Timing is ticking down on Joe Biden’s time in the White House.
Now, he’s working on securing a legacy that will last generations.
And Joe Biden created this awful problem for everyone with his electric vehicle mandate.
Joe Biden will spike inflation with his electric vehicle mandates
President Joe Biden has tried to fundamentally transform the transportation sector during his first term in office.
He instituted an electric vehicle mandate to kick in the 2030s by limiting the sale of non-electric passenger vehicles with new tailpipe emission standards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
And he dramatically increased the average mile per gallon for automakers’ fleets by upping the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
But his ambitions to electrify transportation go far beyond that.
Biden wants every vehicle on the road to be electric, whether it’s for personal or commercial use.
He’s going to force trucking companies that are the backbone of the country’s logistics system to switch to electric big rigs.
Virtually every product on a store shelf or that’s delivered at home travels by truck at some point during its journey.
The Institute for Energy Research predicted that the electric heavy-duty truck mandate would drive up costs for trucking companies that would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
And the mandate would bring supply chain disruptions.
“Under the currently proposed rules, about 30% of heavy-duty vocational trucks, which includes delivery trucks, garbage trucks, cement trucks, tractor-trailer trucks and school buses, will need to be zero emission by 2032. The rules also require that 40% of day cabs, which are heavy-duty trucks without a sleeper cab, will need to be zero emission vehicles,” Just the News reported.
California is trying to further Biden’s standards
California is trying to eventually phase out the use of diesel-powered heavy-duty trucks.
The state’s unelected environmental bureaucrats issued a regulation requiring that half of heavy-duty trucks be electric by 2035.
California receives many goods in its ports from Asia that out-of-state companies would have to comply with to do business there.
“I don’t see it happening. If California gets too strict, I think a lot of the trucking companies will kind of say, ‘Look, we’re not going to do business in your state. You’re going to be on your own,” long haul trucker Darryl Orr told Just the News.
There are serious questions about whether there would be enough charging stations for heavy-duty electric trucks or if the grid could handle this additional strain.
American Trucking Association (ATA) Chris Spear said his group opposes Biden’s electric mandate for those reasons.
“ATA opposes this rule in its current form because the post-2030 targets remain entirely unachievable given the current state of zero-emission technology, the lack of charging infrastructure, and restrictions on the power grid,” Spear said. “Any regulation that fails to account for the operational realities of trucking will set the industry and America’s supply chain up for failure.”
Joe Biden is setting the country up for a nightmare by forcing big rigs to be powered by electricity.
