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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: API Press [Press@api.org] 5/8/2018 9:05:20 PM API Press [Press@api.org] NEWS: Free market principles should drive transportation policies, mandates and subsidies increase consumer costs PPOASWTER IM POSSIBLE.ORG 202.682.8114 | press@api.orq Free market principles should drive transportation policies, mandates and subsidies increase consumer costs WCDooAmwSnmHseItNrrecGaemThOeaNan,rdinMIgnadoyun8s,ptr2oy0liOc1y8pei-mraTptloiiocdnaastyioFtnhrsaenoAkfmeMleearccictcraihcniaaPrnoedlatrcosolaeniudvmetnraItninossntpiatoul rtvetaettheioicsnlteifasien.ddAaPetInteGhrergoyHupopuoDsliceirieeEcsntoerrgoyf and should be based on free-market principles that allow market participants to operate and compete on a level playing field. "pAlaPyIinogppfioeslde.sSguobvseidrniemsesnutcihntaesrvfeendteiornal inantdhestmataerkinectsomtoeptiackx wcriendnietsrsfoarntdhelopsuerrschbaesceaoufseeleitcctrreicavteeshiacnlesuna-nledvel tax credits for the installation of electric charging infrastructure distort free markets and are detrimental to taxpayers and the consuming public." Aginoccncooemrdpeirneegdaortnomeairnsastrnuetdlcyyetivodeohnaigebhobeuyrt-Ui9nn0ciovpmeererscitAeynmoteforCficaaalllnifcsor.renPdiairtosBg. erarkmesleayimfaecdultayt, eclleecatnricevneehrgicyletsax(EeVxps)enfoduitnudretshahtatvoep "Some commentators refer to electric vehicles as zero-emission vehicles. EVs may better be described as emmainsusfiaocntsurdinisgpltahceevmeehnictleveahnicdlebsa.ttTehrye szyesrtoe-mems,istshieonencelargssyifsicoautriocensfauilssedtotoacgkennoewraletdegtehetheeleecntreicrgityy rreeqquuiirreedd itno charge the vehicle, and the environmental cost of battery disposal. "A strong oil and gas industry is essential to the vitality of America's transportation sector and our standard of aslivthrieenangd.gtThahenend owoilueralnnodaotkgioafnos'rswineadcrudosnttoorymwiyso,rckeoinnmvgmirwoitnittehmdeCtnootnpagrnroedvsiedsninoegnrgfsyoorsluoetuciorunrnsitaytt.hi"oant'ssuepspsoernttitahleeAnmeregryicnaenecdosnisnutmheeryeaanrds API is the only national trade association representing all facets of the oil and natural gas industry, which simnucaplrupindoeertsblau1rsg0ien.3einsmsteielglsior,anatenUdd.Scs.oejmorvbpicsaenaianendsd,nasesuapwrlpyelyl8l fapirsemrescx.epnTlothroeafytitohpneroaUvni.dSde.pemrcooodsnutocomtifoytnh.,eArePnfaIi'ntsiionmng'o,srmeenatherkaregntyin6ag2n,5dpmaipreeemlinbbeae,crskaendd by a growing grassroots movement of more than 40 million Americans. Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 1 ED 002061 00071126-00001