More good news from the front lines – in the war against the pushing of devices.
VW has just announced it won’t be bringing one of its newest devices – the ID 7 sedan – to the United States. On account of “changing market conditions,” by which is meant there’s not much of a market for devices – and because of the changes ushered in with the ushering out of the Biden regime.
The new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, has “directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reconsider rules covering the 2022 model year through the 2031 model year for cars and trucks. The agency in June said it would hike Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements to about 50.4 miles per gallon by 2031 from 39.1 mpg currently for light-duty vehicles,” according to a report published by Automotive News.
The headline of the Automotive News article reads: “Newly confirmed U.S. Transportation chief moves to repeal Biden vehicle fuel economy standards.”
Elections apparently do matter.
The 2020 election – if you want to call it that – brought us Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, the outgoing secretary of transportation. That brought us a near-doubling of federal CAFE “standards” – as these edicts are styled. They are not optional suggestions. Vehicle manufacturers are forced to comply with them. And the only way to comply with a 50.4 MPG CAFE requirement is to manufacture lots of devices – i.e., electric vehicles such as the ID 7.
This “works” to create an “incentive” to manufacturer devices. Not a mandate, per se. So President Trump hasn’t got it quite right when he talks about ending the “EV mandate” because at least at the federal level, there isn’t one. Per se. But the regulations – especially CAFE regs – effectively mandate EVs. It’s an extremely clever ploy by the car-hating Leftists that infest the DOT and EPA and the entire federal bureaucracy. More finely, who hate that people who aren’t them and most especially the working and middle class Deplorables who insist on driving V8-powered trucks and SUVs like the ones government apparatchiks get driven around in.
CAFE has been used for decades to dwindle down the size of vehicles and of engines available in mass-market vehicles that working and middle class people used to be able to afford and with the doubling of the “standards” under the Biden Thing the pincers were about to close completely, effectively forcing everyone into a device.
The 2024 election just prevented that.
“Artificially high fuel economy standards designed to meet non-statutory policy goals, such as those NHTSA has promulgated in recent years, impose large costs that render many vehicle models unaffordable for the average American family,” reads Duffy’s memo. “They also put coercive pressure on automakers to phase out production of various models of popular (internal combustion engine) vehicles.”
Italics added.
“Non-statutory policy goals” refers to edicts that were never passed by the legislature – Congress, in this case. Here Duffy touches on something of critical importance in that CAFE “standards” are not constitutional because Congress didn’t pass a law requiring vehicle manufacturers to meet them. The federal apparat just decreed them. More finely, the federal apparat has arrogated unconstitutional power to – effectively – legislate “standards” on its own arbitrary say-so. That it allows “public comment” prior to imposing whatever “standards” it likes does not legitimize the arbitrary saying-so. It is patently contrary to foundational language of the federal Constitution, which endows Congress only with the lawful authority (as distinct from arrogated power) to legislate.
Federal regulations such as CAFE “standards” operate as de facto laws, being enforceable as if they were laws. Since neither the EPA nor the DOT are mentioned in the Constitution and since the Constitution grants legislative power to Congress alone, a strong prima facie argument cam be made that not only are federal regulations such as CAFE “standards” unconstitutional usurpations of the legislative authority, apparats such as EPA and DOT are themselves unlawful – all of the foregoing being unconstitutional.
If Congress wants to pass a law that says vehicle manufacturers must build vehicles that average 50.4 miles per gallon or – going farther – that they must build electric devices only – Congress has statutory authority to do that, at least in terms of process. Such laws may themselves also be unconstitutional but at least they are laws emitted by the legislative body with the sole statutory authority under the Constitution to make laws at the federal level.
Put another way, this whole business of the federal bureaucracy regulating anything must be challenged. The bureaucracy – unelected, unaccountable and largely unremovable – is at the root of much that afflicts this country. Congress has its own set of problems, of course. But at least Congress is subject to elections. Congressmen and senators can be voted out of office if they vote for obnoxious laws and the laws themselves can be repealed. Regulations are much harder to get rid of without getting ride of the apparat that issued them.
