« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Americans Aren’t Sold On EVs, Yet Biden Wants To Force Carmakers To Sell Them  (Read 313 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 177,020
Americans Aren’t Sold On EVs, Yet Biden Wants To Force Carmakers To Sell Them
« on: April 12, 2023, 08:10:08 am »
WRITTEN BY COLLIN ANDERSON ON APR 11, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

Americans Aren’t Sold On EVs, Yet Biden Wants To Force Carmakers To Sell Them

electric car snowLess than one-fifth of Americans say they’re very likely to make their next vehicle an electric one, a new poll shows. That isn’t stopping President Joe Biden from pushing a rule that would force U.S. automakers to sell electric cars.

Just 19 percent of Americans say it’s “very” or “extremely” likely they’ll purchase an electric vehicle when they need a new car, according to a new Associated Press poll, while 22 percent say they’re “somewhat likely” to do so. [emphasis, links added]


Nearly half of the respondents, meanwhile, say they aren’t likely to go electric, citing the high cost associated with electric vehicles as the main deterrent. Electric vehicles on average cost at least $10,000 more than their gas-powered counterparts.


 https://climatechangedispatch.com/americans-arent-sold-on-evs-yet-biden-wants-to-force-carmakers-to-sell-them/
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline Fishrrman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,365
  • Gender: Male
  • Dumbest member of the forum
Re: Americans Aren’t Sold On EVs, Yet Biden Wants To Force Carmakers To Sell Them
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2023, 06:01:38 pm »
The goal is to get people OUT OF cars altogether, by reducing the available choices and making those few undesirable choices prohibitively expensive, as well.

Let them eat cake.
And ride the bus.
Logged

Online Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 61,131
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Americans Aren’t Sold On EVs, Yet Biden Wants To Force Carmakers To Sell Them
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2023, 07:31:15 pm »
No bus here. Maybe we can gt some of the jeepneys the Philippines are getting rid of...
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline libertybele

  • Cat Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 64,998
  • Gender: Female
Re: Americans Aren’t Sold On EVs, Yet Biden Wants To Force Carmakers To Sell Them
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2023, 07:43:00 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on April 12, 2023, 06:01:38 pm
The goal is to get people OUT OF cars altogether, by reducing the available choices and making those few undesirable choices prohibitively expensive, as well.

Let them eat cake.
And ride the bus.

No bus service close by around me.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »