Save the pickup truck!

Ok. What happens if we don’t buy them?

The Biden Administration is out to get your truck. The newly mandated EPA standards can only be met if 25% of truck sales by 2032 are electric. The standards mean that automakers can produce large vehicles such as SUVs and pickups but will have to balance them with hybrids, plugin electrics and totally electric cars. Automobile manufactures lose thousands of dollars on every EV they sell and are only profitable because of the gas and diesel powered SUVs and pickup trucks. 

There is a reason why pickups are the best selling vehicles in America. We love our trucks.  I thought Biden liked autoworkers? Seems to me that this is a sure fired way to get them laid off. Regards, the only vehicle that American automakers build that is really popular is the full sized pickup. While car sales of American manufacturers have fallen, only the full sized pickup holds its own. No manufacturer can meet the standards if the current ratio of truck sales to auto sales holds. This would mean that the government would force the auto companies to make fewer trucks. Zowie! Our congressional politicians are gutless and won’t sue the EPA for exceeding its authority. Perhaps, like before, they are waiting on the republican AGs to sue for them.

Maybe the American public will sit on its hands and meekly accept the EPA forcing you to buy electric trucks. Talk about white rage! Well to be honest, that rage will be colored in that I own a F-250 diesel. The EPA will kill the travel trailer industry. I pull a 35 foot fifth wheel behind my truck. If I had a Ford F-150 Lightening I would hitch it up to the fifth wheel and spin out the tires. I guess I would have to camp in the RV storage lot. The motorhome industry is seeking an exemption because the heavier batteries and limited range will effectively kill that industry as well.

I hope that these mandates are repealed because they will have virtually no impact on the environment. They will raise inflation in the country as prices on everything will rise given the increase in purchasing vehicles and the cost of transporting them. I predict a robust market for used pickups. My car it is a decidedly nongreen Mercedes cabriolet and my SUV is a Mercedes GLS 430. I am proud of my carbon footprint. What the new EPA standards mean is that I will keep my pickup, car and SUV forever. I pity future generations and in particular my grandkids for having to deal with the crap put on them by this current crop of politicians.