WaPo Editorial Board pans Biden’s failed EV mandate
The WaPo editorial board notes that “red tape and union giveaways” killed Biden’s EV dreams, along with weak demand.
At the same time, US car companies are struggling after going all in on Biden’s plans. pic.twitter.com/mET0qRUxhh
— 10 Minute Drill (@10minutedrill) December 30, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/26/europe-eu-electric-vehicle-mandate/
WAPO: Editorial BoardAn electric car mandate crashes into reality: Excerpt:
It only took the European Union two years to start walking back its plan to ban all new gas and diesel automobiles by 2035. It’s an important reminder that government mandates are destined to disappoint in the fight against climate change.
Regulators in Brussels previously aimed to reduce tailpipe emissions by 100 percent past 2035, but they’ve now lowered their target to a still-unrealistic 90 percent reduction. The European Commission claims its rules are creating “a strong market signal for zero-emission vehicles,” but the state doesn’t speak for markets by warping them.
The commission practically admitted this as it detailed plans to soften its 2030 emission targets for vans, for which “the electric vehicle uptake has been structurally more difficult.” Indeed, there is little demand for electric vans, and governments cannot change that by fiat.Ford’s parallel experience with electric vehicles is instructive. The company invested heavily in building an electric truck back when European governments were all-in on electrification and Joe Biden’s administration backed up overly ambitious emissions goals with expanded tax credits.
But Biden’s charging program, which envisioned a network of 500,000 charging stations by 2030, allowed red tape and union giveaways to slow progress. By this year,just 384 chargers had been built with the help of government grants.
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— reason (@reason) March 1, 2025
The Boston Globe claims that the reason it has been so cold is because the planet is dangerously hot.
This line of reasoning, or lack thereof, makes no sense unless you have room temperature IQ.
For sake of hearing them out, their argument is that the warming of the Arctic… pic.twitter.com/IwazLR1fUV
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) January 4, 2026
