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Rep. Roger Williams hails EPA rollback as a win for car buyers and dealers
Summary
On a recorded interview, Rep. Roger Williams said the administration's move to limit EPA vehicle greenhouse-gas authority restores "consumer choice," easing requirements he said forced extra equipment and costs onto new cars and trucks.
Rep. Roger Williams, U.S. representative for Texas’s 25th District, praised a recent rollback of vehicle greenhouse-gas regulations and said the change will restore consumer choice in the auto market.
"We're going to let people buy the cars that they want," Williams said, adding the move will let manufacturers offer the models customers prefer without having to place costly equipment on every vehicle.
Williams framed the action as beneficial to both dealers and buyers, saying manufacturers previously averaged fuel-economy equipment across fleets to meet aggressive standards. He said the rollback reverses steps he described as regulatory overreach and predicted it could lower vehicle prices by removing the need to include certain equipment on all models.
Asked about historic standards, Williams said the country had been headed toward a 65 miles-per-gallon threshold under the prior administration and argued that such mandates would have forced production of vehicles consumers did not want.
The interview did not include a response from EPA officials or independent analysts; Williams presented the change as a policy win for the industry and for consumer choice.
Williams declined to cite specific projected price impacts or the administrative instrument by which the EPA action was made; those details were not specified in the interview.
