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Bernie Moreno: “What the marketplace is telling us is pretty clearly is…”

Featuring: Bernie Moreno, Republican | U.S. Senate, Ohio

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U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno on economic, social policies and electric vehicles

Published | Video Starts at 03:07

So consumers want to buy electric cars, and that's what manufacturers should make and dealers will sell. Dealers are simple people, right? People want pink cars. We'll stock and sell pink cars. But the reality is, What the marketplace is telling us is pretty clearly is they're not ready to adopt electric cars at the scale that the government's mandating. So they should back off the incentives, back off the mandate. I suggest that we free CAFE standards for at least a decade, let the marketplace adjust, let the car … (03:07–03:17)

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Asserts that the marketplace is not ready to adopt electric cars at the scale mandated by the government.

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