I thought the current administration, and the republican party in general, were for smaller federal government and giving more autonomy to the states, eg. Shutting down the federal department of education since the states can manage their own education systems independently.
Now they're trying to step on state based decisions?
Is it purely an "I like this but I don't like that" decision process?
The great irony of the party of small government is how over-reaching and heavily involved they want the Federal Government to be for the things they don't like.
The GOP is not the party of small government. They are the right hand of the uniparty of big government, which sometimes LARPs as the party of small government.
There are real small government parties in the US, they just don't get any real traction thanks to the deliberate efforts of the uniparty to keep all real competition out.
This is due to the heavy lobbying on the part of the existing automobile manufacturers combined with the fact that meeting the goals would seem to be a big disruption for the industry.
..which includes companies like Hyundai, Kia, General Motors, Ford, Honda, etc. (which are currently the biggest players in the EV market behind Tesla in the U.S.), and of course the usual players without much headway in the EV space: Toyota, Subaru, Mazda, etc..
The ZEV sales requirements start with the 2026 model year, and steadily increase:
From the context of our socialist society's current far-left overton window featuring social wealth redistribution pyramid schemes (OASI, which meets the SEC's and CFPB's statutory definitions of a pyramid scheme), socialized medicine and healthcare (medicare, medicaid), socialized education (public school system, taxpayer-subsidized higher education loans to students, taxpayer-funded tax advantage status for higher education institutions), yes.
From the context of the overton window of individualists, anarchists, voluntaryists, and even federalists, hahahahaha, LOL, not even close.
Trump is a big-government left-wing socialist who has vocally pledged not to touch OASI, Medicare, or Medicaid, which collectively cost about half of the entire federal budget. Socialism has simply been so normalized in this country that even left-wing statist socialists like Trump can be perceived as right-wing authoritarians.
Now they're trying to step on state based decisions?
Is it purely an "I like this but I don't like that" decision process?