Chris Field
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 24 Feb
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You know, I think the big loser is really the American people.
I think that repealing the endangerment finding signals of stepping away from the biggest economic opportunity and the biggest leadership opportunity of the 21st century.
And I think the
consequence of the endangerment finding is that we'll basically subject American consumers to being saddled with legacy technologies moving into the future.
And the big winner, I think, is China.
And China has made
amazing commitments to delivering low-cost solar panels, low-cost wind, low-cost electric vehicles.
And I think that that positions them to be a leader in the future.
And unfortunately, we're going to have to really struggle if we want to catch up.
Well, it is true that the cost of purchasing an efficient vehicle or an electric vehicle is a little bit higher than the cost of purchasing one that doesn't have the efficiency mechanisms.
But especially with gas mileage restrictions, which is one of the main regulatory levers that the
EPA has used, the initial extra cost of having the efficiency features gets paid back over time as customers save money by requiring less fuel or by providing a cheaper fuel through electricity.
That's exactly right.
The total ownership cost of the more efficient vehicles is often less than the total ownership cost of the vehicles that might have been cheaper at the point of initial purchase.
In the initial justification for the endangerment finding back in 2009, the EPA did a very careful evaluation of the available literature on the impacts of climate change on public health and well-being and concluded there was overwhelming evidence that greenhouse
the damages from climate change are clear.
The evidence is much, much stronger now.
The health consequences of climate change have just become increasingly clear, and they include not only effects of extreme heat on excess mortality, they include effects of extra particulates from wildfire smoke,
extra mortality from severe storms, and extra mortality that's associated with conflict and dislocation from high temperatures that are putting people on the move around the world.
All of the evidence points to a resounding yes in the answer to that question, that the benefits of avoiding the climate change are much larger than the cost savings.
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