Trump, Big Oil lying about EVs to serve own interests

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board

Oil companies are worried that federal incentives and the growing popularity of electric vehicles will eat into their profits and threaten their stranglehold over energy consumption. Former President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians want to exploit consumer and autoworker anxieties about the transition to zero-emission vehicles to help them win in November.

That’s why both the fossil fuel industry and the GOP are spreading the same lie that the Biden administration is banning gas cars. This self-serving effort to deceive voters is shameful, even for those whose peddling of disinformation has become sadly expected.

At the Republican National Convention last week, Trump said, “I will end the electric vehicle mandate on Day 1.”

There is no such mandate. But facts are no obstacle to the former president and his supporters. Nor have they stopped the fossil fuel industry from spending millions of dollars in recent months on ads that have aired in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, Montana, Wisconsin and other key battleground states repeating the lie.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-trump-big-oil-lying-about-evs-to-serve-own-interests/

[BComplex]

1. Maybe that's why elon backed off sending donald trump the $45 million/month?

Trump talking smack about EVs?

[orthoclad]

4. He only backed off of saying he is sending it

to Trump. He's sending it to "America PAC" instead. Probly illegal to give that much right to Trump.

Besides, he was probly wasted at the time.

[Think. Again.]

2. of course they are...

...and that's probably the least thing they're doing to keep selling their oil.

[orthoclad]

5. Oiligarchs and their money.

[MichMan]

3. What happens if more than 1/3 of car buyers still prefer to buy a gas powered vehicle ?

Here are the facts. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new greenhouse gas emissions standards that will force automakers to ramp up sales of new zero-emission cars and light-duty trucks from about 7 percent of vehicles sold last year to more than 67 percent by 2032.

There is no guarantee that buyers will choose EV in the numbers required to meet the standards. If they don't, the auto manufacturers will be fined billions.

Multiple states have passed legislation banning the sale of ICE vehicles in ten years. That includes California, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York. In addition, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland and Oregon have all prosed joining them. For the LA Times to editorialize that there are no bans on gas powered vehicles when their own state is planning on doing just that very thing is disingenuous.