How people will could circumvent govt EV mandates

 

THE GOV’T CAN’T MAKE YOU BUY AN EV, but the EPA is doing so indirectly by setting CO2 emission standards so low for a carmaker’s fleet average that they will have to make lots of EVs. If they can’t sell ‘em? Then they’ll have to buy ‘compliance credits’. Bribin’ Biden wants 2/3 of all light vehicles to be EV by 2032.  But even with IRA subsidies, the Energy Dept. says only 19% of sales will be EV by 2050. This amounts to Chinese-style central planning where the auto makers answer first to the political overlords rather than consumers.  Here’s what I think will happen. 1. It could be politically overthrown by the voters—but remember half are lib nuts.  2. People in rural areas will do what they did to tractors.  When tractor companies said all new tractors had proprietary software, so could only be repaired in dealer shops (which often were 60-90 miles away) farmers took revenge.  There were kits available to outfit an old tractor with GPS planting guidance and the like.  So farmers bid up prices on low-hours older tractors.  Then the local mechanic could work on them.  Tractor companies saw sales plummet and most have now capitulated, removing their requirement.  So too, rural people who can’t use EVs (poor range, long charge time, extra power infrastructure, high price) will outfit used cars to hybridize or just drive as-is with super maintenance. 3. Exempt larger vehicles, like 1 ½ ton trucks, will be increasingly bought for town use. And if the govt drives the price of fuel way up, I intend to de-compress a diesel to use fuel oil.  Some might create a truck that runs on wood chips (has been done) or coal w/ steam.  This could all be good clean fun.  That way rich urbanites can feel themselves morally superior at saving the planet. Everybody out here, by God's grace, just lives on the planet.