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Queue up "the Democrats are outlawing gas cars" handwringing by the conservative simps.
I'm good with this change but we have to admit that functionally its not too far off the mark. Even the article notes "...strict new limits on tailpipe pollution that are designed to ensure that the majority of new passenger cars and light trucks sold in the United States are all-electric or hybrids by 2032..."
So while ICE isn't being directly "outlawed" they are changing the rules to get a very similar result; the "conservative simps" won't be wrong exactly when they say it.
Or gas vehicle manufacturers could spend real money on environmental r and d to meet the mark in the time allowed. Whatever it takes to lower our greenhouse gas emissions.
Why would they do that? Ford literally stopped making cars in the US because it was more profitable to make trucks.
Well conceivably closing the truck loophole would put a stop to that. But it’s conceivable that instead of Ford responding to the new “innovate or die” law by innovating, it’ll respond by dying.
This attitude is why we need to be really, extremely sure about this climate change thing. Since we are sacrificing everything else to it, if it turns out to be a false alarm we will have fucked ourselves royally for no reason.
🙄 we should study it or something. /s
https://images.app.goo.gl/N12rPZAUMgiZuM9S7
Way smarter people than you or I have already came to the conclusion that man-made climate change is a real thing. This isn't a false alarm.
You can use weasel words to characterize it how you like but yes it’s very predictable that a lot of people won’t like this.
A lot of people won't like what 2 degrees warming brings earlier. Weasel that.