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Virginia Breaks Free From California’s Extreme Car Restrictions

June 7, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~ In a move that’s good news for drivers nationwide, Virginia has declared its independence from California’s latest automotive standards. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday that, starting next year, their state will comply with federal standards. “[Electric vehicle] mandates like California’s are unworkable and out of […]

EVs Should Only Be For Consenting Adults

May 29, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ In a 2016 interview with photographer Steven Edson, CNN asked, “What makes a car sexy?” Edson replied, “It’s because a lot of the parts of those cars are, in fact, sexy.” He cited the taillights on the 1959 Cadillac Series 62, which he described as “like rare ruby earrings.”Most of today’s cars, however, […]

Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Complex And Costly As Ever

May 22, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ By David Williams ~ Electric vehicles (EVs) may be the most subsidized product in America. Federal taxpayers shell out $7,500 every time a new eligible electric vehicle is purchased (usually by wealthy buyers). State and local taxpayers chip in an additional $1,500 for each EV purchase. Then, there’s the tens of billions of […]

Winter Without Your Gasoline Car

May 17, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Steve Goreham ~ January of this year brought near-zero temperatures to Chicago and other northern cites, producing an electric vehicle (EV) charging nightmare. National media showed images of owners pushing dead EVs around charging stations and waiting for hours to try to charge their vehicle. Drivers lucky enough to connect to a charger sat in their […]

EV, Heat Pump Mandates Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

April 26, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton Modern governments are infected with the idea that they are anointed to squelch the desires of ordinary humans. To hold onto power, they force compliance – in even insignificant ways – with their whims. They try to crush anyone who speaks or acts against […]

Papa Pete Demands We Quit Clinging To Our Cars

April 14, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Remember the American love for the open road? That paean to American freedom built on the automobile but made possible by highways that also enabled trucks to deliver goods to just about any location quickly and safely?Hot cars are still popular today, as evidenced by the fact that the “Fast and Furious” movies […]

AI, EVs, EPA, And ESG Will Only Ration Energy, Hinder Nation

April 5, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Larry Bell ~ Surprise! It appears that technological developments and federal government programs that were touted to make our lives more efficient, address energy needs, and finally save the planet from the ravages of climate change aren’t working out quite as promoted.Some of them, in fact, are making almost everything worse – a looming energy […]

Americans Face Higher Costs Under EPA’s Electric Truck Mandate

April 4, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~ One week the Environmental Protection Agency comes for our gasoline-powered cars, the next for our diesel-powered trucks. EPA chose Good Friday, when many Americans were preparing to celebrate Easter Sunday (if not Transgender Day of Visibility), to release a new rule requiring that 25% of truck sales be electric by 2032. […]

Biden’s Latest Auto Emissions Rule Set To Accelerate Auto Maker’s Death Spiral

March 22, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Ronald Stein ~ For one of the wealthier countries on this planet, America, with 330 million people ⏤ representing about 4% of the world’s 8 billion on this planet, President Biden is speeding ahead with EV mandates to ditch most new gas cars by 2030.Biden may not be cognizant that 80 percent of the […]

They Should Have Stuck With Trolleys!

March 11, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Not long after electrical power was first harnessed, trolley cars began carrying passengers, getting their electric power from overhead wires. The trolley’s pantograph makes contact with the electrified wire to send power to the motor that turns its wheels.By the 1920s, 17,000 miles of wire-linked electric streetcar lines ran through American cities. Today, […]

Atlantic Writer Blames Slow Electric Vehicle Sales On Donald Trump

March 10, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By P.J. Gladnick ~ Andrew Moseman goes into some detail in Friday’s Atlantic magazine as to why electric vehicle sales have slowed down recently to the extent that he is now calling 2024 a lost year for EVs as reflected in the title, “America’s Lost Year for Electric Cars.”Despite Moseman providing us with a myriad […]

Weakest Link For EV’s Is In China’s Supply Chain

March 6, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Larry Bell ~ Federal and state energy policies, now pushing electric vehicles on a reluctant public, are running in conflict with other social and environmental restrictions banning vital materials and component imports.As consequences, U.S. and European auto companies are racing into Chinese rare earth monopoly and other supply traps posing inevitable economic and national security […]

As China Builds Yugos, EVs May Be The New Edsels

March 3, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ The year 1957 is memorable for at least two historic launches. The launch by the Soviet Socialist Union of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, prompted the U.S. to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) the very next year.Eleven years later, Neil Armstrong stepped out of Apollo 11 and famously proclaimed, […]

The EV Market Hits The Brakes As Sales Hit A Speed Bump!

March 1, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Ronald Stein ~ Mandating a change to EV ownership and further financial austerity onto those who can least afford it is facing a rebellion from those who need transportation. The problem is that manufacturers are loading up the “supply chain” with EVs on dealer lots, but they’re not seeing the “demand” for EVs coming […]

No Reason ‘Green Energy,’ EV Batteries Should Escape Carbon Tax

February 25, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Larry Bell ~ Those eager to tax U.S. and imported hydrocarbon energy products that emit CO2 in order to end many millions of years of climate change should be cautious regarding the “green alternatives” they wish for.Look no further than “Foreign Pollution Fee Act” (FPFA) legislation proposed by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Lindsey Graham, […]

Mr. Bean Was Right About EVs And So Was Toyota

February 18, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ When auto (even EV driving) enthusiast Rowan Atkinson – Mr. Bean to his fans – last June wrote in The Guardian that there are “sound environmental reasons” why “keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV,” he was vilified as an eco-traitor.Atkinson had added, “We’re realizing that a wider […]

Heavy EVs Tearing Up California Roads

February 9, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Ronald Stein ~ Can it be true that California, in pursuit of reduced emissions from internal combustion engine vehicles, has mandated that heavier EV cars and trucks tear up the state’s roads? Shockingly, the state has no accompanying mandate on those heavier vehicles to contribute funds to the maintenance and repairs of the roads […]

Auto Dealers Call On Biden To Hit Brakes On Unrealistic, Unachievable Electric Vehicles Mandate

November 29, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~ A coalition of nearly 4,000 auto dealers on Tuesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden explaining why his plans to force Americans into electric vehicles are unworkable. The bottom line: Despite subsidies to car manufacturers to make the EVs, and tax credits for drivers to buy the cars, only 7% […]

The Political Risks Of Mandating EVs For Everyone

October 30, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Mark P. Mills ~ This essay is based on the opening remarks delivered at a recent SOHO Forum Debate on electric vehicles. If we could imagine a time machine bringing to New York City, an American citizen from the 19th century, odds are the one thing that would seem the most amazing about our […]

Automakers Wake Up To Reality On Electric Vehicles

October 28, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~ CLAYTON, GEORGIA—Driving through rural Georgia, I have yet to see an electric vehicle or a charging station. After promising the Biden administration that they would eliminate most of the cars Americans want to buy from dealer lots by 2035, GM and Ford are now waking up to reality. They are cutting […]

Auto Buyers Have Good Reasons For Avoiding E-Cars

October 16, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Jason Hayes ~ Big government mandates are forcing the national transition to electric vehicles. Consumer demand doesn’t appear to matter. Government is doling out billions in special loans and subsidies to select companies and twisting tax policy to make EVs appear cheaper. At the same time, heavy-handed mandates are making traditional, reliable cars more […]

Will EV Mandates Decide The 2024 Election?

October 9, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Let’s see just how long this auto workers’ strike lasts. It’s not really about the 46% pay raise, but the 2009 Obama deal that took away cost-of-living adjustments. It’s not really about the short run, either. But let’s see what the auto workers get in the face of President Biden’s unrealistic demand that […]