A number of parasites think that parasitism is a right, not a disease. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Dracula is considered a baddie because he sucks the blood of unwilling victims. But – to his credit – the bloodsucker doesn’t think he has a right to the blood he sucks.
This vampire objects to the “loss” – a very strange usage in context – of $100 million in “revenue” it can no longer suck from the marrow of other vehicle manufacturers, who are no longer obliged to buy “credits” from Rivian (and Tesla and other electric vampiric operations) to “offset” their “carbon footprint,” because the Orange Man “rolled back” the regs and fines that forced them to do so.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Electric truck maker Rivian says the rollback of fuel economy rules in the U.S. is holding up $100 million of revenue, a sign of how changes to automotive policy under the Trump administration are starting to hurt the electric-vehicle industry.
Rivian and its rivals have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue selling credits tied to the nation’s fuel economy rules. But after the Trump administration removed penalties for violating those standards, the nation’s top automotive regulator stopped issuing paperwork necessary to finalize those credits, leaving EV makers in the lurch.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the change was part of moves to overturn Biden-era EV rules and address Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, known as CAFE. NHTSA is focusing on fixing CAFE standards to make cars more affordable again, a NHTSA spokesperson said.
Never heard of them… until now.
And I’m not at the EP level but I do love das auto.
Hop in your jalopy and head to the other side of the country is freedom in action.