Joe Biden's war on the automobile industry, fossil fuels and unions

Joe Biden loves touting his support for unions. It's part of his 'Scranton Joe' schtick. Blue Collar Joe is as much a fiction as rainbow-colored unicorns. It's obvious that Scranton Joe is a fictional character because his administration is trying to destroy the fossil fuel industry and the automobile industry.

This week, the EPA announced that they want to regulate tailpipe pollutants without getting the proper authorization from Congress. It's suspected that this will get struck down thanks to what's known as the major questions doctrine. The major questions doctrine is the main reason for derailing the Obama administration's "Clean Power Plan" of 2016.

The key paragraph of the majority opinion says "This Court stayed the Clean Power Plan in 2016, preventing the rule from taking effect. It was later repealed after a change in Presidential administrations. Specifically, in 2019, EPA found that the Clean Power Plan had exceeded the Agency’s statutory authority under Section 111(d), which it interpreted to “limit[ ] the BSER to those systems that can be put into operation at a building, structure, facility, or installation.” 84 Fed. Reg. 32524. EPA explained that the Clean Power Plan, rather than setting the standard “based on the application of equipment and practices at the level of an individual facility,” had instead based it on "a shift in the energy generation mix at the grid level," id., at 32523. The Agency determined that the interpretive question raised by the Clean Power Plan fell under the major questions doctrine. Under that doctrine, it determined, a clear statement is necessary for a court to conclude that Congress intended to delegate authority "of this breadth to regulate a fundamental sector of the economy."

It's painfully obvious that the "Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new vehicle-emissions standards Wednesday that will force-feed the production of electric vehicles, whether or not consumers want them." It's difficult to not picture this administration's EPA not understanding that this will force car manufacturers to stop building internal combustion engines. That, in turn, will kill the fossil fuel industry. Consequently, that will hurt unions because many parts of the EV-manufacturing supply chain is located in China to the point of some auto manufacturers calling the EV push the 'China Bailout Act'.

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Biden's Green New Deal agenda is pandering of the worst type. This doesn't have anything to do with winning the future. It's got everything to do with pandering to the environmental activist wing of the Democrat Party. It might have a little to do with Biden's thirst for his legacy, too. Steve Forbes states things perfectly:

I can't put any better so I'll just let Mr. Forbes'analysis suffice.