Posted on 07/19/2022 12:57:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
Paying near record-high prices for gas may be hitting your wallet hard, but according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, that will just make an electric vehicle all the more worth it.
During a House hearing on Tuesday, Buttigieg said, “The more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.”
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According to AAA, the national average price for a gallon of gas is $4.49, down from $4.98 a month ago.
However, it is up from $3.17 a year ago.
Buttigieg’s argument is just not one that will resonate with the average American, as administration officials talk about the need to “accelerate” a transition to green energy.
According to Kelly Blue Book, the average price of an electric vehicle (EV) is roughly $60,000. As CNBC notes, that is “roughly $10,000 higher than the overall industry average of $46,329 that includes gas and EVs.
“In terms of pricing, an EV is equivalent to an entry-level luxury car,” it added.
On top of paying for the car, EV owners can spend around $2,000 to install “Level 2” chargers that can charge their vehicle in less than eight hours.
Otherwise, “Level 1” charges can take up to 40 hours to charge the vehicle.
And while Buttigieg and the administration like to tout what they say are the savings of owning an EV, a report from the Department of Energy found that when you factor in fuel, maintenance, repairs, financing, and federal tax breaks, a small electric SUV would cost an owner $0.4508 per mile, meanwhile, a gas-powered vehicle around the same size would cost an owner $0.4727 per mile.
That equates to saving about $0.0219 per mile with an EV.
If you multiply the cost per mile by the average life span of a car — 200,000 miles — an EV would cost the owner $90,160 over its life while a gas-powered vehicle would cost $94,540.
That equates to roughly $4,000 in savings over the years.
Perhaps that would be worth it to some Americans, though that’s not exactly some massive saving.
But others will probably look at the trade-offs — save around $4,000 over years but own a car that takes a long time to charge, can’t tow boats or trailers very far, and you have limited charging infrastructure — and decide that it’s not worth it to make the leap to electric.
Yep.... those battery replacements will rip you a new one much to Butt-Boys delight.
Brilliant Buttplug. Make it clear to even the slowest among us that you Democrats engineered their pain at the pump deliberately to push your Gaia worship.
I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.
Maybe that’s what causes Global Warming, BURNING MASSIVE STUPIDITY!...........
Not by any honest process. Peter Butt wrote his political swan song when he stayed home to chest feed while the supply chain shortages raged on last summer.
Texas warns people not to charge during peak hours. California cuts off electricity at other times.
If this idiot didn’t take it up the azz from other men at the perfect cultural moment, he would have never been anything more than the mayor of a liberal college town.
Buttigieg: ‘The More Pain’ you feel in your rear, might be an early sign of monkeypox.
there’s no reasoning with the people that believe a man’s anus can be used as a vagina...
Or a crane behind “Chop Chop Square”.
poor people will get a 35,000 ev car on taxpayers dime......
I’ve been suspecting that will be happen once the Chinese flood the market with their new EVs, slightly larger than golf carts but cheap. Sure, they’ll never pass the current DOT regs for highway vehicles, but fixing that little problem just takes a pen. Joe will probably give them indemnity from accident lawsuits, too.
How about this - If you’re in a favored ‘marginalized’ group, you can either take a $20,000 student loan write off, or get a sweet deal on a new pony from Wang Chung Motors.
BOTH!!! And a DUMBASS ALSO!
“Never any question about the price of electricity.”
Modern cars are like printers. You can have a printer that prints, say, 10 pages a minute for x dollars, but for 2x it can print twice as much. It’s the same printer but with different software. Same with today’s cars. During the last big storm Elon increased the range on the cheaper Tesla’s by some kind of remote software patch. After the storm, they went back to their regular range. BMW is charging 18/month for heated seats...apparently sold on a yearly basis so, I gather nothing off for the summer months.
Frankly, I don’t want anyone to access my car by remote. Nor, my refrigerator or toaster or anything else. (I’m driving a ‘52 Pontiac straight eight.)
But if you smear some KY on the nozzle, it isn’t as painful?
I truly wish this bonehead would f-f-f-fade away.
BINGO!!!!!
The more pain Peter feels at the ass pump, the higher the benefit of ED
Fidiots like this POS and many other useless people were chosen for hi positions by Jobama’s people to keep the attention off of themselves when their orchestrated collapse of the country gets hot. It’s hot now but wait until next year when there is no food available!
I won’t be lectured by a faggot moron
Washington needs to be flushed.
What a fool
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