Posted on 04/18/2023 9:40:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “strongest-ever” vehicle emissions standards designed to drive mass adoption of electric cars within a decade will increase the United States’ dependence on China, experts warn.
“It benefits the Chinese Communist Party because they control the critical minerals supply chain that is going to be necessary to build out the batteries for those electric vehicles,” said Mandy Gunasekara, director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative think tank, in an April 17 interview with The Epoch Times.
Gunasekara served as chief of staff in the EPA under former President Donald Trump. She argued that the Trump administration did a better job of integrating environmental, economic, and strategic considerations than the Biden team, including when it came to the critical minerals used in electric vehicles (EVs) and other technologies.
“There was a concerted effort to ensure we weren’t setting regulations that shut down industrial activity here in the United States, knowing good and well that productivity doesn’t go away—it just materializes somewhere else, and typically a place like China,” she said.
The agency anticipates that with the new standards, two-thirds of new light-body vehicles will be electric by the model year 2032, up from less than six percent today.
The proposed rules, which would go into effect with cars from model year 2027 onward, target tailpipe emissions from light-, medium-, and heavy-body vehicles.
The EPA claims the standards would “significantly reduce climate and other harmful air pollution, unlocking significant benefits for public health, especially in communities that have borne the greatest burden of poor air quality.”
“This is industrial suicide,” said James Kennedy, a U.S. mine owner and rare earths expert, in an April 17 interview with The Epoch Times.
“By design, their goal is to wipe out, to destroy, to effectively terminate the massive economic investment that the auto companies have made in the internal combustion engine,” he said.
He outlined China’s long-range, strategic plan to dominate the mining and refining of rare earths, as well as the production of downstream technologies.
“No one in the West will accept the reality that China has total domain control at every level,” he added.
The rare earth metals terbium, holmium, and dysprosium are one key choke point for Chinese control over EV production.
Kennedy explained that the elements enable neodymium magnets to function at the high temperatures found in the motors of electric cars.
“China is the only country in the world, period, exclamation point, that can separate those materials,” he said.
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xi is getting his “10% to the big guy” worth
The DC Junta has all but destroyed the Petrodollar as the Petroyuan is poised to become predominant.
No doubt. I believe Biden is a Chinese agent.
Biden and Xi in unison, clenching a cigar in their teeth and then saying:
“I love it when a plan comes together.”
(Personal business project experience with Chinese)
I use to make a product that used about 1 pound of tungsten per unit. I made about 100 units per month. Tungsten was pretty cheap until the chinese took over nearly the entire world’s supply and jacked up the price ten fold after the tsunami hit Japan.
When looking for suppliers it could only be found in China by a Chinese supplier. They would sell it to me at the new rate no problem. BUT they said if I make the entire product in China they will sell it for cheap. I didn’t continue the product but it sure does show how they plan to dominate the world’s manufacturing by controlling the supply of minerals,
That is the point.
to move EV supply chains from China to the US.
At least for North American vehicles. The EU is doing similar.
Leaving global ev supply chains in China ensures Chinese global dominance.
Nothing can save the ICEv.
While America gets screwed, Mr. 10% is the happy beneficiary of this political Armageddon.
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The Democrats always seem to charge others with what they
are doing.
Trump was charged with being in Putin’s back pocket. Was
he? No
Now look at Biden and Xi. Is he? Well, yes.
sickening puke destroying America
Obama is running the show, Joe has no idea what the hell day it is, this is Obama’s 3rd term and we ALL KNOW he has ALWAYS BEEN hell bent on destroying this nation!!
Do you think that EVs can replace ICEvs in the time frame set by the EPA in their policy pronouncements last week?
If so, why?
The impossibility of the “electric car” fantasy will do it, UNLESS no one has the courage to put a halt to this idiocy. In that case, we still won’t achieve the green car utopia, but will instead just have far less freedom to travel using anything other than mass transit. The same political left that pushes electric vehicles will never allow the massive infrastructure needed to power them to be built. And the insurmountable practical problems with them are numerous, not to mention the fact that we will still need petroleum for manufacturing products even if we never use another drop for transportation. Modern society is headed for collapse, driven there by truly insane idiots.
Insane or intentional destructive in the rush for absolute power?
Imagine waking up at 3:30AM and discovering your house is on fire caused by your EV parked in your attached garage spontaneously combusting. Might cause some interesting challenges for the insurance company.
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