It appears Duffy – and more importantly, Donald Trump – may have exactly that in mind.
And that is why VW has wisely decided to hold back the device it has intended to bring to “market” in this country. Not just because “market conditions” are “changing.” But because political conditions have changed.
The essential thing now is that the change holds. It is one thing to land some troops on the beaches at Normandy. It is another to claw back the ground occupied by the enemy.
But a beachhead has been made – and the troops are advancing.
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They had to ban diesels to push EV’s……
The diesels are more fuel efficient……
Here is a real 100 mpg diesel powered car…..The Audi A2 1.2 Tdi…
The engine only weighs 200 pounds, the curb weight is 2000 lb…it carries 4 adults…..there is no need for 5000 lb SUV’s and EV’s…..
Compared to the average EV which gets a real 25 mpg….if you calculated the amount of fuel burnt at the power plant to generate the electricity….
eMPG is calculated with the electricity already in the battery…a huge deception/lie…..skipping all the losses at the power plant and in transmission, etc…..
Thermal efficiency of power plants using coal, petroleum, natural gas or nuclear fuel and converting it to electricity are around 33% efficiency, natural gas is around 40%. Then there is average 6% loss in transmission, then there is a 5% loss in the charger, another 5% loss in the inverter, the electric motor is 90% efficient so another 10% loss before turning the electricity into mechanical power at the wheels.
33% – 6% – 5% – 5% – 10% = 25% efficiency for EV’s.
(under not ideal conditions, like in very cold weather, it might be 12% efficient).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nOtXbBD9Es
A modern ice gas engine is about 35% efficient….an F1 gas ice engine is 50% efficient…a modern diesel is about 50% efficient…
NOTE…a modern steam engine is over 50% efficient…go back to steam power?…..
There is a modern steam engine to power vehicles that can burn various fuels, it is up to 60% efficient, that is better then any ice or EV vehicle, with today’s technology it could be near zero emissions….
A steam engine is the same as an electric motor as in….it has 100% torque at one rpm….
https://cyclonepower.com/#
A 1913 Bugatti type 22 is 108 years old and daily driven. A Tesla is scrap after 10 years.
But mechanical systems, like Jay Leno’s 1832 steam engine can last for centuries, get a steam powered car, they run on wood.
Steam powered cars have the same advantage as electric cars, instant torque.
A new steam engine is over 50% efficient, an EV is 25% efficient, if it is very cold out it is 12% efficient.
Howard Hughes’ 1925 Doble E20 steam powered car….went 0 to 75 mph in just 5 seconds, with its engine turning over at less than 1,000 rpm, a steam engine is a very low rpm engine.
The tesla plaid motors runs at up to 19,000 rpm, that sounds dangerous, will wear out quickly, car electric motors are too high rpm. The steam engine goes 600,000 miles without an overhaul. After 100,000 miles the tesla battery is dead so it is worthless, scrapped, at 19,000 rpm the motors are probably gone too..
Howard Hughes’ 1925 Doble E20 top speed was 133 mph in 1925, with today’s technology the steam powered car might be quicker then anything.
The steam engine goes 600,000 miles without an overhaul, this better then most gas ice engines. In a tesla the battery goes in 100,000 miles so in 600,000 miles you go through 6 teslas, a huge waste of resources….
NOTE RANGE: Steam powered vehicle 1500 mile range on 17 gallons of water, they are the king of range better then ice. BEV has a very short range, Mercedes BEV at top speed on highway = 100 miles.
A steam engine burning hydrogen is zero % emission, an EV is remote high emissions at a coal burning power plant.
Hi Anon,
This has been my hypothesis for years. That the TDI diesel “scandal” was engineered because VW’s TDI diesels made EVs look absurd and that could not be permitted. A brand-new TDI Jetta cost about $22k in 2015 and easily achieved 50-plus MPG. It had a highway driving range around 700 miles. It took about three minutes to refuel. It had a useful service life of 20-plus years. What kind of fool would prefer a $40,000 device with a range of maybe 270 miles (under ideal conditions) that takes at least 30 minutes to recover a partial charge to that? The question answers itself.
