The Hidden Agenda Behind Biden’s Insane
Gas Mileage Requirements
American Spectator,
by
Eric Peters
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
12/24/2021 11:40:31 AM
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that all new cars that aren’t electric must average 55 miles per gallon by 2026.
This amounts to a Great Leap Forward of almost 20 miles per gallon from the currently ordered 36 miles per gallon that all new cars must achieve, else their manufacturers be punished for making them via “gas guzzler” fines applied to them.
Which are then passed on to the people who buy them. Which makes it progressively more difficult to afford them.
That being the point of the fines, you understand.
The Biden administration considers it their right and duty to punish you for buying the car you want
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EQKimball 12/24/2021 12:03:28 PM (No. 1017684)
And one of the world’s greatest supplies of lithium is in (drumroll) Afghanistan. The Chinese will make a fortune selling it to us. Good work, Brandon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 12/24/2021 12:04:40 PM (No. 1017687)
They keep this up and the US will look like Cuba, with nothing but old cars on the road...FJB...
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The whole point is to kill the ICE as a viable means of transportation. To achieve 50MPG from an ICE, it generally has to be around 500cc or less, powering something the size and weight of a motorcycle. Even the 1 liter class motorcycles cannot get 50MPG due to their weight and fuel consumption.
You could design a vehicle with a mouse motor that might get 50MPG, but it would be unsafe at any speed, and a menace on the interstate putting along at 40MPH.
You can obtain this with a hybrid like a Prius, but good luck hauling sheets of plywood or trailers with that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 12/24/2021 12:11:46 PM (No. 1017700)
The EPA would have been a great department to have shut down during the previous administration, and yet here they are, more powerful than ever and with a mission that's anything they say it is. Better luck next time!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Island Life 12/24/2021 12:15:46 PM (No. 1017707)
When Biden is directed to a big black SUV with about nine others big black SUV's in the motorcade, are all those vehicles electric cars?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/24/2021 12:17:56 PM (No. 1017711)
Controlling the free movement of the populace is one of the corner stones of an elite political empire. Controlling what you can purchase is another. As in food/medication/basic health care. They will not take their foot off our necks until we make them. Who is this 41% who think that the FJB clown administration is doing okay? Control and money.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/24/2021 12:21:42 PM (No. 1017715)
My morning crime reports seem to indicate more car thefts in our area. Used cars are going for premium prices.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/24/2021 12:22:41 PM (No. 1017716)
The author is correct. Most new cars have tiny engines about the same size as in large motorcycles. 17 speed transmissions, dual turbos to the vehicle can accelerate from a stop......but $$$$$
Want to see what the East Germans could have (if they waited long enough and paid the right people):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
psych53 12/24/2021 12:39:42 PM (No. 1017739)
Decent article. But the last paragraph falls flat. Spell it out. Electric cars benefit a very select few companies and individuals. They’re expensive, wasteful, and overall, they are massive sources of pollution. People are being duped about electric vehicles. What a shame.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/24/2021 12:39:46 PM (No. 1017740)
#1, a lot of lithium is also mined in what used to be rainforests in the Philippines. Apparently, the rainforests no longer matter.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 12/24/2021 1:10:25 PM (No. 1017780)
This is insane! What kind of vehicles are carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc going to use? The price of hiring a tradesman will skyrocket while the number of tradesmen available will plummet. Remember that comfortable middle class life you used to have? Not anymore!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/24/2021 1:19:20 PM (No. 1017786)
Go Carts!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
OK state mom 12/24/2021 1:31:17 PM (No. 1017794)
The deer and wild boars, who likewise share the highways and byways, are bigger than the vehicles.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jiobaobubai 12/24/2021 1:40:25 PM (No. 1017797)
So my car is about 43 MPG short of that. :D
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 12/24/2021 2:22:22 PM (No. 1017836)
Re #3, your first part is exactly correct. They absolutely do intend to destroy the internal combustion engine (ICE), but after that, you missed an important technology path.
Actually, that 500 cc deal isn't the only way, although it is a cheapo route to high mileage.
The most cost effective way to do this 55 mpg, and I STILL don't want one, is to make a streamlined, light vehicle (small, expensive materials) and power it with a 1-1.5 liter (60-90 cubic inch) turbocharged diesel with high pressure turbo, perhaps even twin turbos to get very high boost pressures.
There are severe limits on how much turbos can increase the pressure going into a gasoline, spark ignition engine due to detonation, which will very quickly destroy the engine.
