Good day all. I so love how events overtake my posts, don’t you? In any case, for decades, Kalifornistan has had a major influence on the cars Americans are permitted to buy. Yes, permitted. Kalifornistan had been granted “Permission” under the EPA to pass incredibly restrictive regulations on cars sold in the state. Because of this, they have forced the Auto Industry to degrade cars that the rest of the country buys.
Recently, Kalifornistan started the process to flat out ban the sale, and not doubt, ownership of cars with internal combustion engines. (Gas and Diesel) Additionally, they were going to ban the “Big Rigs” that shipping companies use to move cargo out of the ports in Kalifornistan.
To deal with this permanently, the Congress has passed a bill stripping Kalifornistan of the ability to regulate the Auto Industry. Here are the details from Fox News:
President Donald Trump and Republicans in the House and Senate on Thursday finally ended California’s outsized authority to dictate national emissions standards for new cars, trucks, RVs and engines.
The EPA, under President Joe Biden, granted California exemption waivers to the Clean Air Act, handing California the keys to set their own extreme emissions regulations – including the requirement that nearly all vehicles sold in the state must be electric by 2035.
Electric vehicles, while nice for short range local travel are a dead end technology. It takes to long to recharge, the range can be affected by the temperature and the lithium batteries have a habit of bursting into flames. Recently, a lithium battery in a car on board a transport ship caught fire. Since the crew couldn’t put it out or dump the car over the side, they had no choice but to abandon ship. The ship eventually sank.
Knowing that the people’s representatives in Congress would reject their most extreme policies, the Biden administration had to rely on these workarounds to push their Green New Scam agenda.
Biden’s Clean Air Act waiver allowed other states to follow California’s lead, creating a patchwork of misguided rules. More than a dozen states and D.C. follow California’s standards, drastically changing the dynamics of America’s critical auto and RV manufacturing industry without Congress having a say.
Some of the states that drank deeply of the New Green Scam and began to ban normal cars have already started pulling back. Kalifornistan isn’t one of them of course.
In practice, this means California effectively set the standards for the automotive industry, and most Americans have been forced to live under a regulatory framework that none of our representatives ever voted on.
This is where the Republicans finally did what they were elected to. They didn’t wait for President Trump to sing an Executive order that some commie Obama or Biden judge would block. They passed a law.
This ends now. Rep. Yakym, R-Ind., along with House Republicans, took action to end this power grab, passing three disapproval resolutions under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal the EPA waivers. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., shepherded these three measures through the Senate, which today earned President Trump’s signature.
Republicans across the country knew there was no time to waste. Beginning this year, California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulations would have started requiring new heavy-duty vehicles, such as trucks and RVs, to be zero-emission. This regulation threatened the RV supply chain by limiting the availability of chassis for motor homes.
These “Permissions” to screw over the American car and truck buyer goes back to the 60’s and 70’s. Ib those days, California had a real problem with air pollution. Because of this, they were given permission to force car makers to install extra antipollution systems. At the time, California was a major market for car makers so they decided that instead of just making “Special cars” for California, they would force everyone to buy them whether or not they wanted or needed these systems.
Jump forward to the 21st century and the Communists have taken control of the Democrat Party and the state of Kalifornistan. They decided that they would outlaw cars and trucks using internal combustion engines, and this included the diesel engines used in the commercial trucks used to move goods across Kalifornistan and into the United States. Everything would have to be electric.
This would have wrecked not just the car and truck industry, but done critical damage to the American economy. The True Believers of the Church of Global Warming and Climate Change didn’t care. It was for a good cause, enriching the ruling elite and suppressing everyone else. OK, that is a bit over the top, but the Leftards now ruining the state are true believers and can’t see that their “Cunning plan” was always doomed to failure, just like every other plan Socialists, Communists and Democrats come up with.
Eleven states and D.C. adopted this mandate, which impacts 25% of the heavy-duty vehicle market in the United States, essentially making it the new national standard.
Every single one of those states is a “Blue” States. Already a couple of them are walking back these mandates as they begin to realize that the technology just isn’t there yet, and that the power grid simply can’t support tens of millions of electric cars. (Not to mention these things spontaneously combusting and sinking ships)
The stakes couldn’t be higher for the Hoosier State, especially Indiana’s Second District, home to Rep. Yakym and the RV Capital of the World, where nearly 90% of America’s RVs are built. This industry directly supports more than 60,000 Hoosier jobs, pays over $4.3 billion in wages, and generates a total economic output of $22 billion across the state.
The answer for your typical Progressive Liberal Democrat to the potential destruction of the industry and resultant job losses? Learn to code dude!
RV production is also critical to many other states which is why 13 Democrats joined Republicans in the bipartisan, commonsense vote against the Biden EPA’s RV waiver.
If this was in the Senate, then I think you just crossed the threshold of breaking the filibuster that the Democrats will use to punish America for voting for President Trump. It looks like a few of the Democrats decided that their own personal political survival was more important that political and religious doctrine.
The Clean Air Act was never intended to effectively give one state the power to dictate emissions standards for entire industries across the country. Congress prohibited states from establishing separate vehicle and engine regulations except under “compelling and extraordinary conditions” that apply specifically to that state.
And in the case of Kalifornistan, the Deep State handling the Senile moron that they installed into the White House considered Kalifornistan’s interests in ruling the rest of the country to be just the “compelling and extraordinary conditions” they needed to wreck the auto industry. This is why the Congressional Review Act exists. It allows Congress to kill regulations promulgated by bureaucrats.
Now, we can go into the reasons that this act is needed in the first place. The CRA is a Band-Aid to a major problem. Bureaucrats who basically can do whatever they want to whoever they want with very limited recourse by the victims of their rules and regulations. People have been jailed for using the wrong size labels, never mind that the information on them was accurate.
I have no doubt that once this bill hits President Trump’s desk, he’s going to sign it into law with his usual flourish and panache. I also expect the usual suspect to run to one of their pet Obama or Biden judges to rule it illegal. Good luck with that. What needs to be done now is legislatively killing and gutting the federal bureaucracy. There is only so much President Trump can do by executive order and he is running into said Obama and Biden judges, with a sprinkling of RINO judges, who are usurping power they don’t have. Still, putting Kalifornistan in it’s place is a good start.
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