Presidential Candidate, Mike Bloomberg, Wants ALL New Vehicles To Be ELECTRIC By 2035 — Is He Onto Something Or OUT OF HIS MIND?

I know Mike and he is a balanced guy. He is not out to create all kinds of nutso laws, he operates from a stance of common sense that is not corrupted by others' money.

If he was, he would be putting his support behind socialists like Warren or Sanders instead of running himself. He knows that the market will determine what kind of cars people drive. The sole reason Mike Bloomberg is in the race is to suck the wind out of the socialist balloon created by AOC, Sanders, and Warren and move the 'conversation' to the middle with his ample money. Is it likely he wins primaries? Probably not.

However in the case of a contested democratic convention (i.e. where the democrats are so fractured that there is no clear winner in the initial voting) the delegates can put aside what their states told them to do and just vote for whom they think the 'best person' is. As there are so many bat-sh*t crazy democratic candidates, its likely that a voice of reason and judgement like Mike Bloomberg gets their vote. He is actually a really great guy and a wonderful part of NYC.

Not to get all political - but on the democratic side, either Biden or Bloomberg would be great Presidents.

Perhaps the only bad thing about Mike Bloomberg is that he was a long-time Lexus owner before he joined the SUV-jet set. As Mayor in NYC his personal cars (in Hamptons) were a series of Lexus LS'. As you can imagine, he is not a 'car guy' but he is very sensible and has good judgement.

@mre30 how did you stifle laughter while writing that post? Biden the pedophile as a good President? Bloomberg is a raging psycho.

"...on the democratic side..."

Maybe I missed the latest TMZ but when did Biden have a "pedofile" incident? This is news.

MD, either you have a really good sense of humor or you are misinformed. Where are you getting information that Joe Biden is a pedophile? Only right wing conspiracy sites with doctored photos say this. It has been widely debunked.
Bloomberg is raging?? Have you seen or heard trump> All he does is rage. Threats and rage because he cannot articulate anything else. he is the laughingstock of the world.

And to mre30, the main reason Bloomberg is running is that a large number of democratic donors are concerned about the current class of candidates. Although Biden would restore the US back to the constitution and has demonstrated he can work with republicans (he is friends with both McConnell and Graham) he sometimes seems every bit of his age.

Bloomberg is a legitimate success having become a $52 billionaire without daddy's help or 4 bankruptcies. He also successfully ran NYC. trump ran a beauty pageant.

To the far left circle-jerk buddies--I'm looking at you Truthy and mre30--Biden is ALWAYS getting inappropriately handsy and kissy with children IN ADDITION TO the women he also molests on camera. #PublicRecord

OK...well he acts like a pervy 74 year old but that is different than being a Pedophile.

He hasn't 'paid-off' porn stars (while he was married) to keep what happened (or perhaps didn't happen) in the bedroom a secret. Oh, sorry Michael Cohen and the owner of the National Enquirer paid those women off so I guess DJT is in the clear.

Note to Autospies management - if you are running out of Tesla posts to generate gratuitous clicks and are instead test marketing politcal posts - many of will leave your site if you post political stuff. Please stick to automobiles.

He gropes children.

Where is your evidence he gropes children? The doctored photos on info wars?
How about trump bragging several times on Howard Stern's show that he would walk into the dressing room of the pageant he owned knowing that some of the contestants who were in a state of undress were legally minors. Sorry, this was not a doctored photo, it words from trump's own mouth.

Go to YouTube and search, dumbass.

"Note to Autospies management - if you are running out of Tesla posts to generate gratuitous clicks and are instead test marketing politcal posts - many of will leave your site if you post political stuff. Please stick to automobiles."--@mre30.

Agreed. I have not clicked through to comments for quite awhile because of the nastiness. I did today out of morbid curiosity, and things have not improved. The transition of the site from cars to car-themed politics is annoying.

Yea, YouTube is not a great news resource. Although, I have seen the video of trump groping his daughter's behind, but hey, it's all in the family.

Do it in David's Land first

Ultimate Irony...in the socialist workers paradise that is NYC, there are virtually no places to charge your EV unless you are a rich person and can afford a $700/month parking spot (going rate by the way - for comparison, parking in a terrible location (i.e. bad/distant neighborhood) will cost at least $400/month to start).

You cannot run a cord from your building to a (sort of free) street parking spot, so NYC will be the last place to go EV!

#AOC doesn't own a car, while Mike Bloomberg has a fleet of them

Bloomberg is part of George Soros “World Order”! I would not vote for such a cause if you like freedom!

Another Geroge Soros runs the world freak. God, you fools are gullible.

A recent German study showed that overall - considering all production required - an EV actually causes more damage to the environment than an ICE car - it is just moving the pollution to different forms and different places. I would have to believe that IF this was under active consideration that could happen in that time - that such studies would have to done again to verify that EVs are worth the trouble - as of today - it is Questionable

However - having lived in the NY area - Bloomberg - after 9/11 - turned out to be what we needed - and he is not an unreasonable person - However - HE DID NOT SAY he wanted all vehicles to be EVs - what he did say was that he wanted then to be ZERO EMISSIONS Vehicles - and as of right now - EVs do not qualify for that moniker. In addition, He is not anti - law - and such a law would require a lot more than ONE VOTE - the likelyhood of that passing government approval would require actual studies on the pollution produced - more than the one we currently have from Germany. This would be tied up in court for decades.

