Posted on 11/29/2021 9:49:01 AM PST by karpov
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stressed in a new interview that families who buy electric vehicles (EVs) "never have to worry about gas prices again."
While speaking on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart," Buttigieg noted that Democrats' proposed social spending package includes incentives to make it more affordable to buy an electric vehicle.
Buttigieg said that families would essentially have a "$12,500 discount" in transportation costs, adding that "families who own that vehicle will never have to worry about gas prices again."
"The people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV are often rural residents who have the most distances to drive, who burn the most gas, and underserved urban residents in areas where there are higher gas prices and lower income," Buttigieg said.
"They would gain the most by having that vehicle. These are the very residents who have not always been connected to electric vehicles that are viewed as kind of a luxury item," he added.
"If we can make the electric vehicle less expensive for everybody, more people can take advantage, and we'll be selling more American-made EVs, which means in time they'll become less expensive to make and to buy for everybody," Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg's comments come after the Department of Energy announced last week that it would release 50 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to control rising gas prices.
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Pete: “Hmmm, thermo and dynamics....not sure how that relates to energy”
Pete needs to work hard to be this dumb.
Should we eat cake also?
Or an app glitches. Tesla recently had an issue with their app and it locked hundreds of owners out of their Teslas until the glitch was fixed.
This queer bastard has the IQ of a dead ant...
You have a problem with open-pit mining in the middle of nowhere?
He thinks that they get charged with lightning bolts.
I’m not sure butt I think those kind of lubes are water based.🤔
Twice of nothing is still nothing.🙄
LOL.
5.56mm
Good luck with that.
Actually, he’s correct (at least on the top layer of analysis) - because there never have been any electric power plants that run off of gasoline. What they have to worry about (again, directly) is the price of coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power...oh, and its availability. We in Texas had a bit of experience with that latter factor last winter - the wind and solar crap didn’t work out well for us at all.
Further down the analysis chain, those with electric cars DO and WILL need to worry about the price of gasoline - because over 90% of the nation’s vehicles are powered by it or by diesel (which is closely linked in price to gasoline, for obvious reasons), and if the price gets too high, the economy will turn down quite a lot (take a look at 2008, when oil went to nearly $150/bbl., putting the economy into a tailspin that almost collapsed it with the irresponsibility of the mortgage lenders).
Pete Buttreamer doesn’t know schit from Shinola (but that’s not exactly news, is it?).
Wrong on all counts. The people who stand to benefit the most from owning an EV, are urban residents who are middle-class who own their own home, have a garage, and own a second car that is ICE.
Lower income people in urban areas rely on public transportation, ride-share like Uber, and generally rent in living quarters without garages or the means to plug in an EV.
Rural residents rely on ICE vehicles to travel long distances.
“The people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV are often rural residents who have the most distances to drive, who burn the most gas, and underserved urban residents in areas where there are higher gas prices and lower income,” Buttigieg said.
No one can be that stoopid.
Because electricity comes from energy fairies dancing in the woods.
How about bringing back cheap econobox cars with manual transmissions and manual windows. Like the Chevette. They weren’t stylish, but they got the job done without costing a fortune.
How about electric bills??????????????????
If you have all electric house with well water on an electric pump, and power goes off, you can’t get water for a drink or a bath. You can’t do dishes. You can’t flush toilets. No lights. No heat. And it DOES happen.
Just adding a million electric cars to the grid, no problem??????????????
That is just what we were thinking here!
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