There aren’t enough rare earth metals for the New World Order, generation capacity, infrastructure, money to pay for it, or time to build it if we could. So, are New Hampshire Democrats stooges of villains?
Related: California Bureaucrats to Create NH State Laws?
House Bill 92 requires adopting the “innovative vehicle emissions standards pursuant to section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act.”
Innovative?
In the name of emissions reductions, California demands unique blends of motor fuels. It requires specific vehicle modifications on its roads; if yours doesn’t have them, you can’t drive it there. And, famously, it has banned all combustion vehicles by 2035, an announcement right after which it had to ask citizens not to charge their EVs because there wasn’t enough electricity.
HB92 would tie New Hampshire to a room full of unelected bureaucrats over 3000 miles away based on rules that can’t be met and are worse for the environment than doing nothing.
The first-order problem is that they deprive you of choice, but there are so many other problems we can’t ignore. You’re not cutting emissions. You are offshoring them. EVs are too expensive. Electricity is too expensive. And we’ll need a lot more power we don’t and won’t have (hello rationing!),
There aren’t enough rare earth metals to build the vehicles and infrastructure and replace them as they wear out. The process of mining is not just emissions-heavy. There are significant human rights and human trafficking issues. Manufacturing batteries, vehicles, grid upgrades, and charging infrastructure is emissions-heavy.
We can ignore all that at our peril, but you can’t disregard this. There is not enough time or material to achieve the stated goal. Period. California’s Clean Air standard as it applies to vehicles in a fantasy. Pursuing it would require tradeoffs that would redirect resources to such a degree as to create significant economic hardships through price hikes, including the cost of electricity to run homes and businesses, if the electricity is even available.
Scarcity is part and parcel of this vision.
It will drive up the cost of vehicles, and vehicle ownership, including operating and repair costs, all for nothing. Literally nothing. EVs are not greener. They create an increased risk of fire, producing significant toxic emissions and burning hot such that fire departments need to use thousands of gallons of water to contain them until they burn out.
Assuming there is any electricity to charge them. Energy will also be scarce, not just for charging vehicles or running the economy. You might not have enough to keep the lights on or heat your homes in winter.
If that doesn’t get you, we can step back to giving California Bureaucrats power to regulate what happens in New Hampshire. I can see Democrats loving that, but does anyone else?
