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Ted Cruz: “The CAFE standards were the federal mileage requirements…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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On Wednesday, I joined the President again, this time with the CEOs of the major auto companies in the United States as the President was implementing legislation, a provision again that I wrote zeroing out the CAFE standards. The CAFE standards were the federal mileage requirements that the Biden administration used to jack them up so high that it, number one, made cars much, much more expensive. Expensive. But number two, it was part of their effort to eliminate the internal combustion engine, to force everyone to buy an electric car whether they want it or not. (28:20–28:31)

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Asserts that Biden administration's CAFE standards increased car prices significantly.

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