Washington Update From the US Oil and Gas Association - 3.22.2024

Welcome Back Michelle Brown Edition...

March 22, 2024

We are pleased to welcome Michelle Brown back from an extended break and are glad that she is back up and running things.  

Biden starts banning gas-engine cars

On Wednesday, EPA finalized Biden’s ban on gas cars by mandating that EVs make up 2/3rds of vehicle sales by 2032. To put that in perspective, in 2023, EVs only made up 7.6 percent of total vehicle sales.

Now before you start to worry, EPA doesn’t “explicitly” ban gas and diesel-powered cars and trucks, but instead sets a performance standard so high that no gas or diesel-powered vehicle could meet it. How high?  A car sold in 2032 would need to double the fuel efficiency of 2024 57-mpg Toyota Prius to meet EPA’s standard.

An unobtainable standard is a ban and should explicitly be called a ban. 

We else do we know it's a ban? Because the N.Y. Times is already trying to cover for Biden--What to Know About the Clean Auto Rule: It’s Not a Ban on Gas Cars. But this is like the N.Y. Times writing about banning gas stoves. In January of last year, the N.Y. Times proclaimed, No One Is Coming for Your Gas Stove Anytime Soon and then, three months later, the N.Y. Times explained, New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Buildings. Life comes at you fast when you believe N.Y. Times headlines.