Almost precisely one year ago, I got to write for MRCTV about the Biden Administration’s fascist automobile sales edicts that would have forced carmakers to make nearly two-thirds of their products electric by 2032, with final goal to eliminate nearly all internal combustion engines, per a Biden “Executive Order.”
But now, enough House Republicans have voted to push back, Biden’s diktats might get blocked.
It’s all based on a vote to utilize the 1996 Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn Executive Orders and new Executive Branch agency “rules” if a “resolution of disapproval” is passed by both houses.
And, as Matthew Daly writes in his pro-bureaucracy manner, for the Associated Press:
“While former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have lambasted the rule as an EV ‘mandate,’ the rule would not force all sales of EVs. Under the regulation, industry could meet the limits if 56% of new vehicle sales are electric by 2032, the EPA said. The standard also would require at least 13% plug-in hybrids or other partially electric cars by 2032, as well as more efficient gasoline-powered cars that get more miles to the gallon than cars currently on the road.”
Which, of course, soft-peddles the fact that these are MANDATES, mandates intended to push the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) edicts so high, only non-internal combustion engines could comprise the bulk of auto industry sales. Then, there’s the additional mandate of “13% plug-in hybrids…”
Does it not register with Daly that any of these is, by any definition, a MANDATE?
Kevin Killough does a much better job, reporting for Just the News:
“The House on Friday passed a resolution blocking the EPA's tailpipe emission standards.
The vote was 215-191, with eight Democrats joining Republicans in passing the measure.
The EPA finalized the rule in April, and it sets standards for emissions for automakers across their lines of production. Since meeting the standards would require car manufacturers to make a large portion of their vehicles electric, it’s often referred to as an EV mandate.”
Exactly.
And Killough adds a worthwhile quote from Congressman John James (R-MI):
"’The Biden-Harris Administration’s EPA tailpipe emission rule is another out-of-touch regulation that will crater the Michigan auto industry and decimate our middle-class, and most vulnerable. Folks in my district simply can’t afford to spend an additional $12,000 on an expensive, unreliable EV,’ James said in a statement Friday.”
We extensively have written on how unreliable and unnecessary the EVs are, and also have written on the unfounded “climate” fears that politicians oft push in order to promote their EV edicts and other “climate-related” handouts.
Related: Is Government Losing Its Push To Make Us Drive Dangerous Electrics? (mrctv.org)
And, as time has passed, more Americans are becoming alarmed by the central command-and-control plans to force us out of affordable, traditional combustion cars.
Writes Killough:
“A coalition of 28 organizations, led by the American Energy Alliance (AEA), sent a letter to all members of the House of Representatives Thursday urging the passage of the resolution.
The coalition includes national and state-based free-market organizations, trade associations, consumer and taxpayer protection groups, and grassroots organizations.
‘This rule on tailpipe emissions standards is a massive overreach, using a novel application of EPA motor vehicle authorities in an attempt to force a transition in the motor vehicles market to products that align with the ideological preferences of the Biden administration,’ the letter states.”
And he adds:
“Tom Pyle, president of the AEA, issued a statement Friday praising the House for passing the resolution. He said the EPA rule was an attempt by the Biden-Harris administration to bypass Congress using unelected bureaucrats to push their ideological EV agenda.
‘Today, the House told them no. Since becoming her party’s nominee, Vice President Harris has tried to walk back her long standing support of EV mandates. If she truly wants to show the American people that she has changed her stance, and that she cares about their freedoms, now is the time for her to call on her former colleagues in the Senate to vote on this resolution,’ Pyle said.”
But, as valuable and correct as Mr. Pyle’s statement is, it also misses key, long-lasting points about how the US Constitution says the feds can operate.
Simply put, it’s not just the Executive Branch agencies acting without passage of Congressional statutes that is the problem. Even if Congress passed statutes to tell automakers what to make and how much of it to make, it would be neither constitutional nor moral to do so. Such fascist activity – the strict meaning of economic fascism being a mixture of government and corporate entities – is an insult to the Founders and to their original meaning of the Interstate Commerce Clause (Art One, Sec Eight). The clause exists to allow Congress to remedy trade conflicts between states as entities, not to allow Congress, or federal agencies, to “regulate” anything that is sold over state borders.
And even if the politicians were able to amend the Constitution to allow such political attacks on private, peaceful contracts, the attacks, regardless of whether they are called “rules” or “regulations,” would be monumentally immoral.
If the politicians want to see more EVs in the world, they can risk their own money, start their own companies, and try to attract consumer interest.
Whether they dictate the vehicles through “rules” or they subsidize electric vehicles via the seizure of our tax cash – none of it lets us decide what we prefer.
Freedom allows preferences to be revealed.
Which is something the politicians, and their central-planning minds, continuously try to stop.
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