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John Thune: “It implemented an electric vehicle mandate that would have…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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John Thune Advocates for Republican Energy Reconciliation Bill in Senate

Published | Video Starts at 01:05

But the Biden administration took us down the wrong path. It restricted development of America's conventional energy resources. It imposed regulations that heaped new burdens and costs on conventional energy producers, and It implemented an electric vehicle mandate that would have put an enormous new strain on our already wobbly electric grid. Mr. President, the United States is rapidly heading toward an energy crisis where we simply don't have the supply to meet the demand. (01:05–01:14)

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Claims that the Biden administration's electric vehicle mandate would strain the electric grid.

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