President Biden really, really wants you to buy an electric vehicle.

He’s doing his best to make sure you don’t have a choice.

As Rollcall reported, the Biden administration’s latest move is designed to put the squeeze on automakers in the form of much tougher standards for greenhouse gas emissions.

The standards proposed Wednesday by the EPA for light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles are by far the strictest ever proposed by the agency.

In green terms, it sounds good: for light-duty vehicles, the EPA will require an increasingly stringent greenhouse gas standard. By model year 2032 it would result in an industry-wide average target of 82 grams of carbon dioxide created per mile traveled. That would be 56% lower than the model year 2026 standard set in 2021.

For medium-duty vehicles it is proposing to increase stringency to a target of 275 grams of carbon dioxide per mile by model year 2032, a 44% reduction compared to model year 2026 standard. In 2018 the agency estimated that the average passenger vehicle emits about 404 grams of carbon dioxide per mile.

That’s quite an order, so just how will manufacturers hit these targets?

By making more electric vehicles, of course. Under the tougher standards, the agency projected EVs could account for 67% of new light-duty vehicles and 46% of new medium-duty vehicles sales by model year 2032.

But the issue is more than just carbon-emission math. Nothing in these proposals make EVs more affordable, nor do they address the burdens placed on those who use gas-powered vehicles for their livelihood.

The EPA also proposed cutting greenhouse emission standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses starting model year 2027,  on top of a December rule that requires big trucks to abide by the “most stringent” limits on smog-forming emission standards in model year 2027.

This likely won’t come cheap for the trucking industry, but American consumers can pick up the tab for higher shipping costs. We always do.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said the administration was making the choice for American consumers and ignoring the current price tag for EVs.

“These misguided emissions standards were made without considering the supply chain challenges American automakers are still facing, the lack of sufficiently operational electric vehicle charging infrastructure, or the fact that it takes nearly a decade to permit a mine to extract the minerals needed to make electric vehicles, forcing businesses to look to China for these raw materials,” Capito said in a statement.

.This comes on the heels of the Treasury Department’s March 31 guidance that could reduce the number of vehicles eligible for the full $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles included in last year’s law. Under the law, vehicles must be assembled domestically and include critical minerals from the U.S. or free trade partners.

Biden famously pledged to “end fossil fuel.” Who knew that also meant the end of affordable car choices for Americans.