Democracy is “on the line” this November? Well, it best be highlighted that Biden and ilk are out to proscribe choices you make in your life, including what car you want to purchase.

Because, you know, modernity is killing Mother Gaia.

The Biden administration finalized its crackdown on gas cars Wednesday, with the Environmental Protection Agency announcing drastic climate regulations meant to ensure more than two-thirds of passenger cars and light trucks sold by 2032 are electric or hybrid vehicles.

The EPA rule imposes strict limits on tailpipe pollution, limits the agency says can be met if 56% of new vehicles sold in the US are electric by eight years from now, along with 13% that are plug-in hybrids or other partially electric cars.

Look at those numbers again … of new vehicles sold eight years from now, regular gas cars are to make up only 31% of total sales. 31%. When EV sales today are only 7.9% and consumer support is so low that auto manufacturers are scaling back production?

Wait, what? Biden and the watermelons of the EPA don’t explain how it is possible to turn around consumer preference from 8% of the market to 61% in eight short years. But we can guess.

American drivers simply aren’t embracing EVs because they know these vehicles have shorter driving ranges and longer refueling times. Not to mention that they’re significantly more expensive. (snip)

Taxpayers not only pay with more expensive cars, they have to subsidize new production facilities.

In Michigan, lawmakers have already promised $200 million dollars of taxpayer money — and that’s just for one Ford battery plant in Marshall. (snip)

This regulatory overreach is just one prong of the administration’s multi-agency assault on consumer freedom.

That’s a feature, not a bug. The Ruling Class has never got on board with giving the great unwashed too much freedom, especially if it starts infringing on the perks of Our Betters.

The EPA isn’t alone with this preverse nonsense.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is hiking those standards from 49 mpg to 58 mpg. This is another method of pushing American consumers out of reliable cars and into electric vehicles.

You will be paying for EVs one way or another — either with taxpayer money to manufacture the vehicles you would never buy, or being forced to buy them because manufacturers will have to raise the price on gas cars high enough to force you to buy the EVs.

The operative word here is force. You will live by the Left’s diktats on the car you buy, the vacations you take, what food you buy and how you prepare it, and how your kids are educated. Or else.

Choice is a word the Left only likes when it comes to killing babies.

For all his other faults, Henry Ford started a real revolution in working class car culture that allowed even the poor to travel outside of their own neighborhoods, allowed ordinary people to visit national parks, beaches and distant family members. Travel was no longer a luxury item reserved for the mega-wealthy.

Who let these guys into the club whose members were wealthy sportsmen and royalty?

How déclassé! How American.

The Left looked at the lockdowns of 2020 and loved it. Judge Biden and Democrats accordingly and vote in November.

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