I guess you missed this part, Tom...

"My plan will ensure that electric vehicles and charging infrastructure are affordable and accessible to all Americans," Bloomberg said in a statement. "I’ll roll back President Trump’s efforts to weaken emissions standards, create more clean energy jobs, and drive us toward a healthier, carbon-free future.”

He's making it clear, he wants all cars to be electric or "zero emissions," as well as democratize "zero emissions" public transportation.

Says the man who flies private jets everywhere and rides in a caravan of big black SUVs wherever he goes.

And has a cadre of gun toting bodyguards while he tries to disarm the public like a good globalist does. It is all about making the public weak so he and his friends amass power and authority over us.

He has to have armed bodyguards because the NRA wants to arm everybody regardless of their mental state. If owning guns assures safety, why does pussy grabbing trump have armed bodyguards?

Like just about everything Bloomberg's proposing, fat chance in hell of it happening; fat chance in hell of him getting the nomination; and what he's saying is belied by 12 years of acts as NYC mayor in which the locals were regularly fucked over by him.
He's irrelevant. And a big tell is the media taking him seriously and giving him undeserved legitimacy.

Nanny Bloomberg will find that flyover country won’t be as compliant as New Yorkers have become, they simply won’t buy them.

#unelectable

The Democrats are ensuring a Trump landslide with their impeachment bullshit.

#FourMoreYears
#Trump2020

He demonstrably broke the law. You are okay with that? he had help from Russia to get elected but Barr squashed that investigation. Read the entire report.
He had a well respected ambassador tailed with the option to have her killed? You are okay with that?
He has demonstrably told over 16,000 lies in three years and is obstructing justice.

A bit off topic, Matt....

Not even remotely off topic.

I have no idea why he or any other billionaire is running. Politics is not like big business. Not really. Trump has kinda spent that bullet and I don't think the American public wants a repeat performance.

As far as the November election goes, NOBODY knows what the voters will do. The math says no one has ever been elected with approval ratings in the low 40% range. Even Clinton had a 73% rating while he was being impeached. A bar of soap should be able to beat him with a 42% approval rating. If Trump does win a 2nd term it will be an even bigger accomplishment than getting elected the first time.

He demonstrably broke the law. You are okay with that? he had help from Russia to get elected but Barr squashed that investigation. Read the entire report.
He had a well respected ambassador tailed with the option to have her killed? You are okay with that?
He has demonstrably told over 16,000 lies in three years and is obstructing justice.

There is actually a name for it "The Bradley Effect," Google it. Trump's approval is way above 42% and likely well above 50%, it's just the surveyed won't admit to it to a stranger and the survey(ors) don't get it.

Welcome to 2016 all over again libtards.

Every trumpster repeats the same stupid thing. "His approval ratings are way higher than is being reported. Wah-wah, we don't like facts, they don't verify our silly beliefs "

I would like to see the PROOF you have that Trumps approval ratings are above 50% - or even well above 42%. There is NO supporting evidence I have seen that even suggests this to be in consideration.

2020 will be nothing like 2016 - too many of Trumps players will either be in Jail or are already in Jail for it to be. And I doubt he will bring back Manafort by Pardon. And of course - No Clinton will be running against him as well. At this point - he still has not gotten the Republican Nomination as well.

TomM, don't wait for it. There is no proof. A number of different polling organizations with different methodologies all come within a few points of each other AND that includes the state run media, fox news. trump never gets above 59 percent which is unprecedented (or as trump would say, 'umpresidented') with a strong economy.

Sorry, never above 50 percent. Even with Russia's help and MoscowMitch helping them, his re-election is unlikely.

@Bach, fair enough. People are not always honest when polled. But considering the US economy is firing on all cylinders, the unemployment rate is at a historic low and the stock market is at a history high, the is the NAFTA II agreement and a first stage agreement with China. And yet.... Trump's approval rating is in the dumps. It should be in the 80% range all things considered.

Most of these polling number are done at the request of the MSM!

Ha. How in the hell did you come up with that? Infowars? Wah! Somebody is criticizing our orange hero. wah!

There are over a 1,000 media outlets. You would have to be mindless to believe they all coordinate.. Polling companies do just that, create poles. The media just report the findings. What is important is that the overwhelming number of poles show the same results. You can try to make yourself fell better by giving your opinions as much weight as facts, but it is still just your opinion.

So you have problems if somebody is telling you to not drink liquid sugar that kills you but you have no problem if companies spend billions on as to make you drink enormous amounts of liquid sugar that kills you?

Shut off the power, shut off mobility. Another pathetic "do as I say not as I do" liberal...

Not at all what he said, but I understand your need to keep it simple. he is drawing attention to the very real global warming. It is better than bone spurs calling it a hoax.

