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May 2, 2025 - The David Knight Show
12:27
Cabinet Member’s Plans Show WHY Washington Won’t Be Fixed
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Let's take a look at Sean Duffy, for example.
And he talks about how they reduce the corporate average fuel economy, the CAFE standard, right?
And that's a good thing.
I'm glad that they're reducing it.
But I wonder why they're not getting rid of it.
But I'll just let him make his case, and I've got several things to say about the mindset of what is there.
In other words, I look at this and say, okay, yeah, I'm all for...
Lowering the emission standards or the fuel economy standards, not the emissions, but the fuel economy standards.
I'm all for lowering it.
I want to get rid of it.
And I'm all for making sure that we don't have a surcharge for carbon taxes put on infrastructure.
And I'm all for following the law, you know, except the problem is he thinks that following the law is obeying Trump's executive orders.
That's not law.
And, you know, when we look at that, it just underscores the fact these people understand.
Trump understands.
All of them understand.
Everybody understands except the MAGA voters who don't want to understand.
They know better.
They won't ever admit that Trump controlled the lockdown, the masks, the ventilators, the remdesivir, because he paid these hospitals to do it.
But let's hear what Sean Duffy has to say.
He's the transportation secretary.
He took Pete Boudigate's place.
Cafe standards.
We have the fuel economy standards on vehicles that are going to go to 50 miles per gallon.
We are going to rewrite those standards, bring it down to something that's far more reasonable.
Elon's fine with that, I hope.
But it's going to drive down the price of a car in America, making cars more affordable for families.
Also, Biden had the social cost of credit when we build infrastructure, roads and bridges, adding three to five percent on infrastructure costs.
We've gotten rid of the social cost of carbon, driving down the cost to build roads and bridges across the country.
We have what is called follow the law.
So we have so many states and municipalities that don't follow the law.
So whether it's DEI, discriminating against Americans, whether they give illegal driver's license or their sanctuary cities or states, if you don't follow the law, if you're giving license to illegals, if you're having DEI policies,
We're not going to fund your projects.
So you've got to certify in your state or in your city to get road and bridge money or rail money that you're actually following the law, which includes executive orders from you, Mr. President.
All right, let's talk about what that tells us a little bit about the mindset of Washington.
It's pretty standard stuff.
I don't have any axe to grind with Sean Duffy.
I don't know him.
I don't know where he comes from or his background or anything.
And what he's saying here, I'm not picking on him.
Because what he's saying here is pretty much boilerplate, uniparty version of government here.
But let's just think about it here.
Number one, we're going to reduce CAFE.
Okay, well, that's good.
The corporate average fuel economy.
But first of all, understand this is not going to be any immediate relief on the price of cars.
Biden was going to continue to jack it up to 50 miles per gallon, which is going to make cars, basically he's doing that to ban.
Internal combustion engines.
You know, they came after Volkswagen.
You know, Trump didn't do anything to roll that back either in his first term.
Came after Volkswagen because Volkswagen, as Eric Peters has pointed out many times, had a 100-mile-per-gallon diesel engine that was going to last forever, pretty much, about as forever as you're going to get in this world.
And a very durable engine that got 100 miles per gallon, had to shut it down, said, you cheated on your...
Corporate average fuel economy test.
Use that to hit them with billions of dollars of fines.
As Eric Peters and I have talked about many times, they've had situations, faulty designs, you know, exploding pintos from back when we were in college.
Karen had a pinto.
Fortunately, she didn't have it for too long.
Somebody stole it from her.
Anyway, that's another story.
There's some really stupid people out there.
You steal a pinto.
You got a pinto because...
You can't afford another car.
But somebody would steal that.
Anyway, the Pintos that had a problem.
And they made a very...
The key thing about that was that the company made a very cynical decision and said, you know, it'll be cheaper for us to pay a few people who get burned to death in a car, pay their families, than it would be for us to add this $50 part to each and every Pinto that we sell.
You know, that type of calculation.
It's really reprehensible.
And then you've got the airbags, mandated by government, which don't do anything to help anybody at all.
Seatbelts do help people, but airbags don't.
