Will Orange Man Save the Miata From Climate Communism?

There is a vile rumor afoot that is probably true.

It is that Mazda is planning – more finely, has been planning – to turn the Miata sports car into a device; i.e., a battery-powered thing that is called “Miata.” It may still have an engine – even a rotary engine, like the no-longer-made RX-7.

But it will be there to charge the device’s batteries, not turn its wheels. They would be driven by electric motors, the same as other devices. Which – of course – would make the Miata the same as other devices, thereby taking away the main reason people have had for buying them for all these years.

The idea of a carry-it-with-you “range extender” – as engines that charge the battery as you go (and so you can keep going) are styled – is seen as a way to address the range-gimp and wait-hassle that attends owning a device that has to be plugged in to charge up, thereby (so the device makers hope) addressing the reluctance of most people to buy a device.

“It really shows how much we wanted to make it a car that manifests Mazda’s commitment for the future, especially in terms of sustainability (italics added) and the future role of our rotary engine technology,” says Mazda’s Naohito Saga, who is in charge of Research and Development Planning.

The obvious question that arises – why not just sell them a car instead? – cannot be answered because it would affront the Climate Communists who’ve managed to bamboozle the general public into believing that the life-giving gas plants must have to generate the oxygen we must have in order to be able to breath (as well as the food we need to eat in order to live) is a “pollutant” that must be not be “emitted” by vehicles.

Ergo battery powered devices.

Never mind that a great deal of carbon dioxide is “emitted” in the course of manufacturing devices and keeping them powered up.

And it may not even be that the general public – i.e., “most people” – have bought into the silly but dangerous lies peddled by the Climate Communists about carbon dioxide “emissions.” It is enough that the Climate Communists have infested the regulatory apparat of the administrative state, specifically the EPA. For decades – not just the past four years – these Climate Communists have been piece-by-piece and bit-by-bit working to transform vehicles into devices via regulations that wax ever-more-stringent.

What happened over the course of the last four years – which you can see in showrooms across the country, now full of devices and part-time devices – is the fruit of this decades’ long effort to fundamentally transform vehicles into devices.

With each uptick in the apparat’s mandatory-minimum MPG requirements, with each uptick in the apparat’s “emissions” standards – it has gotten progressively harder and will soon become nigh-impossible to offer vehicles with just engines.

Especially engines that run to drive the wheels – as opposed to running occasionally to charge a device’s batteries.

An engine that drives the wheels must run at varying speeds and must run most of the time. This not only burns gas – it results in more “emissions” of the dread gas that the Climate Communists insist is causing the “climate” to “change,” which s neatly non-specific and so ideal for justifying the changes that Climate Communists intend to impose on the basis of a false mass hysteria, which ought to sound familiar by now .

But an engine that is carried-along to generate electricity to keep the batteries charged can be set to run at a constant speed, which makes it much easier for the engineers tasked with this dreary work to fine-tune its “emissions” to as close to nil as possible. And because the generator-engine only runs some of the time, its “emissions” are lowered even closer to nil.

And that is why Mazda is apparently going to transform the Miata into a device, perhaps as soon as the 2027 model year.

Mazda hasn’t got much choice, of course  – and neither do the other car companies – because only devices and part-time devices will be allowable in the very near future.

It did not happen overnight. Just the same as a pot belly does not grow overnight.

But it could change overnight.

Orange Man could directly challenge the Climate Communists by confronting the lie that the “climate” is “changing” on account of vehicles “emitting” the beneficial gas that plants must have in order for them to live – and for us to have oxygen to breath. He could demand that the Climate Communists be specific about what they vaguely assert is “changing” as regards the “climate” – and that they prove that these “changes” are both dangerous and attributable to people driving cars.

Since they cannot do this, their pretext for imposing the change they seek would be exposed as precisely that. Just the same as exposing the lies about “the cases! the cases!” eventually led to the end of “masking up.”

You will notice that these things have interesting similarities – because they were conjured by the same people and for the same end-goal.

Orange Man could also point out that the Constitution – which is nominally the law – does not empower the federal apparat to impose either mandatory gas mileage minimums or “emissions” requirements. Perhaps if Congress – the constitutionally authorized federal legislature – were to pass a law. But there is nothing in the law as it stands that constitutionally transfers legislative power to a regulatory apparat. Ergo, the apparat is acting outside the law and its regulatory edicts are null and void.

This could be done. If only he will do it.

And if he does it, he will have established the foundation of a fundamental transformation – in the opposite direction. The car industry needs to believe the changes are not going o change again in four years from now. Or twelve. It must be a sea-change in order them to commit the resources to making new cars again rather than more devices.

And Trump might just be a man audacious enough to make that change. Or at least, get it started.

If he’s serious about it.

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