Yeah, right. I’ll put this in a way that SlowJoe can understand. You can’t buy a vanilla or chocolate ice cream cone if the only approved flavor is cherry.
Posted on 05/15/2024 8:59:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday it is false that his administration is restricting consumer choice in the automobile market, but his administration recently finalized a rule that will force electric vehicles (EVs) to make up a much larger share of overall auto sales over the next decade.
Biden made the remark during a Tuesday speech about his administration’s decision to significantly bolster tariffs against Chinese products including steel, semiconductor chips and EV batteries. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule in March that requires manufacturers to make EVs constitute between 35% and 56% of new cars sold in 2032, according to CNN.
“Americans, I want to make this clear, notwithstanding what the other guy is saying, can buy any kind of car they want, whether it’s gas, electric or hybrid,” Biden said, referencing former President Donald Trump. “But we’re never going to allow China to unfairly control the market for these cars, period.”
Trump has slammed the Biden administration’s EV push, including from a New York City courthouse on Tuesday. Trump has also suggested that the EV agenda will hurt blue-collar auto workers and consumers while providing opportunities for Chinese companies to capitalize on the U.S. market.
While Americans will be able to buy gas-powered cars in the 2030s, the EPA’s final tailpipe emissions rule and a proposed update to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) fuel economy standards would drastically reshape the auto market to favor EVs over gas-powered models. These regulations, as well as subsidies that the Biden administration has pushed to facilitate the EV transition, will also likely increase the costs of new and used gas-powered vehicles, making those models less accessible to consumers, auto market experts and economists previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Critics of the Biden administration’s EV agenda have characterized the EPA rule as an “EV mandate” because of these economic impacts, and also because relevant policies are projecting huge increases in EV adoption relative to the 6.5% of all new sales that were EVs in February 2024, according to Edmunds.
Damn, he can’t open that mouth without plagiarizing someone can he?...even if it’s indirectly.....still. sheesh. SMH
How do you know when Biden is lying????......
And if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Seems like we have heard something like this before as well.
A product nobody wants in search of a customer......brilliant business model. 👌
...and you can keep your doctor.
Were his lips moving?
“How do you know when Biden is lying....”
Whatever he’s saying believe the opposite......that goes for all democrats actually.
Time for a Federal buyout of used EVs?
I think Biden was paraphrasing and channeling that famous Henry Ford quote of...
“You can buy any color you want, as long as it’s Black”
With this new tariff, the Biden administration admits that the Climate Change hoax is less important than his re-election.
If there really was an existential crisis, they would do everything they had to do to reduce carbon emissions, even if the Chinese cars were part of that effort. But, by restricting cheap Chinese cars, while forcing people to buy American cars, shows that Biden is caving to the unions. At the same time, he's squeezing them into making more EV cars, which is his appeasement to the climate activists.
He's really attacking American consumers on two fronts-making them buy EV cars they don't want; and forcing them to buy more expensive American cars.
Americans criticize the China, but in fact, DC marxists’, (particularly post Obama) massive economic central-planning and aggressive social-engineering plans use the exact same methods, and have the same goals
Its only a difference of degree, not kind.
He has no idea what is happening. He’s been a pathological liar his entire life and he molested his daughter yet this is who supposedly won the 2020 election.
IIRC, it comes out to about 50 cents for every gallon of gasoline refined. A cost which is passed onto customers.
Democrats always make that same grammar mistake.
They don’t mean any car YOU want; they mean any car THEY want.
The Henry Ford quote is what I was referring to.
Apparently that SOB hasn’t got an original thought in that empty ass head of his.
Yeah, right. I’ll put this in a way that SlowJoe can understand. You can’t buy a vanilla or chocolate ice cream cone if the only approved flavor is cherry.
We’re going to end up like Cuba. In 2050 the newest gas car on the road will be a 2032 or older.
He said “Americans” can have any car they want......In his mind (what little there is of it) if you’re not a left wing commie you AREN’T an American.
If you like your ICE vehicle, you can keep your ICE vehicle… until Creepy Joe says you can’t.
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