Why do Democrats insist on forcing consumers to make choices they don’t want? Americans are making it clear they don’t want electric vehicles, yet Democrats won’t give up their mandate zealotry. [emphasis, links added]
Are they driven by authoritarian urges?
A poll taken last month shows that 48% of consumers would not consider buying an EV. That’s up seven percentage points from last year. Only 35% of those who responded to the Gallup poll said they might consider buying one, down from 43% just a year ago.
A mere 9% said they were seriously considering an EV purchase. That portion was 12% in 2023.
Yes, EV ownership has increased. In 2024, 7% of Americans own a battery-powered car. Last year only 4% owned an EV.
But this combined with a growing resistance is an indicator that the demand is reaching a peak if it hasn’t already.
After all, there are only so many consumers willing to buy an expensive, unreliable, grid-draining, and destructive automobile merely for the privilege of demonstrating their green street cred and moral superiority.
There are quite a few shallow people in this country but not enough apparently to keep the market warm.
Even with the rank of Democrats – whose positions are built on political superficiality – the EV fever has broken, with 27% saying in 2024 they would not buy an EV compared to 17% last year.
Among independents, the “would nots” have grown to 47% from 38%. (A thanks to Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell for asking Gallup to break down the responses by party.)
This is why the Biden administration and nearly half the states have to force EVs on the people.
Of course, EVs aren’t the only choice that Democrats want to make for the entire country. They want to choose our energy sources (breezes and sunshine only), the homes we live in (out of those suburban houses and their large lots and into cramped multi-family flats), and our transportation options (public transit and bicycles).
Democrats insist that they have to manage the production of household appliances, limit the choices of sneakers and deodorants, and design dishwashers and gas cans.
They have banned or restricted a host of modern conveniences, from single-use plastic bags to plastic utensils to natural gas, condiment packs, and incandescent bulbs.
They’ve outlawed shower heads and toilets they don’t like. The Democratic Party has gone to war with truckers and targeted heating and cooling systems with obstructive guidelines.
Not even our First Amendment rights (nor those guaranteed by the Second Amendment) are safe from the Democrats’ agenda to manage, control, coerce, and manipulate through raw political power.
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It is the code of all democrats, liberals and fascists to fully embrace stupidity until their deaths.
We all know the Democ-Rats are Big Government/Globalists Biden the Blunder as well as Clinton(Bill)and Obama and Big Government/Globalists
This is off topic and about the new format. This format shows fewer articles before they go on to another page than the old format did. If it isn’t on the first page most will not read it so it isn’t worth while to comment on it. With other things going on in our lives we can’t always get to the Climate Change Dispatch right away. This means we miss some articles that we would comment on because they disappear off of the first page.
My method of making sure I don’t miss an article. I’m using Google Chrome. It allows me to place “Bookmarks” close to the top of the page.
So “Climate Change Dispatch” has two bookmarks. The first is the regular “Home Page”. The second leads to the latest article that I’ve read. I look at the first few words of that Bookmark. Go to the Home Page and then scroll down till I see the words. I’ve had to go to page 2 several times when I’ve missed a day, but at least I knew I wasn’t missing something.
My comment wasn’t about finding article but writing comments that people will read. Most don’t see beyond the home page so there isn’t much point on writing a comment on an article that is else where.