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.
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Buttplug to the rescue. Idiot.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Rome is burning, and those bastards are fiddling.
So remind me where the other end of that battery operated car charge cord goes to again?
Would a Sodomite ever lie to you?
No it won’t. Time to go feed those poor twins, ain’t it.
Buttplug to the rescue. Idiot.
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That’s Mrs Buttplug ...
Is he including the price of the subsidies? Somebody has to pay for them.
Hey PETE! Unicorn power comes from FOSSIL FUEL!!!
“Now that we have driven gas prices through the roof, don’t you want an electric car?”
Who says cold is better than warm?
Yep Buttplug thinks EV is Magic
More lies and gaslighting from this pervert.
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.
This is utter madness!
just like ObamaCare will save the average American family $2500/yr on premiums on average. More lies.
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.
No it won’t. Just another one of their lies.
I thought he was still on Peteternity leave.
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