Diesels have no upper limit on how much turbo boosting you can use, other than the ability to cool the engine. So a very robustly constructed, strong, well cooled, heavily turbo-boosted small, streamlined, low drag car can achieve 75 mph highway mileage. More turbo-boost, more efficiency. These will be more expensive engines than current normally aspirated engines.
Current design VW turbo-diesel cars in production, and pretty much only sold in Europe, can achieve 70 mpg at cruising speeds with a fairly reasonable small sedan, certainly NO pickup truck or large SUV. Depending on exactly how they do the driving cycle....perhaps 55 mpg on their test is achievable for small turbo-diesel cars.
But huge numbers of people DON'T WANT ONE.
They sell in Europe because fuel is about $9-10 a gallon, although it could be higher, haven't checked recently.
But then they will outlaw diesels as "polluters", and end that route.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Historybuff 12/24/2021 2:48:22 PM (No. 1017853)
In Cambodia, Pol Pot ordered water to flow up hill.
That didn't work out either.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/24/2021 3:28:01 PM (No. 1017882)
Easy workaround, buy a couple of new Toyotas or Hondas in 2025 and never have to buy another car in your lifetime. Correct, #3, my Concours only gets 50 mpg but I'm sure it could be de-tuned to achieve 55. There are some medium bore single cylinder bikes in the 650cc range that can reach that goal now but they aren't road burners by any means.
On the other hand, I consider this ridiculous demand to be just another flatulent utterance from Brandon that he and his incompetent government have no chance of achieving but it may keep AOC happy for five minutes. American car manufacturers will all go bankrupt trying to. FJB
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NamVet70 12/24/2021 4:36:27 PM (No. 1017922)
This is actually a very good thing, because an agency like the EPA can only be removed after it becomes so absurd and hated that a true rebellion of some form occurs. Hopefully the problem of mail-in ballots and Dominion vote counting machinery will be overcome and some sanity can be introduced.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
curious1 12/24/2021 5:20:42 PM (No. 1017957)
And still nobody seems to be asking exactly how the fed gov has the constitutional authority to interfere in the free market like this. Unconstitutional 'laws' and proclamations aren't laws.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/24/2021 6:02:35 PM (No. 1017992)
A 60 mpg ICE automobile is possible. Any company could build one to prove that if not for the weight and cost of many pounds of government safety junk we are required to buy on every car. The gasoline engine is as close to efficiency nirvana as it ever can be unless the fuel is made more potent. Other than that, take a 300cc motorcycle engine and enclose it in an aluminum, plastic or titanium egg. Strip all creature comforts, lush seats, air conditioning, padded anything. Moving around in the back seat at the Drive-In, fuggedaboutit. It can be done and if you have a very short commute to work, they might sell a few. It would be the equivalent of an enclosed go kart. But never fear, eventually a sane president will be installed in the White House and this electric vehicle nuisance will be over. Meanwhile, buy a nice car that will last 20-30 years, everybody makes them, and tell Brandon to stuff it. Over the next 20-30 years the price of gas will drop dramatically due to the sheep in the country going electric. FJB FAOC
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
privateer 12/24/2021 6:14:37 PM (No. 1017997)
Back in 1982, IIRC, the German magazine Stern had on its cover the 'Umwelt-freundlich' Diesel. (Environmentally-friendly diesel). Turns out, the heavy black exhaust diesels give out---mostly when accelerating or under load---is made up of large visible particles. These soon fall to the ground and are washed into the soil. Contrariwise, gasoline powered engines give off a less-visible, but more deadly exhaust. It's the stuff you CAN'T see that harms your lungs, and erodes statuary and buildings. But facts don't matter when there's a world to save.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
3XALADY 12/24/2021 6:18:52 PM (No. 1018003)
#5 Weren't there 82 of those big black SUV's in his motorcade around the time he was pooping for the Pope?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 12/25/2021 5:24:02 AM (No. 1018197)
Will be overturned after the 2024 election when the adults are back in charge.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
49 Ford 12/25/2021 6:01:54 AM (No. 1018213)
True enough # 19, but as long as we the sheeple and our congress criitters go along...
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The leftists in charge are offended by your freedom. Your ability to hop into a large, comfortable, quiet auto or truck and drive 500 miles without stopping, then refill your gas tank in 5 minutes, and head out for another 500 miles of WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE.
So, they plan on wiping out that freedom. Boom. Illegal, can't buy one.
"Because we said so" was never a good reason.