Daily Caller (12/12/24) reports: "The push for electric vehicle (EV) adoption is largely premised on misleading claims, and could bring enormous costs for U.S. consumers and the economy, a new meta-study shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation found. Federal regulators and multinational corporations have attempted to push EVs on the American public in recent years, with the Biden-Harris administration introducing strict tailpipe emissions standards, and major automakers implementing lofty electric production targets. However, widespread EV adoption may not be as feasible as lawmakers and auto executives once claimed, with a new meta-analysis from the Institute for Energy Research (IER) noting EVs can have a variety of drawbacks for consumers when compared to their gas-powered counterparts, including elevated upfront costs, lower resale values, limited driving range and a lack of charging infrastructure. 'We argue the EV transition is going to take a lot of government coercion to make happen,' Kenny Stein, vice president of policy at IER and the study’s lead author, told the DCNF. 'It is a very difficult process, and it is not a very desirable process to force.' "
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"The Paris Agreement assumes that a massive push toward net zero will miraculously slow the rate of global warming, but it will produce no detectable climate benefits. Instead, trillions will have been diverted from productive investments and put toward political purposes. How American consumers power their economy should not be subject to the whims of any foreign entity."
– Kristen Walker,
American Consumer Institute
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