Heatmap: We Fact Checked Everything Trump Has Said About Electric Vehicles Since 2021From misplaced range anxiety to trepidation over electric tanks [and I added facepalm emojis 🤦 to the biggest howlers]
Heatmap,JEVA LANGE • JANUARY 16, 2024
Trump: “I will also rescue the ethanol industry 🤦by canceling crooked Joe Biden’s insane ethanol-killing🤦 electric vehicle mandate on day one.” [Dec. 20, 2023]
Fact check: It’s not wrong to say that Biden has tried to reduce the role of liquid fuel in vehicles. Trump has gunned for Iowa voters by claiming Biden’s goal (albeit not a binding mandate) of ramping up EV sales will kill the local ethanol industry. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack — Iowa’s former governor — has stressed that just because the administration is pushing for more EVs, “Does that mean we won’t have a need for E15 or E85”— gasoline blends that contain up to 15% and 85% ethanol content, respectively —“in the future? No.”
For example, new rules defining what qualifies as a “sustainable aviation fuel”— and thus for generous tax credits under the IRA — include ethanol and other plant-based fuels, despite opposition from environmental groups. “The Biden administration plans to invest $4.3 billion to support production of 35 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel annually by 2050,” presenting a significant opportunity for Iowa’s farmers, The Des Moines Register writes. As Vilsack added, “You have to think beyond cars and trucks.”
Trump: “They want to have electric trucks, so a truck — a big, beautiful truck like Peterbilt or one of them, with the big ones, 18 wheelers, they can go about 2,000 miles, they say, 2,000 on a big tank of diesel.🤦 An electric truck, comparable — which it can’t be comparable because you need so much room for the battery. Most of the area that you’re going to carry your goods, going to be battery.🤦 But assuming we take away that problem, which is not easy to take away, you’d have to stop approximately seven times to go 2,000 miles, right?🤦 You go about 300 miles, and they don’t want to change that.”🤦 [Dec. 20, 2023] ...
Then there is the oil guy set to lead COP29 in Azerbaijan.
And greenwashing. But the EU is doing something about that. See Positive News below.