New Mike Rogers Ad Doubles Down on Big Oil’s Lies About Electric Vehicles
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Lansing, Mich. – Mike Rogers’ new ad is full of false claims and distortions about the Biden-Harris administration’s historic investments in clean energy manufacturing because he can’t defend his own record. A major recipient of campaign cash from Big Oil, Rogers is repeating a MAGA falsehood. These are the facts:
FACT: The Biden-Harris administration’s clean energy plan “encouraged onshoring of clean energy industries,” and has created more than 330,000 jobs, with over 21,000 jobs in Michigan, and thousands in the EV sector.
FACT: Mike Rogers has taken more than $400,000 from Big Oil.
FACT: There is no gas car ban. But don’t just take our word for it.
- POLITIFACT: “A fuel trade group is running ads in battleground election states that claim, ‘EPA regulators just banned most new gas-powered cars.’ …We rate the claim False.”
- NPR – “Voters in Midwestern states are seeing ads railing against President Biden’s gas car ban. But there’s one catch: the Biden administration hasn’t prohibited gas-powered vehicles. That’s not stopping fossil fuel industry groups and former President Donald Trump from targeting swing state voters with warnings of car bans.”
- LOS ANGELES TIMES EDITORIAL, “Trump and oil companies are lying to you about electric cars to serve their own interests.”
- NEW YORK TIMES: “The rule does not mandate sales of electric vehicles, and consumers can still buy and drive gas-powered cars.”
- FACTCHECK.ORG: “The proposals to reduce tailpipe emissions and raise the fuel efficiency standards of cars and trucks would not ‘ban’ the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles, as a trade group for fuel makers falsely suggests in an ad campaign.”
FACT: While Rogers-endorser Donald Trump was president, his hostility towards the clean energy industry allowed China to pull ahead in clean energy and EV manufacturing.
FACT: Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that repealing the country’s clean energy plan “would be a blow to manufacturing.” … “China would certainly benefit.”
FACT: A nonpartisan think tank found that the Republican Project 2025 agenda “unwinds the laws that have encouraged onshoring,” …“significantly restricts the build-out of clean energy” and will cause 1.7 million jobs losses while doing $320 billion/year in damage to the U.S. economy.
FACT: Unions and auto companies support the clean energy plan; only Republicans, Big Oil, and China oppose them.
FACT: As the head of the largest U.S. automakers’ trade association has said, “the future is electric.” That future will either continue being built here in America by our workforce or ceded to China by Mike Rogers and Donald Trump.
FACT: The EV transition will keep American manufacturing jobs. A top exec at GM said “We’ve done our own analysis at General Motors, and there are other studies that have affirmed that the employee base needed in the future for EV production is very similar to what’s needed for a comparable [internal combustion] vehicle today.”
FACT: China is actively challenging the Biden-Harris clean energy plan with complaints to the World Trade Organization.
FACT: U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell noted in a recent opinion column that gutting investments in America’s EV industry will cede the technologies of the future to foreign competitors like China.
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