Biden’s EPA released new rules to force the trucking industry to switch to unaffordable and inefficient electric trucks in less than ten years.
The new rules require heavy-duty trucks and buses to be zero-emissions by 2032. It will force smaller trucking companies out of business.
The excuse is climate change, but it gives them control over all of us. It will destroy the vehicle industry, and it turns travel over to Maoist China.
Report from Fox News:
The Environmental Protection Agency announced the new regulations Friday morning, and officials said they represent the strongest-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards of their kind. The rules will kick in beginning in 2026 for model year 2027 vehicles and progressively become more stringent through model year 2032, forcing a larger number of trucks and buses to be zero-emissions in that time frame.
Overall, EPA said the aggressive standards will avoid a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions and provide $13 billion in annualized net societal benefits related to public health, the climate and business savings. The agency claims that the regulations will set the heavy-duty vehicle industry on a “trajectory for sustained growth.”
The new regulations apply to short-haul and long-haul tractor-trailer trucks, in addition to vocational trucks like delivery vehicles, garbage trucks, school and public transit buses, concrete trucks and fire trucks. EPA previously projected that the standards could lead to 50% of vocational trucks, 35% of short-haul tractor-trailers and 25% of long-haul tractor-trailers produced in 2032 being electric.
Less than 1% of new truck sales in the U.S. are zero-emissions, according to the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, which represents the world’s leading manufacturers of heavy-duty vehicles.
However, the announcement immediately received pushback from the trucking industry and energy producers, who argued that it would lead to higher costs for trucking companies.
“Small business truckers, who happen to care about clean air for themselves and their kids as much as anyone, make up 96% of trucking,” said Todd Spencer, president of Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, an organization that represents more than 150,000 members across all 50 states and Canada. “Yet, this administration seems dead set on regulating every local mom-and-pop business out of existence with its flurry of unworkable environmental mandates.”
In a joint statement, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers President and CEO Chet Thompson and American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers called on Congress to immediately overturn the regulations. They also said they were prepared to take the administration to court over the rule.
“This is yet another example of the Biden administration’s whole-of-government effort to eliminate choices for American consumers, businesses, and industries,” Thompson and Sommers said. “There is significant uncertainty regarding the technological and infrastructure capability to comply with this rule, which may threaten the speed and cost of goods moving throughout the country.”
This alone is enough reason for me to vote for Donald Trump.
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Joe Biden the Sly-den is your typical white elitist supremacist who is nothing more than a droolling slug and opportunist. Those electric trucks are his way of showing favor to the chicoms who mainly produce them. Guess it wan’t enough that he allowed the chicom rogues to deliberately infect the world with a vyrus plague.
“Zero emissions” is a blatant lie – EVs are harder on the environment than gas and diesel vehicles. Politicians are nuts. And the EPA has no foundation in the Constitution – should be abolished, and soon.
Bets the GOP will not publicize this.
Trump needs to make the EPA go the way of the Dodo. But first reassign all its personnel to Haiti.
MAGA!! TRUMP 2024!!