The Biden administration this week announced tougher standards on tailpipe emissions from cars and Sen. Dan Sullivan is raising the alarm. He says President Biden’s push for electrical vehicles is a threat to the free market, consumer choice and the American dream.
Sullivan and Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., say they’ll try to move a resolution through Congress to overturn the new rule. They describe it as an electric vehicle “mandate” and say it endangers upward mobility. The regulation is intended ensure that a majority of cars and trucks sold in the U.S. are electric or hybrids by 2032, as a way to reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change. The rule doesn’t require manufacturers to stop producing traditional cars, but making electric vehicles is the most likely way for them to meet the new pollution standards.