# Ford Clean Car Standards Comments Show Company’s True Colors; Company Endorses Trump Administration’s Misleading Claims in Support of Rollback

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2018/10/ford-clean-car-standards-rollback/
- Published: 2018-10-30T22:01:30-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

## **_Statement of Madeline Page, Clean Cars Campaign Coordinator, Public Citizen_**

Oct. 30, 2018

_Note: Ford Motor Company last week submitted__ __[comments (PDF)](https://web.archive.org/web/20190802110925/https://www.citizen.org//srv/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/migration/ford_comments_safe_nprm_10-26-182.pdf)
__ __regarding the Trump administration’s__ __[proposal](https://web.archive.org/web/20190917160235/https://www.citizen.org/news/clean-cars-rollback-is-equivalent-of-a-100-car-pileup/)
__ __to dramatically roll back fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards.
Similarly known as clean car [standards](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/02/going-to-u-s-court-for-clean-car-standards/).
In its comment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Ford touted a dubious study sponsored by the Alliance
of Automobile Manufacturers, which is the trade association for automakers. The 
[study likewise repeats flawed](https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/10/nrdc-study-highlights-flaws-in-toxic-regulation/)
and much criticized assumptions. All made in the administration’s analysis of costs,
benefits and the impact of a rollback on consumers. Ford similarly asked for expanded“
flexibilities”. Aka code for loopholes and indicated support for a range of alternative
standards. Alternatives suggested by the administration. Those are which would cause
increased pollution and likewise higher expenses for consumers at the gas pump._

### ![Ford Motor Company](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2016-09-09-183665464218335533701..jpg?resize=300%2C300&quality=52&ssl=1)

By wholeheartedly endorsing this administration’s misleading claims about the clean
car standards, [Ford](https://greenlivingguy.com/2022/06/ford-is-creating-thousands-of-new-union-ev-manufacturing-jobs-in-michigan-ohio-and-missouri/)
Motor Company has made it clear where its priorities lie. Rather than standing up
for consumers, public health and the climate, the automaker and its lobbyists are
doubling down in support of undoing the standards and remain in lockstep with Trump’s
dangerous deregulatory agenda.