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Links from today’s show:
Video from which all the silly comments were collected: This Viral EV Video Is 100% WRONG! Don’t Let Them Fool You!
to eliminate the “electric vehicle (EV) mandate” and promote true consumer choice, which is essential for economic growth and innovation, by removing regulatory barriers to motor vehicle access; by ensuring a level regulatory playing field for consumer choice in vehicles; by terminating, where appropriate, state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of gasoline-powered automobiles; and by considering the elimination of unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other technologies and effectively mandate their purchase by individuals, private businesses, and government entities alike by rendering other types of vehicles unaffordable;
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/
President Trump Signs Executive Order Revoking Biden-Era EV Targets
While Trump has rolled back plans for 50 percent of new cars to be electric by 2030, he may need the EPA to write new rules.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63495060/president-trump-revokes-biden-ev-mandates/
Could All EV Sales Be Hit With $1,000 Tax? GOP senators back bills to dramatically redraw EV credit landscape, shifting those incentives in the opposite direction.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a63798825/ev-credit-repeal-gop-senate-bill/
The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’. The agency in charge of managing buildings owned by the federal government has begun the process of taking hundreds of EV charging stations out of service.
https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical
There are several hundred charging stations managed by the GSA, which amounts to roughly 8,000 charging ports across the country. And they now they’re going to be turned off.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/trump-is-turning-off-all-8000-ev-chargers-at-all-federal-government-buildings
After spending $300 million to install the majority of these chargers during the Biden administration, the federal government will now flip the breaker and begin decommissioning them. And it’s not going to be free, either. In fact, a GSA official speaking with Politico E&E News estimates that retiring the stations will cost taxpayers between $50 million and $100 million.
https://insideevs.com/news/751754/trump-ev-purge-1-billion/
Congressional review of California car and truck standards waivers approved by the Biden administration appears set to effectively quash three rules, including the 2035 gas car ban.
https://www.aol.com/waiver-allowing-california-gas-car-184400830.html
President Donald Trump began dismantling his predecessor’s climate change and renewable energy policies on his first day in office, declaring a national energy emergency to speed up fossil fuel development – a policy he has summed up as “drill, baby, drill.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-energy-fossil-fuels-climate-change-lng-oil-gas-960ceedcd9d55d2a658b5c6b270ee632
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