Biden's EV Truck Mandate/What's a 'Fair Share' of Taxes?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Right now. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:29.0 | The Biden administration mandates a massive increase in electric trucks over the next eight years. |
| 0:37.0 | As new IRS data shows that the top 1% of taxpayers paid 46% of America's income taxes in 2021. |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:49.1 | We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassal. |
| 0:55.0 | The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday |
| 0:58.0 | rolled out a set of regulations on pollution from trucks and other heavy vehicles, a rule that the EPA thinks means that a |
| 1:05.1 | quarter of long-haul trucks could be zero emissions vehicles. By the year |
| 1:09.9 | 2032, that is a target that the American Trucking Association's says is quote, unachievable, unquote. |
| 1:18.6 | Let's listen to the ATA Chairman, Andrew Boyle, and testifying before Congress about electric trucks last year. |
| 1:24.8 | While we share the passion for EVs and cars in late duty vehicles, |
| 1:28.4 | projecting an automotive construct onto trucking industry dynamics is a massive mistake. |
| 1:35.0 | And let me be clear, if battery electric trucks had adequate range, |
| 1:40.0 | there was adequate charging infrastructure, |
| 1:42.4 | and utilities could deliver the power, |
| 1:45.4 | we truckers would be delighted. |
| 1:48.2 | But let me explain our reality. |
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