As a matter of fact, if you have the airbag there, the supplemental restraint system, if you have that there and you don't wear your seatbelts, then it's much worse.
And of course, when they put them out, The seatbelts were adjusted for the average male, not for women and certainly not for small children.
And so they were injuring, seriously injuring and killing women and small children.
As a matter of fact, if you look at the, what was the guy from North Carolina?
That was in a wheelchair, a young man in a wheelchair.
Can't remember his name.
Was paralyzed because he was asleep in the car with his feet up on the dashboard.
And it had a minor accident, but it was big enough to shoot off the airbag.
And, you know, he would never, very athletic, never walk again.
Anyway, the Madison Cawthorn, thank you.
That's good.
Thank you.
Thanks, Travis.
Yeah, Madison Cawthorn.
So, anyway, airbags, blowing up, faulty airbags, and we had, you know, about 20 deaths or so worldwide, exploding and shooting scrapnel into somebody's chest, that type of thing.
But they never got the kind of punishment that Volkswagen did for, quote-unquote, cheating on an emissions test.
So there's this cafe thing.
Okay, so it's not going to be any immediate relief, and guess what?
It's still there.
What Sean Duffy did not say is, okay, they're not going to escalate it to 50 miles per gallon.
Are they going to leave it where it is now?
Are they going to roll it back to some earlier thing?
They should get rid of it altogether.
The federal government doesn't have any authority to do that.
Now, they gave themselves, what I was surprised, first of all, to see that this is something in the Department of Transportation.
Because what they did was they gave the Department of Energy, they gave them Congress gave them a power that Congress didn't have to give.
And that was to set regulations about fuel efficiency.
That was the Department of Energy.
The EPA was given the ability to start regulating people based on emissions.
And it wasn't about climate change.
It was about pollution when it started.
So this is all mission creep and everything.
But those two things, the ability to dictate efficiency and the ability to dictate emissions, those need to be taken away.
Those are laws that were passed by Congress in violation of the 10th Amendment.
But he's not saying that they're taking away the corporate and average fuel economy mandate.
And he doesn't say to what level they're going to reset it.
So that's the first problem.
Even if they were to lower it, guess what?
Next time somebody else comes in, they may shoot it through the roof.
Because it's just a dictate and can go either way.
So if you leave that horrible thing there, somebody's going to pick it up and use it as a weapon again.
And they're not getting rid of it.
They're leaving it there.
And then the other thing he said about the corporate average fuel economy, he says, well, I hope Elon is okay with this.
Now, he's joking, but he's not joking.
And because, you know, these guys like Elon Musk, They invest in these politicians to get what they want from them.
And Elon Musk, and everybody knows it, not just in that room, Elon Musk became the world's richest man by exploiting these kinds of emissions standards, by exploiting this nonsense of net zero and all the rest of this.
Second thing, Biden had put on an arbitrary fee.
For carbon stuff of, he said, 3 to 5 percent.
3 to 5 percent.
Okay?
And that was a carbon social cost.
A carbon social cost.
Added 3 to 5 percent surcharge to all the infrastructure projects.
He said, we've taken that off.
Well, good.
Good.
Problem is, what has Trump added?
Trump has added a 25% tariff on steel that's going to be used on all these construction projects.
So he takes off the 3% to 5% nonsense carbon social cost fee from Biden, and then Trump puts on a 25% fee on the steel.
Are you tired of winning?
Okay, then he says, and then we tell them, you have to do what we say.
Follow the law.
And that means executive orders.
So, again, you got an executive order?
You don't use DEI now.
If you do, we're going to take away your money, okay?
Trump never took away people's money if they put masks on people, right?
As a matter of fact, he kept the money flowing.
He sent them money so they would do that kind of stuff.
And there was never a time in 2020 where Trump says, you stop that, you bad Democrat governors, you stop those masks and the social distancing nonsense and locking down small mom-and-pop businesses.
No, he said the mom-and-pop businesses are not essential.
Lock them down.
And here's some money.
And I'm going to keep sending you money, because I agree with what you're doing.
But now, I don't agree with the DEI, so I'm going to pull your money back.
Even for infrastructure projects.
And you've got to follow the law, which is in my mouth.
my emergency orders.
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