Posted on 07/20/2022 11:04:14 AM PDT by rktman
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) explained to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday how President Biden’s “impractical electric car policies” will hurt middle America.
Massie began by explaining that he has driven an electric vehicle for 10 years and even has solar panels on his home, but that the administration’s push for a rapid transformation of our energy sector is unrealistic given the U.S.’s current infrastructure.
Massie, an MIT graduate, ran through some numbers, quizzing the Transportation Secretary about how much electricity charging an electric vehicle would use compared to other household items.
“The average household uses 1,870 kWh/year for air conditioning,” Massie said.
“Numbers are important,” the Republican lawmaker continued. “It would take four times as much electricity to charge the average household's cars as the average household uses on air conditioning. Do you think that could be -- so, if we reach the goal by 2030 that Biden has of -- of 50 percent adoption instead of 100 percent adoption, that means the average household would use twice as much electricity charging one of their cars as they would use for all of the air conditioning that they use for the entire year.”
Massie pressed Buttigieg to answer how that would impact the grid.
The former South Bend mayor acknowledged the current grid would not be able to handle it but said work is being done to “map out some of the needs.”
“You aptly used the word ‘need.’ You could say ‘want’ as well,” Massie said. “There’s needs and wants to make this fantasy work by 2030, but the reality is the capability is not going to be there.”
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Introduce Legislation mandating all Federal Employee’s exclusively use Electric Vehicles or Mass Public Transit for ALL Travel, including to and from their respective work place.
Yep, that’s the issue.
Insufficient energy production on the grid.
Not sure battery tech is completely there either due to expected lithium shortages. Non-lithium battery tech is progressing but need to see it in practice.
Ping
Buttplug can be lectured all day until GOP lawmakers or any other persons are blue in the face, but the result is the same: He.does.NOT.CARE. Nor does The Regime.
You will not be able to get the permits necessary to expand the grid, the grid financing and the actual building and testing in 7.5 year.
Good idea.
The South End Mare doesn’t have common scents.
I don’t think the poof knows anything about electricity. He just knows that leftists are supposed to hate the gasoline engine.
Why bother arguing with someone who is quite open — one might even say proud — about being mentally ill?
Buttigieg has that ‘dear in the headlights’ look. I use the word ‘dear’ out of respect for his lifestyle.
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Mama?
Where do batteries come from?
Why would any serious man even engage this lactating sodomite about anything besides gardening or infant care? Massie gives legitimacy to the ridiculous premise that this small town, failed mayor is worthy of anything but a good laugh.
The rest of us ARE listening to strong conservative leaders like Massie. Not as important for buttgigig to get it.
Try telling Buttigieg something he doesn’t know. Hurting Americans and dismantling the American nation are activities that this odd, evil man knows, understands and enjoys immensely.
EV’s have had a nice run, it’s probably time to phase them out.
Plus all of the copper required...which from mining to smelting is a very dirty (cyanide and sulfuric acid), fossil-fuel requiring industry. Which is why a lot of copper towns are superfund sites.
You stupid clod: what we need is energy at the socket and in the gas tank...now. What we don't need is some worthless bureaucrat saying he's "mapping" it out. Really? This would be the same bozo who maps all transportation industries and saw gridlock in the supply chain from the coastal docks to the interstate highways and decided that was a good time to take his paternity leave, right? What a stupid twit.
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