Rick Allen: “I don't think SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks cause toxic waste sites. I will agree with one thing, and I think most…”

“I don't think SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks cause toxic waste sites. I will agree with one thing, and I think most people in America will agree: The comments of the Senator about all of these SUVs, minivans, and pickup trucks driving around in northern Virginia are driving to nowhere; most people in America would probably consider DC nowhere. Cost in lives: 4,500 deaths would occur each year if they had increased these standards. Vehicle costs would have gone up $2,500 for cars and $2,750 for SUVs and pickup trucks. The United Auto Workers said this proposal would have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs. We have a Ford assembly plant in Virginia. And I would hate to see a 20-percent loss there and have to go to those 2,200 employees and say 1 out of every 10 of you is going to lose a job because the nannies up in Washington want to take away your choice to drive a vehicle that people would want for their families and for their safety.”