WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) today joined 110 other stakeholders across energy, agricultural and transportation supply chains urging Congressional leadership to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to protect American consumers and reverse California’s harmful vehicle mandates, including its expansive ban on sales of new gas, diesel and traditional hybrid cars and trucks over the next decade. Their joint letter to Congress is available here and excerpts are included below:
- “In recent years California enacted a series of rules, adopted by other states, that mandate the rapid electrification of the transportation sector… These rules not only inhibit consumer choice but pose a threat to our national security…Furthermore, California and states following its rules have a national impact on U.S. vehicle fleet offerings...”
- “Congress has the opportunity to halt California’s misguided efforts to tell other Americans what kinds of vehicles they can and cannot buy. We support Administrator Lee Zeldin and the EPA’s decision to transmit these rules to Congress due to the profound national impact they will have on all Americans. Congress should decide if such consequential rules are right for the American people and the American economy, not California.”
- “In a country as big and diverse as ours, vehicle offerings need to be diverse to meet Americans’ wide-ranging transportation needs.”
For more information on California’s Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) and the CRA, see these resources:
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) is the leading trade association representing the makers of the fuels that keep us moving, the petrochemicals that are the essential building blocks for modern life, and the midstream companies that get our feedstocks and products where they need to go. We make the products that make life better, safer and more sustainable — we make progress.
