Links tagged “transportation”

Biden signed law mandating all new vehicles sold after 2026 must be equipped w/ electronic "kill switches" that could be used by govt — or hackers — to seize control of cars without oversight. ... The "kill switch law" would potentially allow law enforcement to shut one's car off remotely, and also to track the car's metrics, location, and possibly even passenger load.  The mandate was included under the pretext of helping to cut down on drunk driving while also preventing high-speed chases from occurring. Such backdoor kill switches work through cars being continuously connected to wireless networks.  Many, if not most, new cars (and virtually all electric cars) already come standard with wireless capability. ...

Former U.S. rep. Bob Barr wrote an opinion piece, published in the Daily Caller last November, in which he stated that "kill switches" are a "privacy disaster in the making" and noted that the law is "disturbingly short on details."

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Marc Morano comment: "What a perfect way to implement driving restrictions on the American public. Mandatory odd/even driving days? Just have a government bureaucrat flip a switch to disable half the vehicles on the road to mandate compliance."

Dr. Rich Swier: The Biden administration wants to create the ‘backbone of [a] national charging network’ for electric vehicles. The Biden administration has said it will make a $5 billion investment to build electric vehicle charging stations across the country by 2030 in a bid to ease U.S. dependence on gas-powered cars. Biden has set a goal of a national network of 500,000 public charging stations in place by 2030, and administration officials say over 100,000 exist already. However, this 100,000 EVSEs is not true. It is misinformation. ... Biden has set a goal of a national network of 500,000 public charging stations in place by 2030, and administration officials say over 100,000 exist already. ... Will Biden’s Building EVSEs Kill Small Business? Currently more than 95% of the 145,000 gas stations in the U.S. are privately owned and operated by members of the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). ... Do we really want organizations like Pecan Street and the federal government using our tax dollars to create a national network of EVSEs to insure climate justice? ... 

I can see a future that if you don’t get vaxxed-up you can’t get charged-up. Prove me wrong.

White House National Climate Advisor & former EPA chief Gina McCarthy: "We have solutions that can deliver. We're actually going to do 100 rules this year alone on appliances, just like you asked. We are developing partnerships on how we work together for new building standards, even for sustainable airlines. Who'd a thunk that they'd be all in, but they better be, or they're gonna be out of here."

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Climate Depot's Morano comment: "Welcome the Dystopia USA 2022. The very last thing Americans need right now is a regulatory ambush of 100 additional climate 'rules' that would impact every major home appliance but do absolutely nothing for the climate. After years of COVID lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, skyrocketing energy costs and now war, U.S. businesses do not need mandated government 'partnerships' to meet mythical climate 'standards.' The Biden administration's attempt to force so-called 'sustainable airlines' on the public -- or else -- is not a sane path forward." 

AutoWeek mag: Emissions credits accounted for $518 million in revenue in a quarter that saw a pretax income of $533 million and a net income of $438 million on a GAAP basis. Needless to say, the credits account for almost the entirety of Tesla's profit for this quarter—in fact, sales of emissions credits have been a major source of revenue for Tesla for quite some time, contributing to hundreds of millions in income for the past few quarters. The automaker accumulates regulatory credits because it produces only EVs and sells them for a profit to other automakers that are short of these credits.

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For one thing, if the government emissions credits did not exist and were not given to automakers under a cap-and-trade system, Tesla would simply not have any to sell—the government is essentially giving credits to Tesla to sell to other automakers for cash.

A "more intermediate goal" in the U.S. would be transitioning from monthly car payments to a "monthly transportation payment that's quite a bit less than a car payment that covers everything," said Buttigieg.

Jesse Watters Primetime – Fox News Channel – Broadcast April 22, 2022

Judge Jeanine Pirro: Marc, you have a lot of information on this. The thing that struck me that I remembered from three years ago was apartment AOC saying 12 years now we have nine years. What is going to happen? Will you tell me what it is?

Morano: The end of civilization. Prince Charles had a 100-month climate tipping point. He counted down the 100 months and when he got to zero he issued a new tipping point to something like 2048. They extend the tipping point when it expires. I was able to trace the first climate tipping point, Judge, back to 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was president. An academic named Leo Marx warned of ‘climatic excess’ unless men changed their ways.