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Impossible! That's what Toyota North America COO Jack Hollis calls the demand by California and 16 other states that 35% of 2026 model year vehicles be zero-emission or electric. California also added a tax of 68 cents per gallon that is going into effect at the first of the year. The state is making gas and hybrid vehicles unaffordable. Said Hollis, “I have not seen a forecast by anyone … government or private, anywhere, that has told us that that number is achievable. At this point, it looks impossible.” He continued, “Demand isn’t there. It’s going to limit a customer’s choice of the vehicles they want.” Welcome to the party. This is what we've been saying for years. Automaker Stellantis — which owns Jeep — no doubt agrees. Stellantis made gasoline-powered non-hybrid Jeeps available only as a special-order vehicle in California and other states that have adopted California Air Resources Board Standards. This has hurt Stellantis, which last week announced it would lay off 1,100 UAW-represented employees at the automaker’s Toledo South Assembly Plant in Ohio. This is where the company built the Jeep Gladiator. Under California’s Advanced Clean Cars mandate, automakers must either sell enough cars or buy enough credits for the equivalent of 35% of their vehicles sold in California to qualify as zero-emission vehicles. What's more, only 20% of these can be plug-in hybrids; the other 15% must be all-electric. Automakers will pay a $20,000 fine per ZEV credit they are short, meaning carmakers will have to either buy credits from other automakers with excess credits or sell fewer non-ZE vehicles. Which means cars will get more expensive. The Advanced Clean Cars mandate applies to Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington for model year 2026 and Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C., for model year 2027. As we often point out, no carmaker will make cars for one state, so expect prices to rise in all 50. And why isn't demand there? One strike against EVs in California is the high cost of electricity. Energy prices in California are so high that the California Air Resources Board says the state is near the point at which it’s cheaper to propel a car on gasoline than it is on electricity. Last week, the CARB voted to create a $105 billion credit for EV charger operators, to be paid for with rising carbon emissions fees on the petroleum refineries that produce gasoline and diesel. The CARB estimates the measure will create a 47 cent-per-gallon pass-through cost for gasoline in 2025. California also added a tax of 68 cents per gallon that is going into effect at the first of the year. The state is making gas and hybrid vehicles unaffordable. The state believes that by raising the price of gasoline and subsidizing electric vehicle charging, the CARB’s new Low Carbon Fuel Standard can incentivize more Californians to get out of gasoline-powered cars and either acquire electric vehicles or take public transportation. What it will accomplish in reality is to infuriate California drivers. I expect it to go about as well in any other state foolish enough to try it. California is able to pass its own emissions standards via a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, first granted to deal with Los Angeles' smog problem in the latter half of the 20th century. The Obama administration ordered an expansion of California’s waiver beyond just pollution to include emissions as well. In 2019, the Trump administration revoked California’s EPA waiver, a move that was held up in courts until the Biden administration put the waiver back into place in 2021. It’s likely that the second Trump administration could revoke California’s EPA waiver once it takes office in January, which would — if upheld in court — invalidate many of the emissions programs created by California and the other states that follow. We will be watching and reporting as this develops.