My 2014 Cayenne Diesel just kicked over 165,000 miles and still gets 35+ on the highway – that was average on my recent road trip from Florida to Colorado. I filled up twice for the trip, once before i left and once again past St Louis, I had fuel left when I arrived in Denver.
I had a guy in a Tesla comment about my Porsche when I was down at the Cape. He asked me if I wanted to race. I said “Sure, I’ll race you to Miami” (these Tesla guys have no sense of humor whatsoever)
My A3’s 13 gallon tank would get me from Grand Junction CO to Las Vegas with about 1/8th of a tank remaining after checking into the hotel and driving to the steakhouse for dinner. Once I got down below 4000 ft MSL filling up became a “Well, I suppose I should” activity instead of a “Well, I better do it now…” requirement.
Hi Alex,
Yup! It still makes me furious when I remember what was done to diesels – very much of a piece with what they tried to do to the “unvaxxed.” Same basic underlying reason – and evil. Gaslight something good and reasonable to get people to accept something evil.
Another important component of the diesel takedown was to suppress the price of platinum which is used by diesel — but not gasoline — engines in the catalytic converter.
For fiat currencies to remain viable psychologically, the entire previous metals complex needs to be manipulated, not just gold and silver.
That’s interesting, David –
It’s an aspect of the story I was not familiar with. I appreciate your bringing that up. The whole dirty business was just that – dirty.
This single event is, in and of itself, a minor victory to be celebrated for certain. But we need to keep our eyes on the prize.
1: CAFE must end.
2: CARBON CREDITS must end.
3: CARB must end.
This trifecta of accomplishments is THE PRIZE. These are the 3 goals we must work towards.
Perhaps it’s time we learn to organize along these lines like the other “side” does. A national (or international) coalition of auto makers, auto enthusiasts, auto retailers, auto collectors, auto mechanics, auto parts suppliers (channel and aftermarket), IHRA, NHRA, NASCAR, IMSA, EVERYONE that might have a vested interest in revitalizing the auto industry.
With enough powerful automotive groups united and acting as a single lobbying force, we could effectively counter ALL the crap that has been pushed on us. It’s something to think about.
End the climate hoax and all that ends.
‘On account of “changing market conditions”.’ — eric
Here’s some more changing market conditions:
‘President Donald Trump will put 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective on Saturday, the White House said.’ — APe News
Back when we still had a facade of constitutional government, revenue-raising tariff bills originated in the House (as required), were passed by the Senate, then signed by the president. The notorious Smoot Hawley tariff act of 1930 was named for its sponsors, Rep Willis Hawley and Senator Reed Smoot.
Now the Orange Oligarch don’t need no stinkin’ bills. The Lügenpresse does not even inquire on what purported legal grounds he acts.
I’ll let y’all in on Trump’s Napoleonic secret: L’etat, c’est moi. The state, it’s me.
This does not end well.
Trump stated in a recent press conference that until 1913 there was no federal income tax and the federal government was financed (mostly) by tariffs.
I enjoy hearing him talk about taboo subjects such as this, even if nothing comes of it.
Personally, I’d rather have a consumption tax rather than an income tax, given the choice.
I agree, Philo –
All taxation is theft but a consumption tax has the virtue of not being compulsory (in principle) and anonymous in fact. Much to be preferred over this business of taxing what we earn and “own.”
As Ron Paul has repeatedly pointed out (Harry Browne did the math) That neither the income tax or a sales tax is necessary. The recent kefluffle with the Treasury Dept – shouldn’t call it a “treasury” since the is no real money, only debt – but they have flushed away more money than either tax would ever take in, with no real idea where that money went, they just approved every payment no matter how much or to whim it went and in many cases have no idea to whom it went.
Careful Philo, you will end up with both.
Hey, Jim! “This does not end well.”
Trump’s use of power is nothing new. The Constitution was overthrown decades ago.
https://www.newnation.org/Archives/NNN-Guest-Column-28.html
And Paul’s experience was by no means the first. The Constitution was dead before he was born.
