Grid-Draining Electron Guzzlers And The
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Posted By: RockyTCB,
3/22/2024 6:14:36 AM
In perfect Democratic Party form, the Biden administration has dropped another government burden on the private sector. Two days ago, the White House rolled out “the toughest-ever” automobile emissions standards. The objective, of course, is to force Americans to buy the cars that the ruling class wants them to drive. There’s a big problem here, though – the grid won’t be up to the task of keeping tens of millions of electric vehicles charged.
The headline from a Bloomberg story last week summed up the plan: “Biden Set to Crack Down on Auto Emissions to Accelerate EV Sales.”
Rules decreed by the Environmental Protection Agency are
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/22/2024 7:00:09 AM (No. 1682825)
Get rid of Biden and this BS is over.
Anyone who votes for Joe Biden is voting to give America to whomsoever is the puppet master of this old fool.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 3/22/2024 7:38:26 AM (No. 1682861)
The EPA is not a legislative body and cannot create laws.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/22/2024 7:51:38 AM (No. 1682877)
Put the EPA on the short list of government agencies to scrap after we scrap Biden. They have done nothing good or smart since shrinking the tanks on your toilets. We already have enough amusing stories of EVs being caught too far from home with dead batteries or being totally ruined after being caught in the rain or snow. Until the electric grid is trippled in capacity and safety, there will be millions of such incidents, assuming that Americans are stupid enough to buy these things en masse. FJB and the Cow he rode in on.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/22/2024 8:20:15 AM (No. 1682907)
This is a PERFECT case to be taken to the SCOTUS, who has clearly signaled that bureaucratic agencies have only limited power to make rules impacting the economy and people. The responsibility for these types of actions belongs with the ELECTED legislature.
I doubt such a radical assault on individual freedoms of purchasing products and person choice concerning transportation will stand up very long. PLUS each such decision against the power of the autocracy undermines out extremely dangerous bureaucracy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 3/22/2024 8:28:16 AM (No. 1682923)
I suspect the objective is to allow insider trading on the EV market by using mandates like this to artificially effect the market.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 3/22/2024 8:47:38 AM (No. 1682940)
An added advantage for this administration is that it woulld be impossible for thousands of citizens to converge on D.C. if they all required charging stations at once. The right to petition the government for the redress of grievances (demonstrations) would be strictly limited. Charging stations could be disabled in specific areas. No more Jan. 6es.
Not addressed in the move toward EVs is how to cope with hurricane or blizzard evacuations. Could a carbecue or dead battery kill thousands?
On another topic: Google labeled this article as harmful disinformation before I could read it. Does Google track those who ignore their warnings?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
VietVet68 3/22/2024 9:25:50 AM (No. 1682979)
From the article: "There’s a big problem here, though – the grid won’t be up to the task of keeping tens of millions of electric vehicles charged". The democrats don't care about the grid, this is all about control over what we do and how, when and where we travel. If the grid isn't up to the task, and the left already knows it won't be, there's even more control over us. I can see it now, driving curfews, alternate day EV charging and the possibilities go on and on. One thing for certain, the political elites will still have access to gasoline powered vehicles, they wouldn't allow themselves to be inconvenienced in the same way the peasants are.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/22/2024 10:17:55 AM (No. 1683022)
There are 188 million (IC powered) vehicles on US roads. If every vehicle becomes electric, the power grid will require TWENTY EIGHT times the current capacity. Where is this power going to come from - moonbeams & rainbows?? Kalifornia intends to buy it from 'other' states'. What do the other 49 do? There are no (realistic) plans currently in place. The frightening reality is that these people don't intend to replace all 188 million with EVs.. Most of us will be thrown under the bus of public transportation. Only the elite Leftist few (what in the old Soviet Union was called the Nomenclatura) will be in private cars.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/22/2024 10:25:01 AM (No. 1683026)
Blackrock. Posted here yesterday.In case you missed it:
China and Blackrock – Biden EPA Rolls Out USA Auto Mandates Forcing EVs to Make Up Two-Thirds of Passenger Vehicles – Who Benefits?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/20/china-and-blackrock-biden-epa-rolls-out-usa-auto-mandates-forcing-evs-to-make-up-two-thirds-of-passenger-vehicles-who-benefits/
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/22/2024 10:46:28 AM (No. 1683065)
If China profits, Joe Biden profits, and the checks keep rolling in for the Biden family.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dwa 3/22/2024 11:37:05 AM (No. 1683107)
Another aspect to consider are 15 minute cities. What better way to force Americans into 15 minute cities than to mandate the sale of EVs that cannot be charges so they can't be used to travel to stores etc. Conspiracy theory? Who knows.
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The ultimate goal of Biden's handlers is to drastically reduce private automobile ownership. That's why they don't care that EV's are impractical an unaffordable for most Americans, or that tens of thousands of auto workers will lose their jobs in the resulting auto industry bloodbath.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Foghorn 3/22/2024 3:33:19 PM (No. 1683267)
I am sickened by the government continuing to subsidize the automotive industry. Prior to the pandemic they supported GM (government borders) giving GM 2 billion dollars. GM refused to repay the 2 billion. Now they are making EVs at a rapid pace that no one wants and they subsidize GM with tax refund of up to $5,000. The government is actually running the automotive companies, with the exception of Ford. The government is taking tax dollars and using them to subsidize companies, resolving college student debt. financing car charging stations. and 80 billion dollars in descreationaire spending awarded to the president.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 3/22/2024 4:56:29 PM (No. 1683345)
The "elites" are very unhappy that ordinary, even lower class folks can purchase a vehicle which will take them in at least moderate comfort (for the lower classes) 400-500 miles on a tank of fuel at 70 mph on free highways. Ordinary people can decide to drive 1000 miles away, and be there in a day, for a reasonable cost, and WITHOUT any permissions, inspections, searches or approvals of the rich folks.
This sort of freedom has literally been entirely unknown, totally impossible for ALL of human existence until the late 20th century. And the rich folks don't want all us peasants just moving around with "who knows what" in our cars so freely.
They want CONTROL, and that means no cheap, reliable, long range gas cars.
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