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Just 7% of U.S. adults say they currently own an electric or hybrid vehicle, but Mayor Pete knows what is best for us. 61% of electricity is generated by fossil fuels.
1 posted on 11/29/2021 9:49:01 AM PST by karpov
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From the article):" Buttigieg noted that Democrats' proposed social spending package includes incentives to make it more affordable to buy an electric vehicle. "

And vehicles will be powered by blue unicorn farts and wind power.
How did that work out for Texas last winter ?
There has been no new nuclear power plants (clean energy) built in the last 30 years.
Buttigieg has been reading too many fantasy books lately
to know the difference between wishful thinking, fantasy, and reality.

70 posted on 11/29/2021 10:20:21 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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His mind is reprobated by his own wickedness, and so he can easily think the rest of us are idiots.


73 posted on 11/29/2021 10:22:12 AM PST by John Leland 1789
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Well, the guy doesn’t know the difference between an anus and a vagina. What should we expect?


79 posted on 11/29/2021 10:29:40 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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Did the talking head ask Booty Judge where the electricity comes from?

5.56mm


80 posted on 11/29/2021 10:30:30 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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Yeah... but that electric car charger is going to make your AC unit look like a ceiling fan on your electric bill.


81 posted on 11/29/2021 10:30:55 AM PST by Safrguns
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Well, there is this one day in the next 4 to five years from Brilliant Light Power Inc):


84 posted on 11/29/2021 10:39:42 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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Sure, Mayor Peter Eater.

To make sure the super-heavy electric trucks get charged, why not also mandate installation of portable solar panels on the bottom of the truck bed? [/climate cretinism]

86 posted on 11/29/2021 10:40:11 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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Yes you can save enough on gas to make an EV “free”, but you need enough cash flow to front the $30,000 minimum before any rebates & savings kick in and add up over years … and likewise add on ~$50,000 for home solar to avoid the rise in electricity grid cost when majority of supply is phased out because its coal-generated.


88 posted on 11/29/2021 10:41:09 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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This is the ultimate Vapor Ware scam.
AKA Electric Vehicles (EVs) for everyone ...


89 posted on 11/29/2021 10:41:21 AM PST by DaBeerfreak (As long as the politicians believe they're not the problem; we have a big problem.)
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His remarks reveal just how poorly leftists understand basic economics. Of course that is to be expected— in a police state command economy, the state doesn’t have to contend with obsolete things like market forces, supply and demand.


91 posted on 11/29/2021 10:42:26 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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Yeah, they will worry about electricity rather than gas.


92 posted on 11/29/2021 10:42:45 AM PST by kabar
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Buttigieg: Families who buy electric vehicles 'never have to worry about gas prices again'

also, let them eat cake

94 posted on 11/29/2021 10:44:47 AM PST by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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So, electricity is gonna be FREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Yippie!!!!!!

I hope that is reflected on my next utility bill.

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Leftists can’t be that stupid. Can they??????
[Rhetorical, as we all know the answer to that one.]


95 posted on 11/29/2021 10:44:47 AM PST by TomGuy (!)
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96 posted on 11/29/2021 10:48:00 AM PST by lewislynn (Fox news: the most irrelevant after the fact useless news source...Fake news? try NO news)
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No but, their electric bills are going to be insane as those prices are only going up. If in CA then they’re really screwed as the idiots in charge keep turning off the power grids. I have a friend in Southern CA who’s electricity was stopped right in the middle of cooking Thanksgiving dinner!


100 posted on 11/29/2021 10:49:57 AM PST by Lucky2 (#LGBFJB)
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Excerpt of testimony of Robert Bryce to a House Committee.

The history of EVs is a century of failure after failure. In 1911, the New York Times said the electric car “has long been recognized as the ideal solution.” In 1990, the California Air Resources Board mandated 10% of car sales be zero-emission vehicles by 2003. Today, 31 years later, only about 6% of the cars in California have an electric plug.

The average household income for EV buyers is about $140,000. That’s roughly two times the U.S. average. And yet, federal EV tax credits force low- and middle-income taxpayers to subsidize the higher income EV owners.

Lower-income Americans are facing huge electric rate increases for grid upgrades to accommodate EVs even though they will probably never own one.

This month, the California Energy Commission estimated the state will need 1.3 million new public EV chargers by 2030. The likely cost to ratepayers: about $13 billion.

Powerful lobby groups want Congress to spend billions on electrification schemes that will impose regressive taxes on low-income Americans, reduce our resilience, and increase reliance on China; a dubious trifecta.

Let’s amplify that last point: reliance on electric vehicles will put our future squarely in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.

The manufacture of EVs is not sustainable. Mining for lithium and cobalt, and the disposal of batteries is horribly harmful to the environment. For owners, replacement of batteries every few years will cost $5 - $10 thousand.

EVs are coal powered; let’s not kid ourselves. Most electric grids are powered by coal, some by natural gas, and fewer by nuclear.

Next time somebody tries to tell you these things are green...


102 posted on 11/29/2021 10:53:13 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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Some plant has to produce electricity. Probably from Coal to power EV’s.


105 posted on 11/29/2021 10:55:33 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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“61% of electricity is generated by fossil fuels.”

But they will be terribly shocked to see the cost of electricity going up. And then they will blame greed for electricity going up. Because if only the ‘right people’ were creating electricity all would be well.


106 posted on 11/29/2021 10:56:35 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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I couldn’t stomach to read past the headline. In the story, did Mayor Pete say the electric vehicles would run on fairy dust, or candy and nuts?


108 posted on 11/29/2021 10:57:09 AM PST by Savage Rider
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“61% of electricity is generated by fossil fuels.”

But they will be terribly shocked to see the cost of electricity going up. And then they will blame greed for electricity going up. Because if only the ‘right people’ were creating electricity all would be well.


109 posted on 11/29/2021 10:57:31 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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