The fact is, We The People are in a war. Our bureaucracy and half the population already refuse to govern within the rules of law. If this were a war of 95% against 5% we could probably work within the old Republic rules and fix things. We are way past that. When the opposition refuses to play by the rules, they cease to be mere opposition and become your enemy. They need to be removed by any means necessary, and they are currently too powerful to allow the Constitution to be enforced against themselves. Why else do we have Hillary, Hunter, Biden, and Obama walking free? Once the Libs siezed control of the “Justice System” and went full throttle on the lawfare they crossed a line. They went from persuasion into coercion. The power of the Law is the power of the Gun. When they started sending heavily armed SWAT Teams to innocent people’s homes, they initiated armed warfare against We The People. They are traitors and should be hanged. Whatever it takes. Right now the concept of individual freedom is fighting for its life. Get rid of the traitors first, then we can try to reestablish the Republic.
I agree with your summary, Nolan –
I myself have said much the same. We face an enemy who counts on using our civility to destroy us. This not an argument between friends or even a fight between men who implicitly agree that kicks in the nuts and eye gouging are off-limits and that once one man is down, the other man doesn’t kick him. We are in a fight for our lives and the sooner we come to accept that the better chance we have of surviving it.
Good start. I’ve heard a rumor that GM is possibly going to eliminate the dreaded multi-cylinder e-lifters that has been plaguing them and others. And massive warranty labor to fix.
I’m hoping that GM and others short term fix is to update their programing to turn the fricken things off permanently.
Then how about getting ride of direct injection too! I can dream.
I heard a funny that said “we can bring back the GM big block 8.1L !!!” that got taken out because of ’emissions’. I doubt that one is coming back though.
Then lets please work on the disaster diesel regs. Role back to Tier 3. Now this is potentially a massive economic issue, because then Asia can compete in the diesel engine market which could severely impact CAT, Cummins, Deere, etc….. And let’s be fair, that’s why the Tier 4 disaster came out in the first place, to prevent ‘others’ competition.
Same with ICE cars to an extent too.
Please let me buy a Toyota Hilux. Or several dozen. Drop all the b.s. vehicle standards which are nothing but lies to control our movement and income.
Ditto that, BD –
I wish Toyota would “loan” me one for an extended test drive…
Now if VW will only bring back the engine that “got them into trouble”.
CAFE standards are not linear and to just make a new set every few years is stupid. Going from the teens in the 60s to the twenties made sense and was doable. Jumping to the thirties and above was also doable but made many popular models obsolete. Going above the thirties basically ends ICE-powered cars and trucks. It can be done but with gimmicks and trickery. The government should not have the power to dictate what we buy and drive.
Amen, Rudy –
And “going from the teens to the 20s” as you put it would have occurred naturally, because the market would have recognized the value of overdrive transmissions and basic (TBI) fuel injection. Those tow things will enable even a V8-powered truck to make it into the 20s.
I thought I read somewhere that the reason we didn’t get overdrive transmissions in the 60s was because the automakers were afraid the Ralph Nader types would demonize them by saying that the transmissions were only for going fast.
Do you know if that’s true?
Hi Horst,
I’ve not heard that, actually. I do know that an OD transmission all by itself can dramatically improve the fuel economy of even a very gas-hoggy ’60s-’70s era muscle car because I have one and I installed one in it. My ’76 Tran-Am, which has a huge (7.5 liter) carbureted V8 and a very aggressive (3.90) final drive ratio went from maybe 10 MPG if driven with a very light foot to 15-18 if driven with a light foot just by installing an overdrive four speed transmission. The deep (0.67) 4th gear reduces cruise RPM at 70 to around 2,200 RPM whereas before it was well into the 3,000 RPM range at the same road speed.
If I were to replace the carb (which I would never do!) with a TBI system, I bet the thing would get about the same gas mileage as a new Mustang GT and maybe even better.
Howdy Eric.
