OMAHA- U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, reapplied his criticism of a proposed Biden administration regulation requiring automakers selling vehicles in the U.S. to cut new vehicles’ tailpipe emissions by two-thirds by 2032. He and others backing the fossil fuels and biofuels industry, including corn-based ethanol and soybean-based biodiesel, have argued that the U.S. won’t be ready to shift to electric vehicles as aggressively as the green-energy advocates want.

Ricketts said people in rural and far-flung states like Nebraska won’t have the money to replace gas and diesel-fueled vehicles with electric vehicles despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s push to slow a changing climate. During a session with the Nebraska Trucking Association, Ricketts stressed that Americans won’t have the charging infrastructure needed by the agricultural, transportation, and logistics sectors, which drive Nebraska’s economy.

The Biden administration has failed to do their homework on the reckless impact of these emission mandates … in just eight years,” Ricketts said. Climate change experts argue that the world must act to slow the pace at which fossil fuel-related pollution from factories, vehicles and farms contributes to slight temperature shifts, fueling extreme weather events such as wildfires and floods.

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