Biden Admin Unveils Toughest-Ever Car Emissions Rule in Bid to Force EV Purchases and Eliminate Free Ability to Travel. Let's Go Brandon.
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"President Joe Biden further accelerated the nation’s switch to electric vehicles by announcing two proposed federal rule changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses and other pollutants in motor vehicle emissions.
The changes, announced April 12, would affect virtually all gasoline-powered vehicles on U.S. highways, would save consumers an estimated $12,000 in fuel and maintenance costs over the life of a vehicle, and avoid almost 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions through 2055, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The move aims to further the president’s goal of having 50 percent of all new cars and light trucks and 30 percent of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles. Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered zero-emission vehicles.
The EPA estimates that approval of these rules would result in 67 percent of new passenger vehicles and light trucks would be EVs by 2032, along with 50 percent of busses, 35 percent of short-haul freight tractors, and 25 percent of long-haul freight tractors.
Critics have claimed that the move will increase the price of new cars and was made without consideration of the ability of the nation’s supply chain to meet this demand.
The Biden administration has spent some $31 billion on the development of so-called clean transportation over the last two years, including the development of a network of EV charging stations, improving the supply chain for materials needed to produce EV batteries, and making loans to companies manufacturing EVs and components in the United States.
Meanwhile, American car manufacturers and a number of states have been voluntarily moving the market toward electric-powered vehicles.
General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis announced in 2021 that they would aim to reach EV sales of at least 40 percent of all new vehicle sales by 2030.
The rule change comes 10 months after six major automakers pledged to stop selling gas and diesel-powered cars worldwide by 2040.
In November 2021, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover pledged to stop selling diesel-powered cars worldwide by 2040.
In 2022, the state of Washington followed California in announcing a ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035.
Washington enacted a law in 2020 to follow California’s vehicle emissions standards. Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington D.C. have also adopted California’s vehicle emission standards.
GOP Reaction
Republican lawmakers immediately criticized the announcement.
“First President Biden came for our gas stoves. Now he wants to ban the cars we drive,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
“His misguided policies are hurting American families while helping China. The president’s disastrous energy transition is making us more reliant on our enemies while driving up prices for Americans. The ‘electrification of everything’ is not a solution. It’s a road to higher prices and fewer choices.”
“Today, the Biden administration made clear it wants to decide for Americans what kinds of cars and trucks we are allowed to buy, lease, and drive,” Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) wrote on Twitter.
She added that the Biden administration “did not consider that the average price of an electric vehicle was roughly $65,000 last year, more than the household income of 46 percent of American families.
Auto Industry
Automakers around the world have announced plans to invest $1.2 trillion in creating EVs by 2030, according to the Alliance for Innovative Innovation. Yet even that may not be enough to meet the aggressive goals set by the Biden administration.
The number of charging stations is currently insufficient to meet demand, the Alliance noted in an April 6 statement. Of the nation’s 3,100 counties, 39 percent had no chargers installed as of 2022, and 63 percent had five or fewer.
Minerals needed to supply the battery market may also be in short supply, according to the Alliance. North America is projected to produce only about 3.5 percent of the supply needed by 2030, which could increase dependence on China if the situation is not altered, the statement said.
Automakers are committed to the shift to EVs, the Alliance stated, but how fast that shift will happen largely depends on factors outside their control.
“The question isn’t whether it can be done, it’s how fast can it be done … and how fast will depend almost exclusively on having the right policies and market conditions in place to achieve the shared goal of a net zero carbon automotive future,” the group stated."
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Personally, I plan to violate as many federal laws (that punish people without any regard to someone being harmed) as possible regarding my personal vehicle.
I have no respect whatever for the EPA or any other federal agency.
I do not consent to be your slave, looting scum.
"President Joe Biden further accelerated the nation’s switch to electric vehicles by announcing two proposed federal rule changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gasses and other pollutants in motor vehicle emissions.
The changes, announced April 12, would affect virtually all gasoline-powered vehicles on U.S. highways, would save consumers an estimated $12,000 in fuel and maintenance costs over the life of a vehicle, and avoid almost 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions through 2055, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The move aims to further the president’s goal of having 50 percent of all new cars and light trucks and 30 percent of new medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles. Electric vehicles (EVs) are considered zero-emission vehicles.
The EPA estimates that approval of these rules would result in 67 percent of new passenger vehicles and light trucks would be EVs by 2032, along with 50 percent of busses, 35 percent of short-haul freight tractors, and 25 percent of long-haul freight tractors.
Critics have claimed that the move will increase the price of new cars and was made without consideration of the ability of the nation’s supply chain to meet this demand.
The Biden administration has spent some $31 billion on the development of so-called clean transportation over the last two years, including the development of a network of EV charging stations, improving the supply chain for materials needed to produce EV batteries, and making loans to companies manufacturing EVs and components in the United States.
Meanwhile, American car manufacturers and a number of states have been voluntarily moving the market toward electric-powered vehicles.
General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis announced in 2021 that they would aim to reach EV sales of at least 40 percent of all new vehicle sales by 2030.