Regarding the OD transmission…have you ever wondered why they didn’t simply put “High-Low” 2wd transfer case in cars? Whether it’s a manual or automatic transmission, it would be fairly simple to have a setup similar to any 4wd truck. Except with a truck, you have the “High” range, which is standard transmission gearing, and “LOW” range, which is gear reduction for torque, and with a car, you could have “SPORT”, which would be an 1:1 or even .9:1, which would give excellent performance, and an “OVERDRIVE” mode, say 1:1.25, to reduce engine rpm and increase efficiency? That would effectively double the number of gears available, even for the lowly 3-speed (it now becomes a 6 speed), and it would satisfy both performance needs as well as economy needs in a single drivetrain package.
Hi Let,
Yes – and such a thing exits (or did). Gear Vendors – if I recall correctly – used to offer exactly what you’re talkin’ ’bout!
I took a look at their website, they’re pricey ($3600), but if they put them on vehicles in mass-production, I imagine costs would be significantly less. Awesome that you can get it, though!
My thought as well, LetMe!
I love the 2004R I installed in my Trans-Am. Totally transformed the car from a muscle car that was not really highway-usable due to the high cruise RPMs even at relatively low speeds to a car that drives on the highway very much like any new car.
The Dodge Colt/Mitsubishi Colt Galant from the 1980s had such a dual-stick transmission. The second lever was labeled “economy” and “POWER!” and it did make a pretty big difference off the line, IIRC. At least as much a difference a 1.8L engine could do back in the day.
Correction: 1.4 L engine. Punched above it’s weight class, especially considering a few strong teenage boys could move the whole vehicle from one parking space to another in a lame attempt to impress my sister.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Colt#Fourth_generation_(1979–1984)
I owned an 85 Colt. That POS took forever to warm up in the Winter … in Tampa.
Around the same time as the (Mitsubishi) Dodge Colt there was the Dodge-designed Dodge Omni. Anyone remember the Dodge Omni? And more specifically, anybody remember the Dodge Omni GLH?
GLH literally stood for “Goes Like Hell”. LOL @ Carol Shelby.
I learned to drive with an Omni. 4 speed manual, no AC, no power steering. “two tone” blue paint with a red stripe down the side. FM radio.
My brother tells me there are such things for some mid 80s Mopar pickups. Not a transfer case, just an OD unit which bolts to the transmission tail end.
I do not know whether they are OEM or aftermarket.
Wow VW! You made a correct decision! Now you can send us a similar sedan that is ICE powered. The O’Biden regime is gone, but you still have your communist/globalist/pedophile regime to contend with. Good luck with that. They will force you out of business in favor of the Chinese. Maybe you should invest in Trump’s America. It’s the one that’s pro-business. VW might survive that way?
We’re hoping that he’s Duffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Left are speaking of him ripping “up US fuel efficiency regulations”:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/01/trumps-new-head-of-dot-rips-up-us-fuel-efficiency-regulations/
…But he needs to stop coyly asking the regulatory monster to “review” and “reconsider” and he needs to start staking the bastard.
“directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reconsider rules”
Again, they are not challenging the constitutionality of such rule making bodies, thereby rendering them null and void as they should. They are asking the NHTSA to “please reconsider”, and leaving in place the apparatus to again reconsider at a future time when a new boss gains power.
The system that allows such mayhem is not being dismantled, much less even challenged. They are just temporarily taking hold of the levers of power.
“Please, sir. May I have some less.”
LOL!
*bangs silver spoon on the White House china*
Precisely, Philo!
And by not doing so (Challenging the constitutionality), all they are doing is preserving the former iteration of those “standards”; making it very easy for the next admin to reinstate those “standards” (Or for the current one to do so, but quietly); and creating utter chaos in the market due to manufacturers knowing that the standards can just as easily be changed back, so no sense in designing, tooling up for, and marketing cars that only meet the new standards, because it would be a fool-hardy investment seeing as by the time those vehicles would be available on dealer lots, the standards will just change again.
