{"id":332303,"date":"2024-06-10T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332303"},"modified":"2024-06-10T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T13:46:13","slug":"the-latest-on-the-federal-war-against-internal-combustion-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332303","title":{"rendered":"The Latest On The Federal War Against Internal Combustion Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"388\" data-attachment-id=\"332306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=332306\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?fit=1588%2C851&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1588,851\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0The_future_Banner_230103_114453\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?fit=723%2C388&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?resize=723%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?resize=1024%2C549&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?resize=300%2C161&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?resize=768%2C412&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?resize=1536%2C823&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?resize=1200%2C643&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?w=1588&amp;ssl=1 1588w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattancontrarian.com\/blog\/2024-6-8-the-latest-on-the-federal-war-against-internal-combustion-vehicles\">Manhattan Contrarian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattancontrarian.com\/?author=503a7965e4b0b543ed24305c\">Francis Menton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m old enough to remember a time when there were serious environmental concerns with internal combustion engine vehicles. NOx and SOx emissions caused a thick layer of brown smog in the atmosphere during calm weather spells in summer and winter; and a layer of black soot would cover the snow along the roadside in the winter. But gradually that all got cleaned up. Today the bona fide serious environmental concerns about internal combustion engines are far in the past. But the war to eliminate them \u2014 supposedly on environmental grounds \u2014 is just ramping up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Biden Administration is all in with the plan to get rid of the ICE car. Why? It seems to have something to do with the non-existent \u201cclimate crisis.\u201d Meanwhile, Congress has passed no legislation authorizing the executive agencies to force ICE vehicles off the market. Nor is the Administration honest enough to admit that they are engaged in outlawing the vehicles that 90+% of the people drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead we get massive and thoroughly dishonest regulations effectively forcing the approaching end of the ICE vehicle without ever directly saying so. All with effective dates far enough into the future that the public will not notice that anything is happening in time for the upcoming election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two big new regulations on this subject have just gone final. First, there was EPA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2024-04-18\/pdf\/2024-06214.pdf\">\u201cMulti-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light- Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles,\u201d<\/a><strong> <\/strong>issued on April 18. And then yesterday from the NHTSA (part of the Department of Transportation) we get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/sites\/nhtsa.gov\/files\/2024-06\/CAFE-2027-2031-HDPUV-2030-2035_Final-Rule_web_0.pdf\">\u201cCorporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for Passenger Cars and Light Trucks for Model Years 2027 and Beyond and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Pickup Trucks and Vans for Model Years 2030 and Beyond.\u201d<\/a><strong> <\/strong>The first is 373 pages in the three-column, single-spaced format of the Federal Register. The second is 1004 pages in standard double-spaced typing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you should take the time to read some or all of the 1377 pages of text, don\u2019t expect to find anywhere in all of that an admission that the plan is to suppress and ultimately eliminate the internal combustion car. Instead it\u2019s happy sweet talk about the supposed \u201chealth\u201d benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here is an example from among many, this from page 27,844 of Volume 89 of the Federal Register:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>EPA is establishing both criteria pollutant and GHG standards in this rulemaking given the need for additional reductions in emissions of these air pollutants to protect public health and welfare and based on EPA\u2019s assessment of the suite of available control technologies for those pollutants, some of which are effective in controlling both GHGs and criteria pollutant emissions. Under these performance-based emissions standards, manufacturers have the discretion to choose the mix of technologies that achieve compliance across their fleets. EPA\u2019s modeling provides information about several potential compliance paths manufacturers could use to comply with the standards, based on multiple inputs and assumptions (e.g., in what we have termed the central case, that manufacturers will seek the lowest cost compliance path).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cManufacturers have the discretion to choose the mix of technologies that achieve compliance . . . .