I was never likely to buy a Hybrid vehicle – too expensive -but if you put that idea in the perspective of an energy transition, that would have been the only way to begin. Transition suggests a phasing in or out. What we got instead was an all-electric Vehicle vanguard. Push combustion engine vehicles off a cliff and drive this, even though nothing about that move makes any sense.
We don’t have the materials to make vehicles or the infrastructure nor the manpower and revenue to get it done in any time frame. You might as well have said flying electric cars. The same people would be priced in or out. Government force repalced common sense as car makers retooled to take advantage of generous taxpyaer backed incentives, only they were not generous enough. At the end fo the day there was no way to attract the middle-class and automakers lost billions. EV makers are collapsing or going belly up. And Obamae already did one of those bailouts so another seems unlikley.
We are reminded of an admonishment common from paretns or guardians. If [blank] jumped off a bridge would you do it too? In the case of EVs the answer was yes, but the tide has turned. Car makers have decided that their investors don’t like eating billions of dollars on products no one wants. They do not, after all, have a way to print money.But the could build hybrids.
All the Presidents Emissions Standards
Government meddling is, of course, to blame. The EPA sets unrealistic fleet mileage standards to force its transportation vision on America without thought to what that will do to transpoeration or America. Car makers look for ways to meet it so they can keep making cars people actually want and need. And while we know that vision is the separation of Americans and mobility, that transition is a much moredifficult oen to impose withoug the use of police powers so the Feds figured, lets mandate EVs and be done with it.
It is an incredinly ignorant and irresposnible way to do do things so , naturally, California lead the way. States filled with Democrats wanting to impress California singed on without any regard to teh consequences. Unaffordable, impracticle, and in some cases destructive, and they’ve not backed down but For Mortor Company has discovred the true meaning of the word transition. Instead of jumping off a cliff, it has decided make fewer EVs and more hybrids.
Hybrids would be the first step. Plug-in hybrids the second. There should be no third. And that’s as a mater of consumer preference. Nothing about these lowers emissions and we are nowhere near being able to operate an all electric socisety with lower emissions. The EV push wasn’t just shoving transporation off a liff it was taking the rest of society with it.
Ford’s other move? They are retooling EV plants to build Super Duty trucks.
“Super Duty is a vital tool for businesses and people around the world and, even with our Kentucky Truck Plant and Ohio Assembly Plant running flat out, we can’t meet the demand,” said Ford CEO Jim Farley in a press release. “This move benefits our customers and supercharges our Ford Pro commercial business.”
Democrats obsessed with crippling the transportation sector will be weeping in the cabernet and doubling down on the deceit. They are all in on the mission so if American’s want cheap abundant energy again, and cars they can afford, there is an election coming up in a few months. Choose wisely.