Jay Weber Show transcript 4-13-23 8:10am
As if to prove my point from yesterday: the leftists and eco-zealots are all a tingle over President Biden’s insanely impossible café standards for cars built after 2027.
This is the true climate zealots in Biden’s EPA coming up with standards that are intentionally impossible for car companies to meet...to force them to move their entire fleet over to electric.
These regulations represent a virtual ban on internal combustion engines. They also fly in the face of Biden’s earlier-equally ridiculous- goal of having America driving only electrics by 2050.
These regulations are an attempt to have us all driving electrics by 2032- within 8 years.
It has the automakers and the energy experts saying-it is an impossibility.
And i want to be clear, here: the auto industry execs are nearly all left-wingers, themselves. They have willingly caved time and time and time again to tougher café standards.
Remember-when President Trump got into office and eased these regulations- most of the car company execs were upset because California was demanding tougher standards and they wanted to blame the federal government for the super-expensive and crappier cars that are coming...
And so, this is not a group of industry execs who are evil conservatives. They’re liberals who have tied their fortunes to virtually every leftist whim-if it will make them money.
And even so- they said this EPA proposal is wildly out of proportion and impossible to meet Biden and his eco-zealots cannot just demand-in the moment-that 70 percent of all cars on the road be electric within 8 years- and make it happen.
Moreover, aside from the radical fringe climate zealots-no one asked for this.
The American people aren’t asking for electric cars and don’t want them. And so Biden and his team need to lie to the American people, again.
This is not a win, and the American people never asked for it.
The series of lies that the Biden EPA put out-related to this proposal- would choke the devil. They ludicrously claimed that this will save motorists thousands of dollars in fuel and maintenance costs, lead to more reliable, safer cars, and lessen air pollution deaths.
And they cannot quantify-or prove-any of that.
The cost of the car is going to be so cost-prohibitive that most Americans won’t be able to buy one...and we learned yesterday that quite often-electric cars are not repairable- due to the high cost of the battery replacement and so even EV’s that have been in only minor accidents are being totaled.
Insurance and replacement costs will be insane. This clown pretends maintenance costs will drop for owners not a chance.
These are 50 to 90-thousand-dollar vehicles whose batteries cost 20-grand to replace if they are in an accident or go bad-
And-they never mention the 3 to 5-grand that it will cost every single EV owner to upgrade their home’s amperage so they can charge their car.
So-you need to add costly home upgrades and much higher insurance to the cost of driving an EV.
EVs still make up less than six percent of the cars and trucks that are sold....and there is zero evidence- zero- that China and other African countries can keep up with the supply chain demands for rare earths that are needed to make these vehicles-
And the kicker is-they’ll all still be full of all sorts of plastics and resins that oil is required to make.
This is a massive farce being played on the American and European people.
And as i say-the auto industry execs perpetually suck up to government and love the democrats- but they and their trade groups sure were frantically deflecting blame yesterday.
Folks...these cars will be far more difficult to make. They will be far more expensive to make. That means they will be far, far more expensive to buy, and ensure, and charge off an electric grid that currently isn’t even close to being able to handle them all.
There is a gargantuan amount of eco-gaslighting here- by morons and extremists. And Biden is the chief nitwit.
I’m sure that he’s being told-thru his brain fog-that he’s going to be a historical giant of a president because of how radically he’s changing the country-
But he’s not changing anything for the better. Every one of his administration’s moves is reckless and radical and makes the country less functional and less safe- both domestically and globally.
Yesterday, we talked about the terrible national security issues that ‘going green by force of govt’ presents.
Biden and his regime are turning our ability to defend ourselves as a country- over to the Chinese communists.
We need reliable power-for everything-specially to power and win a war. If America’s dangerous dingbats have our entire energy supply chain anchored in China- how does world war three go, folks?
Yep. And we covered this yesterday: I believe the ‘thought leaders’ of this eco-movement know that it is impossible to transition us all over to electric vehicles...for all the reasons stated.
They are going to pretend we can do it- until fossil fuels and banned and they have achieved all the policy goals that bury the internal combustion engine.
And then-after grappling with the EV farce for a few years.... they’ll pivot and insist...well, all of you people who can’t afford a 100-thousand-dollar car are just going to have to bike or take the train then-because we aren’t going back.
We cannot go back to what worked. Fossil fuels were killing the planet. We must move forward by forcing the masses to either walk, pedal, or ride the tram.
This is how them accomplish their utopian, totalitarian goal of having us all living on top of each other in overcrowded cities...right next to the train tracks.
Maybe they will allow for some ‘car sharing’. Maybe your apartment building will be allowed to have one or two electric vans for you to check out once or twice a month to use for your personal purposes...but otherwise...it’s the train or you walk.
And no one. Aside from a sliver of true foolish zealots. Is asking for this.
Both gallop and the ap have polls out this week that shows 50 percent of Americans say they will refuse to buy an EV
If anything, the move to EVs should be handled like any other consumer change or shift: over time, with consumers making the choice -and proving-what products are viable, or reliable.
Government does not mean to be interfering here- with leftist regimes trying to create a green energy economy that isn’t at all realistic or viable- and even if it would be over time-
It sure isn’t viable-by govt force- and over the course of just 8 to 10 years.
The number of ‘real world’ problems with their plan...that the democrats and the eco-idiots are ignoring....is significant.
We’ve talked about all of the logistics and supply problems it poses. We’ve talked about the lack of a political will to start strip-mining half of America for these rare materials.
We haven’t talked about the 2/3 of Americans and American families who simply cannot afford an electric car. Yet again- America’s democrats are quite willing to harm and punish the very Americans they pretend to care so much about.
This is another massive attack on the poor. Isn’t it. Is the Biden regime giving any consideration to that?
No.
I guess they view them all as homeless people and crack heads who can live in tents... And if you’re living in a tent under a viaduct... You don’t need a car.
And no, congress cannot step in here and block this ludicrous agency order...because the republicans won’t get cooperation in the senate. And Joe Biden would never sign a bill blocking this extremism.
The only way to take us off this dangerously destructive path the left has us on-is to win elections. Take control of Washington.
And so far, republicans only want to argue amongst themselves. Enough of them are still so obsessed with trump and his 2020 grievances that they are allowing themselves to be sucked into another mistake in 2024.Three major election loses in a row isn’t enough yet.
And the dems probably-will have-permanent control of this country before the opposition party gets its act together.
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