Asking “please will you possibly consider” vs. challenging constitutionally is the difference between just throwing the voters a few scraps vs. being serious about actually doing something. And for the reason stated in the latter part of the preceding paragraph, it will essentially accomplish nothing.
Funny, how when it comes to us, they don’t gingerly and politely ask “would you please?”. They just demand at the point of a gun. But when it comes to them…… Well, “Vee moost make it luke like vee are appeasing the voters vhile not doing anyzing contrary to der real kommissars vishes!”
Agreed. It is obvious the entire premise of the federal regulatory bureaucracy is flawed and as Eric pointed out unconstitutional. Mere suggestions that these agencies reconsider will fall flat. These people cherish and zealously guard their power. J
Now if only the manufacturers would cut back on all the electronic crap….
Indeed, Jeff –
Of course, we have the power to cut it back, too. By not buying it.
“Electronic crap”. Good God, man, don’t you realize that Patent license revenues are at stake!
Nothing else matters at a lot of companies manufacturing tangible products anymore.
Even if the Patent is for an intangible like a widget in a GUI interface on a touch screen, the engineer will get a better annual review.
CAFE was ok in moderation, maybe 20 years ago. People weren’t complaining all that much about fuel savings. But then it got stupid: CVT, tiny engines with turbos, absurd use of plastic parts to reduce weight, basically transferring any fuel savings to the repair shop. Now they want EV, which would be fine if the power grid could handle it AND everyone owned a home in which they could install a charger. EV is fine for some people, but not at the scale envisioned by government bureaucrats.
Hi Hans,
I object to CAFE in principle. The market is perfectly capable of sorting out which kinds of cars are produced. More finely, it is none of the government’s business what kinds of cars are produced. If there is market demand for cars that tout great gas mileage, there is a natural incentive (the market) to make them. If there isn’t enough demand, why should the government be forcing them to be made? Isn’t that a contravening of the market – i.e., what buyers want? Why should what the government wants supersede that?
Maybe I’m wrong but CAFE seems to distort the market in a bad way. Seems like we would probably be better off with the system they use in Europe. As ridiculous as they are there with their Green Religion you can still get a variety of cars and trucks that we would kill for here. Small trucks, wide availability of manual transmissions, still lots of turbo diesels, small cars, etc. Here in the US as each year passes there is less choice. Makers discontinue smaller cars even if they are selling good and replace them with something that is classified as a truck which seems to only be done to satisfy CAFE.
We need to turn back the clock for auto requirements.
Hi Zeek,
How about turning them off? Why should the federal government have any say – at all – as regards the gas mileage of our cars? Or their “safety”?
What burn me so much reading comments is the number of people that think that maybe just a little less regulation from our masters, things would be OK.
And this on a libertarian leaning website none the less!! Ugh!
This is why we can’t have nice things.
a little “less” regulation..?
how old are you 17?
since I was old enough to become interested in cars mid 1970’s the government has regulated cars to death leaving us with unrecognizable lumps for the sake of the E’s.. Environment and Equality!
VW said in so many words the word ‘no’.
You can’t market something that won’t sell. You idiots who think you can run the show are FOS.
Outfit a Conestoga wagon or a Prairie Schooner, see how much it will cost you, horses and all of the tack included.
You will go buy an ice car of a certain make and model and be done with it.
I think flat refusal on the part of automakers is what will push the needle in rolling back the CAFE standards. They will or should have the support of the current administration.
The Loper Bright decision by the Supreme Court would shut down any enforcement action of pretty much anything the auto industry has spine enough to do.
Why do all of these devices have to be 4 door sedans or crossovers? Why not a nice two seater sports car/commuter? Chop off the 24 inches or so of back seat and you’d save a lot of weight too.
Oh, because TCO of cars is prohibitively expensive in the US. Once you figure in the “low” monthly loan payment, the Insurance protection money, the state’s vig, the HOA fines for parking on the street… it makes owning more vehicles than necessary a luxury for the rich.
