[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 25, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 STOP THE WAR ON AMERICAN TRUCK DRIVERS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I would like to talk about the latest 
front in the Biden administration's war on the middle class. They are 
all for the welfare class, and they are all for the superrich, but not 
the middle class.
  We are used to hearing about the massive increase in costs of cars 
and light trucks as we are forced into electric vehicles. At least as I 
understand it, talking to my dealers, the cost of a car is probably 
going to go up about 25 percent. We are used to also hearing about the 
massive increase in car insurance that we are going to have as we go to 
electric vehicles.
  We don't hear about the huge hammer coming down on the backbone of 
the American middle class, the American truck driver. I found out today 
that the cost of a new semi going from diesel to electric vehicle will 
go from $130,000 to over $300,000 a semi. As far as the amount that you 
are able to drive before refueling: from 1,200 miles back down to only 
325 miles.
  Congress must act to prevent President Biden's latest war on the 
truck driver, the backbone of the American middle class.

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