THE MORNING RANT: Trump Plans to Kill EV Tax Credit AND Exit the Paris Climate Agreement

While all the usual suspects, including NeverTrump faux-conservatives, have been distracted and losing their minds over President-elect Trump’s appointments this past week, Trump and his team have simultaneously been laying the groundwork to dismantle Biden’s climate apparatus.

As we savor these headlines below, just remember that the “principled conservatives” at outlets such as National Review and The Dispatch fervently fought to keep Trump out of the White House and keep Kamala/Obama/Biden in power, which would have had the effect of making permanent the agenda of climate communism. Had Conservative, Inc. had its way, there would be no off ramp from the government mandated “EV transition,” and the United States would still be professing obedience to the Paris Communism Climate Agreement.

Through all these years of writing EV roundups and condemning EV subsidies, this is a headline I always hoped to see:

“Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit” [Reuters – 11/14/2024]

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Except for Tesla, the business plan for all the companies manufacturing electric vehicles in the United States has been government mandating that customers buy EVs, and then the government also providing huge incentives to customers and manufacturers to make the sale of the unwanted EVs feasible.

But what about Tesla? Elon Musk has been enjoying the subsidies, but his company doesn’t need them to profitably sell Teslas. Killing off the $7,500 tax credit will deal a death blow to the electric products from his competitors such as Ford, General Motors, VW, and Rivian.

Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling U.S. EV transition. And yet representatives of Tesla - by far the nation's largest EV seller - have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy, said the two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Elon Musk, one of Trump's biggest backers and the world's richest person, said earlier this year that killing the subsidy might slightly hurt Tesla sales but would devastate its U.S. EV competitors, which include legacy automakers such as General Motors.

Ford and GM may just have to give up on the EV fairy-tale and go back to profitably manufacturing gasoline-powered cars for that huge mass market, while Tesla profitably corners the EV niche.

If this weren’t enough good news, Donald Trump is also planning to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which forces countries to accept a de-civilizational, de-carbonization agenda. Actually, Trump will be having the US re-withdraw, because after he withdrew from the climate agreement in his first term, Joe Biden re-subjugated the US to the global climate communists when he took office in 2021.

“Trump planning to withdraw from Paris climate agreement: Leaving the treaty is one of the first signs of how the president-elect plans to undo the legacy of Joe Biden” [The Telegraph – 11/09/2024]

Donald Trump is preparing to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement when he returns to office in January.

The president-elect’s team has already prepared an executive order that would see the US leave the international treaty, which commits countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite the headline, this is not actually a treaty, at least not for the United States. Because Obama is an anti-constitutionalist, and because the Senate is a body full of cowards who dislike going on the record with a vote, Obama committed to the climate accords by executive order, without even requesting Senate ratification of the “treaty.” The good news is that Trump can undo Obama’s surrender of sovereignty with a stroke of the pen too.

Trump’s actions in eliminating the EV tax credit and withdrawing from the climate accords are hard-core, conservative governance the likes of which we would never see from a Jeb, or a Mitt, or a Nikki, or any of the other dream candidates whom the “principled conservatives” swoon over.

I don’t need to ever hear another word about Trump not being a conservative from those who would allow climate communism to destroy our freedom and undermine our prosperity. Thank you, Donald Trump, for proceeding as promised to end the climate and EV ordeal.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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