The EPA Is About to Outlaw Your Car STEPHEN GREEN | 12:45 PM ON MARCH 19, 2024
AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino "Outlaw your car" sounds like such an outrageous phrase, and technically speaking, it isn't true — but only barely. What practical difference is there between outlawing something, and regulating it out of existence?
That's exactly what the EPA intends to do this week with strict new rules going forward against gas- and diesel-powered cars and light trucks.
Expected as soon as Wednesday, the Biden EPA "is poised to finalize emissions rules that will effectively require a certain percentage — as much as two-thirds by 2032 — of new cars to be all-electric," according to Inside EVs. Politico sells the expected rule as one that would "tackle the nation’s biggest source of planet-warming pollution and accelerate the transition to electric vehicles."
The rule would require carmakers to cut their average emissions of carbon dioxide by 52% between 2027 and 2032. EPA projects that the standard would push the car industry to ensure that electric cars and light trucks make up about 67% of new vehicles by model year 2032.
Originally set to be announced in April of 2023, but again according to Inside EVs, it "received a strong rebuttal from dealer groups, car manufacturers, and petroleum companies."
They won’t outlaw it, just make it too expensive to operate one.
But, but global climate warming change ...
I would expect the sale of gasoline to be regulated to licensed buyers by 2040, in the way that most refrigerants now regulated. By 2050, gasoline will be fully outlawed. And while most here won’t be around to see the DNC’s ‘Final Solution’, try real hard to remember that you likely have kids and grandkids.
(but that’s ok, Trump is ‘obtuse’, a bit ‘coarse’ in the political world, so you’re not going to vote for him or for any less-than-perfect Senators, right*)
*not you, of course CH.
Only Congress can make law. All these 3 letter agencies can do is enforce those laws. Regulations etc can be recommended but they are not law.
Time to make like John Denver. When he was not protesting hoarding gas, he was stocking up on gas!
Elections have consequences especially stolen ones. Given the amount of leverage China apparently has, it makes me wonder what policies China drives. They got any good Chinese food in Ukraine?
TeslaHumper is elated the auto Nazis will dictate what you drive
Detroit, Germany and Japan have already said they won’t do it.
Emperor Poopy Pants can go solve his personal problem in China.
We are tired of cleaning up his mess.
There is zero chance that the country’s infrastructure could be anywhere close to ready by then. Not only will people not be able to charge them but our roads are not ready for that kind of weight. What kind of new tax will pay for all of this when the gas tax is reduced?
One of the factors leading to the demise of the soviet union was the satellite countries began to ignore the central govt.
They won’t build nuclear power plants. They won’t generate electricity by burning coal or natural gas. They won’t burn oil. They want to tear down damns, so goodbye to hydro-electric generated power.
Where are these moonbats going to get the electricity? Plug into John Kerry’s a$$?
They won’t generate it by their stupid wind mills, which don’t spin most of their time or their Chinese made solar panels.
Right now, only 4% of the world’s power is generated from wind or solar, at a great financial expense and at a great expense to nature, including birds.
Um...shouldn’t CONGRESS have a say in such a monumental decision, that literally affects almost every American?