Since day one, the Biden administration has been hyperfocused on controlling the way consumers view, purchase, and operate vehicles. The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last fall helped accelerate the president’s efforts to ban gas and diesel-fueled vehicles with major incentives for electric vehicles . And last month, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed the most aggressive restrictions on car emissions this country has ever seen.

The Biden administration’s regulations stand to change the future of the automotive industry dramatically. But the effects of these regulations won’t stop there. To be clear: These bureaucratic rules will drastically change everyone’s way of life.

Today, roughly 5% of automakers’ product lines manufacture electric vehicles, and just 1.17 million EVs comprise the 284 million vehicles that are on the road. With the new EPA ruling, automakers would be forced to shift their product lines to nearly 70% EV manufacturing by 2032, so that more than 27 million EVs will be on the road by 2030. Hold on. To power these vehicles, our nation will need millions of electrical charging stations. However, simply because billions are spent on public charging stations doesn’t mean they are operational. For example, a study found that almost a third of charging stations in San Francisco , the hub of the green energy agenda, are not operational. People will also be expected to buy their own personal charging port, which could cost between $1,200 and $2,500 .

The electric vehicle charging market will need to grow 10 times its current size to satisfy the needs of the 27 million EVs this administration wants on the road in the next seven years. There are roughly 4 million charging stations today, and an estimated 35 million stations are needed by 2030 to support those 27 million EVs. Who is going to build this type of infrastructure? Moreover, it is not at all clear whether the United States has the resources to build 30 million charging ports by 2030 — or 478 new stations per day. Where will this equipment be manufactured? China?

And who’s going to pay for this type of infrastructure? The cost of building the necessary charging stations is estimated at more than $35 billion over the next seven years. The taxpayer will be left with the bill under the guise of federal government incentives and subsidies for green energy corporations.

Biden’s electric future would also require a massive amount of grid capacity that the U.S. simply does not have. States such as New York, California, and Texas (where the majority of the population lives) are already operating at 90%-95% grid capacity. With the summer quickly approaching, they will easily reach 99%.

Unless there is a massive overhaul of the electric grid, millions of EVs and charging ports would be detrimental to the public’s basic energy consumption needs. Remember the threat of brownouts in places such as California? Can you imagine living in an America where rolling blackouts are the norm? Unfortunately, this will come to pass thanks to Biden’s regulations unless we dramatically scale up the supply and modernize the grid.

Hundreds of thousands of American auto manufacturing jobs are also at risk of being cut. A standard combustion engine has around 200 parts that must be manufactured and assembled together. An electric vehicle has about 20 parts . How do you tell hard-working people who are employed at an engine or powertrain factory or a parts supplier that they no longer have jobs? This would bring about massive layoffs and dislocation in car-producing states such as Ohio and Michigan, and it would also cripple those states’ economies. The tragedy of this is that such economic loss would not be the result of the free market, but would rather be a direct result of government policies dictating how Americans live their lives.

Biden’s EV regulations will cripple the automotive industry and, in turn, much of the U.S. economy. Many jobs will become obsolete, and many companies will shutter. And all the while, we will become more dependent on foreign powers for the resources Biden’s plan requires.

Unelected bureaucrats should not be able to overhaul a major industry in the U.S. economy completely. The emissions goals may be noble, but they are not realistic. This is a decision that consumers ought to make for themselves through their elected representatives.

Adam Brandon is the president of FreedomWorks.