JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi’s Congressional Republicans are part of the more than 150 members of Congress who have come out against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) electric vehicle (EV) mandate.

The EPA has ruled that starting in 2027, the majority of buses, trucks, tractors, and semi-trucks sold in the U.S. must be EVs.

Congressional Republicans from Mississippi signed a letter condemning the policy.

Congressman Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) said the country, as well as Mississippi, lacks the infrastructure for this shift to be made so soon.

“We don’t have the infrastructure to get this done. This is going to slow down our supply chain. It’s going to create problems that, you know, we don’t really need right now. It’s going to slow down our, you know, the way that we move goods back and forth, that’s going to cause us to depend more on the Chinese to having to buy those critical minerals,” said Ezell. “f people want to buy these vehicles, they can buy them. But right now, we’re just not prepared to, with our infrastructure, to be able to do this. Like the administration’s trying to jam down our throats.”

Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) did not sign on to the letter.