13 States Ask Federal Appeals Court to Vacate Biden Electric Vehicle Mandate

April 11, 2024

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The appeal was filed by attorneys general in Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce.

“We’re pulling the plug on Biden’s electric vehicle handout,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a news release on Wednesday.

“Biden has made it clear that he will take every avenue possible to wage war on gas-powered vehicles. And Iowa ethanol is getting caught in the crossfire.”

The lawsuit specifically focuses on what the states said is a misuse of the calculations for EVs.

“In Biden’s most recent attack in the war on gas vehicles, he is creating a rule that overstates the efficiency of electric cars by more than six times,” the states said on Wednesday.

“Biden’s illegal boost to electric vehicles hurts car owners, car manufacturers, liquid-fuel producers and the electric grid. The rule manipulates a more than 30-year-old incentive for car manufacturers that design cars that run on gasoline, ethanol, biodiesel, or compressed natural gas. The benefit that was intended to support farmers and ethanol producers is now being exploited to harm them by giving handouts to electric vehicles. This rule favoring electric vehicles hurts car-owners, roads, and carbon emissions across the country.”

While the new standards give automakers some flexibility in how they reduce emissions, the standards do little to use ethanol and other biofuels to reduce pollution.

The final rule requires 67% of new light-duty vehicles and 46% of medium-duty vehicles sold to be electric by 2032.

A Gallup poll conducted in March and published on Monday, found that Americans polled say they are less likely to purchase EVs compared to one year ago. That number dropped from 55% last year to 44% this year, https://news.gallup.com/….