[Note: This story is also published at the Daily Caller]
After months of willingly going along with the unrealistic climate change targets set by his virtue-signaling predecessor in the job, Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asserted himself last week by proposing to delay and modify some of the worst of them in a major address to the nation. In doing so, the Prime Minister sets himself at the tip of the spear for what now seems likely to become an accelerating trend.
For those who missed it, Sunak proposed revisions include delaying the ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline-powered cars from 2030 to 2035. That move was immediately slammed by British carmakers who no doubt feel like spectators at a Wimbledon tennis match as they try to conform their business plans to a target that originally stood at a seemingly reasonable 2040, but was modified by Johnson to an impossible 2030 in his zeal to enhance and virtue signal about his green credentials. The revision to 2035 probably remains unattainable, but the British carmakers had bought into the plan in the hope of extracting more subsidies from an already debt-ridden government. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: The Auto Workers Strike Could Be The Last Gasp Of A Dying Industry)
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