The debate within certain media circles about the Biden administration’s recently finalized vehicle regulations seems fixated on whether the policy constitutes a “ban” on future sales of new gas-powered cars.
This certainly was the case in a recent Politifact post that rated an ad by our organization, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, as “false” for describing the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation as having “banned most new gas-powered cars.”
The decision to label our ad “false” was based on the writer’s view that the Biden administration’s rule “would only reduce fleetwide emissions for cars and trucks, allowing for the continued production of gas cars.”
However, the very next sentence from Politifact acknowledges exactly what our ads explain: “The regulation would likely greatly diminish the production of new gas-powered…
