Trump Vows to Axe Biden’s Electric Car Mandate and Other Green Schemes on “Day One”
Donald Trump has vowed to axe Government support for electric cars and other green schemes from “day one” if he regains control of the White House. The Telegraph has more.
Ahead of November’s Presidential election, the Republican nominee said he would scrap rules that will gradually outlaw petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles, while also describing electric car subsidies as an “incredible waste”.
Mr. Trump has previously threatened [er, pledged?] to gut President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which provides subsidies of $7,500 per electric car, and has been a vocal critic of emission rules designed to phase out combustion engines over the next decade or so.
Speaking at his party’s national convention, he told supporters: “I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one, thereby saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration which is happening right now and saving U.S. customers thousands and thousands of dollars per car.”
He added: “By the way, I’m all for electric, they have their application, but if someone wants to buy a gasoline-powered car or a hybrid they’re going to be able to do it.
“And we’re going to make that change on day one.”
As well as targeting electric cars, Mr. Trump, who was President from 2017 to 2021, said he will also axe support for other green schemes bankrolled by President Biden.
Mr. Trump said: “We will end the ridiculous and actually incredible waste of taxpayer dollars that is fuelling the inflation crisis.
“They’ve spent trillions of dollars on things having to do with the green new scam – it’s a scam.”
Unlike President Biden, Mr. Trump also said he was not opposed to Chinese electric car makers setting up shop in America – so long as they build their factories in the U.S.
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How will this announcement sit with electric boondoggle maker, arch grifter, free speech supporter (not my belief) and mega-Trump funder, Mr Elon Reeve Musk, I wonder?!
If Trump falls out with Musk, and Musk gives his funding (stolen from the taxpayer because he is saving da planet) to the Democrats instead and transforms X formerly known as Twitter into Biden Propaganda Central, you can all expect Sleepy Joe to win another term.
I’m off into the forest.
There is a future for electric cars. That’s what The Don is saying, and I believe that too. When the battery technology has matured, and we have a stable base of cheap electricity production, then they will have their place. However, thats for the market to decide. Bribing people to have them is wholly wrong in a market economy. Tesla will carry on much as they do now.
“When the battery technology has matured…”
Please define “matured”.
“…stable base of cheap electricity production…”
LOL
No, Neil. The future is not electric.
Yes, Tesla will probably carry on losing money on every car it sells, only showing profit when the government gives it our money in the form ZEV and GHG credits.
In Leeds, I am seeing a lot of stranded electric buses. Private individuals are realising that electric cars are nonsense, so the charging companies and BEV manufacturers are now flogging this crap to idiotic councils who happily spend other people’s money on what other people tell them are other people’s problems.
Petrol (and diesel) is 14x more energy dense than the best batteries. Let that sink in.
Solid state batteries are more damage resistant and store more energy per kilo.
As to the electricity well space based solar is 50 years in the future just like nuclear fusion.
I think there is a lot of development going on in the trade for that. However, there will still be problems of the external system load for charging them. After all, if a typical car has a lot more capacity, they will either need more time or a more powerful supply to top them up. That said, a more useful working range might attract more customers.
Solid state batteries
LOL. We are nowhere near close to having solid state batteries. They’ve been a pipedream for ages.
You’ve been reading too many clickbait articles.
There is a lot of work going on to develop new EV batteries, I think that eventually they will come up with some technology that works well for local utility travel. That will be fine as far as it goes but it will not deliver the travel freedom of the open road that comes with a petrol/diesel car.
The existing battery tech has proven very successful for local utility travel. See the milk float.
Can’t wait for the “Milk Float ” Grand Prix.
You mean like a slow Formula E?
Never say ‘never’ Marcus. Humans have solved many problems, and this is just another one.
What is the problem that battery electric vehicles are supposed to solve, exactly?
I’d have loved to have had an electric scooter when I was a kid. I’d have been a real menace but as long as I was having fun, what the Hell? Of course, the tech wasn’t available way back then in the dark ages.
Call me when one can buy a reliable EV for about 140 hours of minimum wage (after tax etc) and get about 35 miles (road tax, insurance, maintenance, energy included) for another hour of minimum wage. This is the travel option I want my grandchildren to have in about a decade from now – I’ll bet it won’t be a used EV.
“When the battery technology has matured… “
Would that be when we have scaled up nuclear fusion reactors, serviceable hydrogen cells, and all that ‘free’ green hydrogen to power them?
Battery technology is about 150 years old – if it matures any more it will be dead.
I’ve had several electric cars, and they were great! I think you can still get them.
They were called Scalextric!
I’m with you. I don’t dislike EV’s just for the sake of it but because the technology isn’t there yet – it may be decades before it is. There almost certainly will be advances in science and engineering in the years to come that extend battery life, reduce energy, and accelerate charging times which will make EVs a real alternative (ignoring the soulless drive they deliver). I’m also not against recycling energy or finding alternatives to fossil fuel – as long as there’s no political motives why would anyone be against having options that are of low environmental impact? Surely nobody’s actually in favour of simply continuing to deplete natural resources which have a finite supply? We’re a long way off the tech. at the moment though and, of course, there absolutely is huge political motive to push these things down our throats.
