Truck Joe Biden

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Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency announced the new regulations for semi trucks last week and officials say they represent the strongest-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards of their kind. The new rules will kick in beginning in 2026 for model year 2027 vehicles and progressively become more stringent through model year 2032, forcing a larger number of trucks and buses to be zero-emissions in that time frame.

It’s yet another deep bow to the liberal religion of “climate change” as the insane idea is to make long-haul semis carbon zero by 2032 by mandate, but just like the nonsense behind mandating electric cars, there are problems…BIG problems.

Let’s start with the obvious, the cost of the damned things. We’re talking between $250,000 and $500,000 per truck, and most independent truckers simply can’t afford that sort of hit. The most inexpensive electric semis right now are Tesla semis, at around $250,000 each. But there’s a problem with the Tesla trucks, and for that matter, all electric semis…their range.

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Greenie Weenies vs Common Sense

Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots – Commentary

So, the Biden regime is shuffling away from one of their big 2020 campaign promises – to regulate car farts by cutting tailpipe emissions by 50% by 2030.

Last week, Biden decided to put the brakes on the EPA proposed rules that would have forced nearly 2/3 of all new cars to be electric by 2032 due to new tailpipe emission regulated standards, and there are several reasons for the sudden down-shift.

First, there’s the price. The average cost of an EV is somewhere in the neighborhood of $51,000, while the average cost of a new gas powered farting car is about $34,000 and that doesn’t even get to the cost of replacing an EV battery should the one you have now die, which is on average about $15,000.

Second, we have an infrastructure problem. Our electric grid can’t handle the charging of EV’s at the rate the EPA proposes, and Biden promised. Over the past couple of years, in dense population areas like L.A., people were being told NOT to charge their EV’s at certain times because the power grid couldn’t handle it, and frankly, there just aren’t enough charging stations…anywhere.

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