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Ted Cruz: “The effect of [zeroing out CAFE standards] is going to be to…”

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And like putting your kids in a car that is big enough that if they hit something like an idiot that they're not going to be badly hurt or killed. That matters. We zeroed it out. The effect of [zeroing out CAFE standards] is going to be to lower the cost of you getting a car or a truck. Lower it by thousands of dollars. That's another victory that is in the bill. And it also is going to save lives, just as you said, because you'll be able to make cars that are safer with more steel and less plastic. (26:56–27:03)

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Asserts that eliminating CAFE standards will reduce the cost of cars and trucks.

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