This week we learned yet again that the dedication Kamala Harris and the Democrats hold toward green energy and electric vehicles is a mile wide and roughly as deep as a mud puddle. After repeatedly espousing the Green New Deal and the sunset of gas-powered vehicles, something began to change in Harris' tone of late. Of course she would never try to take away the right of Americans to drive the type of car they prefer. (Perish the thought!) Where do you people get such ideas? Well, during one of the rare stops when she actually took questions from reporters, she was reminded where they got such ideas. They came from her own lips, over and over again. This week she sounded as if the concept was a foreign as the dark side of the moon. (National Review)

Democratic politicians are distancing themselves from the Biden administration’s electric-vehicle push to prevent the unpopular slate of subsidies and environmental regulations from tipping Michigan to their Republican opponents.

Addressing rally-goers in Flint, Mich., earlier this month, Kamala Harris insisted that the Trump campaign is misrepresenting her record on electric-vehicle mandates.

“Michigan, let us be clear: Contrary to what my opponent is suggesting, I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive,” Harris said, reversing her past support for banning gas-powered vehicles.

As Senator, Harris cosponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019. It would have required half of all new vehicles sold in the United States to be 100% emission free only six years from now hitting a goal of 100% by 2040. She featured that plan during her failed 2020 presidential campaign, perhaps adding to her almost legendary lack of success in that effort. Tied to that plan was her endorsement of the Green New Deal. So what could have changed between then and now?

That's not much of a mystery either. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are virtually tied in Michigan, a state where the=y auto workers unions have refused to offer their support to Trump, a staunch advocate against the Green New Deal Another Democrat in the state, Representative Elissa Slotkin, has pulled into a slight lead over Mike Rogers, likely based on her vocal opposition to the Green New Deal and the emission-free auto mandate. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 57 percent opposed government incentives to encourage electric vehicle purchases in Michigan.

So that's what happened to the ill-fated love affair between Kamala Harris and the zero-emission vehicle mandate. The Union of Auto Workers happened to it. Losing Michigan to Trump would be a particularly ugly nail in the coffin of her presidential campaign. It's not as if there is no path to victory for her without Michigan, but the path becomes far more treacherous without it. But the automotive unions have long memories and time is growing short. It's nearly as short as Kamala's loyalty to her deeply held pledges to the sacred lambs of the leftist agenda.