by Addison Smith
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced what is being considered its strongest-ever proposed pollution standards for gas-powered vehicles – which if enacted would effectively mandate that 67 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. in 2032 must be zero-emission ones.
The rule has been expected for weeks and is a dramatic, proposed increase from President Biden’s stated goal of 50 percent zero-emission passenger car sales – including battery-powered electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell vehicles – by 2030. It would also likely and dramatically increase EV sales, which accounted for just 5.6 percent of new car sales in the U.S. last year, according to Road & Track.com.
The proposal is being praised by those who support a move toward renewable energies and away from vehicles that run on refines fossil fuels and emit carbon dioxide. However, critics of such a transition are raising concerns – including those on the U.S. abandoning its supply of vast natural resources and fewer domestic manufacturing job.
“Biden’s radical EPA is trying to regulate your car’s engine into OBLIVION,” tweeted GOP Rep. Chip Roy.
The Texas lawmaker also called on his GOP-led House to “use the power of the purse to END the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy” by “slashing EPA’s funding.”
Former Trump EPA transition team member Steve Milloy also criticized the proposal as regulatory “tyranny” and said the requirements would be “impossible” to meet.
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Addison Smith is a reporter at Just the News. Follow Addison on Twitter.
Yup, they’re lucifer’s own.
There is no war against gas. The war is against mobility. EVs will NOT be an alternative because they are more harmful to the environment than gas fueled cars so once they get us out of our gas car EVs will be next. They do not want us to have mobility and they do not want us to travel. It is there way to keep people from moving about and talking to people. This is all part of UN Agenda 21. No car and your rural land will be worthless which will force you to abandon your land because no one will purchase rural land. No car and you will be forced into the stack and pack city centers. WAKE UP. No matter what do not buy an EV. Put them out of business.
H. B.
I chastised WTN 99.7 for letting that pass w/o even a mention
Proving once again Tn has less than mediocre political coverage
Doomed to become Ohio
Comm.China holds most mineral rights
CCP operating mineral mines w.children in near slave conditions.
EV batteries extremely hazardous. For decades
No plan for used batteries
States have yet to establish power grid requirements, not even planned
Feds responsible for hardening power grid, not done
Feds will be capable of turning off charging power. Making citizens a puppet on a string
And on, and on, and on it goes.
Statist.
Authoritarian
Totalitarian
Marxist
My next, and last vehicle will be a pick-up truck w.4-wheel drive
Coal-powered cars are “zero emissions”?
Enjoy your 15-minute cities with your remote shut-off cars. Dementia Joe will decide if you have used too much “renewable, free” energy and limit your travel, and stove, air conditioning, etc.
Red Flag Republicans have just paved the way for Central Bank Digital Currency and social credit scoring – but you may have been distracted by the TN 3 circus.