{"id":303598,"date":"2024-02-20T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303598"},"modified":"2024-02-20T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:33:23","slug":"biden-is-realising-just-how-unpopular-green-evs-are-with-help-from-the-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=303598","title":{"rendered":"Biden is realising just how unpopular green EVs are \u2013 with help from the unions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u2018With each passing day, it becomes clearer the electric vehicle mandate is unrealistic\u2019<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what is more important to the Biden White House, campaign politics or meeting its nominal climate goals? The administration\u2019s rhetorical flourishes say one thing, but its policy actions seldom manage to match the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported Saturday<\/a>\u00a0that the Biden administration will delay its onerous new tailpipe emissions standards as an election-year sop to the United Auto Workers and other union special interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing only unnamed sources, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0said the Biden regime would delay current requirements for automakers to rapidly increase EV sales in just the next few years, pushing the targets back until after 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sub-head to the article gives away the purely political motivations behind the move, saying, \u201cThe change to planned rules was an election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to people familiar with the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to labor union pressure, this latest move by the administration to adjust its agenda was likely impacted by the letter it received last<\/a> November from nearly 4,000 US car dealerships urging a slowdown in its EV mandate agenda due to low consumer demand for the cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile the goals of the regulations are admirable, they require consumer acceptance to become a reality,\u201d the signatories wrote. \u201cWith each passing day, it becomes more apparent that this attempted electric vehicle mandate is unrealistic based on current and forecasted customer demand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is key to note that the Times <\/em>story also specifies pressures coming into the White House from auto executives, which should hardly surprise anyone. One can easily envision complaints from executives at Ford, for example, which just reported<\/a> a whopping $4.7 billion loss for 2023 in its Model e EV division, along with an expectation the division will  lose another $5.5 billion for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losses at General Motors\u2019 EV business<\/a> also ran into the billions for the year. Regardless of the utopian desires of the Biden regulators, investors in these and other US automakers are going to have only so much patience for this sort of financial malpractice before a general rebellion begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth, of course, is that every element of the Biden energy and climate agenda is motivated almost entirely by partisan politics. If a given policy move is not a response to pressure from the climate alarm lobby that has collectively become one of the Democrat party\u2019s biggest source of campaign funding, it is likely a payoff to labor unions who play a slightly smaller funding role, or to trial lawyer interests who support the administration\u2019s lawfare efforts to put its political opposition \u2013 most notably presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump – into prison before this November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s move in January to halt permitting processes related to proposed new export facilities for liquefied natural gas is another clear example. The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported<\/a> on February 8 that decision was motivated by pressures from leftwing billionaire interests like the Rockefeller Family Fund and Michael Bloomberg who \u201chave provided millions of dollars in recent years to front-line environmental groups that are campaigning against fossil-fuel projects, including LNG terminals that have been proposed on the Gulf Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following an intense multi-year pressure campaign, the\u00a0WSJ<\/em>\u00a0quotes one unnamed White House source as stating, \u201cThey got our attention.\u201d Next thing you know, a new executive order disrupting a rapidly expanding global LNG market is drafted and signed for the obvious motivation of keeping all the dark money flowing from the billionaires into Biden campaign-supporting political action committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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