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Automotive Youtuber Rich Rebuilds Promotes Car Coalition
The YouTuber urges his 1.3 million subscribers to learn more about both SMART and the REPAIR Acts.
The YouTuber urges his 1.3 million subscribers to learn more about both SMART and the REPAIR Acts.
Automakers are urging the Biden Administration and congressional leaders to finalize legislation that will include $52 billion in incentives.
The goal of this legislation would be to increase the demand for retreaded tires and reduce the importation of cheap tires that cannot be retreaded, known as “disposable tires.”
The judge citied scheduling complications and “the need to consider fully the implications of the long-anticipated decision" as reasons for the delay.
PRI and SEMA CEO Mike Spagnola has recently traveled to Washington, DC., to meet with legislators about the RPM Act.
Agency orders require companies to fix warranties, come clean with customers, and compete fairly with independent repairers.
Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote a letter urging the GAO to examine federal agency’s “efforts to ensure consumers’ right to repair” their vehicles.
The need for federal right to repair protections in the auto industry was top of mind for key legislators and regulators at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing held on May 18.
US District Judge Douglas Woodlock will issue his findings and conclusion no later than July 2, 2022.
Rep. Davidson (R-Oh.) is an auto industry alumnus who ran his family's small-batch machining and fabricating business.