Posted on 12/28/2021 8:15:41 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
How else can auto makers meet the requirement of a 55 mpg fleetwide average by model year 2026?
Under the guise of regulating greenhouse-gas emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency recently announced new, more stringent fuel-efficiency standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
The real purpose of higher fuel-efficiency standards is to impose an electric-vehicle mandate by regulatory fiat, because there is little chance that Congress will enact legislation banning the sale of internal-combustion vehicles.
For those who drive hundreds of miles every day, as some rural consumers do, having to spend hours recharging an EV isn’t practical. It isn’t even possible when storms cause power outages.
The EPA’s new diktat also will encourage consumers to drive their current higher-polluting internal-combustion vehicles longer, rather than replace them with more costly vehicles subject to higher fuel-efficiency standards.
The EPA’s new rule will harm consumers and do little if anything for the environment. Such is the reality of the virtue-signaling environmental policies the current administration is imposing.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
What we are witnessing here is the very first time in the history of representative government (outside of a state of war) that the entire policy set of the incumbents is intended to immediately worsen the quality of life of the electorate.
It is quite a bizarre experiment, insane actually. Full TXT: https://archive.vn/AHI2d
Extend the 55 mpg standard to private jets and we’ll talk.
The EPA has overstepped its mandate and it’s time for Congress to stop this insanity. They are passing laws, not regulations. Do we really need 13,758 employees at the EPA? Hint: No!
My cars get
Saab 18 city 28 hwy
Bmw 15 city 18 hwy
Bmw 19 city 29 hwy
I have a friend with rav4 hybrid she gets 39 city and hwy
She has car payments, I dont
Definitely unconstitutional.
But who will challenge this? The automakers won't.
you think the loony toons Kabuki show is gonna stop anything?
yeah i will be buying older and used cars in the future
maybe consider getting a spare now and rotating it as a driver
“ For those who drive hundreds of miles every day, as some rural consumers do, having to spend hours recharging an EV isn’t practical.”
ABSOLUTELY.
And that’s coming from a guy that owns an EV.
Not my only vehicle, tho’. The others are older and paid for and the EV will help them live longer by not doing the short daily commutes I do.
The electric grid won’t support this. Every 1% of ICE vehicles replaced by BEVs would need another two nuclear power plants to fuel them, plus an equivalent supporting increase in grid capacity. Every nuclear plant will take decades to find the funding, scout for the land, jump through the regulatory hoops, build the plant and bring it online.
We’ll be having rolling blackouts from sea to shining sea before they can trade 5% (15 million) of ICE vehicles for battery-only EVs.
Sweet freedom from car payments!
Is it just me, or does it seem many are paying tens of thousands of dollars extra for new EVs vs used conventional vehicles... to save a few thousand in fuel over the life of the vehicle (while ignoring increased electricity costs for constant recharging)?
Buy several gas cars now, you’ll be able to resell them for a small fortune in 5 years.
The permanent deep-state rules America.
Oh, you may “elect” some conservatives representatives, or even an occasional President, but the deep state is forever. It will eventually eliminate them, and carry-on as before.
It’s more than stealth EV mandate.
Consider a future where:
- Your house is all electric
- Your car is electric
- Natural gas is illegal
- Generators are illegal
- Burning coal and wood is illegal
... and the government controls the power grid.
Now do you understand?
Will need multiple vehicles, one on both ends of a trip, or if longer, multiple legs of a trip.
Bought a highly rated cordless electric snowblower, for winter use in Colorado, managed to work fantastically for half hour. Then took three hours plus to charge. While the Li-ion batteries were charging, I finished the driveway by hand in an hour and a half. My wife said that was good exercise. I am buying a two cycle snowblower tomorrow.
$20.00 and a teen willing to work will
accomplish the task. But they’re pretty
rare these days. I made good money as
a kid, shoveling snow.
” Do we really need 13,758 employees at the EPA? Hint: No!”
The Constitution gives the House of Representatives the power of the purse. All appropriations and taxation bills must originate in the House.
If the GOP takes control of the House in 2022 it can dramatically reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, as well as eliminate entire programs, departments and agencies, by simply excluding them from appropriations bills. It can end the billions of dollars in funding going to Democrat social justice groups. It can even eliminate specific government bureaucrats, such as Fauci, by not funding his or her position.
Will a GOP House under Speaker McCarthy have the fortitude to strike trillions of dollars of waste from spending bills? When it had majorities under speakers Hastert, Boehner, and Ryan the GOP spent like drunken sailors. If Republicans take the House and don’t take an ax to spending there is no reason to vote for them. All they have to do is simply not include people, programs, and activities in spending bills and ignore the screams of Democrats and the media.
Trump cancelled this requirement. Apparently Biden turned that around too, just as he did to every other thing Trumpmdid.
Not really. A friend of mine in grad school ended up going to DC and getting a job with a newly-created agency. He said he was there for about 3 months when his boss came around and told everyone to “let the work pile up” for the next few days. Evidently, they did use “In/Out” boxes back then (late-60’s. early 70’s). Sure enough, 3 days later there was a “surprise audit” by the GAO and the boss complained to them that his staff was “buried in all the work!” The GAO authorized almost 3 dozen new employees for the agency.
It turns out, in DC, your importance depends on the number of people who you control, so there is every incentive to increase employees and no incentive to save labor. The agency my friend worked for: the EPA.
If I were President, I’d hold the following press conference the day after my inauguration:
“By Executive Order, tomorrow every gov’t agency,
with the exception of the military, has 10% less
in their budget. I expect agency heads to provide
the same or better service after this cut in
employees. If you cannot do this, I will find someone
who can. Have a nice day.”
I’ll be getting an old truck, 64-66 Chevy and setting it on a 97-99 Chevy truck frame/drivetrain. 5.3 or 6.0 liter that gets 20mpg, hauls ass, pulls a load and being 64-66, is exempt from emission/mileage rules.
How about not being able to buy a gas powered car right now (or at least the ones people actually want to buy)?
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