by Paris Apodaca
The Daily Caller
The Trump administration finalized new fuel economy standards Monday that it says end a Biden-era push to steer automakers toward electric vehicles.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the rule, which his department projects will cut the average price of a new vehicle by $1,300 and save Americans $138 billion over five years.
“Thanks to President [Donald] Trump’s leadership, we have finally ended the illegal mandate that forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn’t want,” Duffy said in his announcement…
Steve Milloy, a senior fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and a former member of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team, told the DCNF the rule is “a good move” but that there is “a lot more to do.”
Congress already eliminated the penalties automakers faced for missing the standards, and lawmakers should now repeal the 1975 law that created them, Milloy said.
“We just don’t need fuel economy standards because they just make cars more expensive. They’re not doing anything for the environment,” he added.
“The only complaint or criticism I have is that it is taking them an awful long time to do this stuff,” Milloy noted, adding that the rule will be challenged in court.
“Pro-consumer wins” like the rule “can only be permanent with Republican-appointed judges and a Republican-controlled Congress,” Milloy said in a statement shared with the DCNF.
