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Buttigieg: Electric Vehicles Could Be 'Very Useful' During a Power Outage
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 5, 2022 | 5:47am EDT | Susan Jones

Posted on 10/05/2022 7:23:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ready with his answer when Fox News’s Neil Cavuto asked him about the widespread, hurricane-related power outages in southwest Florida.

“Do you think this reminds folks that we’re not ready, or the EVs are not ready for prime time?” Cavuto asked Buttigieg.

“Well, I actually think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools,” Buttigieg said: “I was just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. And one of the things that was very impressive about some of the vehicles that we saw, including the — for example, the pickup trucks that are on the market, entering onto the market right now, is that their power can actually flow both ways. So, in an extreme event, from a neighborhood resiliency perspective, they can actually work basically like a generator, except that you don’t have to have diesel ready for them. What they’re doing is, they’re using the battery capacity to power a home and, in that sense, could be very useful in a scenario like this.”

(Left unasked and unanswered was the question, how do you recharge your EV once the car battery runs down powering the house? Gas cans are portable; electric charging stations are not.)

Buttigieg said no one envisions an “overnight” transition to electric vehicles. …

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: bootedgeedge; buttgag; buttgiggity; buttigieg; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; florida; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; homosexualagenda; indiana; jennifergranholm; neilcavuto; petebuttigieg; rondesantis
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To: Olog-hai

During the Texas Grid Failure people were using F-150 Hybrids to heat/power their homes.


21 posted on 10/05/2022 7:30:50 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Olog-hai

Can we use their batteries to keep our fridge running?


22 posted on 10/05/2022 7:31:14 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: Olog-hai

Buttigieg, like everyone else in this administration is a simple minded fool.


23 posted on 10/05/2022 7:31:52 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ya....for sitting on the side of the road!


24 posted on 10/05/2022 7:32:05 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: fwdude

Bicycles.

Horses.


25 posted on 10/05/2022 7:34:22 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Olog-hai
So could a diesel 3/4 ton pickup, and it will run a lot longer, and haul more stuff..... so what is the advantage of an electric?

ESPECIALLY if the grid is down and it is not possible to recharge.

26 posted on 10/05/2022 7:34:27 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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Brilliant, buttjuice. You can also save trees by using some of your body parts as toilet paper.


27 posted on 10/05/2022 7:34:39 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Olog-hai
I'm all for EV’s, but this guys education is a F-150 commercial charging a home. What an idiot.
28 posted on 10/05/2022 7:34:47 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Olog-hai

Morons are in charge.


29 posted on 10/05/2022 7:35:52 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: MotorCityBuck

I’d be “for” (or rather, not against) electric vehicles if they weren’t being forced on us.


30 posted on 10/05/2022 7:35:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s like they are forced to keep pushing all of these Green new Deal ideas no matter how stupid, how useless, how unrealistic any of them are. I guess they don’t care how foolish they appear.


31 posted on 10/05/2022 7:36:08 AM PDT by happilymarriedmom
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To: DarthVader

EMP would render every vehicle, even conventional useless.


32 posted on 10/05/2022 7:36:25 AM PDT by rey
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To: TreasonObserver

“What the hell? This man graduated 5th grade?”

Even with today’s education standards, I think a 5th grader would be smarter than this clown.


33 posted on 10/05/2022 7:36:28 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: fwdude

It will but gas powered vehicles are easier to fix in this type of attack. The EV electric motor components will fuse.


34 posted on 10/05/2022 7:37:31 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Olog-hai

Would not want to depend on an EV to evacuate. Who in their right mind would drive an EV with 20,000 miles on it through six inches of water? A few cracks in the battery casing and the occupants will become crispy critters.


35 posted on 10/05/2022 7:38:01 AM PDT by allendale
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To: rey

See comment #34.


36 posted on 10/05/2022 7:38:11 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: farmguy
You could live in one down by the river...

While rolling doobies.

37 posted on 10/05/2022 7:38:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Buttplugs likes that the vehicles go both ways.


38 posted on 10/05/2022 7:38:32 AM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: Olog-hai

He is delusional, probably still suffering from postpartum depression


39 posted on 10/05/2022 7:38:32 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Olog-hai

Hey Buttplug, you eff’n engineering genius, ever hear of single point of failure?


40 posted on 10/05/2022 7:38:58 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist in )
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