GOP Senators & House members send letter demanding end to bureaucratic attempt to ban gas powered vehicles
https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sens-cruz-crapo-rep-walberg-send-letter-demanding-end-to-bureaucratic-attempt-to-ban-gas-powered-vehicles
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), along with U.S. Representative Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) led a bicameral coalition of their colleagues in sending a letter calling on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator, Sophie Shulman, to rescind the Biden Administration’s proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks. The proposed standards, which do not comply with federal law, would require automakers to more than double the average fleet-wide fuel economy in less than ten years. This effort would effectively phaseout gas-powered vehicles and mandate the mass production of electric vehicles.
In the letter, the senators wrote, “NHTSA’s proposed standards, when coupled with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) distinct, extreme tailpipe emissions proposal, amount to a de facto mandate for electric vehicles (EVs) that threatens to raise costs and restrict consumer choice, harm U.S. businesses, degrade our energy and national security and hand the keys of our automotive industry over to our adversaries, especially China. …The proposal issued in July is mere virtue signaling for this Administration’s extreme climate agenda, but it would actually have only limited impact on emissions while strengthening foreign adversaries and harming American workers and consumers. We strongly urge NHTSA to drop its attempt at central planning and instead put forth a workable proposal that complies with the law and better serves the American people.”
Read the full text of the letter here.
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