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Atlantic Writer Blames Slow Electric-Vehicle Sales on Donald Trump
Newsbusters ^ | March 9, 2024 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/10/2024 8:53:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Andrew Moseman goes into some detail in Friday's Atlantic magazine as to why electric vehicle sales have slowed down recently to the extent that he is now calling 2024 a lost year for EVs as reflected in the title, "America’s Lost Year for Electric Cars."

Despite Moseman providing us with a myriad of obvious reasons why consumers appear to be rejecting EVs, he falls back on the easy all-purpose explanation for liberals to blame for whatever the woes: Trump's fault!

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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I put gas in my car a couple of days ago. Like 2 minutes versus the better part of an hour charging an EV. I got better things to do with my life.
1 posted on 03/10/2024 8:53:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Andrew Mooseman...?

Whatever.


2 posted on 03/10/2024 8:56:02 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Plus my gas doesn’t randomly catch on fire


3 posted on 03/10/2024 8:57:11 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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Or…. Folks are wise enough to know , a technology in its infancy is not worth investing in. If the media actually reported the pitfalls of fully EVs at this juncture , theyd sell even less.


4 posted on 03/10/2024 8:57:46 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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Stop the CAGW scam NOW1!


5 posted on 03/10/2024 8:58:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Trump is like Putin - his magic powers extend from rigging elections, to causing climate change, and everything in-between


6 posted on 03/10/2024 9:00:41 AM PDT by PGR88
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Atlantic Writer "Credits" Slow Electric-Vehicle Sales on Donald Trump
Sounds to me like Trump is working with and for the American people. Americans don't want those burdensome vehicles.
7 posted on 03/10/2024 9:03:13 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Jim W N

Self hating Hebrew.


8 posted on 03/10/2024 9:04:05 AM PDT by nwrep
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At some point the editors need to say no to insane articles such as this. Electric vehicle sales disasters are not the fault of any politician, though some can be blamed for trying to force them on the public.


9 posted on 03/10/2024 9:04:15 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Remember when everything was "Bush's fault?"

-PJ

10 posted on 03/10/2024 9:04:33 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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I had to clean the litter box last night. Trump’s fault.


11 posted on 03/10/2024 9:04:41 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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“At some point the editors need to say no to insane articles such as this”

Really? You don’t think they have a bottomless pit full of such articles?


12 posted on 03/10/2024 9:06:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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Is there anything Donald can’t do?!?

He makes electric cars more polluting, more expensive, less reliable, less useful, and more dangerous than gasoline cars, thereby causing consumers to pick different vehicles!

Amazing!


13 posted on 03/10/2024 9:06:12 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Andrew Moseman like other writers at the Atlantic have one viewpoint , one path, and one filter.

In short, they’re narrow minded anti-intellectual jerks.

Who cares what they think.


14 posted on 03/10/2024 9:07:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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“Atlantic Writer Blames Slow Electric-Vehicle Sales on Donald Trump”

It looks like their Boogyman, Putin, gets a pass here. (in fact, I could have helped the Leftists pin it Putin by blaming Putin’s exports of oil for the relatively low oil prices, thereby making EVs less of a deal ‘fuel’-wise)

Anyway, what choice do they have - it’s either Putin or Trump for literally EVERYTHING that goes wrong with their schemes (come to think of it, we hear the same thing here, quite a bit, LOL).

So, in this case it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the inconvenience, range-anxiety, cost of tire replacement, cold weather performance, hot weather performance, doors not fitting together, front-end cost, depreciation, battery replacement cost, or Tesla being run by a person now deemed to be a ‘Fascist’, that being Musk.

Right.


15 posted on 03/10/2024 9:08:08 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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EVs - the new Edsels


16 posted on 03/10/2024 9:09:05 AM PDT by StrictConstructionist
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a technology in its infancy is not worth investing in

EVs have been around longer than ICE vehicles. They never caught on and the superiority of ICE vehicles is why they succeeded in taking over the market. That superiority is still very apparent and in fact, still improving. EVs are a tool for the greenies and nothing else. If EVs were worth having, most people would have migrated their preference to them. Not gonna happen any time soon and perhaps never.
17 posted on 03/10/2024 9:09:11 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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Does anyone know how many electric vehicles it takes to bring the power grid to its knees?


18 posted on 03/10/2024 9:10:19 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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In the UK greenies are blaming actor Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) for the drop in EV sales. Here’s Atkinson telling the plain truth. It’s what got him in trouble.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rowan-atkinson-on-electric-cars-b2352925.html

This reminds me of the old USSR under Stalin. Insanely stupid programs failed not because of poor planning. They failed because of “wreckers”. These poor souls were nothing more than unfortunate scapegoats.

Stalin shot his wreckers. We just try to cancel them. No executions (so far, anyway).


19 posted on 03/10/2024 9:10:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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“he is now calling 2024 a lost year for EVs”

he better hope that 2024 isn’t the LAST year for EVs ...


20 posted on 03/10/2024 9:12:44 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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