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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.