The Biden Administration set strict new emissions guidelines and Jennifer Granholm chided automakers, telling them they need to get on board with electric vehicles. But they're putting the cart before the horse, WWL's Newell Normand said.
"A lot of the auto companies have shifted away from pure electric vehicles, they've moved to hybrids now, understanding that they went out, they produced these vehicles, they haven't been able to sell these vehicles. Wven with all the money and the inurments that they're giving you to buy these vehicles, they're still not being sold. Why? The infrastructure is not in place. We've got the cart before the horse," WWL's Newell Normand said.
The new standards are aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2032.
The Verge reported "the new standards were not as strict as the proposal laid out by the Environmental Protection Agency last year, in which automakers would have been required to reduce emissions by over two-thirds by 2032. Car companies and the autoworkers union opposed the plan, citing recent slower sales growth of electric vehicles and the popularity of some hybrid vehicles as proof that customers were still not ready to make the full switch to fully electric vehicles."
Still they're going to 'push, push push' Normand said, while allowing China to develop an electric vehicle cheaper than we can produce and eventually letting them flood the market with them.
"Once again we're not being protectionist in saving our own auto industry," Normand said. "And we wonder why we have some of the economic headwinds that we're facing today."