The rule change comes 10 months after six major automakers pledged to stop selling gas and diesel-powered cars worldwide by 2040.
In November 2021, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Jaguar Land Rover pledged to stop selling diesel-powered cars worldwide by 2040.
In 2022, the state of Washington followed California in announcing a ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035.
Washington enacted a law in 2020 to follow California’s vehicle emissions standards. Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington D.C. have also adopted California’s vehicle emission standards.
GOP Reaction
Republican lawmakers immediately criticized the announcement.
“First President Biden came for our gas stoves. Now he wants to ban the cars we drive,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
“His misguided policies are hurting American families while helping China. The president’s disastrous energy transition is making us more reliant on our enemies while driving up prices for Americans. The ‘electrification of everything’ is not a solution. It’s a road to higher prices and fewer choices.”
“Today, the Biden administration made clear it wants to decide for Americans what kinds of cars and trucks we are allowed to buy, lease, and drive,” Sen. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) wrote on Twitter.
She added that the Biden administration “did not consider that the average price of an electric vehicle was roughly $65,000 last year, more than the household income of 46 percent of American families.
Auto Industry
Automakers around the world have announced plans to invest $1.2 trillion in creating EVs by 2030, according to the Alliance for Innovative Innovation. Yet even that may not be enough to meet the aggressive goals set by the Biden administration.
The number of charging stations is currently insufficient to meet demand, the Alliance noted in an April 6 statement. Of the nation’s 3,100 counties, 39 percent had no chargers installed as of 2022, and 63 percent had five or fewer.
Minerals needed to supply the battery market may also be in short supply, according to the Alliance. North America is projected to produce only about 3.5 percent of the supply needed by 2030, which could increase dependence on China if the situation is not altered, the statement said.
Automakers are committed to the shift to EVs, the Alliance stated, but how fast that shift will happen largely depends on factors outside their control.
“The question isn’t whether it can be done, it’s how fast can it be done … and how fast will depend almost exclusively on having the right policies and market conditions in place to achieve the shared goal of a net zero carbon automotive future,” the group stated."
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Personally, I plan to violate as many federal laws (that punish people without any regard to someone being harmed) as possible regarding my personal vehicle.
I have no respect whatever for the EPA or any other federal agency.
I do not consent to be your slave, looting scum.
You can't make this shit up if you tried.
TraitorJoe's job is to destroy this country, unless we destroy him first.
all that energy would need to be provided in the form of electricity
the grid cannot handle it
it might be possible to install solar on your home (say good by to your warranty for your roof)
and have a charging system installed for the cars your will own
the price of that option would be great
typical democrat liars, putting the cart in front of the horse again and proving this is about control and profits for their friends (and themselves)
fix and expand the grid, get power storage running, then talk to us about EVs
There may actually be a market for getting high miles old vehicles out of the south and west to rebuild and sell.
A 1990s Ford F-150 with a manual transmission and a straight six is about as bullet proof as they get.
This electric car push is not going to happen and it's So Far down the Road that the people who legislated the push will not be around when the physics and reality become apparent.
In the meantime, we will experience the pain inflicted on the general population by the absurd legislators and the state-compensated corporate shills that attend to the fascist dictates.
I am with you FFA -- taking steps to violate stupid laws whenever I find it practical.
I just had a thought pop in my head. That is a "pony express" EV rental business. You rent an EV where you live, drive it to the 3/4 mark station, trade it for a charged EV (and hopefully thoroughly cleaned) to finish the trip to your wife's family without having to wait on a charge. Same thing on the way back or wherever else you want to go. Hmmmm, if properly engineered you won't have to change cars if the batteries can be popped in and out quickly. (See? You will never need to own a car and you'll be happy!) LOL!
Edit add: I'm sure the government will find a way to tax and regulate such a business out of existence because such a business would undermine the whole purpose of keeping us serfs at home.
The demand as the world rejects the Fiat $ will be very interesting.
could be a standard battery "bank" for all EV's.
Stop and swap a dead battery for a charged battery and be on your way.
Government would like to design that, I'm sure.
Each battery would cost $100,000 and weigh 10 tons.
Within a week after the transition one of the forklifts ended up on its side with the battery half out and spilling acid all over the place. When the head genius walked up and surveyed the mess along with the rest of us I slapped him on the back and said “And that was your TRAINED staff that did that. Just wait until the retards get ahold of it” winked and walked away. It was fun being “essential” to plant operations. But boy they hated it sometimes.
Just imagine the carnage st battery CHANGING stations when the Dumb Herd Animals try their hand at it. OR.....the Tek-Nawl-Oh-Gee that does it breaks down. Yeah......pass the popcorn.
combust would be quite a challenge - unless the free market was allowed to solve it.
(Of course, the free market wouldn't be forcing EV's on the customers.)
If government sets the standard, it should be tried first in D.C. with bureaucrats doing the transfers.
Apparently 450 million privately owned firearms (with 71 million pistol magazines capable
of holding more than 10 cartridges, and another 79 million rifle magazines capable of
holding 30 or more rounds) and more than 100 billion rounds of ammo are not of any concern.
A .223 with good ammo and shot placement can take down a medium-sized bear at the maximum range of 150 yards.
