It is becoming clearer that President Biden’s draconian decarbonization targets and deadlines – a 50% cut by 2030 and 'net zero' by 2050 – have been based on overly pessimistic climate scenarios. This comes at a time when the Biden administration is pushing its most senseless proposal yet: the EPA’s 'tailpipe emissions rule' designed to abolish the internal combustion engine within a few years by mandating that Americans buy electric vehicles.
The EPA has no authority to impose this mandate. EPA’s power to set emission standards for carbon-emitting cars does not give it power to compel carmakers to build new types of cars that don’t emit carbon dioxide. EPA tried this ploy under President Obama when it claimed its power to regulate emissions from fossil-fuel plants allowed it to force utilities to shift to new plants using different technology.
The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce , which we both are helping to build, represents many thousands of American businesses and is committed to fighting destructive regulatory overreach. AmFree has assembled a broad Liquid Fuels Coalition – including independent ethanol and bio-diesel producers; agricultural commodity associations; and other agricultural and business entities – that is joining a wide array of other industries in an effort to defeat EPA’s rule.