Are you still driving that big gas-guzzling, fossil fuel-emitting vehicle? Shame on you, Joe Biden says.
Even if you were not one of the early pacers (not the car itself), didn’t you take advantage of the 10k incentive provided by your government to convert to an EV? No?
Well, if the obvious benefit of clean air and the financial incentive didn’t work, the Biden Administration has come up with another conversation starter.
Never mind that over the weekend the Hertz Car Rental CEO lost his job making a too-big bet on EVs. Never mind that multiple (Audi, Ford, Mercedes, etc) car manufacturers reported disappointing earnings, high EV inventories, and factory cutbacks on production.
This week, the Biden administration is expected to finalize highly anticipated regulations targeting gas-powered vehicle tailpipe emissions, considered the tip of the spear in its efforts to electrify the transportation sector.
The Environmental Protection Agency is slated to issue the final rulemaking — which officials have boasted will incentivize greater adoption of electric vehicles, but which opponents have criticized as a de facto mandate.
We tried to sell you, incentivize you, and now we’ll force you.
“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, who has researched the EV market, said in a Sunday interview. “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.” Ah, there it is.
Mind or not, over 75% of the global emissions come from India and China combined.
But, but, BUT! We have to do our part. Others will follow. Surely they will. Won’t they?
Does this have anything to do with election season being upon us like smoke emanating from an exhaust pipe at a red light on Wilshire Blvd?
“This is purely being done for campaign reasons — to appease the leftist large donor base that are the climate alarmists that are driving this movement towards really what is a forced energy transition,” Isaac added.
“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,” opined American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers president and CEO Chet Thompson.
So who is right? Father Biden and our government know best. Remember how well they nailed that COVID thing? Boosters and batteries are good for you.
Regardless, we have a ways to go. According to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an industry group representing major automakers, 9.3% of total car purchases in the U.S. last year were electric or plug-in hybrid, up from 7% in 2022. Most of those were in LA or similar urban areas with short-range driving needs.
EVs remain far more expensive than traditional gas-powered cars. Even factoring in generous federal and state subsidies, the average cost of an EV is about 52k while the average subcompact car costs 24k.
Well, in a Bidenomics sort of way at least they are affordable.
Maybe after we tackle shrinkflation we could tackle EV costs.
Maybe not.
Viola. As conferences devolved into a ratings war, geography be damned, a proposal came before the NCAA and their esteemed ADs and Presidents to expand to a 12-team format. This format will start this year, 2024.
Now The Donald needs to unseat the man who unseated him.
A deeper dive will tell you that every vote doesn’t count. Forty-something states are already decided barring something big changing the voting landscape.
Q. Why does Biden and a willing press call the student debt handout a “cancel of a loan?”
Enough already said proud Biden. He rose to the podium Thursday evening taking a victory lap about the dismissal, defending his age and mental health.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offered a similar defense, calling Biden “sharp.” “The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused,” Mayorkas told “Meet the Press.” He also tells us weekly that the border is secure.
Mitch stuck his finger in the DC breeze and felt political carnage was at his fingertip. By late afternoon he was calling for an out loud “NO” vote in the Senate.
They snuck 10 billion in aid to the Palestinians and promised 400 million to Non-Governmental Organizations(NGOs) like the Red Cross to assist in this humanitarian (ahem) effort. What’s a bill in DC without a full serving of pork?
Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, and Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council John Kirby, swear to it.
Why is the Senate proposing a bill this week to put restrictions on illegal border crossings that aren’t restrictive at all? Is it to appease Republicans who said no more Ukraine money unless “we do something at the border?”
Saban walked out of his own door. Had the game passed him by? Well, when it comes to Xs and Os, hardly. But, when it comes to runny noses Saban is no babysitter.
Sunday he was pimping his past and pandering for his future at an African-American church in South Carolina. “You had my back, and I hope I had yours,” he campaigned.
They opened the door because they wanted to. Now it’s a stampede. Their strategy was at first to tell us that it was under control. Now, it is to blame Republicans. Four years prior the Democrat-controlled House would not grant Trump what was then a measly $5 billion to build his “big, beautiful wall.”