Global warming is just an invented secular religion. The science doesn't support it.

There is no Climate Change... none!

Then how come each of the last 5 decades is hotter than the one before? The last decade is the warmest ever. Global ocean temperatures are at the highest ever measured. The upper atmosphere is at its highest temperature ever measured. The CO2 levels are at the highest levels ever measured in the upper atmosphere - the result of carbon pollution. The north pole will be open water in a few years.
NASA,the US military, 98 percent of all climate scientists and many financial analysts all have concluded this as well. I have been at presentations at agri-businesses detailing how they are dealing with the effects of global warming.
What "scientific evidence" are you citing that disputes all of this? What is the source?

Is it possible to simply disagree with someone? Or is everyone who holds a different view a "pedophile or raging psycho"?

Republifascists do not have facts on their side so the revert to name-calling and misdirection. Watching Cipollone today make no defense of trump, but just complain about Schiff and repeat disproven talking points about the house process would be laughable if not for the seriousness of the accusations.

Truthy, this makes you a hypocrite: "Republifascists do not have facts on their side so the revert to name-calling...". Either you espouse "do as I say, not as I do" or you're a Republican. Which is it?

Bloomberg or not, this will happen eventually. Emissions standards and CAFE standards will be ratcheted up to the point where EVs will be most of the cars sold with low powered gasoline at the low end pricewise. There will probably be some carveout for commercial vehicles as well. More powerful gasoline/diesel vehicles will probably remain available well past 2035 but taxation schemes will make them very expensive.

So funny reading the retarded bleatings of the far left. They love to quote polls (poles), yet those same polls were totally wrong in 2016. Why? It's because they all oversample dhims. It's that simple. The gullible idiots that quote them refuse to admit this fact.

It's no different than pencil-neck Shift crying about the Senate trial being unfair, when it was pencil-neck who denied Trump the ability to 1) call his own witnesses, 2) cross examine and 3) allow his lawyers the ability to depose the liars called up as "witnesses".

There's no way any of the far left idiots running for office will win this election. This country is not ready to be socialist. Biden will end up by the wayside as more and more of his corruption comes out. Just today we found out his Biden's company got $1.5 billion in money from the government illegitimately, just like his crooked son got so much money despite having zero experience. That's probably why crooked Nancy delayed transmitting the documents - she's deathly afraid that the GOP is going to expose this whole can of worms and expose the fraud that is today's dhim party.

The polls were not wrong in 2016. They showed a large number of undecideds. Hillary did not generate the support from democrats she needed. She was a terrible candidate. trump's despotic behavior and imbecilic tweets have revved up the opposition more than Hillary could.
Joe Biden does not have a company, so not sure which day you were watching infowars.
And section 31, trump's lawyers were given the option to dispose witnesses, but declined. They were allowed to cross examine witnesses and were allowed equal time to the democrats. You need better sources.

And then Comey broke with tradition and said 4 days before the election that more Hillary emails were found. This ended up being nothing, but the damage was done.

Mike Bloomberg's M.O.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/10-major-cons-of-a-bloomberg-presidency-that-would-be-disastrous-for-the-us/

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter-biden-in-china/

factcheck and politifact are both Soros funded PR media companies. They are anything but truthful.

Comey's lieutenant Peter Strzok, changed the wording from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless" to protect Clinton. You know this but as most far left fascists do, you're lying to help cover up the truth. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363194-former-fbi-agent-changed-comeys-language-of-clinton-email-use-to

The polls were indeed wrong in 2016. Even the left wing media wrote stories about how they were so wrong. And it wasn't just the undecideds. The dhims grossly underestimated the public's revulsion of The Clinton Crime Family and the rust belt has had enough of empty promises from the left.

You're totally wrong about the House "trial". Trump was denied his constitutional rights. Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitcz (no conservative) said as much and admonished the dhims for their abuse of power. Pencil Neck Shiff's staff coordinated the whistleblower's testimony. He hid evidence, and refused to allow Trump's lawyers to examine evidence and cross examine witnesses. This is one of the most egregious abuses of our constitution in quite some time.

And today, Pencil Neck Shiff lied again to the Senate about Zelensky's conversation with Trump, just as he lied during the House proceedings when he made up an entire false conversation.

Face it, it's standard operating procedure for the liberal left. Lies and more lies.

What constitutional rights were denied tRump? Am impeachment is very different from a criminal trial. The republicans on the appropriate committees were given equal access and time. Trump's lawyers were given the opportunity to question witnesses but declined so they can whine about it later. Read the details and don't just quote fox news.
And Dershewitz is trump's attorney, of course he will say anything to defend him.

The bullshit talk by the Lefties here (Truthy, Canadiancomment, mre30, runninglogan1 and their shill accounts) complaining how it is politically unsafe for them to speak is 100% their hypocrisy talking.

Of the political talk here, the sheer volume of words--90% or more--comes from those jokers ranting on and on and on about Trump and being supremely disrespectful to the President and to everyone they disagree with.

Call them out on their shit and they lose their minds because to their their shit don't stink, but lean a little bit closer and their roses smell like bull poo poo.