Posted on 12/04/2023 2:34:38 AM PST by Libloather
FIRST ON FOX: The House is expected to hold a floor vote this week on legislation that would strike down pending federal regulations targeting gas-powered vehicles and prohibit any future electric vehicle (EV) mandate.
The Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act – introduced over the summer by Reps. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and Andrew Clyde, R-Ga. – will be considered by the House Rules Committee on Monday before officially receiving a floor vote as soon as Tuesday. If the bill is passed, it would then be voted on by the Senate, where Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin recently introduced companion legislation.
"The House must pass the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act to block a radical and unattainable federal EV mandate that will cripple our auto industry and forever make our supply chain reliant on China," Walberg told Fox News Digital on Monday. "The American auto industry is at its best when they are free to innovate and listen to the will of consumers, and not constrained by bureaucracy."
"If this mandate goes into effect, many American families will be priced out of the market, and we will cede leadership of this industry to China," he continued. "Instead, we must prioritize affordability, innovation and freedom for each family to decide what car is best for them."
Walberg and Clyde, along with more than a dozen other House Republicans, introduced the legislation months after the EPA proposed its most aggressive tailpipe emissions ever. If the rule is finalized, a staggering 67% of new sedan, crossover, SUV and light truck; up to 50% of bus and garbage truck; 35% of short-haul freight tractor; and 25% of long-haul freight tractor purchases could be electric by 2032, the White House projected.
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It’s hard to imagine a garbage truck-EV package existing. I doubt if the battery power would last more than 2 hours before a 3-hour recharge. Will the union of garbage guys just allocate a 3-hour pause in the middle of their pick-up schedule?
Of course - if it will save the erf.
Joe Manchin goes scorched-earth on Biden admin over EV actions boosting China
Thank you, Rep. Walberg. Technical correctness is the best kind of correctness.
The USA auto manufacturers have organized themselves that these mandates will go forward.
In the end Romney or some other Repub douches will sabotage this.
I hope I am wrong, because it would spread to other countries like Canada if it passes.
But I doubt it.
“Will the union of garbage guys just allocate a 3-hour pause in the middle of their pick-up schedule?”
Why of course, many of the union bosses will make sure their guys get paid on the clock during off time, plus being a heavy vehicle today’s trucks are going to take more than 3 hours to charge. Taxpayers foot the bill of course.
Why do they waste time with this crap when it’ll never pass the senate. Waste of our tax dollars again and again. Then the symbolic batching and moaning on social media and msm. They should have done all this when they had the majority. Oh I remember now, they were too busy stifling any progress Trump was making.
Our government is not fixable at this point. Me along with many other people watching as we swirl the bowl
Catchy name and a bill that goes nowhere.
Finally...attacking these government policies. I can’t have a gas car, a gas stove....an incandescent light bulb...
I would rather see a push for Magna Carta II stripping Presidents of “Exectuive Order” power but its a start.
It creates a talking point for next year.
Sadly most of these promises are never followed through after the election.
Actually, garbage trucks are one of the very few applications where EVs COULD be useful. Garbage trucks make very frequent starts and stops. IF the energy used to accelerate the truck could be recovered while the truck is stopping, they would have significantly extended range. The problem with this is that present batteries cannot be recharged at the rate required to make this possible. The batteries simply cannot efficiently accept this rate of charging. The electric motors are fully capable of charging and discharging at the required rate, batteries aren’t. This is why battery charging times are so long (along with insufficient electrical power delivered to the charging stations).
If it gets to Xo Xidung’s desk, he will veto it (after they wake him up). China will make sure he does or they will cut off his cash stream, so he will have to rely on Ukraine for his 10%.
Recently, I stopped at a local supermarket, and was surprised to see a mountain of trash in the parking lot. It turns out a trash truck had broken down, so they had to unload it so it could be towed to a shop. Meanwhile, another truck showed up to haul the trash away to a distant landfill.
Expect to see more of this if they switch to electric trash trucks.
No chance such a bill would ever be enacted; the Santos expulsion spells doom for the hapless House GOP. Comer’s backstabbing here is particularly troubling.
Hybrid garbage trucks would make a lot of sense. Toyota could scale up the Prius drivetrain.
No; it’s because the bill would never pass the Senate and/or the usurper would never sign it.
Destroying the auto industry is the Communist Party’s goal.
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