\u201d Right. Everybody knows that the point of this is to force the majority of new car sales to be EVs or plug-in hybrids by some time in the early 2030s. But they\u2019ll never say it straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it\u2019s the same with the new NHTSA Rule. This Rule sets new fleet-average fuel economy standards. NHTSA \u2014 aren\u2019t they supposed to be in the business of \u201cHighway Traffic Safety\u201d (that\u2019s the \u201cHTS\u201d part of their name)? Yes, but in the ultimate mission-creep, they are now the people behind the so-called \u201cCAFE\u201d (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards. Obviously, the people cannot be expected on their own to make appropriate trade-offs between fuel economy and other transportation needs (like carrying capacity). Thus, NHTSA now determines that beginning in the early 2030s, manufacturers must achieve average fuel economy for their fleets of 50+ miles per gallon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, you say, vehicles with internal combustion engines can\u2019t achieve that figure if they are bigger than a thimble. Exactly. So here is a small piece of NHTSA\u2019s justification:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reducing gasoline consumption has multiple benefits \u2013 it improves our nation\u2019s energy security, it saves consumers money, and reduces harmful pollutant emissions that lead to adverse human and environmental health outcomes and climate change. NHTSA estimates that relative to the reference baseline, this final rule will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 659 million metric tons for passenger cars and light trucks, and by 55 million metric tons for HDPUVs through calendar year 2050. Again, these relative reductions are greater if the rule is compared to the alternative baseline, but demonstrating a similar level of absolute carbon dioxide emissions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You say that you have a need for a vehicle that can actually carry a couple of passengers and maybe a few suitcases? What kind of a traitor are you? Your options are to buy an EV or hire a ricksha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agencies know full well that they are forcing a transition to EVs that customers do not want. How fast must the forced transition be? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasevhub.com\/weekly-digest\/under-new-epa-emissions-rule-evs-could-make-up-69-percent-of-all-passenger-vehicle-sales-by-2032\/\">This piece from Atlas EV Hub from March 25<\/a> estimates that EPA\u2019s Rule by itself will force EV sales to be up to 69% of new vehicle sales by 2032:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The regulation is set to bring significant changes to the auto industry, potentially putting the United States on the glide path to full electrification. Manufacturers have several options to meet the new standards, and electric vehicles (EVs) will play a pivotal role in ensuring manufacturer compliance with these regulations. Under this final rule, battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric light-duty vehicles could make up 32 percent of all new vehicle sales in model year 2027, increasing to 69 percent by model year 2032.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NHTSA CAFE Rule would require comparable, or perhaps even higher, percentages of EVs in manufacturer sales to achieve compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you believe that the U.S. new vehicle market will switch over to mostly EVs so quickly over the next several years? I don\u2019t believe it for a minute. So what happens when manufacturers produce mostly EVs to comply with these Rules, and then nobody will buy them? This could be very entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m old enough to remember a time when there were serious environmental concerns with internal combustion engine vehicles. 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But the war to eliminate them \u2014 supposedly on environmental grounds \u2014 is just ramping up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":332306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821977,691818073,691820051,691829123,691829124,691818864],"class_list":{"0":"post-332303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-electric-vehicles-evs","9":"tag-epa","10":"tag-federal-war","11":"tag-internal-combustion-vehicles","12":"tag-nox-and-sox-emissions","13":"tag-the-biden-administration","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0The_future_Banner_230103_114453.png?fit=1588%2C851&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1orJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":368412,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=368412","url_meta":{"origin":332303,"position":0},"title":"Extreme Power Plant Fear Mongering","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/03\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Applied Economics Clinic (AEC) report titled\u201d A Community Assessment of Health Impacts from the Pittsfield Generating Facility on Local Communities\u201d, prepared on behalf of the Massachusetts Clean Peak Coalition has to be in the running for the most egregious example of inflammatory peaker power plant fearmongering of all time.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Applied Economics Clinic (AEC)\"","block_context":{"text":"Applied Economics Clinic (AEC)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=applied-economics-clinic-aec"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0danielk4603_From_Fear_to_Empowerment_How_to_Navigate_Fearmonger_f51f7564-f968-4de9-b6ab-9c14882f46f9.png?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0danielk4603_From_Fear_to_Empowerment_How_to_Navigate_Fearmonger_f51f7564-f968-4de9-b6ab-9c14882f46f9.png?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0danielk4603_From_Fear_to_Empowerment_How_to_Navigate_Fearmonger_f51f7564-f968-4de9-b6ab-9c14882f46f9.png?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0danielk4603_From_Fear_to_Empowerment_How_to_Navigate_Fearmonger_f51f7564-f968-4de9-b6ab-9c14882f46f9.png?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/0danielk4603_From_Fear_to_Empowerment_How_to_Navigate_Fearmonger_f51f7564-f968-4de9-b6ab-9c14882f46f9.png?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":307162,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=307162","url_meta":{"origin":332303,"position":1},"title":"Sobering Up? 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