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The problem? Physics.
Technology simply isn’t there. The only way to hit Biden’s numbers was to artificially mix electric vehicles into the equation — whether Americans wanted them or not.
As Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explained:
“Biden and Buttigieg used EVs and hybrids to come up with a 62 mile-an-hour per gallon standard, which the car companies will tell you, is completely unattainable.”
Manufacturers were forced to funnel billions into engineering that couldn’t meet the mandate. And when they inevitably missed the targets, they had to buy carbon credits from companies like Tesla — pumping even more money into an already rigged system.
Worse, Biden’s own regulators ignored Congress. The CAFE program was created with specific limits, yet the administration blew past every guardrail. Instead of passing laws, they used backdoor regulatory pressure to force an EV revolution the public never asked for.
On Wednesday, President Trump gathered Ford CEO Jim Farley, Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa, and a GM plant manager in the Oval Office for a major announcement. He declared he was abolishing Biden’s suffocating CAFE rules — permanently.
Trump didn’t hold back:
“We’re bringing back the car industry that was stolen from us.”
He also blasted Biden’s mandates as “ridiculously burdensome” and said the rules “imposed expensive restrictions and all sorts of problems.”
By reversing them, American families will save $109 billion over the next five years. Biden’s rules alone would have added nearly $1,000 to the sticker price of every new car. Prices have already exploded more than 25% under Biden, with some models soaring 18% in a single year.
Under Trump’s reset, fuel standards will rise just 0.5% annually — a target that fits with real engineering, not fantasy math. Instead of Biden’s unreachable 50.4 mpg by 2031, the new trajectory sets a realistic 34.5 mpg.
Executives who’ve been quietly suffering under Biden’s mandates finally said what they’ve been thinking for years.
Stellantis chief Antonio Filosa called Trump’s move a long-needed return to sanity:
“It’s a great day for us at Stellantis today because it’s a day where we see CAFE regulations reconcile with real customers’ demands.”
Ford’s Jim Farley applauded Trump for “aligning fuel economy standards with market realities.” General Motors issued a statement saying it “supports the goals of NHTSA’s proposed CAFE rule and its intention to better align fuel economy standards with market realities.”
Even the Alliance for Automotive Innovation — which represents most U.S. carmakers — admitted Biden’s rules were “extremely challenging for automakers to achieve given the current marketplace for EVs.”
Duffy hammered Democrats for pretending their rules were about fairness:
“Democrats’ rhetoric on affordability is a lie.”
He continued:
“These rules are going to allow the automakers to make vehicles that Americans want to purchase, not vehicles that Joe Biden and Buttigieg want them to build.”
No wonder automakers are relieved. Stellantis was forced to pay nearly $600 million in penalties just for failing to meet Biden-era targets. GM shelled out over $128 million. Trump already canceled those fines with his One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July — and now he’s making sure nothing like this happens again.
For four years, Biden insisted he was helping working families. Instead, he made their cars more expensive, forced companies to dump money into EV projects nobody wanted, and punished them when reality didn’t bend to his agenda.
Trump exposed the entire charade — and returned $109 billion back to the people.
America’s auto industry finally has room to breathe again. And voters just got a front-row seat to the difference between fantasy-driven regulation and real-world leadership.
