U.S. President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, has initiated a review of the current fuel efficiency standards established by the Biden administration. This move aims to ease the regulatory burden on automobile manufacturers and consumers, asserting that prior standards imposed unnecessary costs. Duffy's memo emphasizes the need for a regulatory framework that promotes consumer choice, framed as responding to the pressures of a purported radical environmental agenda that Duffy argues has hindered affordability in the car market.
Duffy issued a memo soon after starting the job on Tuesday evening, ordering the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 'to commence an immediate review and reconsideration of all existing fuel economy standards applicable to all models of motor vehicles produced from model year 2022 forward.'
The memorandum signed today specifically reduces the burdensome and overly restrictive fuel standards that have needlessly driven up the cost of a car in order to push a radical Green New Deal agenda.
Duffy repeats the Trump administration's messaging, claiming that making the nation's vehicles pollute more is necessary to 'remove regulatory barriers to motor vehicle access.'
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