None of this nonsense is going to happen, but it sure won’t be for lack of trying…
Joe Biden issued the most radical environmental rules in American history to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles and force customers to drive ineffective electric cars. Now, a new report has revealed the effort to finish off the gas-powered car is well-underway in eight states.
The rules being adopted in these states specify that only zero-emission vehicles, which include electric vehicles and certain plug-in hybrids, can be sold beginning with the 2035 model year. This is known as the Advanced Clean Cars II rule.
And the Crazy Eight?
California, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington. The District of Columbia has also signed off.
Here’s the map, with my addition:
I’m just amazed that Illinois hasn’t joined the other Socialist Soviets (yet). No doubt ILGov Fatboi Pritzker is working on it.
Hey, maybe they’ll get Texas to join up…
On a more serious note:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized aggressive emissions standards Friday for heavy-duty vehicles that will effectively require huge increases in the numbers of electric or zero-emission buses and trucks sold over the next decade.
Uh-huh. Just the thought of all those 18-wheelers changing to electric power makes me really want to pee myself, just not with laughter.
Or start boiling the tar and oiling the rope, whatever.
As a wise man said:
The commies in Hartford are already stirring to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks. They clearly do not understand that these electric cars will place a huge burden on the electricity generating plants and the distribution system. Banning gasoline car sales will put car dealers out of business, car manufacturers have already cut back on production of these glorified golf carts and the gas stations and mechanics will then cut back.
We didn’t need government force to move society from whale oil to electricity. Let the technology prove itself on the open market. So far we have seen that these glorified scooters have a host of problems and they’re not any better for the environment than a conventional car or truck. This is one of the most blatant smoke and mirror hoaxes pulled on the public since Social Security.
2035?
I’ll be 94, ask me if I give a shit about the world you’ve elected for yourselves.
I’ll just sit in my rocker on the porch, cradling my M1a (it’s a long driveway).
Why are you so confident that these regulations won’t be enforced? The ones that created toilets that need multiple flushes, dishwashers that’s don’t clean the dishes and washing machines that don’t clean clothes are still in place. You can joke all you want, but Biden’s reelection means they’ll stay in place and Trump’s election is unlikely to accomplish anything. RFK Jr would make these regulations even tougher.
On the other hand, nobody’s tried making pi equal to 3.0000 lately. I love it when bureaucrats try to re-write the laws of physics and try their hand at engineering.
You notice that all of these pie-in-the-sky plans happen years down the road, when the perpetrator is long gone from office, if not dead.
C’mon Joe! Put your money where your mouth is; make the deadline 2025!
It’s not terribly surprising that Illinois isn’t on board: there’s lots and lots of ethanol corn grown downstate. While governor fatboi is more than happy to fuck the downstaters in most things, there are some limits.
Now, I can’t quote sources or chapter and verse, but my foggy old brain seems to recall that the companies trying to manufacture electric bog rigs are all facing imminent bankruptcy because nobody wants to buy into their electric pig fairy tale, and they’re saying that it’s because there’s nowhere near enough places to charge them. And didn’t the only maker of electric busses quietly announce that nobody wants to buy their vehicles, so why bother making them?
Cali will eventually do away with Useless Newsome (hopefully sooner than later). Those other p*ss-ant states will then follow whoever the next Pied Piper to come from the Left Coast. The rest of us will continue to ignore all the e-car b.s. coming from Washington D.C. Perhaps someone should remind the politicians how the Cubans have managed to keep ’50s and ’60’s vehicles running all these years without government support or interference. We managed to make-do in the 40s during the war, when new cars weren’t being built.
If you want to see a “hold my beer” wave on a global scale, watch what happens if the politicians try to push this electric vehicle much farther.
I curious as to just how they expect to implement this nonsense. Worse case scenario they manage to ban the sale of new ICE cars in the state. What’s to stop people from just driving to NH to buy thier cars ( just like we do now for lots of other things ) ? People in CA will just go the reno and Vegas.
Will they just refuse to register any New ICE Cars? Montanna registrations just will increase in popularity.
Interstate Commerce rules will still apply — at least for a while until I’m also 95 and don’t care any more.
Outlaw the production of gasoline maybe?
We’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of a similar program.
Most states limit tractor trailer rigs to ~80,000lbs GVW.
Now, if a 4,000lb Tesla needs a 1,000lb battery, it follows that the semi will need a 20,000lb battery to have a measly 300 mile range (on a good day) and take how long – 4 hrs? 24 hrs? 48 hrs?- to recharge? And the net cargo load will be reduced by about 18,000lbs.
If Moron-in-Chief has his brain-dead feel-good way, ….
Forget Covid, you ain’t seen no supply chain problems yet.
I was going to do the math on 18-wheelers, but I left it to the Comments. Thankee.
Maybe we’re not being innovative (or loony) enough about those electric 18-wheelers.
How about we seriously reduce the batteries to give only a 50 mile range and install electric power cables overhead on all the interstates so these trucks can get power like street cars did 100 years ago. That 50 mile range battery would stay charged as long as the truck stated on the interstate and would then have enough power to reach its destination. For destinations further than 50 miles from an interstate, the trailer would be handed off to a diesel tractor for the non-interstate miles.
Sure, this requires massive amounts more electric power, (Nukes, anyone?), massive costs to install the cables over the interstates, and that gazillion other problems be solved. It’s three advantages are:
1. It might actually work.
2. It avoids the approximately 36% efficiency loss from charging the battery and pulling the power out of it. (IIRC each step is about 80% efficient.)
3. I’m 80 and will be long gone before this nonsense could even pass its environmental impact review.