A new report from the Office of the Governor of Washington State is the latest step in the governor’s initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report looks into the role of the electric vehicle (EV) industry in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The report says that electric vehicles made up a relatively small percentage of all vehicles sold in the state, but that they were responsible for about a quarter of all new registrations in the state in the three years ended in 2015. I’m sure this was an overstatement, but it’s still interesting how the electric vehicle industry has been able to grow so rapidly in such small numbers. And it’s not just in Washington.
I’d have to go to the office of President Trump to find out exactly how many electric vehicles he’s using. The report says that in 2016, nearly all electric vehicles and other electric vehicles were being used by the Trump administration. They were using about 2,000 EVs per day in 2016, and were responsible for nearly 1,000 vehicles in that period. That’s even before they were banned from all electric vehicles in the 1970s.
It’s also well-known that the Trump administration has an open stance on fossil fuels. The fact that the administration is using electric vehicles is one thing, but the fact that it’s using them in such a broad way is another. There are some people who think that the Trump administration is using electric cars as a threat to fossil fuel companies, so they might want to investigate.
I think there is a good chance that the Trump administration is doing just that. The fact that they’re using electric cars at all shows that they are trying to stop the use of fossil fuels, and when you look at all the vehicles they’re bringing into the country, it’s very clear that they are trying to ban fossil fuels.
It’s easy enough to understand why Trump might want to ban fossil fuels, but how he does it is more difficult to decipher. One possibility is that he’s using his power to get rid of regulations that prevent the use of fossil fuels in the first place. Another possibility is that Trump is trying to put some of these regulations into place in order to stop other countries from using fossil fuels.
The problem with both of those possibilities is that it’s unlikely that fossil fuels are going away anytime soon. Fossil fuels are incredibly energy intensive, and we could easily see America’s dependence on fossil fuels fall by half in the next ten years. That means the next presidential election could be the one where Trump bans fossil fuels.
Trump and the Republicans probably have more to lose from this than fossil fuels. They’d be more likely to cave to his calls if they thought he would be successful in eliminating fossil fuels. He probably has other priorities, such as trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would probably be more difficult politically. At the end of the day, fossil fuels are a relatively small portion of the U.S. energy system, and they’re already on the decline.
If we can’t get Trump to put a price on carbon, at least we can get him to put a price on a political opponent. With his re-election campaign just a few short months away, Trump will probably want to run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, and he will probably want to run against Bernie Sanders, who is a “democratic socialist.” (Although if he does run against Sanders, Trump will probably put him in prison.
Trump has been talking a lot about the “free market” and “the free market,” but he’s not the only one who has a problem with the political system. Some of the most vocal Republicans in the U.S. have been talking a lot about the “corrupt political system.” Trump is the latest GOP politician to try and blame the system for their own failures.
