Biden to Force States to Limit Emissions for Passenger Cars on Highways

The Biden Administration is expected to mandate on Thursday that state’s set explicit targets for reducing tailpipe emissions for vehicles using the national highway system.

Biden’s Federal Highway Administration, which is part of the US Transportation Department under transit secretary Pete Buttigieg, told Reuters that states must “set targets that work for their respective climate change policies and other policy priorities, so long as they are in line with the net-zero goals by 2050 set forth in this rule.”

This new provision would require state transportation agencies to set these declining targets and then report on incremental progress. The guideline is another strict measure in Biden’s American energy policy, similar to the previous overreach of the EPA in limiting emissions that the Supreme Court recently struck down.

In 2020 when running for President, Joe Biden promised to fundamentally transform America’s energy sector by ending the fossil fuel industry. His announcement came just after the US had achieved energy independence.

When the President took office he set the goal of getting to 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Biden administration promised to achieve that goal by enacting measures such as replacing the federal government’s entire fleet of vehicles with “net-zero emissions” cars, which are products that do not exist.

By the end of Biden’s first year in office, the country was facing a historic supply chain crisis and record high inflation. Those factors combined with Biden reversing America’s energy independence through acts like canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, led to record high gas prices by December 2021.

In 2022 the Biden Administration maintained their energy policy and had Transportation Secretary, who also believes roads are racist, pushing electric cars on Americans as gas prices soared. Currently gas costs more than double what it did when Biden took office.

Biden has exploited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with the mantra “Putin’s Price Hike” and has said that Americans should be prepared to pay high gas prices for as “long as it takes.”

24 states and the District of Columbia already set emission targets and track greenhouse emissions.