Eight states up the ante on Biden tailpipe rule, intend to ban new gasoline vehicles altogether: WA OR CA NY MA RI MD NJ and DC, with more to follow

8 states planning to BAN sale of gas-powered cars...

Give a Democrat your lightbulb and he will take your car

 

Biden tailpipe rule will turn America into a Cuba of old cars

New York Post here:

Biden’s goals will push internal-combustion-vehicle prices into the stratosphere, and likely still not get consumers to play along; the 2032 mandate is beyond impossible to meet. 

Instead, Americans will keep older cars on the road far longer; even paying through the nose for clunkers and repairs will be the better bet.

 

May 2023: Average age of a car on the road in the US hit a record 12.5 years, up 3 months from 2022.

I have two cars for my family. One is 27 years old, the other 17. 

Remember Cash For Clunkers under Obama?

Yeah, I skipped that.

Kim Strassel: Biden is coming for your truck

The column is here:

It’s a tailor-made issue for Donald Trump, a perfect summation of his opponent’s radicalism. His campaign immediately trashed the rule as a diktat that will “force Americans to buy ultra-expensive cars they do not want and cannot afford while destroying the U.S. auto industry.” Just wait until he gets around to the bumper-sticker formula: “They’re coming for your truck.” An energy trade group has already been up with ads making that point in swing states, calling on Americans to reject Biden’s “EPA car ban.”

 

I found the source for Trump's well-founded fear of an auto industry bloodbath

 CNBC reports today:

Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge :

There’s fear among global automakers that Chinese rivals like the Warren Buffett-backed BYD could flood their markets, undercutting domestic production and vehicle prices to the detriment of their own auto industries.

“The introduction of cheap Chinese autos — which are so inexpensive because they are backed with the power and funding of the Chinese government — to the American market could end up being an extinction-level event for the U.S. auto sector,” the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a U.S. manufacturing advocacy group, said in a report last month.

BYD sold 1.57 million battery EVs last year, up from just 130,970 all-electric vehicles in 2020. That sales growth was enough to surpass Tesla to become the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles in late 2023. 

The rise of BYD and other Chinese automakers led Tesla CEO Elon Musk in January to warn that Chinese automakers will “demolish” global rivals without trade barriers. ...

The company has quickly rolled out new and updated products. It’s also rapidly established manufacturing, as it has its eyes set on factories in Thailand, Brazil, Indonesia, Hungary, Uzbekistan and, potentially, Mexico. ...

Former President Donald Trump – the front-runner among Republicans in the 2024 presidential race – on Saturday suggested instituting a 100% tariff on cars made in Mexico by Chinese companies, should he be elected to a second term.

Biden deals bloodbath blow to auto industry, EPA finalizes rule requiring 67% of new cars and trucks sold to be electric by 2032

 The administration forged ahead with its plan despite pleas from thousands of car dealerships across the country, warnings from industry leaders and major manufacturers slashing production. Demand in recent years has failed to meet growth expectations. ...

“This rule is delusional,” the senators said. “This is the Biden administration’s attempt to get rid of the internal combustion engine without congressional authority.” Sen. Joe Manchin III, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia, was ready to side with Republicans. He called the rule “reckless and ill-informed.” “The federal government has no authority and no right to mandate what type of car or truck Americans can purchase for their everyday lives,” said Mr. Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy Committee.

At the current pace of sales growth of all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, the U.S. would take decades to meet the administration’s 2032 goal. ...

The EPA wants 67% of all new light-duty vehicles and up to 32% of medium-duty vehicles to be electric by 2032. That includes a mixture of all-electric, plug-in electric hybrids and battery electric hybrids.

More.

Tesla will just have to install fossil-fuel-powered battery heaters to warm the batteries enough to charge in ARCTIC temperatures lol

 Tesla owners in freezing Chicago stuck in 'car graveyards' as vehicles won't charge

I mean, what could go wrong?

 

Reuters got it right, CNBC green lunatics try to soften the blow: "Rental giant Hertz dumps EVs, including Teslas, for gas cars"

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Rental firm Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ.O) is selling about 20,000 electric vehicles, including Teslas, from its U.S. fleet about two years after a deal with the automaker to offer its vehicles for rent, in another sign that EV demand has cooled.

Hertz will instead opt for gas-powered vehicles, it said on Thursday, citing higher expenses related to collision and damage for EVs even though it had aimed to convert 25% of its fleet to electric by 2024 end.

More.

 

Hertz makes ‘agile’ decision to shift strategy and sell EVs, Teslas

If Tesla were a toaster oven they'd ban it

 Firefighters use 36,000 gallons of water to extinguish flaming car...

Poor Hunter Biden, he went from a $142k Porsche from Kazakhstan in April 2014 to borrowing dough from Joe for a Ford Raptor in January 2019 lol

 Story.

 

 

This guy is the political analog to the slip-and-fall lawyer, turning up at every opportunity to exploit it for socialism

 

Bernie Sanders calls out automaker CEOs at UAW rally: ‘It is time for you to end your greed’

Experts say EV fires can take hours, rather than minutes, to extinguish

 

 For more than a century, first responders have quite easily extinguished vehicle engine fires by popping the hood and drowning the area in water. That playbook doesn’t work with EVs.

More.

Imagine being on an all electric airplane at 35,000 feet.

When the government gives it to you good and hard, and you're too dumb to notice

 

Americans can't afford new cars, but they're all out of skeletons

 

New cars are finally back in stock — but Americans might not be able to afford them

Home backup generator sales are booming in the US because there isn't reliable power, expect the same for your electric car!

 

LOL, it's not "affordable": It costs $41k minimum, goes 270 miles, and takes 18 minutes to charge

 

A 2022 Honda Civic LX will cost you about $24k, go 446 miles, and take you just a few minutes to fill its 12.4 gallon tank.

As with electric cars, rooftop solar energy is great until it blows up and starts on fire: Now they tell us

 Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions at least six different times. ...

The documents, which have never been made public, indicate that between April 2020 and June 2021, Amazon experienced “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American sites with solar installations, effecting 12.7% of such facilities. Arc flashes are a kind of electrical explosion. ... 

By June of last year, all of Amazon’s U.S. operations with solar had to be taken offline . . ..

More.

Electric vehicles are so reliable now that there is a site which tracks their fires, showing 12 so far in the US in 2022

 Here.

Even sales promotions suffer from inflation: NAPA used the old $2.99 promotional price template for its bucket sale on July 2nd, but has corrected that to $5.49 today, up 84%

 

The car America needs right now is the Honda Fit, withdrawn from the market in 2020 due to falling demand for small cars

 The $17k subcompact gets about 36mpg, and more, on the highway compared with the HR-V which gets only 30mpg and costs $5k more.

Hey, who wants a Fit during a Plague, right?