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Editors at Issues and Insights warn readers to beware new regulations from the Biden administration that could have drastic impacts on their driving habits.

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    Editors at Issues and Insights warn readers to beware new regulations from the Biden administration that could have drastic impacts on their driving habits.

  • In the next couple of months, the Environmental Protection Agency will issue new fuel economy standards that could be impossible for carmakers to meet - without going electric. That, at least, is what President Joe Biden's EPA Administrator Michael Regan is indicating.
  • In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Regan talked about imposing rules that meet "the urgency of the climate crisis," and "did not rule out future emissions requirements that create a de facto ban on new conventional, gasoline-powered automobiles, like an explicit phase-out ordered by California Gov. Gavin Newsom."
  • Regan could, for example, require automakers to sell cars that get an average of 70 mpg - something that only electric cars could meet. The most fuel-efficient hybrid on the market tops out at 59 mpg. The most efficient gas-powered car - the tiny Mitsubishi Mirage - gets 39 mpg.
  • The prospect of a Biden ban on gas-powered vehicles shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. As we noted last year, Biden promised voters he would do just this - impose regulations on automakers that they could only meet by selling electric cars.
  • As a matter of fact, he promised that on his first day in office, he'd develop "rigorous new fuel economy standards aimed at ensuring 100% of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be zero emissions."
  • Let's leave aside the fact that there is no "climate crisis" that requires urgent responses. The term "climate crisis" is an invention of environmentalists to create a sense of panic. The science says that, at worst, there will be a gradual warming over the next 100 years - giving everyone plenty of time to make whatever adjustments are necessary.
  • Let's leave aside, too, the fact that the environmental benefits of electric cars are wildly exaggerated.

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