Lee Zeldin

And it's also based off of what the law doesn't allow.

This is a best reading of the Clean Air Act, which does not say that we should be regulating an emission to combat global climate change.

And you could ignore all of the bad guesses of Al Gore and John Kerry and others saying

You can replace all of the bad, flawed assumptions on science that were made in 2009 with the most pessimistic predictions that didn't bear out as we look at facts in 2026.

Regardless of where anyone is on their opinion or the fact on the science debate, the reality is the Clean Air Act does not authorize this, that Congress would have to pass a new law

in order to have trillions of dollars of regulation.

So yeah, no, it doesn't have to be codified.

And quite frankly, because of the Supreme Court precedent, if the pendulum swung one day down the road, some far left Democrat gets elected president and they have somebody running the

The EPA and they're trying to go back to it.

The problem is, is that the Clean Air Act is still going to give them the same problem.

And Loper Bright is on the books and it says you can't just make it up.

And now manufacturers can make vehicles that consumers actually want rather than what politicians demand.

And when you combine this decision with.

the resetting of the CAFE standards with Secretary Duffy and DOT and the president.

When you combine it with getting rid of the electric vehicle mandate with the three Congressional Review Act bills that Congress passed and President Trump signed, you add the new investments that have been announced, billions of these different manufacturers and the jobs that come with it.

It all adds up for a very positive one year for the U.S.

auto industry.

Well, I'm confident that there's going to be more F-150s that are going to get built and less electric vehicles that sit on dealership lots and remaining unsold.

Now, a couple of months ago, I was at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers meeting that was in Toronto, Canada.

And I could tell that these European countries are really feeling the strain of how they have chosen to protect the environment, overgrowing the economy.