President Biden is poised to “transform” and “reform” the entire auto industry, “first with carrots, now with sticks,” notes the Washington Post, as if dictating the output of a major industry is within his purview. ‘area of government of the executive power. .
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing draconian emissions limits for vehicles, ensuring that 67 percent of all new cars and trucks produced within nine years will be electric. This is state coercion. It is anti-democratic. We are not governed; we are managed
In fascist economies, a powerful centralized state, often led by a demagogue who plays on the nationalist impulses of the people, controls both manufacturing and trade and dictates prices and wages for the “common good.”
Any excessive unpatriotic profits are captured by the state. All economic activity must comply with state approval. And friendly companies looking for rentals are voluntary participants. Now, I’m not saying that we already live in a fascist economic state. I’m just saying that the economic platform of the Democratic Party seems to want us to be.
Coverage of Mr. Biden’s edict has gone exactly as one might expect. “Biden makes big push for electric vehicles. Is America ready?” asks Politico, for example. The presumption of so much modern press coverage is based on the assumption that leftist ideas are part of an inevitable social evolution toward enlightenment.
The only question that remains is when the slack-jawed yokels will finally catch on in Indiana and Texas.
Sorry, electric vehicles are not a technological advance, or much more environmentally friendly, compared to vehicles with internal combustion engines. Most of the amenities EV manufacturers like to brag about have been a standard feature of gas cars for decades.
Electric vehicles are a sideline technology at best. And in terms of practicality, cost and convenience, they are a regression. If electric vehicles are more efficient and save us money, as administration officials claim, manufacturers should not be forced and bribed to produce them.
The problem for Democrats is that consumers already have perfectly serviceable and affordable gas cars that, until recently, could fuel up cheaply and drive long distances without stopping for long periods of time.
Fossil fuels, also the predominant energy source used to power electric cars, are the most efficient, affordable, portable and useful form of energy. We have a great offer. In recent years, we have become the largest oil producer in the world.
There are tens of billions of barrels of fossil fuels readily available here at home and vast quantities around the world. When we run out, if ever, we will have invented much better ways of moving vehicles than plugging an electric vehicle battery, which is made by emitting twice as much gas into the air as a traditional car engine, to an antiquated windmill.
“I want everyone to know that this EPA is committed to protecting the health and well-being of every person on this planet,” explained EPA’s Michael Regan when announcing the edicts. No one is safer in an electric vehicle than a gas vehicle.
The authoritarian’s justification for economic control is almost always “security”. But the whole “safety” claim is tied to the perpetually disproven theory that our society cannot safely and relatively cheaply adapt to slight changes in climate.
If the state can regulate “greenhouse gases” as an existential threat, it has unlimited power to regulate virtually the entire economy. This is why politicians treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic event.
Yet in almost every quantifiable way, the climate is less dangerous to humanity now than it has ever been. And the more they try to scare us, the less people care.
So let the Chinese Communists worry about keeping their population “safe”. We keep this innovative, open and free.
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