Earlier this year the Biden/Harris administration's EPA proposed new pollution control rules that would require that as many as two-thirds of all new vehicles sold in the United States by the 2032 model year (lseven years away) be electric or hybrids.
That would require a nearly a ten-fold increase over current electric vehicle sales.
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| Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/20/bidens-regulators-poised-to-issue-rule-meant-to-drive-electric-car-sales-00148019 |
Electric vehicles made up less than 8% of new vehicle sales last year and more than 80% of those were Teslas.
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| Source: https://www.statista.com/outlook/mmo/electric-vehicles/united-states#unit-sales |
The Biden/Harris Administration claims that this is not an electric vehicle mandate on auto consumers. However, if the auto makers are prohibited from exceeding 30% in gas-powered vehicles in their output isn't that argument just a little bit disingenuous?
Of course, I have a hard time understanding how a rule like this that would have such far reaching consequences for the American people could be instituted without legislation passed by their elected representatives in Congress.
It is hard to believe that our Founders would not be shocked at this overreach by the executive branch made up of unelected bureaucrats.
However, consumers do not seem to be buying what the government is attempting to mandate and the auto companies are producing.
Electric vehicles are piling up at dealerships in increasing numbers.
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| Credit: https://x.com/MattTopley/status/1816526327605850615/photo/1 |
This is despite the fact the federal government is providing a $7,500 subsidy on the purchase of many electric vehicles.
It has also provided billions of dollars to automakers to subsidize the production of electric vehicles.
In the meantime, each of the EV units that Ford sold this year incurred an average loss of $44,000 each.
It is insane.
The sad reality is that this is how Kamala Harris believes the U.S. economy should work.
However, let's look at this from a more practical perspective---where will the power come from to charge these electric vehicles?
Bear in mind that at the same time that the climate change lobby wants to ban gasoline powered vehicles they also want to ban coal, natural gas and oil to generate electricity. They are also averse to using nuclear power.
They also want to ban gas stoves in favor of electric stoves and gas furnaces in favor of electric heat pumps.
All of these are at the top of this list that Kamala Harris believes are absolutely essential to address climate change.
How do you increase the number of things plugged into the electric gird while decreasing the energy sources that can be used to power the grid?
How does that work?
It doesn't.
However, that apparently is a minor detail in the minds of Democrats.
A recent poll indicates that the only energy sources that a majority of Democrat voters favor expanding are solar panel and wind turbine farms.
On the other hand, a majority of Republicans are in favor of "all of the above".
If the Democrats have their way we seem headed back to the 19th century when water and wind were about all we had to power anything.
How are we going to charge all those electric vehicles, electric stoves and future AI needs not to mention your iPhone?
It is estimated that data center power consumption will jump by a factor of six to ten over the next decade.
Over the last 15 years electricity demand has been relatively stable in the United States. However, we are beginning to see an increase that will undoubtedly grow due to electric vehicles, data centers, AI and even crypto mining.
Increasing needs for power due to data centers and AI is the sole reason that Microsoft just announced that they have reached an agreement to reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania for their exclusive use.
Notice the noticeable uptick in electricity demand since 2020.
The latest projections are that electricity demand over the next decade is going to grow at 3 times the rate at which it grew over the last decade.
The math simply does not add up.
None of it makes any sense but you can be sure from looking at the poll above that plenty of people will be voting for it.
I just wonder how many of those voters are prepared to live like this in order to power their household needs?
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| Source: https://www.ydr.com/picture-gallery/news/2019/06/25/photos-early-wind-power-machines-dots-farm-near-new-park/1555852001/ |
That appears to be what they are voting for.
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