Looked that up after I thought to look up what someone long ago told me about a 30.06 being able to penetrate an engine block.
That new "ask me anything Bing" will not answer that question. Asking if a .223 can do it netted the same result.
A 30.06 can kill a great big Grizzly though.
Now if things go completely sideways and breaking the law is impossible because there is no law........then it’s an Obrez’....when you need to punch a fist sized hole in something 3’ away AND set it’s clothes on fire at the same time. Accept no substitute. ;)
It just stands on a shelf with a collection of other bullets showing off its superior might. .
Uh, wait, wait, wait.
Never mind! Never mind!
Just had a vision that won't let me enjoy it.
As Nero played a harp (fiddles weren't invented yet) as Rome burned, I just saw Joey surrounded by drag queens and happily licking ice cream as the USA collapsed all around him.
TraitorJoe and the Hoe, have got to go!
When the Russians parade captured US solders in front of cameras, all hell is going to break loose. In more then one way.
The entire corrupt system must go.
DC. NIFO
War room is doing a deep dive on the patsy right now. He is allegedly a First Class IT guy from Massachusetts Air National Guard (ANG), Otis Air Force Base. Of the hundreds of problems with the official government narrative is:
> Otis AFB was closed by Bill Clinton in the early 1990's as part of the enormous base closures. (I was working at Hanscom AFB at the time, we were very concerned, but we dodged the axe).
Otis AFB is a ghost town. There are still buildings there, it is still government property. You still need permission to be there. The gates are locked.
My group got permission to run RF and RADAR experiments there in 2012. The staff housing is crumbling away due to neglect. But there are a couple of the larger structures that look abandoned, (no cars) but are clearly being maintained. No weeds in the parking lot, clean windows. Street lights still come on at night.
> This first Class whatever is 21 years old and who's classification is one step up from green recruit. The Mass ANG has no conceivable need for intelligence of any kind about (Nazi-occupied) Ukraine.
> His Daddy is seeeyeaye.
> There is no way on heaven or earth the grunndoon of a grunndoon of a grunndoon is going to have access to the highest level of actionable intelligence from a ANG base... Specifically one that has been officially closed for more than 30 years.
Forget the 21-year old patsy they sent 50 armed troops to arrest (not before calling the mockingbird media) (film at 11).
There must be a reason this information was leaked. It baffles me, because what this says is we have been lied to by every newspaper, tv, radio station, every branch of the government.... everyone. Liars one and all. Every official mouthpiece of the government has lied... about everything.
If this was an official leak, it would like they intentionally bathed in an open sewer and now want a big sloppy kiss.
Something is not adding up here.
If deep state controls the patsy they can try to control the ongoing narrative,
perhaps blaming (non-existent) right wing domestic terrorists?
Before Trump they never lost control of the Narrative. It would behoove any trying to follow the madness to thinQ outside the Box. Btw no Justice till the election fraud is over turned.
I'm thinking if he wins "they" will try to kill him this time.
Now we are going to see a repeat where the ICE cars will be smaller, more expensive, perform less well and generally be less attractive. The EV's will take over, no matter if they are less desirable and more expensive, and need expensive infrastructure.
No one is talking about how the electricity will be produced, stored, and distributed, but taxpayers will foot the bill on that, I am sure. Solar production is daylight dependent and doesnt work in most of the country. Do people NOT drive at night then?
Stupid government is at it again. We need to stop depending on government to solve our problems. They only make MORE problems.
Since I'm 76, the next car I buy will likely be my last. So I'll get another built to last and that will be a slightly used Honda with an internal combustion engine.
That's my current plan anyway. In the near future there may not be any gasoline pumps if the libtarded Captain Planet green meanies cult gets its way.
We got to fight this the right way. We have to stop them from pursuing this Grata Thumberg insanity.
Europe listened to this mental defective and look where at the situation they are in now.
Of course we are talking about people who have publicly admitted can't tell a penis from a vagina.
God help us.
A) Where the power comes from? Answer: Hydrocarbons DUH! So much for zero emissions.
B) Expansion and modernization of the distribution network.
My neighborhood became electrified around the turn of the century. Last century. Same wires, same transformers.
Most of my neighbors houses have knob & tube wiring. (bare wire running through ceramic insulating tubes, spaced about 6" apart. No grounds) I have the modern stuff! 1930's armored cabling (AC). Again, no grounding, unless you count the sheathing as a ground, it makes for a very poor conductor. GFI's won't work with AC. Unless they had a major renovation, we all have 4, count 'em, four, screw-in-type 15 amp fuses, for a grand total of 60 amps. This is almost always the case for home built before WWII. Unless they have had major renovations (all the walls torn out and the out-dated wiring replaced.)
To say the TraitorJoe is stupid-on-a-pogostick is giving him credit he doesn't deserve.
I have the official electrical code book: era 1928. Standard practice was to wrap the branch circuit wire around the feeder circuit, (5 wraps) coat with a apply a solder flux, solder, thoroughly cover the joint with tape. (a cloth and tar, the type we use on hockey sticks). Pretty much stays put, unless you touch it after 100 years.