… know, most of the senators Here on the Senate Commerce Committee and on the Commerce Committee, we worked together to zero out the CAFE standards. We wrote that into law. The CAFE standards went to zero. What does that mean? It means you can now, as a consumer, buy the car you want. It also means people's lives will be safer because what these regulations did is they forced cars to be more expensive and made a plastic instead of steel because you had to make them lighter to comply with these standards. (25:40–25:47)
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Asserts that CAFE standards were eliminated, allowing consumers more choice in car purchases.
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