{"id":103933,"date":"2024-08-28T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103933"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:45:28","slug":"103933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103933","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala campaign flip-flops on EV mandates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The former senator cosponsored legislation banning gas-powered cars by 2040<\/em><\/p>\n

A campaign official for Kamala Harris said Tuesday that it is a \u201clie\u201d that the vice president Kamala Harris supports implementing an electric vehicle mandate, even though she cosponsored legislation doing exactly that in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Harris\u2019s director of rapid response, Ammar Moussa, wrote in a campaign email ahead of Trump running mate J.D. Vance\u2019s remarks on the economy in Michigan that the Ohio senator would \u201cundoubtedly lie, gaslight, and try to run away from the truth.\u201d\u00a0One such lie, he cautioned, is that\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cVice President Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,\u201d Moussa claimed, before citing several news stories that argued the Biden administration only incentivized, rather than mandated, electric vehicle production by car manufacturers. The administration spent billions to build just a handful of electric vehicle chargers and introduced tax credits for electric vehicle purchases. In addition, however, the Biden administration pushed through a new tailpipe emissions rule through the Environmental Protection Agency that would force car manufacturers to significantly scale back production of gas-powered cars. \u201cThe regulation would essentially require automakers to sell more electric vehicles and hybrids by gradually tightening limits on tailpipe pollution,\u201d the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in March.<\/p>\n

Even more damningly, Harris also supported an electric vehicle mandate when she serves as the junior senator from California. In April 2019, months after\u00a0announcing<\/a> her bid to become the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Harris cosponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019. The bill, which was introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative Mike Levin, presented \u201cbold plan for transitioning the United States to 100% zero-emission vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original version of the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019 would require 50 percent of new passenger vehicle sales to be automobiles that use zero emissions \u2014 electric or hydrogen-powered cars and trucks. The bill would require all new car sales be zero emission vehicles by 2040, according to\u00a0text of the bill\u00a0<\/a>and a\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0from Senator Merkley\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The legislation gave authority to the EPA administrator to issue an \u201cinjunction on the manufacture of any passenger vehicles other than zero-emission vehicles by a vehicle manufacturer\u201d\u00a0by 2040.<\/p>\n

Harris supported an even more aggressive version of the legislation that would ban non-zero-emission vehicles by 2035, according to an\u00a0archived page<\/a>\u00a0of her 2020 campaign website\u00a0obtained<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019s campaign has also claimed that she no longer supports a fracking ban and other key policies of her 2020 Democratic primary campaign. Harris herself has not walked back any of these positions or explained why and how she changed her mind so radically in just one election cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kamala campaign flip-flops on EV mandates. The former senator cosponsored legislation banning gas-powered cars by 2040 A campaign official for Kamala Harris said Tuesday that it is a \u201clie\u201d that the vice president Kamala Harris supports implementing an electric vehicle mandate, even though she cosponsored legislation doing exactly that in 2019. Harris\u2019s director of rapid … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,82,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-the-more-things-change","category-you-cant-make-this-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103934,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103933\/revisions\/103934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}