During her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris vowed to implement climate policies ensuring 50 percent of all new passenger vehicles sold are EVs by 2030 and 100 percent are EVs by 2035 , an archived copy of her campaign website shows. She also backed a mandate requiring all new vehicle purchases for corporate fleets, transportation networks, and heavy-duty vehicles be electric by 2030.

Months after she announced in January 2019 that she would run for president, Harris also cosponsored the so-called Zero-Emission Vehicles Act, a bill that was later modified to include language mandating 43 percent of car sales are electric by 2027 and 100 percent are electric by 2035.

How can anyone realistically believe that we can get EVs to account for fully half of all new passenger vehicle sales by 2030? That's barely six years from now. And then she wants to get to 100% five years later, functionally ending the internal combustion engine market in barely a decade. The same mandates would apply to civilian corporate fleets, mass transportation vehicles, and even heavy-duty construction vehicles and equipment.

Of course, the same would apply to the military, where the executive branch can truly flex its muscles in terms of issuing orders and mandates. Get ready for electric tanks and armored personnel carriers on the battlefield, despite the fact that nobody has managed to build one yet that could remain functional in a war zone. Such a mandate would mean that the size and cost of each battalion would balloon, since you don't tend to find recharging stations out in the wilderness where most battles are fought, so recharging vehicles would need to follow the troops around everywhere. If the enemy has the common sense that God gave a goat, they will direct their drones at the charging vehicles first and the entire force will grind to a halt shortly thereafter.

Fortunately, this is a topic that the pollsters cover on a regular basis. One of the latest surveys revealed that nearly 60% of likely voters in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin oppose bans on gas vehicles and only a relatively tiny percentage of them are enthusiastic supporters of the idea. Even a majority of the people who currently own an EV (as opposed to a hybrid) say that they still experience "range anxiety" and they are forced to plan their travel around the availability of charging stations, many of which have chargers that either fail to operate or are incompatible with their vehicles. Drivers who participated in a survey by JD Powers reported that they encountered nonfunctional chargers 21% of the time when attempting to recharge their cars.

Donald Trump has already been jumping on this subject on the campaign trail. You can expect him to start hitting Kamala Harris hard about it in debates and campaign speeches. This is a winning issue for conservatives by a wide margin. It's something of a mystery why the Democrats would continue to cling to these plans unless they are just doing it out of habit at this point and can't help themselves. Is this the most important issue in the minds of voters this year? Almost certainly not. But it represents yet another way that Kamala Harris and the Democrats want to Make America Crappier Again.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; despotism; dictator; ecofascism; econazi; electric; ev; harris; kamala; mandate
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To: SeekAndFind
...and they will use the regulatory power of federal agencies to enforce their will"
Did this authoir miss Chevron altogether?
21 posted on 07/25/2024 7:59:45 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, that woman is dumb as dirt.

She and buttplug-Peeter would make history as the least competent Pres/VP ever in history.

Perverts, incompetents, America-haters; useless sacks of shit.


22 posted on 07/25/2024 8:13:01 PM PDT by dadgum (“”)
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To: dadgum

This is a BS technology that will only possibly survive by requiring people to buy them and giving them free taxpayers ‘ money. To top it off they are impractical. What a Super Grift.


23 posted on 07/25/2024 8:20:14 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

California will look like Cuba in more ways than that.


24 posted on 07/25/2024 8:21:16 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: SeekAndFind

So...... The Hussein/Biden/Harris Regime spent $$gazillion$$ and, so far, 7 charging stations. The Hussein/Harris Regime will create 7 more charging stations??

Now THAT is Marxist planning.


25 posted on 07/25/2024 8:29:12 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: madison10

Kamala Harris. Who is She?

https://bwcentral.org/2021/03/kamala-harris-who-is-she/

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “has nearly 30 years of experience in communist China with more than 140 lawyers dedicated to its branch of “Investment Services in Communist China.” He has just been appointed professor at Yale for future school lawyers at the fine points of communism.

When she was elected to the United States Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a pro-communist Senate chief of staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre actively participated in the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the Communist World Workers’ Party of North Korea/pro-communist China and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s former far-left communist president and the radical Lavalas movement.

Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. Had the FBI done a background investigation into Kamala Harris, she would never have passed, due to her close 40-year ties to Marxists, Communists, Maoists and communist China. Harris would never have been approved to be accepted into any of the 5 Military Service Academies, nor would she have been appointed to a position in the U.S. Government Sub-cabinet, nor would it have been approved to hold a delicate position for a high-security defense contractor.


26 posted on 07/25/2024 8:31:02 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s hope so...loser.


27 posted on 07/25/2024 9:00:24 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: SeekAndFind

The far left “media” is pimpin’ their Indo/Jamaican whore hard. And the idiots are going to buy a “back to back” couple of America hating maggots.


28 posted on 07/25/2024 9:33:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are : He Be, She Be, We Be, and HeBeJeebees.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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29 posted on 07/25/2024 9:41:21 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: SeekAndFind

Insanity. This would totally crush the economy if allowed to proceed.


30 posted on 07/25/2024 10:07:09 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

31 posted on 07/25/2024 10:09:56 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: jonrick46
Correction: "Now the crazy green scam will throw the population into poverty"
32 posted on 07/25/2024 10:10:43 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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33 posted on 07/26/2024 1:10:01 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: SeekAndFind

Green Energy is for people who can’t do math.


34 posted on 07/26/2024 4:39:32 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: SeekAndFind
Mandating EVs while sabotaging the grid.

They are saving the planet for themselves, and no place for you.

35 posted on 07/26/2024 7:45:37 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s the all-star of communism,socialism, Marxism and Fascism. There isn’t any ‘isms that she doesn’t think is great. They are never her own ideas but she’s a rubber stamp and mattress.


36 posted on 07/26/2024 9:01:44 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SeekAndFind

Playing to the demtardo base.


37 posted on 07/26/2024 9:02:36 AM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope”)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a gift to Trump. The EV mandate is widely unpopular, even in the commie states. He can nail her on this issue over and over.


38 posted on 07/26/2024 9:11:26 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: SeekAndFind

kamaLA wants to end meat. THAT video needs to get around.


39 posted on 07/26/2024 9:23:23 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

So it looks like the CCP approves of Kamala. Like Biden. Maybe she gets paid by the Chinese through her husband like Joe got paid through his son.


40 posted on 07/28/2024 5:50:39 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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