Joe Biden's war against the internal combustion engine

Joe Biden has waged war against Detroit's internal combustion engine for a long time. He spent 8 years as VP waging war against fossil fuels. Now he's spent every day of his administration waging war against both fossil fuels and the cars that use them. It's incomprehensible that Biden can march in a union strike this summer, then put in place policies that destroy Detroit's auto manufacturers this winter.

Kim Strassel's latest column doesn't pull punches. For instance, she wrote "This week’s Environmental Protection Agency tailpipe rule amounts to an imminent ban on gasoline-powered cars, never mind the soothing language of “incentivizing” a “transition.” Last year, 84% of all cars sold in America were powered by internal-combustion engines. By 2027, the government will restrict that share to 64%. In eight years, the cap will be 29%. High demand for the few gasoline vehicles still made at that point will drive up prices, making them unattainable to anyone but a limousine liberal. It’s a ban."

That's true. To put it another way, it's one small step for man but a giant leap backward for mankind. Joe Biden simply won't listen to the American people. Then again, that's something authoritarians aren't good at. Biden likes saying that he's a capitalist. That's a lie. Capitalists listen to free markets. Thus far, Biden has listened only to a small group of activists. This interview is from a different galaxy:

I've never heard of Jennifer Dlouhy beefore but she isn't an expert. She said that "More of these cars are being sold than even conventional cars are. The increase, rather, is higher than conventional cars." There are tens of millions of gas-powered cars vs. tens of thousands of EVs. She didn't mention that EVs are piling up on car lots.

Strange bedfellows

The White House will point to a cheerleading automotive industry, but peek behind the pom-poms and you see an administration with a gun to carmakers’ heads. Ford and General Motors can either beg politely for more subsidies or confront reality and express disapproval, in which case they’ll get nothing. The United Auto Workers leadership—stuck with its Biden endorsement—dug deep to produce a few words expressing support, bracketed by hundreds more explaining that when all this goes wrong for its members it will somehow be Wall Street’s fault.

The truth is that EVs are a terrible investment. They don't work whatsoever in rural parts of the country, especially when it's cold and range is limited and charging times get lengthier.

When the UAW rank-and-file faithful find out how Sean Fain sold them out, he'd better hire a security detail and some food tasters. Fain sold his rank-and-file out just as sure as the sun rises in the East.