The Biden administration is going into overdrive with its aggressive electric vehicle push despite lackluster consumer demand.
The near-finalized Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tailpipe emissions rule to mandate 67% of new vehicles sold by 2032 to be EVs drops this April. [emphasis, links added]
Last month, the administration doubled down on accelerating the forceful adoption of these non-gas alternatives. This week, however, the White House appeared to strike a slightly different tone on its mandate, per a New York Times report [bold added].
“In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to combat climate change, limits on tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles, according to three people familiar with the plan,” the report claims.
“Instead of essentially requiring automakers to rapidly ramp up sales of electric vehicles over the next few years, the administration would give car manufacturers more time, with a sharp increase in sales not required until after 2030, these people said. They asked to remain anonymous because the regulation has not been finalized.”
But if you dare suggest that the White House is mandating the phase-out of internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles, radical environmentalists will actively censor you.
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported the progressive group Climate Power is demanding local TV broadcasters reject ads from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).
Climate Power is a self-described “paid media operation” founded by leftist preservationist environmental groups like the Center for American Progress Action Fund, League of Conservation Voters, and Sierra Club.
Its Chief Operating Officer Jill Shesol threatened broadcasters in a letter not to air AFPM’s ads against Biden’s EV mandate, writing, “AFPM’s advertisements falsely state that “President Biden’s EPA is rushing to ban new gas-powered cars.”
The ads ask viewers to “tell [President Biden] to stop his EPA’s car ban.” However, there is no pending federal “car ban,” and to claim otherwise is patently false and intentionally misleading.”
The letter continued and warned it would sic the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on them if they proceeded against their wishes:
“You have a duty “to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.” Failure to prevent the airing of “false and misleading advertising” maybe “probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility” that can be cause for the loss of a station’s license.”
This is unhinged, aggressive behavior from climate alarmists. AFPM, however, has the First Amendment right to play these anti-EV ads and isn’t bowing to pressure from these bullies.
Ahead of last year’s statewide elections, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) said only Virginians – not Sacramento – should choose their preferred car models.
Youngkin said, “If you want to buy an electric vehicle, buy one; that’s your decision – just don’t drive too far. But most importantly, that’s your decision, not California’s and not the government’s.”
Had they passed several bills in the General Assembly, they would have untethered us from these obtuse regulations. …
Alas, Democrats who narrowly control the General Assembly ignored our concerns and killed the bills in question.
They’re going to have to learn, ironically, from their California brethren that so-called climate action becomes unpopular when costs and utility bills go up.
EV proponents cannot gaslight their way into mandating EV acceptance and adoption. Why? The push to abandon reliable cars is not selling well with consumers.
Top image via YouTube/screencap of Biden stumping at the General Motors EV factory in Detroit.
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Here we have more evidence that government is now too big. It is extending unnecessary and unwanted interferrence into the everyday life of all citizens.
We know who the politicians are supporting this. November 2024 is your opportunity to tell them you don’t want government telling you what car you can or cannot drive. You have the (constitutinal) right to make that decision withour burreaucrats attempting to threaten you with higher costs or taxes, because you choose to buy a gas or diesel car.
Biden the Blunders Used Lemon Lot trying to sell the Edsel so just when is he a nd the rest of the World Leaders all going to use WV’s only and live in Grass or Mud Huts without Windows or anyway the heat the house