Bummer: Dems Have No Response To GOP Attack On EV Mandate

As usual, I’ll say I am not against EVs. If you want one, get one. That’s your choice. It shouldn’t be the government’s choice to force manufacturers to make them, limiting the choice of US Citizens

The GOP’s electric car attacks crash into Dems’ closing message

Republicans are on the attack over electric vehicles, and Democrats are having a hard time finding their footing.

In tight House and Senate races in Michigan, Virginia, New York and Montana, Republican candidates are putting Democrats on the defensive by accusing the Biden administration of trying to “mandate” that drivers abandon their Chevy Tahoes for Chevy Bolts. Some Republicans are misleadingly tying EV tax subsidies to reductions in Medicare payments to drug companies.

These attacks, echoing Donald Trump’s campaign against Kamala Harris, come as multiple groups on both sides of the electric vehicle debate are joining in. Fossil fuel interests are spending tens of millions of dollars in swing-state Senate races, while environmentalists are waging their own effort to tout the benefits of driving an EV.

At a Michigan Senate debate this month, former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, pointed to thousands of autoworker layoffs in the state and assailed Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin for a recent vote in which she refused to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s tightened limits on tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks.

“My opponent, multiple times, supported EV mandates, trying to pick the cars that our companies have to build and the cars that you’re going to have to buy,” he said.

Rogers missed in asking the media to ask if Slotkin is driving an EV herself. Because she doesn’t

‘What You Drive Is Your Call’: Elissa Slotkin Runs Ad Decrying EV Mandates—Days After Voting To Keep Them in Place

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin is running a new campaign advertisement in which she boasts about owning a gas-powered vehicle and says she opposes electric vehicle mandates. Slotkin, however, voted in favor of federal EV requirements just days before releasing the ad.

“I live on a dirt road, nowhere near a charging station. So, I don’t own an electric car,” Slotkin narrates in the ad. “No one should tell us what to buy, and no one is going to mandate anything. But here’s the thing, if there’s going to be a new generation of vehicles, I want that new generation built right here in Michigan, not China. I approve this message, because what you drive is your call, no one else’s.”

On Sept. 20, the congresswoman voted against a resolution authored by fellow Michigan Rep. John James (R.) that would overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s environmental regulations requiring more EV sales. Those rules, finalized earlier this year by the EPA, are expected to force 56 percent of light-duty car sales to be battery electric and another 13 percent to be hybrid electric by 2032 thanks to strict emissions standards.

That article was from October 3rd. So, she doesn’t drive one, but, wants to force you peasants to be limited to only purchasing an EV.

Auto-heavy Michigan has seen a focus on EVs from Trump and Harris too, with a similar accusation that Harris wants to ban gas-powered vehicles.

While she formerly supported that idea while in the Senate, Harris declared in a recent rally, “Contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”

Tampon Tim echoes this line, but, Harris was part of the administration which passed the rule forcing it on consumers. Anyhow, it’s a long article, basically showing that Republicans are obliterating Democrats on this subject, while Democrats attempt to play defense, about as well as the Carolina Panthers. The GOP should be tying it into the reality that Democrats want to force just about everything in citizen’s lives like the EV mandate.

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