Posted on 03/19/2024 1:16:18 PM PDT by Twotone
The Biden administration will likely complete regulations this week designed to punish gas-powered vehicles and pave the way for electric vehicles, whose average cost is roughly more than twice as expensive as average subcompact car.
In its proposed rules published in May 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency wrote that it wanted to target vehicles that would phase-in over model years 2027 through 2032, stating, “EPA finds it appropriate to set new standards for model years after 2026 for both criteria pollutants and GHG at this time, rather than continuing its prior approach of coordinating the standards but setting them in separate regulatory actions.
“It certainly won’t do anything to improve human health. It won’t do anything to reduce pollution,” American Energy Institute president and CEO Jason Isaac, told Fox News Digital. “We’ve proven in this country that we’re already a world leader in clean air. All it’s going to continue to do is push the costs of electric vehicles on to purchasers of internal combustion engine vehicles. This is purely being done for campaign reasons — to really appease the leftist large donor base that are the climate alarmists that are driving this movement towards really what is a forced energy transition, which is just increasing the cost of everything.”
“President Biden has been clear since 2020 that he intends to use his federal agencies, and the State of California, to eliminate sales of new gas cars,” American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers president and CEO Chet Thompson added. “While multiple administration policies push us toward this end, the EPA’s passenger vehicle standards will do most of the damage on their own — requiring approximately 70% of new car sales to be electric in less than eight years. This policy is bad for consumers, the economy and national security. It will sacrifice our hard-won U.S. energy strength for even greater dependence on China and the EV battery and mineral supply chain China controls.”
“In 2022, California finalized the Advanced Clean Cars II rule that will require, by 2035, all new light-duty vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission vehicles, with New York, Massachusetts, and Washington state following suit, likely to be followed by Oregon and Vermont as well,” the EPA wrote. “Several other states may adopt similar provisions as members of the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance.”
“For light-duty vehicles, EPA is proposing standards that would increase in stringency each year over a six-year period, from MYs 2027–2032,” the EPA stated. “The proposed standards are projected to result in an industry-wide average target for the light-duty fleet of 82 grams/mile (g/mile) of CO2 in MY 2032, representing a 56 percent reduction in projected fleet average GHG emissions target levels from the existing MY 2026 standards.”
“EPA is proposing more stringent emissions standards for criteria pollutants for both light-duty and medium-duty vehicles for MYs 2027– 2032,” the agency wrote, adding:
For light-duty vehicles, EPA is proposing non-methane organic gases (NMOG) plus nitrogen oxides (NOX) standards that would phase-down to a fleet average level of 12 mg/mi by MY 2032, representing a 60 percent reduction from the existing 30 mg/mi standards for MY 2025 established in the Tier 3 rule in 2014. For medium- duty vehicles, EPA is proposing NMOG+NOX standards that would require a fleet average level of 60 mg/ mi by MY 2032, representing a 66 percent to 76 percent reduction from the Tier 3 standards of 178 mg/mi for Class 2b vehicles and 247 mg/mi for Class 3 vehicles. EPA is proposing cold temperature (¥7 °C) NMOG+NOX standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles to ensure robust emissions control over a broad range of operating conditions. For both light-duty and all medium- duty vehicles, EPA is proposing a particulate matter (PM) standard of 0.5 mg/mi and a requirement that the standard be met across three test cycles, including a cold temperature (¥7 °C) test.
This is fascism.
Democrats constantly do things that won’t play out until they’re not around anymore.
I bet TeslaHumper is elated President retard is going to force more battery crap in the little people
This is insane. EV's aren't a good option for that many Americans. And I'm an EV owner. It should be a free market decision.
Also unconstitutional. Congress writes laws, not the executive branch. The EPA was festablished by executice order by Nixon. Thanks Dick.
They’re going to give EV’s to the masses, as a suppository. Mandatory.
...and the idiots in Michigan will still vote rat.
“From the Texas School Book Suppository, Sir!”
The Zero gravity generators in the Brandon administration are real Sammy Brintons. All of them.
“This is insane. EV’s aren’t a good option for that many Americans. And I’m an EV owner. It should be a free market decision.”
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The war on oil continues. Communists are very good at solving fake problems.
SCOTUS has ruled that no Federal Government Agency may write rules or regulations with the force of law and that only Congress can pass laws.
The ATF is being spanked one case at a time.
The problem with the SCOTUS decision is that someone will have to run this thru the courts and litigate the known outcome, which is that neither the Biden Administration, Biden’s EO, or the EPA is legally able to “mandate” rules with the force of Law.
There needs to be one decisions by SCOTUS which clearly gives examples of such laws currently in effect without authorization by Congress passing a law.
Trump could probably write an EO that states the SCOTUS decision that no agency can make laws, or mandates resulting in the force of laws, and that Congres must review each Agency.
Maybe the Trump EO should be one for each Agency, with a list of rules, mandates, or illegal laws that are no longer enforceable and that Congress is directed to take action to either create a new law legalizing the rules.
The EPA cannot decide to kill ICE or gas/diesel yard or farm tools.
The Army Corps of Engineers cannot decide they will build a lock or a dam which violates property owners rights without a law specifying such action, in all probability such a law be for each instance of such construction requiring citizen property rights to be taken.
The Administrative State should be Dead. However, SCOTUS allowed this be the typical litigation banaza for lawyers and law firms.
Lowering the USA standard of living is what it is all about.
Gas-powered vehicles need to increase their emissions pollution to match EV’s. Rogan is learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhebwEl77Mw
This is going to be an enormous problem that will wreck the economy.
Many will choose not to work since they can’t afford to get to a job.
This has to be intentional sabotage of the economy.
Lowering the USA standard of living is what it is all about.
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Don’t disagree but life goes on until we meet our maker.
Be it good or bad. The world is ever changing along with
it’s inhabitants. jmo
I believe the SC had a recent decision maybe last year setting serious limits on how far an executive branch bureaucracy could go in making regulations with the force of law. This atrocity sounds to me, a non-lawyer, like a solid candidate for a lawsuit on Constitutional grounds. Maybe there is a lawyer here who would like to elaborate .
Whom do you want to control your apps/data?:
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