The Biden Administration unveiled a new emissions standard this morning. You will purchase electric vehicles and you will like it. It’s all in the interest of climate change and protecting our public health.
Supposedly this will save us all tons of money and increase energy security!
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new proposed vehicle pollution standards to make all vehicles, including gas-powered cars and heavy-duty trucks, cleaner and more efficient. The proposed standards would protect public health by cutting nearly 10 billion tons of CO2 emissions – twice the annual U.S. emissions today. They would also save consumers on average $12,000 over the lifetime of a vehicle. And they would strengthen American energy security by reducing reliance on 20 billion barrels of imported oil.
Cars and truck manufacturers have made clear that the future of transportation is electric. The market is moving. Since President Biden took office, the private sector – including the American auto industry – has invested more than $120 billion in the American-made electric vehicle and battery supply chain. The United States can seize this moment to secure American leadership in the global race to a clean transportation future, or let competitors like China out-compete us for the jobs and investments building that future.
Biden, a “self-proclaimed car guy” as the announcement says, wants us all driving electric vehicles to save the planet and protect our health!
Save the planet? Have you looked at lithium mining lately? Talk about destroying instead of saving the planet, lithium mining does just that!
Protect our health? That’s laughable coming from the federal government. You know, because they’ve done SO WELL with all the Covid crap, baby formula and medicine supply chain issues. Protect our public health? Yeah, that’s a laugh riot.
It’s a little difficult to protect public health when electric and hybrid vehicles catch on fire.
A hybrid vehicle fire caused a small explosion at a home in Erie Tuesday morning.
Mountain View Fire Rescue officials tweeted that dispatchers received a report of a structure fire on Marlowe Circle in the Morgan Hill neighborhood of Erie at 8:16 a.m. Tuesday.
Firefighters found a hybrid Jeep 4XE hybrid smoking inside a garage. When crews put water on the vehicle, the battery caused a small explosion, blowing the garage door off its track.
If there is a car crash with an EV, the car is automatically totaled. Why? Because of the cost to replace the battery. Upwards of $20,000! Which is nearly half the price of an electric vehicle! As for recycling? Hah.
That said, this push to make us buy electric vehicles leaves a lot out of the equation. A LOT.
First, $12,000 in savings over the life span of the vehicle is bupkis. It’s essentially a zero return on investment. Secondly, the electric grid. The Administration is pushing for 67% of the market to have electric vehicles.
Who can afford that? Who can afford the car AND the increase in their electric bills? Furthermore, as we’ve watched time and again these last few years, a great deal of the electric grid is so rickety and so overwhelmed there are constant brownouts and blackouts!
“Electric vehicles only cut between 40 and 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional petrol cars, rather than the 100% that the famous ZEV label implies—and large ones, especially, can have fewer environmental benefits.” @streetsblogkeahttps://t.co/FElqfzLWO0
— Wyatt Gordon (@yitgordon) April 8, 2023
Oh, but it’s DOABLE! Maybe.
For instance, the adjusted fleetwide target for light-duty cars and trucks in model year 2026 of 186 grams of carbon dioxide emitted per mile would be reduced by more than half, to 82 grams per mile fleetwide, by 2032, a reduction of 56%. New standards proposed for medium-duty vehicles like school buses and box trucks would see a 44% reduction compared to model year 2026 standards. The rules also look to cut emissions from heavy-duty trucks as well.
If reductions at the same level continued through 2055, the administration said, it would result in keeping 7.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide from entering the air, “equivalent to eliminating all greenhouse gas emissions from the entire U.S. transportation sector for four years.”
“These ambitious standards are readily achievable,” Regan said, touting the benefits to public health and in battling climate change by reducing pollution and arguing that by reducing fuel and maintenance costs, the average consumer could save $12,000 over the lifespan of a light-duty vehicle not subject to the proposed standards.
It’s highly evident that not a single person quoted there has driven box trucks, school buses, or even a semi. I can just picture it. Want to know why the kids were late to school? Range issues so ran out of power. Want to know why that very important part, appliance, or medicines didn’t get delivered on time? Had to stop too many times to charge up.
Oh, and here’s another thing. Insurance premiums. Since you can’t replace the batteries of an electric vehicle, insurance premiums by necessity will have to go up.
Up early this morning to chat with @ToddPiro on @FoxFriendsFirst. Discussed EPA plans to impose strict tailpipe emission mandates aimed at forcing EV sales to grow from 6% of new auto sales to 67% in 9 years. Prices will go up and choices will vanish. https://t.co/X1UzGq6aIy
— Jason Hayes (@jasonthayes) April 11, 2023
Again, WHO can afford that? According to Bloomberg, we will save trillions! Uh huh, savings for whom? If costs of electricity and insurance premiums go up, if a battery catches fire and the entire vehicle has to be replaced, how is that saving anyone ANY money? It isn’t.
As with gas stoves, which the Biden Administration REALLY wants to get rid of, they are trying to tell us what we can and cannot buy, and what we can and cannot drive. This is not the government’s job. Period.
If the grid is not brought up to speed, it won’t matter who can and can’t afford an electric vehicle, you won’t be able to drive them anyway.
Feature Photo Credit: hybrid electric cars charging via Pixabay, cropped and modified
Scott says: Both this regime and the swamp that supports them and those like them need to go.. this is NOT going to end well (or at least not pretty) , whichever way it goes…
Cameron says: Basically, the peasants deserve to be poor and unable to drive anywhere. The dems are the party of the poor which is why they want everyone to be that way.
james hughes says: without a big increase in nuclear power, we shouldn’t even entertain this idea. Even then, it won’t work without a huge increase in battery storage. And even then, we’d have to find a clean way to mine the rare minerals needed to make this nitwit idea work. Joe was never good at math.
Cameron says: The liberal mindset on this topic is that Little Brown People in other countries are the ones mining the materials for the holy car batteries. In other words, it’s not in our backyard so destroying the environment is just fine.
I guess we could avoid tearing up the planet looking for nickel, cobalt, cadmium, etc. We could instead tear up the planet looking for more coal and natural gas to burn in order to meet the increased demand for electricity.
Or hey, could we burn all that oil that we’re saving by not burning it in our internal combustion engines, to run generators?
jimmymcnulty says: If they drive across Montana in January without a diesel generator, we can talk.
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