Mandating the Transition to Electric Vehicles

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Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, the Biden administration has released yet another round of extreme regulations that are going to hurt consumers and the American economy. This one is an extreme climate regulation plan that will mandate auto manufacturers to transition to electric vehicles, all in order to get rid of carbon dioxide, which I remind you is only 0.04 percent of our atmosphere, the little skinny piece right there. Its increase is a rounding error.

In many rural areas, like I have in northern California, the power grid already isn't that strong. We suffer with what is called public safety power shutoffs where when the wind blows, they shut the power off because they are afraid it might blow a tree or a branch into a power line and cause another million-acre fire from our unmanaged forests that the Forest Service is not taking care of.

What do we have? People are told not to charge their EVs during peak times, yet the Biden administration is pushing forward. By 2032, 67 percent of vehicles sold have to be electric, and 46 percent of medium trucks have to be electric, just by a stroke of a pen. These guys are not on your side.

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