I am writing today to urge you to oppose the development of the Walz administration's “Clean Fuel Standards” (CFS) plan. With Minnesotans experiencing the highest gas prices in history, now is not the time to once again follow California’s lead and adopt artificial increases in the price of gas. Worse yet, these price increases will not fix one pothole or provide any measurable benefit to the environment. According to the report Gas Station Inflation: How the Walz Administration’s “Clean Fuel Standard” Would Increase Pain at the Pump from Center of the American Experiment, this plan would force Minnesota drivers to pay an additional 20 cents per gallon in the near term and up to 54 cents per gallon by 2035. As a result, Minnesota households would be forced to spend an additional $210 to $570 per year, every single year at the pump, and none of this money would go to maintaining our roads and bridges. Despite the high costs, the CFS will deliver zero measurable environmental benefits. The CFS seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Minnesota’s transportation sector by 20 percent by 2035. However, this reduction would only decrease future global temperatures by 0.0002° C by 2100, an amount so small it is impossible to measure with even the most sophisticated scientific equipment. Gas prices are already at the highest levels since 2013. We don’t need more gas station inflation, which is why I am again urging you to stop the implementation of this misguided plan.

I am writing today to urge you to oppose the development of the Walz administration's “Clean Fuel Standards” (CFS) plan. With Minnesotans experiencing the highest gas prices in history, now is not the time to once again follow California’s lead and adopt artificial increases in the price of gas. Worse yet, these price increases will not fix one pothole or provide any measurable benefit to the environment. According to the report Gas Station Inflation: How the Walz Administration’s “Clean Fuel Standard” Would Increase Pain at the Pump from Center of the American Experiment, this plan would force Minnesota drivers to pay an additional 20 cents per gallon in the near term and up to 54 cents per gallon by 2035. As a result, Minnesota households would be forced to spend an additional $210 to $570 per year, every single year at the pump, and none of this money would go to maintaining our roads and bridges. Despite the high costs, the CFS will deliver zero measurable environmental benefits. The CFS seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Minnesota’s transportation sector by 20 percent by 2035. However, this reduction would only decrease future global temperatures by 0.0002° C by 2100, an amount so small it is impossible to measure with even the most sophisticated scientific equipment. Gas prices are already at the highest levels since 2013. We don’t need more gas station inflation, which is why I am again urging you to stop the implementation of this misguided plan.

I am writing today to urge you to oppose the development of the Walz administration's “Clean Fuel Standards” (CFS) plan. With Minnesotans experiencing the highest gas prices in history, now is not the time to once again follow California’s lead and adopt artificial increases in the price of gas. Worse yet, these price increases will not fix one pothole or provide any measurable benefit to the environment. According to the report Gas Station Inflation: How the Walz Administration’s “Clean Fuel Standard” Would Increase Pain at the Pump from Center of the American Experiment, this plan would force Minnesota drivers to pay an additional 20 cents per gallon in the near term and up to 54 cents per gallon by 2035. As a result, Minnesota households would be forced to spend an additional $210 to $570 per year, every single year at the pump, and none of this money would go to maintaining our roads and bridges. Despite the high costs, the CFS will deliver zero measurable environmental benefits. The CFS seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Minnesota’s transportation sector by 20 percent by 2035. However, this reduction would only decrease future global temperatures by 0.0002° C by 2100, an amount so small it is impossible to measure with even the most sophisticated scientific equipment. Gas prices are already at the highest levels since 2013. We don’t need more gas station inflation, which is why I am again urging you to stop the implementation of this misguided plan.