By Jenny Goldsberry, Social Media Producer. Media:

Former President Donald Trump made a campaign promise to promote traditional gas-powered vehicles over their electric counterparts. Trump was on the campaign trail on Sunday, stopping in Iowa, which produces 4.1 billion gallons of ethanol annually. The former president attacked President Joe Biden's tailpipe emission rules as proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency — rules the EPA predicts will cause fully electric vehicles to make up two-thirds of all new "light-duty" and 46% of new medium-duty vehicle sales by 2032. "If Joe Biden's extremist mandate is allowed to stand, gas-powered cars will be gone, Iowa ethanol will be totally destroyed, and the economy of this state will be decimated," Trump said. "When I'm back in the White House, I will save Iowa ethanol by repealing Joe Biden's absolutely insane, job-killing electric vehicle mandate on day one." Trump insinuated that the topic of irreversible procedures for transgender minors is more important to him than electric vehicles. "Under a Trump administration, gasoline-fired engines will be allowed, but child sexual mutilation will be banned if that's all right with you," Trump told a roaring crowd. In 2023, $1.7 billion was allocated to the electric vehicle program via Biden's infrastructure plan passed in 2021. It was specifically meant to go toward 1,700 American-built mass transit systems. Under the Trump administration in 2018, Low- and No-Emission Grant Awards from the Federal Transit Administration for $84.45 million were dispersed nationwide toward similar goals.