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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 05/23/2025

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A great win for everyone who has been working so tirelessly to Save Our Cars.

Wall Street Journal (5/23/25) editorial: "The Senate voted 51-44 on Thursday to free Americans from California’s onerous electric-vehicle mandate. This is a real Liberation Day, and the voters who re-elected President Trump won’t fail to notice when he signs the resolution. Feel free to rev your engines in approval. If Gov. Gavin Newsom hears it loud enough, maybe he won’t sue. The Senate’s move follows similar action in the House, which this month voted 246-164 for a resolution to rescind a federal waiver that gave a green light to California’s EV mandate. The 1996 Congressional Review Act (CRA) lets lawmakers overturn recent regulations. The President also must sign off, so it typically happens only after a change in power...Mr. Newsom plans to go to court to defend California’s power to dictate what kinds of cars people can buy. He’s unlikely to prevail, since the CRA prohibits judicial review of any 'determination, finding, action, or omission under' the law. Yet the California Governor has recently gone in reverse on some of his politically unpopular positions. If Mr. Newsom wants to run for President in 2028, and doesn’t want to crash and burn in Michigan, here’s another place he might consider a U-turn."

"I joined my colleagues on the Senate floor as my legislation to reverse California’s disastrous electric vehicle mandate passed to protect consumer freedom for the American people and to save the American auto industry. Thank you to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Shelley Moore Capito for their leadership in the Senate to get this common sense policy passed quickly, and I look forward to joining President Trump at the White House as he makes this legislation the law of the land."

– Congressman John Joyce, M.D. (PA-13)

How well do EVs handle the winters in New Hampshire?

New Hampshire Journal (5/22/25) reports: "Both New Hampshire senators voted against a resolution ending California’s ban on the sale of gas-powered cars, giving the Granite State delegation an 0-4 record on the issue. The GOP-controlled Senate passed the resolution Thursday over unanimous Democratic opposition, including Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen. The same resolution passed the House earlier this month with the support of 35 House Democrats, but Reps. Maggie Goodlander and Chris Pappas were both 'no' votes...None of the four Democrats would respond to questions about their support for California’s ban on gas-powered cars...Advocates for green climate policy see mandates as a necessary tool to get Americans out of gas-powered cars and into zero emissions vehicles. American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle rejects that approach. 'Unelected people in California and the Biden administration abused the Clean Air Act waiver process to try and force a backdoor EV mandate. With President Trump’s anticipated signature, he and the Republicans in Congress will finally put an end to a decades-long quest by the fringe left to force people out of their cars.'"