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Biden's Next EV Mandate Is Out and It's Going to Break America

Stephen Green-Opinion : Apr 5, 2024  PJ Media

The Wall Street Journal said that Biden's new rules are his "most costly and fanciful to date," and yet they're as real as a heart attack—and just as deadly to the US economy.

[PJMedia.com] Say goodbye to the trucking industry as we know it, and goodbye to the American economy, too. (Image: iStock-Onurdongel)

You might have missed it on Good Friday—which you can be sure was no accident—when the Biden EPA released its new tailpipe rules for semi-trucks, but the new rules will destroy how we move goods around the country.

It seems like only two weeks ago [It was only two weeks ago, Steve—editor] that I told you about ...Biden's new EPA regulations, coming into effect starting in 2027, that will force two-thirds of new car buyers into electric vehicles whether they want one or not. The tailpipe rules will effectively outlaw most gas and diesel engines by requiring a near-impossible 52% reduction in emissions.

On the Good Friday News Dump, the EPA announced similar restrictions on semi-trucks, again starting in just three years, and the changes will require one of those "fundamental transformations" the Left is so fond of.

SPOILER ALERT: "Fundamentally transform" means "we'll all be poorer."

NPR soft-pedaled industry complaints about the new rules "as unfeasible given current infrastructure." But the economic and technological reality is that it's going to take a lot more than thousands and thousands of new electric truck charging stations to get us from diesel power to Biden's fantasy of an all-electric trucking fleet.

"Zero-emission heavy-duty trucks exist today," NPR claims, "but are more expensive than traditional diesel vehicles. The EPA says that despite the upfront cost, over time the rules will save fleet owners money in reduced fuel and maintenance costs." That, however, is only a small (and misleading) part of the story. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

Currently, EV trucks are less than 1% of new sales and, according to the Wall Street Journal, nearly all of those sales "are in California, which heavily subsidizes and mandates their purchase." To do that, Californians enjoy, as it were, some of the highest taxes in the nation...

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