At one point my parents owned 4 vehicles. Two sat in the garage most of the time because they weren’t worth anything, but they were titled and driven on occasion. My friends’ parents usually had at least two vehicles, but often there were three or more in the driveway and garage, usually including a “project” car or an antique. It was fairly common. These days unless you have kids living at home there aren’t many cars under roof because they cost too much. Not to buy, but to own.
Absolutely true, RK –
When even an old truck such as mine that’s worth maybe $4,000 or so costs several hundred bucks each year for the most basic, liability-only coverage plus another $100 in annual property taxes, who the hell can afford to keep two new/newer vehicles that cost $40,000 each and so prolly cost a couple thousand in insurance and property taxes annually?
We are being enserfed.
[We are being enserfed.] eric
Wrong tense…..
Surfified???
Our enserfment has developed not necessarily to our advantage.
LA’s fire cleanup: EV batteries are ticking timebombs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14345249/los-angeles-wildfires-cleanup-lithium-ion-batteries.html
The funny thing is that back in ’69 you could buy a full size Dodge Polara with a 225 Slant Six, so even in the 60’s large cars could have OK fuel economy. A couple hundred horsepower in a Civic might be fun, until the turbo or engine dies but what if they offered a non turbo as the base engine? You would probably have 40 horsepower less but the engine might last a lot longer, oops I see the problem with that now; the car companies don’t want them to last longer.
I heard that Pete Buttigieg, aka Pete ” Bootyfudge”, failed former Transportation Secretary, might be planning a run for Senator of Michigan.
Good luck with that Bootyfudge, you Marxist homo. Your forcing EVs on everyone has practically devastated the auto industry and the UAW in that state. You probably couldn’t even be elected dog catcher there. Just go away and pound your husband or something and stay away from politics!
Ah! The Senate! The coveted spot for any faggot, -what with all of the page boys and Epstein-esque (or Whacko-Jacko-esque) parties, et al!
Duffy sounds like he’s about to strike at the root of this soft tyranny. However, the entrenched bureaucracy will not go quietly into that good night. Expect the entirety of the Eco-Religionists to come out kicking and screaming that it will be the End of the World! With women and children most impacted. Even though they can’t tell us what a woman is and that killing children in the womb is one of their most sacred acts.
Nailed it Mark,
I think it was Reagan who said that the closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government agency. Hope the Trump administration can prove him wrong.
I’m sure that by the end of Donnie’s term we’ll just have MORE tyranny; more government; and more dysfunction- just as we did after his former term and after Reagan’s. ‘Cause government is cancer that self-perpetuates and grows. The Repubs seem to be even better than the Dems at accomplishing that malignant growth, because through their words and trickery they have the support of the farmers and small-town folk, and even many libertarians, as evidenced in this comment section.
Had Kunt-mala won, there likely would have been major resistance very soon on the part of millions of people. So they selected Trump instead to play good cop and keep the natives from getting restless.
Colored women and children will be most affected. Never forget that. When the end of the world finally comes, colored women and children and the sexual pride circus will be most affected
> Eco-Religionists
They don’t only despise automobiles. They hate all humans.
America is a third world shithole with a military backed global currency. The people are so retarded that they let taxtaker parasites rule them. It’s like demanding to be raped by a mugger.
“…this whole business of the federal bureaucracy regulating anything must be challenged.”
This is why I was such a champion for Vivek Ramaswamy as he has the scientific and legal smarts to challenge the system and beat it. I hope he still has significant influence in the Trump administration.
He is not to be trusted. he’s too fanatical
What a great article. This is one of the best things I’ve read all week!
Thanks, Steve!
The time is now to kick these bastards while they’e down – and hard enough that they never get up again.
Ditto!
Kicking these (((bastards))) when they’re down is only a good start…
We need to kick them again & again, then stomp them into pulp and light the remains on fire and plow what’s left under the back 40…
EPA stands for Enemy of the People of America!!!
Absolutely, Saxons –
No quarter. Scorched earth. These people – these “agencies” – are an existential threat. They are not misguided but well-intended. They are vicious, loathsome sons-of-bitches who want to completely control us for their own cretinous purposes. They cannot be reasoned with. Given them even an inch will result in them taking a mile.