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Sean Duffy: “They gave you a standard that a combustion engine could…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Transportation Sec. Duffy on slashing fuel standards: This is real savings for the American family

Published | Video Starts at 00:51

So the law was very clear. This is about combustion engines. And so the Biden Buttigieg administration, they calculated EVs, they calculated hybrids in the calculus. And so They gave you a standard that a combustion engine could never meet. And so we brought it back to what the law actually says we should do. Looking at combustion engines making slow, gradual increases in efficiency. (00:51–00:56)

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Asserts that the fuel efficiency standard set by the Biden administration was unattainable for combustion engines.

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