Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the charge in pushing Democrats’ environmental extremist agenda.
She’s discovering the hard way that the rest of the country isn’t as excited about it.
And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was fuming over this bad news about Democrats’ environmental extremist agenda.
Study finds drivers don’t switch to electric vehicles
One of the key components of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal agenda is banning gasoline-powered vehicles to force everyone to buy expensive, less reliable electric vehicles.
President Joe Biden made forcing drivers into electric vehicles one of the top priorities of his regime.
The Biden-Harris regime showered the auto industry with taxpayer money to prop them up and tried to lure consumers into buying them with a $7,500 tax credit.
The Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued stringent new emission standards that will force nearly two-thirds of new vehicles sold by 2032 to be electric or zero emissions in order to comply.
Democrats’ goal is to eventually force everyone to drive an electric vehicle.
A study from the Institute for Energy Research (IER) found that the mass adoption of electric vehicles is plagued with problems.
“We argue the EV transition is going to take a lot of government coercion to make happen,” IER vice president of policy Kenny Stein, one of the study’s authors, argued. “It is a very difficult process, and it is not a very desirable process to force.”
Inflation-weary consumers have to pay through the nose if they want to switch to electric.
Edmunds found that the average price of an electric vehicle is about $53,000 compared to roughly $35,000 for a gasoline-powered one.
Electric vehicles don’t have enough public charging stations
The lack of public charging stations makes it a challenge for someone who can’t install a charger in their home or a driver who wants to go on longer trips.
2021’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill doled out $7.5 billion to build public charging stations.
Three years later, only eight public charging stations have been built with the money.
Stein warned that the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of 500,000 new public charging stations by 2030 could collapse the electric grid.
“Up until two years ago or so, electricity demand in the United States was flat so nobody worried about running out of electricity,” Stein explained. “But with the data center boom and AI [artificial intelligence], there’s been a sudden spike in demand for electricity, and demand is expected to continue growing.”
The EPA has issued new rules designed to put coal-fired power plants out of business and hamper the construction of new natural gas ones.
“Now you’re suddenly talking about not having enough electricity to supply everyday use at the same time we are trying to force pre-existing transportation systems to run on electricity,” Stein said. “When you combine that EVs are more expensive and less flexible with the possibility we may be running out of electricity to keep homes cool and to operate industrial facilities, the logic of pursuing [the EV transition] gets even worse.”
Stein revealed that one of the biggest myths about electric vehicles is that they’re better for the environment.
“One of the biggest sources of emissions from vehicles is tire wear, because tires are made primarily from oil, and as your tires roll along the ground, they degrade and release particulates into the air,” Stein stated. “Electric vehicles are much heavier than gas-powered cars due to their batteries, which requires them to have heavier tires that wear faster, so EVs actually have much higher particulate emissions than comparable internal combustion engine vehicles.”
Electric vehicles are lemons that Democrats are trying to force on the public.
