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Biden’s 67% EV Policy: A Dictatorial Attack On America’s Drivers And Grid

by Alex Epstein
April 13, 2023, 9:40 AM
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granholm electric car showBiden’s proposed mandate of 67% EVs in the 2030s is a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid that will:

  1. Force Americans to drive inferior cars.

  2. Place massive new demand for reliable electricity on a grid that is declining in reliable electricity supply. [emphasis, links added]

Biden’s EPA is planning to dictate new emissions regulations for cars that will increase the EV market share of vehicles sold from today’s 6% up to 67% by 2032. 1

1. Biden’s EV mandate will force Americans to drive more expensive, less capable cars

If EVs were actually as good as their advocates say, they wouldn’t require lavish subsidies—let alone Biden’s mandate on top of lavish subsidies. Forcing EVs = harming Americans

Today’s EVs, despite promises that they would already surpass gasoline vehicles, are not cost-effective for the vast majority of Americans. Despite huge government subsidies, that’s why only 6% of us buy EVs. Mandating EVs violates our rights and hurts the poor most of all. 2

EVs may become even less cost-effective in the future due to rising electricity prices and growing shortages that are occurring as reliable power plants are shut down in favor of unreliable solar and wind, as well as increasing raw material prices (due to artificial government-created demand for batteries).

Range issues and recharge times are a logistical nightmare, even if you can afford a home recharging station. This is why EV owners tend to use EVs in addition to gasoline cars.

67% EVs would be ruinous for the poor and middle class. 3

Currently, the fossil-fueled part of the transportation sector consumes about 1/4 of all US energy.

This means that to handle a huge influx of EVs, the already fragile electricity sector would have to rapidly add reliable electricity capacity—the opposite of what’s happening. 4

For most Americans, EVs are significantly inferior in utility at a higher price per vehicle.

And if electricity bottlenecks continue, the price disadvantage could worsen while the threat of electricity rationing/restricting for EVs could become real.

2. Biden’s EV mandate will cause electricity shortages

US power grids are already struggling from retirements of reliable power plant capacity in favor of unreliable solar and wind. Forced electrification of vehicles will exacerbate the problem and make electricity more expensive. 5

A reliable grid is the foundation of our quality of life. Our lives depend on ultra-reliable electricity for the refrigerators that preserve our food, the water treatment plants that keep our water drinkable, the air conditioning that keeps us cool, the factories that produce our goods, etc.

The root cause of our grid’s reliability problems is simple: America is shutting down too many reliable power plants—plants that can be controlled to produce electricity when needed in the exact quantity needed. And it is attempting to replace them with unreliable solar and wind.

Thanks to government mandates and subsidies, solar and wind—“unreliables”—provide about 13% of American electricity. This 13% has already caused big electricity price increases and huge reliability problems. Instead of admitting this failure, Biden is doubling down. 6

The Administration is dictating two deadly policies at the same time:

– Drastically reducing the supply of reliable electricity by shutting down reliable power plants
– Drastically increasing demand for reliable electricity by mandating EVs

This is a recipe for national immobility.

Biden’s EV mandate emulates California’s reckless policy, which combines outlawing new oil-fueled vehicles by 2035 and wrecking its grid by shutting down reliable power plants.

As the Babylon Bee put it, “State With No Electricity Orders Everyone To Drive Cars That Run on Electricity.” 7

California is already having major problems with EV charging.

On August 31, 2022, CAISO, the California grid operator sent out a press release urging consumers to cut electricity usage during a heatwave, including using less air conditioning (!) and refraining from “charging electric vehicles.” 8

Note that EV charging is a threat to the California grid while only a small share of CA’s over 30 million vehicles are electric and solar and wind is only a fraction of what they are supposed to become. With less reliable power and far more EVs, the situation would be catastrophic. 9

Imagine if, during the California blackouts of 2020 or the Texas blackouts of 2021 these grids were both far more dependent on unreliable solar and wind and had a massive fleet of EVs that needed charging. Imagine the death toll and economic damage.

That’s where our policies are taking us.

Plans to rely heavily on unreliable solar and wind electricity generation, a key feature of Biden’s plan to power America’s EVs, requires our high-voltage transmission system to grow massively in the next few years.

At the current pace of transmission-line building, it would take many decades to centuries to build out our grid. New EV mandates add even more stress to the infrastructure, making everything in the supply chains more expensive while upgrades become more urgent. 10

Biden’s EV mandate will also make us dependent on foreign supply chains

A crash EV mandate means a rapid, artificial increase in mining, processing, and manufacturing. Since US regulations are hostile to development, this means more dependence on others, especially China. 11

The “Inflation Reduction Act” promised additional subsidies for manufacturers who sourced their materials from inside the US, a protectionist policy to build up domestic supply chains. But Biden has systematically blocked US mining opportunities. 12

Because of the clear impossibility to source many critical materials from the US, the Treasury Dept has already signaled flexibility in the rules on how the subsidies for domestic production will apply. Which means we will be dependent on others. 13

China dominates the supply chains of many critical minerals and given the environmental policies of the Biden administration, this will not change in favor of US mining anytime soon. 14

A free-market EV policy

In the future, EVs could benefit Americans and significantly reduce emissions if 1) competition makes them genuinely superior for most people and 2) we dramatically increase electricity production using low-cost, reliable, scalable tech—most likely nuclear.

If the Biden Administration wants to facilitate cost-effective EVs, the number one thing it needs to do is publicly reverse its attack on reliable power plants that would absolutely destroy our grid for existing electricity needs, let alone huge EV needs.

The proper policy toward battery EVs is to let them compete on the open market with gasoline vehicles, natural gas vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, etc.

And if you want to increase the competitiveness of all EVs, then stop screwing up the grid by mandating unreliable solar and wind.


Alex Epstein is an energy expert bringing clarity to energy, environmental, and climate issues. He is the author of the NYT bestseller The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, and his latest Fossil Future.

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Comments 8

  1. Guy Liardet says:
    2 years ago

    But what about the giant diesel powered lorries that the USA is famous for? Thousands . Are they to be electrified as well? Pointless if not !

    • Sonnyhill says:
      2 years ago

      The proposed electrification of the North American truck fleet is the most blatant example of propaganda circulating in the media today. It totally undermines the Green narrative. If they think that the American economy (as is) can switch to battery powered Macks and Freightliners, they are probably delusional on everything else.

  2. Allan Shelton says:
    2 years ago

    If the Republicans win in 2024, then most/all of the Biden decrees will be rescinded. IMO

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    2 years ago

    I would like to see DiCaprio to quit making anymore movies and take up living as a Hermit in the Mountains far away from everybody and same for Gore resign from Politics and do the same

  4. Sonnyhill says:
    2 years ago

    I would like to see Jennifer Granholm sit down for an interview with Alex Epstein. Call me a dreamer.

  5. David Lewis says:
    2 years ago

    Like many similar articles this one fails to acknowledge that the goals of the administration are not attainable. Elon Musk admits that the average American family can not afford an electric car so we are not going to see a 67% EV fleet. I suspect that there will still be enough electric cars to drastically impact the power grid especially as wind and solar power continue to under perform.

    • Sonnyhill says:
      2 years ago

      We could see a 67% EV fleet if more and more people go without. The Left does not consider vehicle ownership as a right. They would like to see an end to road construction, bridge maintained, gas stations, old tires. Voters could change things.

  6. Spurwing Plover says:
    2 years ago

    Biden like Clinton and Obama are Liberal Democrats and Globalists/Traitors who need to lose their American Citizenships for all those who support Biden please just consider staying indoors for a while so no one will see the face of a fool

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