Oil companies are worried that federal incentives and the growing popularity of electric vehicles will eat into their profits and threaten their stranglehold over energy consumption. Former President Trump and other Republican politicians want to exploit consumer and autoworker anxieties about the transition to zero-emission vehicles to help them win in November. That’s why both the fossil fuel industry and the GOP are spreading the same lie that the Biden administration is banning gas cars.
And just like with the GOP-stoked brouhaha about a nonexistent ban on gas stoves last year, no federal agents are coming to seize your Toyota Camry, Honda CR-V or Ford F-150 because it guzzles gasoline instead of electrons. It's just another easy-to-disprove mischaracterization intended to stoke anger and confusion among voters.