I have been hearing, you know, politicians talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America literally my entire life, right, and we are finally doing it, right?

Why do we never hear about this? If it was the reverse, and driving your electric car was five times more expensive than driving your fuel combustion car, you can bet every fossil fuel company in America would be publicizing that.

Is that something we should change?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and certainly one of the reasons there is so much interest in my home state in electrics is because of what is happening right now. We have 121 fires burning in my state. Over one million acres have already burned…

Are all the charging stations that are going to be deployed under the Inflation Reduction Act going to have a NACS standard?

Is that something we should change?

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When you have a huge, what economists call externality, which is climate change, I know some of my colleagues do not really believe in that as a threat.

Volvo is actually losing orders right now from people that want to, you know, purchase these electric medium and heavy duty trucks, but cannot because of this issue of charging stations.

The Biden-Harris administration's unattainable goal of 50 percent new EV sales by 2030 has been on full display over the last four years.

the bottom line is this is coming whether we like it or not.

EV technology is impressive for some, but Iowans know that there are far more challenges to EV adoption than many care to admit.