Andrews: EPA plotting in favor of electric vehicles
They’re coming for your truck. And your SUV and your car. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported last week that, by 2032, the government will restrict new gasoline-powered vehicle sales to 29% of all new vehicle sales.
Lucid Group lost $145,824 per EV sale last year. Ford only lost $64,731 per EV sale; I suppose they plan on making it up in volume. Automobile manufacturers make their profits from selling gasoline-powered vehicles, which means in eight years, the few new gasoline-powered vehicles available will necessarily come with higher prices and, I predict, higher demand, which will drive prices through the stratosphere.
In April, 2023, the WSJ reported that if we replace all 250 million gasoline powered vehicles in the U.S. at a cost of some $12.5 trillion (my estimate), we would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by a whopping 0.18% – meaning that 99.82% of all global GHG emissions will continue.
Electric vehicles are a non-starter in rural America. I propose that we eliminate the Dept. of Energy (annual savings: $129 billion), and that Congress severely reign-in EV mandates from the EPA.
The masterminds who are plotting to replace our baseline, always-there electricity with intermittent, not-always-there juice – while simultaneously adding 50% demand to the grid via EV charging – are the brightest among us. They all went to the right schools. We are told to trust them, yet I doubt most of them could tell you where a package of hamburger comes from.
And know this: They are coming for your truck and for our way of life. Somebody needs to stop them!
Russ Andrews
Carbondale
