by Daniel Greenfield
Most Americans oppose it.
The EV sales plan crashed and burned. It was always based on the lie that the majority of Americans would be able to afford electric vehicles.
They could not and would not.
The New York Times reported that the Biden administration will abuse EPA regulations to eliminate most real car sales by 2030. The plan is to force 67% of car sales to be electric by 2032. Most Americans won’t be able to afford them, but they’ll have no other options.
Even the cheapest electric cars, which are still far more expensive than their real car counterparts and are just one battery problem away from turning into mostly unusable junk, are out of the price range of the majority of Americans who need an income of $80,000 to make an EV auto loan work. That’s fine in Washington D.C. where the median income of $83,567 is the highest in the nation, but will entirely price much of the country out of the new car market.
53% of Americans earn less than $75,000. Some of the 16% who earn from $50,000 to $75,000 may be able to make an electric vehicle purchase work if they squeeze, cut back on food and clothes for the kids, but the remaining 37% will be completely locked out. And, unable to own a car, they’ll have even bigger monthly payments or, with no transportation, be unable to work.
Automakers focused on the luxury SUV end of the market while cutting lower-cost EVs because they knew that.,
But there are only so many luxury EVs that the market can bear and with Tesla’s dominance, the plans to transition Ford and GM to electric cars has crashed and burned with massive billions of dollars in losses.
And yet the car bans must go on.
The Biden administration released its updated ‘moderated’ car ban numbers and they’re still unworkable.
Carmakers will have to bump up electric and hybrid vehicle sales—to 56 percent of sales for EVs and 13 percent for hybrids—while drastically cutting gas emissions by 2032, according to the Post.
Not workable. And most Americans oppose it.
Nationwide, support for car bans is strongest among urban voters. And yet even there, ban backing never quite tops 50%. In suburban areas, support drops down to 31% and rural areas falls all the way to 24%. That stands to reason because to whatever extent electric vehicles are viable, it’s only in the core density of major urban areas. Outside them, they’re unusable.
Polls also shows support for a car ban is tied to income. Even the cheapest electric vehicles are out of the price range of most Americans. That’s why opposition to car bans climbs for families making less than $40,000 and even those making up to $80,000. The proposed car ban means families being unable to replace their minivan. It means mothers who can’t drop off their kids at school and fathers who can’t drive to work.
A car ban is an extinction level event for American families.
Daniel Greenfield
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-demands-majority-of-americans-buy-electric-cars-they-cant-afford/
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