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   California Kills Auto Jobs in Toledo   
   By The Editorial Board, Dec. 11, 2023, WSJ   
   Sacramento’s crusade to banish fossil fuels isn’t merely destroying jobs   
   in California. It’s harming workers in other states too. On Thursday   
   Chrysler parent Stellantis warned 3,600 auto workers in the Midwest that they   
   could lose their jobs owing    
   to California’s electric-vehicle mandate.   
      
   Stellantis said it plans to cut a shift at a Jeep plant in Detroit and adjust   
   production at another in Toledo, Ohio, citing “the need to manage sales of   
   the vehicles they produce to comply with California emissions regulations.”   
   The changes, the auto    
   maker added, would provide flexibility in the event “regulations or   
   marketplace allows for an increase in volume” of gas-powered cars.   
      
   Translation: The jobs of thousands of workers hinge on California’s EV   
   mandate. The problem isn’t merely that Stellantis and other auto makers are   
   having to shave costs to pump more money into the government-mandated EV   
   transition. California’s EV    
   mandate is also forcing auto makers to reduce production of gas-powered cars   
   to meet government quotas.   
      
   The layoffs are a portent of what’s to come as the Biden Administration’s   
   back-door EV mandate ramps up, requiring EVs to make up two-thirds of all   
   sales by 2032. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares last week compared the EV   
   transition to a Darwinian    
   struggle and warned that some auto makers might not survive. The Darwin   
   analogy is colorful but isn’t quite right because this struggle isn’t   
   about natural selection. It’s the result of government selection, and   
   workers will be among the casualties.   
    Is United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain paying attention?   
      
   Mr. Tavares also noted that the pace of the EV transition would depend on the   
   outcome of the 2024 election. A Republican President could roll back the Biden   
   Administration’s greenhouse-gas emissions regulations and California’s   
   waiver under the Clean    
   Air Act that lets it impose its own EV mandate and other states to follow it.   
      
   States have challenged California’s waiver in court. They argue that it lets   
   California dictate auto markets nationwide without clear Congressional   
   authorization. It also burdens interstate commerce, as Stellantis is showing.   
   The auto maker is reducing    
   shipments of gas-powered cars to California and other states that follow its   
   rules, and it’s cutting jobs in states that don’t.   
      
   California’s climate regulators used to worry their rules would result in   
   “job leakage” to other states. Problem solved. By regulating beyond its   
   borders, California can kill jobs nationwide. Too bad workers in Toledo and   
   Detroit can’t vote the    
   coercive progressives in Sacramento out of office.   
      
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-kills-auto-jobs-in-toled   
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