Trump, Big Oil lying about EVs to serve own interests

By the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board

Oil companies are worried that federal incentives and the growing popularity of electric vehicles will eat into their profits and threaten their stranglehold over energy consumption. Former President Donald Trump and other Republican politicians want to exploit consumer and autoworker anxieties about the transition to zero-emission vehicles to help them win in November.

That’s why both the fossil fuel industry and the GOP are spreading the same lie that the Biden administration is banning gas cars. This self-serving effort to deceive voters is shameful, even for those whose peddling of disinformation has become sadly expected.

At the Republican National Convention last week, Trump said, “I will end the electric vehicle mandate on Day 1.”

There is no such mandate. But facts are no obstacle to the former president and his supporters. Nor have they stopped the fossil fuel industry from spending millions of dollars in recent months on ads that have aired in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, Montana, Wisconsin and other key battleground states repeating the lie.

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