NADA Chief to President Trump: "Undo Obama Auto Rules"
National Auto Dealers Association (NADA) is asking President Donald Trump to void the Obama Administration’s move to approve the rules requiring automakers to cut greenhouse gases for model years 2022-2025.
Hours after the administration issued its ruling on January 13, NADA President Peter Welch issued a statement, charging that the Obama administration had just made new cars and trucks more expensive to working men and women.
"We urge the incoming Trump Administration to withdraw today’s action, and we look forward to working with the new Administration to ensure that working families can choose the cleaner, safer new cars and trucks they need at prices they can afford," Welch said.
Environmental groups have long argued that the fuel-economy rules have helped American motorists across the economic spectrum by making cars less expensive to operate as the price of fuel increased.
Welch sounded the same alarm during a speech to the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit when he said that with the average transaction price of new cars steadily rising, the size of the market for new vehicles is shrinking. The rising prices are in large part due to rising cost of meeting fuel-economy and emission regulations.
The next four years present a "unique opportunity" to ensure that personal transportation remains affordable for millions of Americans, Welch said in Detroit. "...If demand is sapped four years from now because new vehicle price points are no longer attainable to otherwise willing buyers, we’re going have much bigger problems on our hands than political optics."
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