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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says EV transportation will bring ‘cost savings’ to Americans
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg-says-electric-transporta ^ | 3/7/22 | Bradford Betz

Posted on 03/07/2022 3:52:10 PM PST by conservative98

Buttigieg said electric buses will create better, high-paying jobs and clean up congestion on freeways. He also said federal funds have been set aside to train the "diesel workers of today" to build and maintain the electric transit buses of the future.

"Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well," Buttigieg said.

He added that $5 billion have been invested into building a nationwide electric vehicle charging network "so that people from rural, to suburban, to urban communities, can all benefit, from the gas savings of driving an (electric vehicle)."

"Today is about how we can deliver cleaner air, a better climate, affordable transportation, and good jobs all at once," Buttigieg said.

Experts have previously told Fox Business that the White House’s grand ambition to expand charging stations for electric vehicles will not help the areas that need it most.

The Honorable Jason Isaac, director of Life:Powered at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told FOX Business last month the Biden administrator’s initiative was "more of the government trying to pick winners and losers."

"[W]hen they do that, as we’ve seen first-hand here in Texas with our electric grid, the American people end up the losers regardless of any subsidies or dollars that are being pushed."

Ryan Sitton, a former Texas energy regulator and founder and CEO of Pinnacle Reliability, previously told FOX Business that EV adoption would likely impose a roughly 30% increase in demand on the national grid, while Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Reuters it would double total global demand for electricity.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


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1 posted on 03/07/2022 3:52:10 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Buttplug to the rescue. Idiot.


2 posted on 03/07/2022 3:54:04 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: conservative98

Never let a crisis go to waste.


3 posted on 03/07/2022 3:54:35 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservative98

Rome is burning, and those bastards are fiddling.


4 posted on 03/07/2022 3:54:38 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: conservative98

So remind me where the other end of that battery operated car charge cord goes to again?


5 posted on 03/07/2022 3:54:53 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: conservative98

Would a Sodomite ever lie to you?


6 posted on 03/07/2022 3:55:05 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: conservative98

No it won’t. Time to go feed those poor twins, ain’t it.


7 posted on 03/07/2022 3:55:13 PM PST by dforest
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To: Huskrrrr

Buttplug to the rescue. Idiot.


That’s Mrs Buttplug ...


8 posted on 03/07/2022 3:55:14 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: conservative98

Is he including the price of the subsidies? Somebody has to pay for them.


9 posted on 03/07/2022 3:56:00 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: conservative98

Hey PETE! Unicorn power comes from FOSSIL FUEL!!!


10 posted on 03/07/2022 3:56:36 PM PST by G Larry (Tolerance will rise until intelligent people are banned from thinking to avoid offending imbeciles)
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To: conservative98

“Now that we have driven gas prices through the roof, don’t you want an electric car?”


11 posted on 03/07/2022 3:57:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

Who says cold is better than warm?


12 posted on 03/07/2022 3:58:18 PM PST by Kenny500c ( )
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To: conservative98

Yep Buttplug thinks EV is Magic


13 posted on 03/07/2022 3:58:35 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: conservative98

More lies and gaslighting from this pervert.


14 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:01 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: conservative98

Someone needs to ask Butt gig why the USPS declined EV mail trucks as part of their $6 billion plan to replace older postal delivery vehicles.


15 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:03 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: conservative98

This is utter madness!


16 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:06 PM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: All

just like ObamaCare will save the average American family $2500/yr on premiums on average. More lies.


17 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:11 PM PST by BipolarBob (Reading is one way for escape. Running for your life is another.)
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To: conservative98

Even if one accepts their premise, the problem is that there isn’t going to be any EVs to buy after current stock sells through due to the chip shortage. EVs use a lot of chips, which are in very short supply at current, and the industry can’t expand because we make none of the required neon gas for manufacture in the US... and most of it comes from Ukraine. Whoopsie.


18 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:14 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: conservative98

No it won’t. Just another one of their lies.


19 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:16 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: conservative98

I thought he was still on Peteternity leave.


20 posted on 03/07/2022 3:59:41 PM PST by windsorknot
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