March 20, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in opposition of the EPA’s electric vehicle regulation:
“Let’s be clear, the new Biden EPA regulation is a virtual mandate on industry to sell only Electric Vehicles whether the public wants them or not.
“The 70 percentage target for EV sales the Biden regulation would require automakers to meet by 2032 (eight years away) is in every respect a mandate. A mandate which becomes almost impossible given that consumer demand for Electric Vehicles has plummeted. Ford Motor Company aggressively invested in an EV automotive future over the past ten years, yet they have had to dramatically slow the manufacture of vehicles as their customers don’t want them.
“This regulation is just another example of an out of control Biden bureaucracy attempting to control private markets through coercion, and under the regulatory standard set by the Supreme Court in West Virginia v. EPA, is clearly unconstitutional. The Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to pick automotive winners and losers.
“Because the Courts are slow to act and Democrat control of the Senate makes it extremely difficult for the historically small GOP majority in the House to use the power of the purse to defund this and other regulatory overreaches, on January 20, 2025 at 12:01 pm, newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump should act to immediately rescind this dangerous attempt to permanently alter the U.S. auto market through an unlawful mandate.”
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