There’s no escaping our rapidly advancing technology, especially considering how powerful and excited the “tech bros” are about advancing it — but can we escape the slavery that might accompany it? “God love them, the tech bros out there who are just adamant that like, ‘No, this is really it, you guys, we are going to escape our humanity, we are going to transcend, it’s going to be a new age, we’re going to leave all of this nonsense behind,’” James Poulos of “Zero Hour” comments, adding, “Some of the smartest people are the easiest to deceive.” Michael Cernovich, independent filmmaker and author of “Gorilla Mindset,” sees the issue with this as well, but explains that these “tech bros” who are obsessed with technological progress are just like “freshmen in college.” “You’re not actually advanced; you’re early post-Christ gnostics with a mind-body dualism,” he says. “And you think that you can just unplug your consciousness and put it into a cyborg, and you think that’s smart.” “Now, they are creating a new consciousness,” he continues, noting it’s with “algorithms and artificial intelligence.” This is where Poulos gets even more concerned, citing Nikola Tesla’s statement that “you may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.” However, Poulos notes that even worse is that we “may live to be man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.” Cernovich believes Poulos is being “too polemical.” “I have a certain apprehension about the direction AI is headed,” he explains, “but then I go, ‘You know, they probably, when the first radio [came] out, people were probably saying that was demons talking to them through the radio.’” “Maybe that’s all AI is,” he adds. Want more from James Poulos?To enjoy more of James's visionary commentary on politics, tech, ideas, and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A group of nurses have drafted guidance for the National Health Service that would prevent men who believe they are women from entering women's dressing rooms.The policy guidance was requested by the health secretary for the United Kingdom, Wes Streeting.The nurses said they were forced to share a dressing room with a male staff member who allegedly identifies as a woman. When the nurses raised concerns to their human resources department, the women were told they needed to be "re-educated" on the topic, they alleged.The group of women have since taken their employers to a tribunal over sexual discrimination and sexual harassment.Calling the proposed changes "common sense," the nurses assert there should be no "hierarchy" in regard to equality laws, and therefore the rights of men who believe they are women should not be prioritized over actual women.Bethany Hutchinson, one of the proposal's authors, said she hoped to "set a precedent for all public services and workplaces in the U.K.""We believe that as frontline NHS nurses directly impacted by these issues, we are well-placed to help politicians understand what is happening and what must change urgently," Hutchison added, according to GB News.Conservative Party member Claire Coutinho told the Telegraph that "women should not be patronized, belittled, or ignored" when raising concerns about not wanting to change with men."[This] shocking case shows what can happen when institutions prioritize their commitment to an ideology above safety. Their fight for fairness has my full support," Coutinho decried.'We should simply not be forced to get undressed in front of a man.'"Discrimination or harassment related to one characteristic may never be justified by the need to protect another characteristic," the document, delivered to the government in November, reportedly stated.The nurses further wrote that legal requirements relating to sex and gender "must take priority" and the term "sex" must refer to "biological" sex.While the nurses wrote sympathetically about treating transgender people with "respect and sensitivity," they declared that women's spaces are not "communal spaces" whose functions should include transgender people.The document reinforced that the issue at hand is "protecting women's spaces.""'Gender identity' is not a protected characteristic, and we should simply not be forced to get undressed in front of a man. We continue to be astonished at how our rights on this issue continue to be breached and discriminated against," the women continued."We are not transphobic," the women declared. The nurses added that their new policies would give "transexuals" a private space to change without impacting the rights of women.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre talked in circles after being asked about President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter for crimes that may have been committed within a 10-year period after insisting during the election that he would not do so. Jean-Pierre, accompanying Biden on a trip to Africa, was asked on Air Force One if Biden had previously lied to the American people about the pardon. “First of all, one of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always truly believes. And if you see the end of his — I assume that you’ve read his statement — and you look at the end of that statement, and he actually says that in the first line in the last paragraph, and — and respects the thinking and how the American people will actually see this and his decision-making, and I would encourage everyone to read it full, the president’s statement," Jean-Pierre said.'This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution.'"He came to this decision this weekend. So let’s be very clear about that," she continued. "He says it himself. It’s in his voice. He said he came to this decision this weekend. And he said he wrestled with this and — because he believes in the justice system, but he also believes that the war politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice." — (@) While both Biden and Jean-Pierre insist that Biden decided during this recent holiday weekend to issue the pardon, the decision was expected long before this December, especially in the event that Donald Trump won the presidency. While Biden's pardon has been met with heavy criticism from Republicans, who point out the lie was told by the White House for months, some Democrats have also voiced their dismay."I respect President Biden, but I think he got this one wrong. This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution. Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers," Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) said on X.As for the rest of the first family, first lady Jill Biden told reporters at a White House holiday event with National Guard families, "Of course I support the pardon of my son."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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