Pirate's Cove

The new EPA rule has the climate cultists really, really excited. I wonder how many of the low and middle class ones realize the rule will make new vehicles unaffordable?

E.P.A. Lays Out Rules to Turbocharge Sales of Electric Cars and Trucks

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed the nation’s most ambitious climate regulations to date, two plans designed to ensure two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032.

The new rules would require nothing short of a revolution in the U.S. auto industry, a moment in some ways as significant as the June morning in 1896 when Henry Ford took his “horseless carriage” for a test run and changed American life and industry.

The government’s challenge to automakers is monumental; Last year, all-electric vehicles were just 5.8 percent of new cars sold in the United States. All-electric trucks were even more rare, making up fewer than 2 percent of new heavy trucks sold.

And the vast majority of those vehicles are being purchased by people making over $150K a year. This will leave the working and middle class out of being able to afford a new vehicle. It will end the notion of family vehicles, like minivans and midsized SUVs. Take a look at the vehicles sold in Europe: they’re mostly small.

Nearly all major automakers have already invested billions in producing electric vehicles at the same time as they continue to manufacture the conventional vehicles powered by gasoline, which deliver their profits. The proposed regulations would require them to invest more heavily and reorient their processes in ways that would essentially spell the end of the internal combustion engine.

That would be the textbook definition for the economic portion of socialism, where the government is heavily involved in running the economy, up to and including owning the means of production. But, it moves more into the authoritarian model, where the government is forcing citizens to act in a certain manner.

If the two rules are enacted as proposed, they would put the world’s largest economy on track to slash its planet-warming emissions at the pace that scientists say is required of all nations in order to avert the most devastating impacts of climate change.

And it would severely restrict the ability of US citizens to travel. Unless they want to take the bus or train.

The proposed tailpipe pollution limits for cars, first reported by The New York Times on Saturday, are designed to ensure that 67 percent of sales of new light-duty passenger vehicles, from sedans to pickup trucks, will be all-electric by 2032. Additionally, 46 percent of sales of new medium-duty trucks, such as delivery vans, will be all-electric or of some other form of zero-emissions technology by the same year, according to the plan.

So, when do the top end climate cultists practice what they’re forcing everyone else to practice? When does Biden go EV? How about Kamala? How about Michael S. Reagan, the EPA administrator? I wonder how many EPA employees are driving EVs? How many of them will answer “well, that’s just inconvenient, because we have the kids, have to get them around?”

Is that plane electric?

This could’ve been a Zoom call… https://t.co/fHZHMsYSpP

— Governor Dill (@TheGreenOldDill) April 12, 2023

Now, just image the massive fossil fueled convoy taking Biden around

Biden is greeting people outside McAteers the Food House in the Dundalk, Ireland pic.twitter.com/39boTWvO5X

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) April 12, 2023

Those do not look like EVs.