2/19/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/JOE BIDEN: “It is the existential threat humanity faces, global warming…

I would immediately reinstate all of the elimination of — of what Trump has eliminated in terms of the EPA. I would secondly make sure that we had 500,000 new charging stations in every new highway we built in the United States of America or repaired. I would make sure that we once again made sure that we got the mileage standards back up which would have saved over 12 billion barrels of oil, had he not walked away from it. And I would invest in rail, in rail. Rail can take hundreds of thousands, millions of cars off the road if we have high-speed rail.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by NBC News, “Full transcript: Ninth Democratic debate in Las Vegas,” nbcnews.com, Feb. 19, 2020