Automotive
American Auto Giants Thrilled To Sell Gas Guzzlers Again After Collapse Of Biden’s EV Mandate
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
U.S. automakers are celebrating their ability to continue selling gas-powered vehicles after President Donald Trump rolled back electric vehicle (EV) mandates.
Trump signed three new bills into law in June, which terminated Biden-era rules that allowed states like California to impose a national EV mandate. These rollbacks have caused companies like Ford and General Motors to scale back their EV plans and search to leverage demand for their big SUVs and commercial vehicles, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
“This is a multibillion-dollar opportunity over the next couple of years,” Ford Motor Chief Executive Jim Farley said last week in a call to analysts.
California and several other states imposed rules that would have banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles in their respective areas by 2035. Trump’s new rules stripped these states of those mandates and have allowed the auto industry to continue selling gas-powered engines in new vehicles, according to The WSJ.
“It’s a very, very fast speed for the auto industry,” Tyson Jominy, J.D. Power’s senior vice president of data and analytics, told the WSJ. “But it’s faster to be able to revert to an existing technology rather than tool up and prepare for a new technology.”
General Motors switched its plan to do away with combustion engines by 2035 and have instead laid out the benefits of keeping them around, The WSJ reported. General Motors CEO Mary Barra stated that her company can “appreciate the profitability” of selling gas-powered vehicles as a result of Trump’s rollbacks.
Jeep maker Stellantis said on a call with analysts that the auto provisions in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will make it easier for companies to produce both EVs and gas-powered vehicles.
Ford, General Motors and Stellantis had agreed to pay nearly $10 billion on regulatory credits and fuel-economy rule-violation fines, according to The WSJ. Stellantis has expressed that it will benefit financially by no longer having to pay these fines.
Adam Lee, chairman of Maine-based Lee Auto Malls, added that large SUVs will boost companies’ sales because Americans are fond of them.
“Americans do like buying giant vehicles,” Lee said. “They’re going to see how many more giant SUVs they can pump out, because they sell a lot of them and make a lot of money on them.”
Quick Hit:
The EPA on Tuesday moved to scrap an Obama-era rule that enabled over $1 trillion in vehicle emissions mandates, including Biden’s EV push. Administrator Lee Zeldin said it was based on “twisted law” and stripped Americans of consumer choice.
Key Details:
- EPA’s proposal would repeal greenhouse gas rules for all new light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles, including unpopular features like start-stop systems.
- Administrator Zeldin said the Obama-Biden EPA “ignored precedent” and misused the Clean Air Act to justify regulating carbon dioxide and other emissions “some of which vehicles don’t even emit.”
- Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright called the move “a monumental step toward returning to commonsense policies” that expand access to affordable energy and reduce costs.
EPA Administrator @LeeZeldin announces the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history—rescinding the 2009 Obama EPA “endangerment finding” and wiping out every greenhouse‑gas emissions regulations built on it. 🔥🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Kt1kDZ9UOU
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 29, 2025
Diving Deeper:
At an auto dealership in Indiana on Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin formally proposed rescinding the Obama-era Endangerment Finding, a legal tool used to justify sweeping vehicle emissions mandates since 2009. According to the agency’s press release, scrapping the finding would eliminate Biden’s electric vehicle mandate and roll back regulations totaling more than $1 trillion in compliance costs.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” Zeldin said. “The Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year.”
The Endangerment Finding allowed the EPA to regulate six gases—carbon dioxide among them—under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act. Zeldin said the finding made sweeping assumptions about climate risks and vehicle emissions, even though “some [of the gases] vehicles don’t even emit.” The EPA argues that the rule was constructed not to follow the law but to empower the agency to push sweeping mandates that Congress never authorized.
Zeldin was joined at the announcement by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Indiana Governor Mike Braun, Attorney General Todd Rokita, and trucking industry leaders. Wright called the repeal “a monumental step toward returning to commonsense policies,” while Braun praised the move as proof that “we can protect our environment and support American jobs.”
Since the finding was issued in 2009, the EPA has used it to justify at least seven separate vehicle emissions rules, including unpopular mandates such as start-stop technology in passenger cars and stringent electric truck rules for the shipping industry. Combined, the regulations have imposed more than $1 trillion in economic costs, according to conservative estimates cited by the agency.
“The electric-truck mandate put the trucking industry on a path to economic ruin,” said American Trucking Association President and CEO Chris Spear. “It would have crippled our supply chain, disrupted deliveries, and raised prices for American families and businesses.”
The proposal cites updated data from the Department of Energy’s 2025 Climate Work Group and recent Supreme Court decisions—including West Virginia v. EPA and Loper Bright v. Raimondo—as justification for overturning the finding. These rulings, the EPA says, make clear that major regulatory actions must come from Congress, not unelected bureaucrats.
“EPA is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy, lower costs for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions,” the agency said.
By Dan McTeague
It’s time for Prime Minister Mark Carney to punt the EV mandate to the curb.
The evidence keeps mounting — Canadians aren’t ready for a mass adoption of electric vehicles. Fewer Canadians are purchasing EVs, our EV charging infrastructure is nowhere near ready, and even auto dealers are pushing back against the EV mandate.
Dan McTeague explains why this net-zero scheme is a fraud and a hoax.
Trump’s long-promised “reciprocal tariff” regime is no longer a threat — it’s the new world order.
AI ‘therapist’ encourages user to go on killing spree: ‘I’d love to see you try’
Obama Made Watergate Look Like A Parking Ticket
Bombshell report indicates Clinton, Soros group plotted to ‘demonize’ Trump
Trump sends letters to 17 Big Pharma companies demanding they end ‘abusive drug pricing’
Trump says no deal with Canada if it recognizes Palestinian state
Privatizing Canada Post Is The Only Solution Left
-
Business2 days agoCanada’s housing density dilemma
-
Daily Caller1 day agoBig Tech Cover-Up: Google distorts search results to protect Obama
-
Alberta1 day agoAlberta health system accused of pressuring women to abort babies with Down syndrome
-
Daily Caller2 days agoCIA Analysts Who Helped Cook Up Phony Russiagate Intel Still Thriving In Deep State, Former Spy Says
-
Economy2 days agoCanada’s Lost Energy Decade!
-
Daily Caller1 day agoDOJ Charges Foreign Nationals With Providing Key Tech To CCP
-
espionage17 hours agoBeijing’s Secret Biowar: National Security Experts Probe Fentanyl and Expanding Viral Bioweapons Program After COVID-19 Lab Leak
-
Business2 days agoCarney can rescue health care by loosening restrictions of the Canada Health Act