This is, as President Joe Biden said in a different context, a big f–ing deal. His administration wants to change the way Americans have traveled the roads for more than a century. But by pushing the industry to make the transition faster, Biden could risk a backlash from unwilling consumers, complicate questions about China’s dominance of electric vehicle supplies, and escalate his administration’s legal fight with the oil industry and GOP governors who oppose his efforts to phase out internal combustion engines.

On the plus side for Biden, though, electric vehicle sales are already rising. And carmakers, who are investing big money in going electric, have defended the EPA’s previous pollution rules in federal court.

“Whether you measure today’s announcement by the dollars saved or the gallons reduced or the pollution that will no longer be pumped into the air, this is a win for the American people,” White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi told reporters on Tuesday.

Yeah, well, the problem is that electric vehicles do an absolutely terrible job of serving the market, as even Ford CEO Jim Farley had to admit earlier this month…

And while the effects of all these EV’s on the market – the lousy range, the massive costs, the suspect quality control, the difficulty in repair – are really not good, the effects are even worse on the automotive industry and its workers in particular.

Farley said EV’s will require 40 percent less labor to build. But it’s worse than that, because the current state of the industry is that carmakers outsource parts to other firms. EV’s have different parts than combustion-engine vehicles do, and that means a big drop in demand for the auto parts makers, who will either shrink as companies or will have to take on big expenses in retooling to make EV parts rather than the things they’ve been making.

And guess who’s already poised to dominate the parts market for EV’s?

That would be China. And China is ahead of us with respect to mandates and subsidies and the utter dysfunction they cause in the market…

All of this is being driven by the government, by the way; despite billions of dollars spent trying to spark EV demand, it’s flattening.

So they’re being forced to build cars most of the public doesn’t want, and that’s already making the price of gasoline-powered vehicles skyrocket – not to mention that the price of a used car is now through the roof, and this is squeezing the industry into workforce reductions.

Everything about this is nuts. Everybody knows it’s nuts.

And along comes Donald Trump to throw bombs at Biden for imposing this idiocy – and at the autoworkers’ union bosses who haven’t thrown the absolutely-necessary fit