May 19, 2024

Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown Silent When Asked if ‘Gas Cars Should Be Banned’

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who’s up for reelection in opposition to Trump-backed Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, was silent on Capitol Hill Tuesday when requested if he thinks gas-powered automobiles “should be banned.”

In a video launched by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), a person off-camera asks, “Sen. Brown, do you think gas cars should be banned,” as Brown and his staffers march on silently.

“Do you support the [Environmental Protection Agency] EPA’s decision to ban gas cars,” the person adopted up, seemingly referencing a federal regulation President Joe Biden introduced in March aimed toward phasing out gas-powered automobiles. Brown didn’t reply.

Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the video, contending Brown couldn’t reply to the query as a result of he “is a Green New Deal radical who agrees with Biden!!!”

Biden’s federal environmental regulation goals to begin “phasing out gas-powered cars, requiring American automakers to produce Electric Vehicles (EVs) as part of his sweeping green energy agenda,” Breitbart News’s John Binder beforehand noted.

The rule calls for many new automobiles and light-weight vans bought within the U.S. by 2032 to be electrical automobiles (EVs) or hybrids, the New York Times first reported.

Moreno, who established one of many largest auto teams within the United States, told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday. days later, “This manic move to electric vehicles is going to destroy the auto industry in America.”

Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, smiles at supporters throughout his major election evening watch social gathering in Westlake, Ohio, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (David Dermer/AP)

“You look at the Buick electric vehicles that are coming out – almost all of them made in China. The Lincoln electric vehicles are all going to be mostly produced in China. The batteries are mostly produced in China,” Moreno mentioned. ‘So we’re going handy our auto business, which at one level was virtually seven % of our gross home product (GDP), over to our enemy, China. It is insane.”

“China has a company that people will start hearing a lot about called BYD,” the Trump-backed candidate added. “They’re building these giant, massive factories in Mexico and want to ship these cars over to the U.S. – $15,000-$20,000 electric vehicles – that would decimate our auto industry in America. Sherrod Brown is all in for that.”



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