{"id":253785,"date":"2023-04-20T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253785"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:21:15","slug":"president-biden-may-have-mandated-a-death-spiral-for-the-auto-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253785","title":{"rendered":"President Biden may have mandated a death spiral for the auto industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ronald Stein<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Biden administration wants to mandate further limits on emissions and boost electric car sales by 2032<\/a>. His proposed regulation announced April 12, 2023, by the Environmental Protection Agency, would set tailpipe emissions limits for the 2027 through 2032 model years that are the strictest ever imposed \u2014 and call for more new EV sales than the auto industry agreed to less than two years ago. This latest surprise mandate may be a quicker entry into a death spiral for the auto industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden is unaware of the poverty of the world\u2019s population. At least 80 percent of humanity<\/strong><\/a>, or more than six billion in this world are living on less  than $10 a day<\/strong><\/a>, and billions living with little to no access to electricity<\/a>.<\/strong> Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He complains that air\u2019s CO2 levels today have risen to 420 ppm. He remains uninformed to the fact the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was reduced by about 90 percent during the last 150 million years. CO2 now represents 0.04 percent of the atmosphere. If further reductions continue, CO2 will inevitably fall to levels that threaten the survival of plants and life, which require a minimum of 150 ppm to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our elite leaders may be oblivious to the fact that every person, animal, or anything in the few wealthy countries like the U.S., Germany, the UK, and Australia that causes emissions to harmfully rise could vanish off the face of the earth; or even die off, and global emissions will still explode in the coming years and decades ahead over the population and economic growth of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While President Biden is focused on emission reductions, he may lack an understanding of the \u201cpieces of the EV puzzle\u201d that may be the formula for an automobile industry death spiral:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Extremely limited ethical supply chain for the lithium to make current technology EV batteries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Lack of sufficient number of buyers, outside the elite profile of existing EV owners<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Shortages and inflation for all the material supplies to make vehicles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Concern about sufficient renewable electricity being able to charge EV batteries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. The Governments\u2019 lack of ethical, moral, and social responsibilities, by using subsidies that encourage the continued exploitations of people with yellow, brown, and black skin that are mining for exotic minerals and metals in poorer developing countries to support the green movement in wealthy countries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Where are the materials to build the batteries?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While the race is on to produce more lithium in the United States as the supply chain for the major component of EV batteries, lithium, is already being compromised internationally. Those international dark clouds on the lithium supply chain may be a prelude to a rejection of strip mining in America, that represents the most environmentally regulated and controlled communities in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Where are the buyers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The current EV ownership profiles of the elite is that they are highly educated, highly compensated, multi-car families, with low mileage requirements for the families second car, are dramatically different from most vehicle owners that are single-car owners, not highly educated, nor highly compensated. Mandating a change to EV ownership and forced austerity may face a rebellion from those that need transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With vehicle prices escalating and interest rates rising, fewer and fewer are able to afford the purchase of any vehicle, ICE or EV. Soon, they\u2019ll only be affordable to the few wealthy elite. For the more than 6 billion in the world earning less than $10 a day, vehicle ownership may never happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Where are the products to build the vehicles, as renewable electricity cannot manufacture any products?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Most people do not know that crude oil is useless unless it can be manufactured into something usable. All the products for the EV, from electronics, plastics, glass, leather, tires, etc. are all made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There were almost 700 oil refineries<\/strong><\/a> in the world as of January 2020, but as a result on continuous over regulations, permitting delays, aging equipment, over the next five years 20 percent of the them are projected to close. That is a whopping 140 manufacturers that will close. Shortages and inflation in perpetuity may be the new norm as society\u2019s demands for the products manufactured from crude oil are continually exceeding the supply from the diminishing number of manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Where is the electricity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The global fleet of road vehicles in 2022 numbered about 1.446 billion<\/strong><\/a>, that\u2019s with a \u201cB\u201d.   Of this huge global fleet, only 12 million were electric vehicles (EV) in 2021<\/strong><\/a>. Thus, less than one percent of the worldwide road vehicle fleet were EVs, and more than 99-percent of the global fleet was \u201cyet to be replaced\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We have all read about the concerns toward \u201cgrid stability\u201d to be able to charge those EV batteries. Well, the UK may have given the world a heads-up on why electricity rates may be rising in perpetuity. In the UK, their concerns for grid stability with fewer and fewer continuous uninterruptible power generations facilities has implemented regulations that went into force in June 2022, that restrict charging times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n