Labrador Joins 25-State Coalition to Slam the Brakes on Biden Administration’s EV Mandate

[BOISE] - Attorney General Raúl Labrador stood up for Idahoans who drive gas and diesel-powered trucks and cars against the Biden Administration's electric vehicle (EV) mandate. Labrador joined Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and a 25-state coalition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to block a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions rule.

"Forcing a company to make and forcing a customer to buy inferior products is a basic pillar of a socialist centrally planned economy," said Attorney General Labrador. "It flies in the face of the free market where the best products should be supported by the demand of the consumer - not the narrow agendas of environmental activists pulling the puppet-strings of the Biden Administration. Idaho drivers aren't buying the cars, and they aren't buying the excuses."

The forced transition to EVs would all but devastate the American economy, threatening jobs, raising prices. and undermining the reliability of the electric grid.

A Gallup poll released just this month showed fewer Americans said they would consider buying an EV, with almost half (48%) saying they would not purchase one.

Amid shrinking consumer demand, Ford Motor Company lost about $4.7 billion on EVs last year and projects even worse losses this year.

Attorneys General Coleman and Morrisey led the lawsuit, along with Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.