This will destroy the American automobile industry and give China the advantage in automobile manufacturing.
The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032.
Nearly three years in the making, the new tailpipe pollution limits from the Environmental Protection Agency would transform the American automobile market. A record 1.2 million electric vehicles rolled off dealers’ lots last year, but they made up just 7.6 percent of total U.S. car sales, far from the 56 percent target under the new regulation. An additional 16 percent of new cars sold would be hybrids.
Cars and other forms of transportation are, together, the largest single source of carbon emissions generated by the United States, pollution that is driving climate change and that helped to make 2023 the hottest year in recorded history. Electric vehicles are central to President Biden’s strategy to confront global warming, which calls for cutting the nation’s emissions in half by the end of this decade. But E.V.s have also become politicized and are a flashpoint in the 2024 presidential campaign.
The EPA’s rule isn’t a direct ban and is slightly watered down from its original draft. But the regulation is tantamount to a ban since it will essentially phase out manufacturing of most fossil fuel-powered cars and trucks. Tightening tailpipe emissions the way the agency wants will push auto manufacturers to resort to making electric vehicles.
Even The New York Times admits that the new rule would require enormous changes in manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, labor, global trade and consumer habits. In short, the entire U.S. automobile industry will be decimated. Sure doing this will reduce tons of carbon emissions, but that only focuses on emissions from automobile tailpipes and not other fossil fuel sources used to provide energy to charge electric vehicles in the first place.
Then there’s the lack of infrastructure for consumers who own electric vehicles (like charging stations) and the high costs to repair and insure them. The EPA is pressing ahead with this despite automobile manufacturers urging the agency not to do it.
The automobile industry has experienced the effects of selling electric cars first hand and this new rule will run them into the ground. Meantime, China will wait in the wings to export them to U.S. customers. Chine is the part who ultimately benefit from Biden’s EPA car ban, not the natural environment and certainly not American consumers.
The automobile industry will undoubtedly sue to stop the new rules and Biden is obviously using this proposed mandate as a political tool in order to placate the climate cult. Hopefully, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide on the Chevron Deference Doctrine which can block the EPA from being able to do this.
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