As usual, I’ll say I am not against EVs. If you want one, get one. That’s your choice. It shouldn’t be the government’s choice to force manufacturers to make them, limiting the choice of US Citizens
The GOP’s electric car attacks crash into Dems’ closing message
Republicans are on the attack over electric vehicles, and Democrats are having a hard time finding their footing.
In tight House and Senate races in Michigan, Virginia, New York and Montana, Republican candidates are putting Democrats on the defensive by accusing the Biden administration of trying to “mandate” that drivers abandon their Chevy Tahoes for Chevy Bolts. Some Republicans are misleadingly tying EV tax subsidies to reductions in Medicare payments to drug companies.
These attacks, echoing Donald Trump’s campaign against Kamala Harris, come as multiple groups on both sides of the electric vehicle debate are joining in. Fossil fuel interests are spending tens of millions of dollars in swing-state Senate races, while environmentalists are waging their own effort to tout the benefits of driving an EV.
At a Michigan Senate debate this month, former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, pointed to thousands of autoworker layoffs in the state and assailed Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin for a recent vote in which she refused to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s tightened limits on tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks.
“My opponent, multiple times, supported EV mandates, trying to pick the cars that our companies have to build and the cars that you’re going to have to buy,” he said.
Rogers missed in asking the media to ask if Slotkin is driving an EV herself. Because she doesn’t
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin is running a new campaign advertisement in which she boasts about owning a gas-powered vehicle and says she opposes electric vehicle mandates. Slotkin, however, voted in favor of federal EV requirements just days before releasing the ad.
“I live on a dirt road, nowhere near a charging station. So, I don’t own an electric car,” Slotkin narrates in the ad. “No one should tell us what to buy, and no one is going to mandate anything. But here’s the thing, if there’s going to be a new generation of vehicles, I want that new generation built right here in Michigan, not China. I approve this message, because what you drive is your call, no one else’s.”
On Sept. 20, the congresswoman voted against a resolution authored by fellow Michigan Rep. John James (R.) that would overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s environmental regulations requiring more EV sales. Those rules, finalized earlier this year by the EPA, are expected to force 56 percent of light-duty car sales to be battery electric and another 13 percent to be hybrid electric by 2032 thanks to strict emissions standards.
That article was from October 3rd. So, she doesn’t drive one, but, wants to force you peasants to be limited to only purchasing an EV.
Auto-heavy Michigan has seen a focus on EVs from Trump and Harris too, with a similar accusation that Harris wants to ban gas-powered vehicles.
While she formerly supported that idea while in the Senate, Harris declared in a recent rally, “Contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”
Tampon Tim echoes this line, but, Harris was part of the administration which passed the rule forcing it on consumers. Anyhow, it’s a long article, basically showing that Republicans are obliterating Democrats on this subject, while Democrats attempt to play defense, about as well as the Carolina Panthers. The GOP should be tying it into the reality that Democrats want to force just about everything in citizen’s lives like the EV mandate.
About 20% of all new cars sold in the USA in 2034 will be either partially of fully electrified.
Each year EVs get cheaper and better.
In 2035 when fossil fueled cars are phased out the average age of a car registered in the USA will be about 12 years old. It will probably be year 2045 by the time 50% of all cars on the road will be EVs
Your estimates and speculations as naïve as they are still fail to remedy the fact there is nothing in the constitution giving the right to government to ban gas vehicles (they are NOT fossil fueled). You may think it’s cute to force other people to bow to your tyranny but we don’t.
The “mandate” has nothing to do with “partially electrified” cars. It mandates full EV’s like them or not. The very idea that douche bags like you get to force me to buy anything let alone a major purchase like a car is an insult to the very foundation of our country.
If gas cars are “phased out” in 2035 and by 2045 only half of all cars will be EV’s what will the other half drive?
Why is it everything you leftists do has to be forced on everyone else. Can’t you just do your thing and let us do ours?