Posted on 04/09/2024 6:42:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Here's something we learned just from Politico's headline: Republicans are waging a crusade against electric cars, and they might regret that in the 2024 election.
Politico is correct if waging a crusade against electric cars means opposing EV mandates and impossible deadlines. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm wants the entire U.S. military fleet to be electric by 2030. It was Politico who told us last December that the Biden administration's $7.5 billion allocation had led to exactly zero charges being installed two years later.
It's funny … Politico told us one year ago that Republicans were stoking the fires of the next big culture war: electric vehicles. Just last month, Politico suggested a brilliant idea to get conservatives on board with EVs … electric vehicle racing. Politico asked if Formula E — the world’s only all-electric racing series — could save Joe Biden's presidency.
In other words, Politico is all over the place, demonstrating exactly how poorly the policy of EVs has been handled. Now they have an opinion piece saying Republicans might come to regret their "crusade" against electric cars this November, according to a recent poll.
Mike Murphy writes:
First, we asked voters if they had a mostly favorable, mixed or mostly unfavorable opinion of “American car brands.” On this topic Republicans and Democrats were in lockstep: Republicans rated American car brands 59 percent mostly favorable while Democrats rated them 55 percent mostly favorable.
But when we asked voters to rate “electric car brands” the partisan divide was stark: GOP voters gave electric car brands a net 40 percent unfavorable rating, while Democrats gave EV brands a 15 percent net favorable rating. That’s a huge, 55-point gap between Republicans and Democrats.
Why such Republican hostility toward electric cars? It’s tribal. In our modern politics any friend of my enemy must be my enemy too. If Joe Biden is for EVs, we must be against them. GOP politicians looking for cheap applause cannot help but pile on and amplify one of the latest turns in the culture war.
Yet there is real political downside for Republicans who embrace this easy feedback loop of EV attacks.
Independents, though, could be turned off by the Republican crusade against EVs, swinging the election to Biden.
Extreme climate activists Extinction Rebellion just showed up at the New York Autoshow and poured oil all over an electric vehicle in protest. They posted a press release:
Electric vehicles do not solve the fundamental problems with cars. The construction of electric vehicles is as carbon-intensive, if not more so, than that of conventional cars powered by fossil fuels. More important, cars themselves damage the climate in many ways above and beyond their gas consumption. Cars are constructed out of materials that are very difficult to produce. The excessive steel in cars is incredibly climate-unfriendly to produce. The many superfluous electronics in cars contain rare earth metals and require expensive, shipping-intensive manufacturing processes. The fact that cars are heavier and larger than they need to be means that all cars, including electric ones, are incompatible with a livable future.
"All cars … are incompatible with a livable future." We're all going to be forced to live in "15-minute cities."
This Republican doesn't care if you buy an electric car or not. But don't pretend the mandates aren't out there. California has already announced an upcoming ban on gas-powered lawnmowers in the state. You won't be able to buy a gas-powered mower in California. It will be illegal.
A ban on gas stoves was also part of the Republican "culture war," remember? No one was going to ban gas stoves. It was a right-wing conspiracy theory, until it wasn't.
Once there's a reliable network of charging stations coast-to-coast and people can recharge their cars in five minutes, there might be a demand. But the technology isn't there yet.
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My car’s manual, 2014 Mustang convertible, says to not do that as it could cause a build-up of carbon monoxide in the passenger compartment. Just plain fan only..............
Yep, no worries. Just ask for a timeout during a battle—so you can charge your EV tank, armored personnel carrier, truck, etc!
Here’s a great idea: Let’s let a completely, ungovernment-tainted, free market decide based on the people making their own purchase choices.....oh, wait....that’d be against their communist manifesto!!! Can’t have the great “unwashed masses” doing anything like that!!.
spit.
Because Politico wants Republicans to win????
LMAO!
Because Politico wants Republicans to win????
LMAO!
Hasn’t the big leap in EV technology con been promised every few weeks for the past decade?
Keep in mind liberals lie about everything. The conservative position is not to ban electric vehicles. It is to not subsidize them or force people to buy them against their will, enslaving others to support a private agenda. It is support for a free market, rather than the slave market of the liberals.
“Politico Explains Why Republicans Will ‘Regret Their Crusade Against Electric Cars’”
While, no doubt, the Republicans APPRECIATE the ‘advice’ from people who want them dead, but I’d recommended not holding this ‘advice’ in very high regard.
The best thing about electric cars is that only Democrats waste their money on them. I will be waving at the Democrats while zooming by the charging station where they waste their lives when they are not trafficking ballots and fentanyl over the border.
“The best thing about electric cars is that only Democrats waste their money on them. “
“Since Oct 6, 2004”
Now you’ve been here for ALMOST 20 YEARS, you should know better. The Dems have NO PLANS to give you the choice of new vehicle (2032), and when they’re ready, you also will not have a choice of ‘fuel’ (current thinking is 2040 to 2045 for the end of gasoline).
Of course if ALL conservatives come together on Trump, those dates will be later, if not gone...but that is a BIG IF, as we have one clown here in Nevada who simply won’t vote for Trump (and no, none of this is directed at you!).
Yep, if I ever get the urge to buy a soup-upped golf cart (aka EV), I’ll just lie down till it goes away.
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