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The climate official who spearheaded a Biden administration rule boosting electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered cars wants you to live a "simpler life" to combat climate change, behavior she acknowledges "most people" will not engage in "unless forced."

President Joe Biden's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday unveiled new fuel efficiency standards, which acting administrator Ann Carlson said will "reduce harmful emissions." Carlson has long stressed the need to force Americans to live climate-friendly lives. As an environmental academic at UCLA, for example, Carlson published a 2007 piece titled, "Only by Requiring Lifestyle Changes," which argued that people would not reduce their energy consumption "voluntarily." As a result, Carlson wrote, the U.S. government must "induce behavioral change" by implementing policies that "make the bad behavior more expensive."

[Source.](https://freebeacon.com/energy/meet-the-biden-climate-official-who-wants-to-force-you-to-live-a-simpler-life/) > The climate official who spearheaded a Biden administration rule boosting electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered cars wants you to live a "simpler life" to combat climate change, behavior she acknowledges "most people" will not engage in "unless forced." > President Joe Biden's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday unveiled new fuel efficiency standards, which acting administrator Ann Carlson said will "reduce harmful emissions." Carlson has long stressed the need to force Americans to live climate-friendly lives. As an environmental academic at UCLA, for example, Carlson published a 2007 piece titled, "Only by Requiring Lifestyle Changes," which argued that people would not reduce their energy consumption "voluntarily." As a result, Carlson wrote, the U.S. government must "induce behavioral change" by implementing policies that "make the bad behavior more expensive."

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air conditioning bad, electric cars good, low fuel efficiency bad.

Allow me to present the diesel VW Jetta, a very banned car that was capable of 80mpg highway. Banned because of tail pipe emissions. Tail pipe emission standards is what is driving mpg downwards and the sticker price upwards, and those standards tighten every 5 years.

So, the only problem with home air conditioning is that it help peak power demand? Yet, electric cars get a pass? The difference is 3500 vs 7500 watts. EVs are the latter.

Also, EVs merely push their non-construction emission costs to the power plant.

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Any appointee who comes right out and says she will abuse her post to push a political agenda and neglect the duties of office entrusted to her in furtherance of that political agenda should never make it through confirmation.

Why can't we just have people who want to do the job instead of the endless conga line of high minded, self-righteous, oh-so-much-smarter-than-you true believers who think they have parental authority over all they survey in their kingdom? You're a public servant, not my mother.

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Why can't we just have people who want to do the job instead of the endless conga line of high minded, self-righteous, oh-so-much-smarter-than-you true believers who think they have parental authority over all they survey in their kingdom?

Because the type of person that wants to fill such a job is only in it for the power, money, and resume-padding.

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I bet there's some very qualified people within that agency who have been riding a desk for 20 years who would do a fine job running it. But that doesn't advance communism from every possible position so we can't have that.

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But that doesn't advance communism from every possible position so we can't have that.

You, as the saying goes, hit the nail on the head.