The Biden administration continues to push its green agenda by eliminating gas-powered vehicles in favor of zero-emission cars.
This comes after the White House announced its plans in December 2021 to end purchases of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 in an apparent effort to lower carbon emissions and promote electric cars. President Joe Biden said that the goal is to ensure that 50 percent of new car sales will be electric by 2030.
Since then, many left-leaning states have introduced their own legislation to ban gas-powered vehicles.
In California, for instance, lawmakers moved to require all new vehicles in the state to run on electricity by 2035 in the hopes of cutting emissions from cars in half by 2040. The California Air Resources Board has also proposed requiring medium- and heavy-duty trucks to be fully electric by the year 2035.
15 other states have also taken action to restrict the sale of gas-powered vehicles.
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“The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said last year.
Biden hasn’t always attempted to be environmentally responsible at the expense of everyone else. He also issued an executive order to the Environmental Protection Agency over two years ago, requesting that it add new fuel economy and emission standards to its regulations.
Although many would argue that the president should definitely focus on Air Force One’s emissions, Biden’s office claims that this action was part of his efforts to combat climate change. More air pollution was produced by the airplane than could be produced in a lifetime by tens of thousands of Americans.
Critics have blasted the Biden administration for giving a “false impression” about EVs, noting that they are expensive and often unreliable.
“[The EV push] is really kind of a con job,” said Myron Ebell, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment. “It may be a good deal for some people in some places under some circumstances. But by-and-large right now, it’s not a good deal.”
According to Kelley Blue Book, electric vehicles accounted for 5.6 percent of new car purchases in the U.S. from April through June.