“Finite supply”
Everything is finite. Some things cannot be used as quickly as they are made, though. Oil included.
Better to extract the oil quickly, before another megathrust earthquake in the Pacific releases trillions of barrels’ worth of the lovely stuff into the ocean where it is a lot harder for us to get at.
That’s simply not true, not everything is finite… unless you’re talking about the life of the planet being finite? Even then, the universe is not finite as many other things are not. There is nothing wrong with trying to find sources of energy that are infinite (with respect the planet we occupy) e.g. wind, rain, sun, waves etc. The problem isn’t the search for other sources of energy, the problem is the political motives that prop up that search. The oil theory is a theory, not proven. Look, all I’m saying is that to refuse to want to look at other potential sources for energy is, well, a bit odd.
I suggest “if” instead of “when”.
only politicians snd spinners think that staying a hope will automatically produce the outcome hoped for.
there are enormous issues of basic chemistry and physics against the improvements to batteries required for EVs to be other than a specialist or vanity product.
X is musk’s hedge against being over invested in leccy cars. So actually he’s sat on both sides of this fence and can’t lose.
Tesla and X could both go bust. I wouldn’t be surprised. SpaceX less likely to go bust, but Musk hasn’t really been involved with that for years since his security clearance was revoked for being a drug addict.
I think Musk has been so vocal in his criticism of the “left” that he couldn’t plausibly switch, even on the EV issue.
People clearly have very short memories. I remember when Musk was very much in bed with the Left. After all, if it wasn’t for the Left throwing money at him and loony people buying TSLA, he’d be a relative nobody.
He changes sides whenever the fancy takes him.
Maybe. He pissed a lot of people off buying Twitter and changing it, don’t really see what was in it for him. Time will tell!
It is/was a vanity project and an action driven by pure hatred and corruption. There was a very vocal, well-resourced, resourceful, well-informed and intelligent crowd on Twitter who were very successfully revealing the scale of the fraud at Tesla (which is still going on, btw, and which is enabled at the highest levels of state). TSLAQ. Musk was constantly threatening to buy Twitter so he could remove the members of the group. Musk is an extremely bitter, vicious and vindictive individual.
I know. I was a member of the group. And no, I still have not had my anonymous profile reactivated.
I don’t doubt he’s prepared to go to all sorts of ends to protect his business, but overall I think he has been positive for freedom of speech. We shall see.
I heard a lot of that which was broadcast via the BBC World Service in the small hours today. Perhaps he will support new pipelines from Alaska etc, but is probably looking for votes from the coal trade in the “rust belt” states as well. And no doubt we are a useful source of revenue for their exports of liquified natural gas as well.
He was building the keystone pipeline when in office, Brandon cancelled it.
So Trump wins and gets rid if electric car mandates. Great.
Then when some day in the future a socialist president gets elected and decides to bring the mandates back, then what?
How can we get the state to stay away from decisions that belong in the marketplace once and for all?
You can’t, all you can do with socialists is play wak a mole. Communists have infinite ways for self reinvention.
The market place is the answer. So long as there are absolutely NO subsidies for the electric vehicles they succeed or fail on their own merits.
And they already failed. In the early 1900s.
They only exist now because Musk stole Martin Eberhard’s little hobby company (Tesla) realising that electric cars would sell very well with the save da planet brigade and that he would be subsidised every step of the way by greenwashing governments.
All you can do is try to persuade your fellow citizens that it’s right thing to do.
May be the good lord did turn Trumps head afterall if he’s not subsidising these electric monstrosities.
Oh dear. Can you imagine Starmer, Miliband and Trump having lunch. I would love to be a fly on the wall. ——–The Eco Socialist Parasites and the Climate Cult Destroyer sharing jam and scones. —————————“Ed can you pass the salt. I would watch those artichokes if I were you, I think they look a bit tainted. But then again it is all down to personal taste buddy, oh and by the way I just withdrew from your eco-communist fraud treaty. Your Paris Climate Agreement is toast. There is no way you climate fraudsters are going to fleece the United States any longer while China and India burn coal like it is going out of fashion, if you excuse the pun”——-Trump will wipe the floor with these losers that are prepared to impoverish their own people to get a little gold star on their lapel from the phony UN planet savers.
Reminds me of this meeting between Trump and Stoltenberg (NATO) a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
If the USA does go down this route? where will that leave this government? To significantly row back on any of the UK’s net-zero suicide ambitions it would mean rescinding or substantially amending the UK Climate Change Act. Can you imagine Ed Milliband or any other net-zero acolytes putting up with an attempt to change the Climate Change Act?
For the UK it is difficult not to conclude that we have got to go through a lot of net-zero pain before the scales fall from enough people’s eyes so that any sort of change might be possible.
Allow consumers to make their own choice: how novel.
I wonder if it will catch on here?
Bravo Donald Trump.
Yes..and he actually used the words that we DS readers often use…”it’s a scam”… Bravo DJT…. I’ll take that as today’s good news….
Make no mistake, God sent President Trump 🇺🇲. EVs are the Betamax of the automotive industry.