Edward Markey: “That's more than $600 a year for an average American driver.”

“Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks to Trump's war on Iran, gasoline prices have shot up by a buck 20 per gallon and are now above $4.20 a gallon nationwide. That's more than $600 a year for an average American driver. Drivers are feeling Trump at the pump every day, and that feeling is going to be supercharged by your evisceration of the vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards.” (00:15–00:21)

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