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Amid high gas prices, Pete Buttigieg slammed for telling Americans to switch to electric cars
Fox News ^ | 7/16/22 | Gabriel Hays

Posted on 07/16/2022 4:11:01 PM PDT by Libloather

Critics heaped scorn upon a clip showing Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg excitedly talking about the prospect of "most Americans" switching to electric vehicles due to high gas prices.

During the short clip, which was taken from a Thursday interview between the government official and radio show BigBoyTV, Buttigieg discussed how the U.S. government is looking to cut the cost of electric vehicles so that more Americans will buy them and get out of paying so much for gas.

All smiles, Buttigieg claimed, "We’re for cutting the cost of electric vehicles, because when you have an electric vehicle then you’re also gonna be able to save on gas, but you’ve got to be able to afford it in the first place."

Buttigieg continued, "Now we’re actually starting to see on some models, the cost come to where, even if your car payment’s a little higher, your gas payment will be a little lower and you come out ahead."

The clip ended with him claiming, "But the prices still need to come down for most Americans to be able to get an EV."

For Americans angry at Biden’s energy policies – which critics claimed seem to have followed through on his campaign promise to get Americans off fossil fuels – Buttigieg’s statements added insult to injury.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: bigboytv; buttgig; buttigieg; buttihead; cars; electric; gas; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; homosexualagenda; indiana; petebuttigieg
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Why does 'brownout' always come to mind whenever this guy opens his pie hole?


1 posted on 07/16/2022 4:11:01 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Dunno - “Asshole” always comes to mine for me...


2 posted on 07/16/2022 4:13:44 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: bigbob

MIND?! 😲😅✌. As we all know, EVs cost nothing to power because, well, wind, solar.........


3 posted on 07/16/2022 4:17:14 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Libloather

In 2007 I worked with a guy who smoked Tareytons, never thought I’d see the brand again after working that job.


4 posted on 07/16/2022 4:17:22 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Libloather

Buttigig thinks all Americans are millionaire politicians. Sorry buttwipe. I don’t have the bucks to play the government’s EV game. I probably wouldn’t do it if I had the money. If I ever get elected to that Outhouse on The Hill in the Swamp and I make my first million, I’ll let you know how it turned out.


5 posted on 07/16/2022 4:17:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First, they stole our elections. Then, they stole our country.)
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To: Libloather

We’re for cutting the cost of electric vehicles

but never talks about what powers them and how the price of the mystery power will go way up


6 posted on 07/16/2022 4:17:47 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Libloather

“Let them eat cake!”
That’s what another pussy said...


7 posted on 07/16/2022 4:17:52 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: Libloather
Sure butt plug.....I can go an buy a EV for $45k or more....AND HAVE NO WHERE TO PLUG IT IN.

ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE DUMB AND DUMBER?

8 posted on 07/16/2022 4:19:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Had a tag line a couple times....maybe have another someday.)
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To: Libloather

Pete gets slammed.


9 posted on 07/16/2022 4:20:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: Libloather

Leftists just want you to convert to a computer controlled car that government can turn off remotely.


10 posted on 07/16/2022 4:20:30 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Libloather

This whole administration is just one huge clown show with jokes that keep writing themselves.


11 posted on 07/16/2022 4:20:45 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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Yea...the jokes on us...


12 posted on 07/16/2022 4:22:51 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: Libloather

The Local fools tried that here months ago when the price of gas started go up up up but they stopped it


13 posted on 07/16/2022 4:26:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Antihero101607

“In 2007 I worked with a guy who smoked Tareytons, never thought I’d see the brand again after working that job.”

Back in 1974 I dated a girl who smoked Tareytons; she was probably the only person I knew who did. Back in those days Marlboro and Winston were the preferred smokes. Except for the blacks: Only menthol smokes (Salem; Kool; Bel-Air).


14 posted on 07/16/2022 4:29:38 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Libloather
This is all about control. EVs are a tool to control people because you control where they can go on such limited miles. And if they make a right-wing post or have a gun in their home, their car can be shut off remotely.

Buttigieg isn't stupid, he's a technocrat and a disciple of Klaus Schwaub. He know exactly what he's doing.

15 posted on 07/16/2022 4:30:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: goodnesswins

“Yea...the jokes on us...”

Tragically so.


16 posted on 07/16/2022 4:30:35 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: butlerweave

Or the VAST amounts of copper needed to build them and the electrical infrastructure. Massive copper shortages are predicted and it takes TWELVE years to open a new copper mine. You simply cannot open up enough copper mines quickly enough to make the transition.

Same with rare earth elements. You you mine massive amounts of the earth’s crust to get the elements needed for “green” power systems and EVs.

Then there is the end of life problem for solar cells and windmills. There is no recycle solution for the spent solar panels in 20 or 30 years and they are highly toxic. The landscape will be covered with dead windmills in 50 years time, the blades all worn out and thrown into gigantic landfills.

This whole “green” fetish is utter insanity and driven by a global warming hoax. But there is a lot of money to be made and it appears unstoppable. At least until people can’t heat or cool their homes and can’t afford an EV.


17 posted on 07/16/2022 4:34:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“At least until people can’t heat or cool their homes and can’t afford an EV.”

When do you think that will be...th8s winyer or next?


18 posted on 07/16/2022 4:37:55 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: goodnesswins

This winter or next?


19 posted on 07/16/2022 4:38:23 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: bigbob

Brownhole is what Butty-boi is all about.


20 posted on 07/16/2022 4:41:18 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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