"EV technology is impressive for some, but Iowans know that there are far more challenges to EV adoption than many care to admit."
"CBO's February baseline set the record straight, telling us that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act's EV handout would increase the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars."
"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."
"if you are driving an electric vehicle, we have got to find some way for you to pay in to maintaining the roads."
"the bottom line is this is coming whether we like it or not."
"we are in competition with China in many areas. They dominate this market."
"we need to think long and hard about how we compete, the challenges we face and we are behind in a game that is being played by China very aggressively."
"President Biden established a target to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to half of peak levels by 2030."
"If U.S. policymakers do not support the development, commercialization and acceptance of electrified vehicles, our nation risks becoming more dependent on foreign sources for raw materials and critica..."
"The left is holding up the environmental permitting reform necessary to mine for the domestic critical mineral which we need to compete with China, while urging a massive EV market share expansion."
"I think you expressed the inconsistency between environmental policies, and what the same environmentalists think we ought to do for EV vehicles."
"If you want to maintain the user pay/user benefit principle, that all vehicles that use the road should pay something."