{"id":1966524,"date":"2023-07-07T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-attorneys-general-blast-bidens-epa-for-forcing-car-makers-and-consumers-to-embrace-evs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:35:11","slug":"25-attorneys-general-blast-bidens-epa-for-forcing-car-makers-and-consumers-to-embrace-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-attorneys-general-blast-bidens-epa-for-forcing-car-makers-and-consumers-to-embrace-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"25 AGs criticize Biden&#8217;s EPA for mandating EV adoption by car manufacturers and consumers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F25-attorneys-general-blast-bidens-epa-for-forcing-car-makers-and-consumers-to-embrace-evs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n        <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Attorneys general from 25 states criticized Biden\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its proposed rule pushing a move to electric vehicles, which the AGs called \u201ca top-to-bottom attempt to restructure the automobile industry.\u201d<\/strong> The letter was sent as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/net-neutralitys-millions-of-public-comments-were-mostly-fake-report-finds\/\" title=\"Net Neutrality\u2019s Millions Of Public Comments Were mostly Fake, Report Finds\">public comment process<\/a> on the EPA rule, which closed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the EPA released the proposed rule, \u201cMulti-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles,\u201d which the agency says is intended to tighten \u201cemissions standards for light-duty passenger cars and light trucks and Class 2b and 3 vehicles.\u201d The rule proposal came in response to President Joe Biden\u2019s executive order in December 2021, which laid out America\u2019s duty to \u201clead the world\u201d in adopting the types of vehicles favored by climate zealots \u201cby setting a goal that 50 percent of all new passenger cars and light trucks sold in 2030 be zero-emission vehicles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-unveils-toughest-ever-car-emissions-rules-to-try-to-force-electric-vehicle-purchases\/\" title=\"Biden Unveils Toughest-Ever Car Emissions Rules to Try to Force Electric Vehicle Purchases\">including battery electric<\/a>, plug-in hybrid electric, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-manchins-new-tax-bill-could-help-hydrogen-electric-vehicles\/\" title=\"Joe Manchin\u2019s New Tax Bill Could Help Hydrogen Electric Vehicles\">fuel cell electric vehicles<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the attorneys general note, EPA\u2019s rule proposal is a brazen attempt to grow the agency\u2019s power under the Clean Air Act by forcing car makers to wildly expand electric vehicle manufacturing while cutting back production of gas-powered automobiles. Its consequences would extend far beyond the auto-manufacturing industry, however. The AGs say the rule would not only hurt our economy, but it would also burden our power grids and the businesses and people that rely on them, and compromise our national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers are staggering: EPA expects that the proposal will create enough EVs to penetrate 67% and 46% of overall light- and medium-duty vehicle sales respectively in less than a decade,\u201d the attorneys general wrote. \u201cForcing that market transformation goes far beyond the statutory limits Congress set. And it is bad policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys general went on to outline a number of reasons why the EPA should rethink its rule, starting with the fact that the rule goes far beyond the agency\u2019s statutory authority and that it is \u201carbitrary and capricious.\u201d It relies on a faulty cost-benefit analysis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/25-attorneys-general-blast-bidens-epa-for-forcing-car-makers-and-consumers-to-embrace-evs\/\" title=\"25 AGs criticize Biden's EPA for mandating EV adoption by car manufacturers and consumers.\">completely ignores vehicle manufacturing obstacles<\/a> that will make the rule impossible to meet \u2014 including burdens to the power grid and supply chains, and the simple fact that consumer demand doesn\u2019t match government diktats. The proposed rule also wrongly assumes electric vehicles are zero-emission.<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist\u2019s Kylee Griswold wrote last year, \u201cDo you know where the electricity for \u2018clean\u2019 vehicles comes from? Most of it comes from fossil fuels, with one 2020 study showing that these nonrenewables are the primary EV energy source in 43 of the 50 states.\u201d Other studies show not only that electric vehicles are actually worse for the environment than gasoline-powered vehicles, yet EVs also have more quality problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden wants to use the power of government to force a massive shift in demand for automobiles, with the government putting its thumb on the scale in favor of EVs. But Americans don\u2019t want what he is selling,\u201d said Kentucky Attorney General David Cameron, who led the AG letter with West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. \u201cThis is the latest head-in-the-sand approach to achieving the left\u2019s impossible green-energy fantasies. Government shouldn\u2019t pick winners and losers, and an EPA rule that would kill gas-powered vehicles does just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Samuel Boehlke is a rising senior in Mass Communication\/Law and Policy at Concordia University Wisconsin and a current intern at The Federalist. He is Web Editor for CUW\u2019s The Beacon and External Affairs Editor for Quaestus Journal. Reach him at sboehlkefdrlst@gmail.com or by DMs @vaguelymayo.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys general from 25 states slammed Biden&#8217;s EPA for its electric vehicle proposal, deeming it a complete overhaul of the auto industry. The AGs expressed their concerns in a letter submitted during the public comment period, which ended Wednesday. 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