Though the average price of an electric vehicle is about twice that of a subcompact car, this week the Biden administration is poised to implement regulations that will punish gas-powered vehicles and provide space for electric vehicles.
The EPA intended to target cars that would begin applying the new requirements from model years 2027 to 2032, according to the proposed guidelines from May 2023. “EPA deems it appropriate to adopt new rules for both criterion pollutants and GHG at this time for model years after 2026, rather than maintaining its prior strategy of coordinating the standards but setting them in separate regulatory actions,” the statement reads.
Nobody will benefit health-wise from it. According to Fox News Digital CEO and president of the American Energy Institute, Jason Isaac, there won’t be much of an impact on emissions. We have demonstrated that the air quality in our country is now the finest in the world. The cost of electric vehicles will still be higher for those who purchase internal combustion engine vehicles. This is about chasing after big, leftist benefactors and climate alarmists who are demanding an energy revolution at any cost. It’s all part of the marketing.
“President Biden has been categorical since 2020 that he intended to deploy his federal agencies and the State of California to block sales of new gas vehicles,” said Chet Thompson, president and CEO of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. “The EPA’s regulations for passenger cars will have the most impact—they require that around 70% of new car sales be electric in less than eight years, despite the fact that a lot of government efforts are pushing us in this direction. Customers, businesses, and national security all lose out. At the price of our hard-earned energy superiority, it would increase American dependence on China and its stranglehold on the mineral supply chain and electric car batteries.
The Advanced Clean Cars II law, which went into effect in California in 2022, mandates that by 2035, all newly sold light-duty cars in the state must have zero emissions. According to the EPA, Oregon and Vermont are probably going to follow suit, along with New York, Massachusetts, and Washington State. Many other states could enact such laws as part of their commitment to the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance.
The EPA said that they will be enforcing requirements for light-duty automobiles beginning in MYs 2027–2022, and that these regulations will get stricter over the next six years. The industry-wide average objective for the light-duty fleet in MY 2032 is 82 g/mile of CO2, which is the result of the proposed standards, which seek to lower expected fleet average GHG emissions target levels by 56% from the current MY 2026 requirements.
