Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Dingell on EVs: Companies Didn’t Like Catalytic Converters, Seat Belts
Breitbart ^ | 11/02/2024 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 11/02/2024 12:46:49 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Friday’s “Special Report,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) responded to arguments that electric vehicle adoption should be determined by consumer demand by saying “Okay, but can I also remind you that the companies didn’t like catalytic converters? They didn’t like seat belts.” And that while companies should see what consumers want, “we also need to make sure that we are ready for the vehicles of the future and global climate change is real.”

Dingell said, [relevant exchange begins around 4:45] “We are not banning the production of internal combustion engines. People can drive them. The global marketplace wants electric vehicles as well. They are part of a production mix, part of a product mix. I’m going to keep this country, this state competitive. So, they’re part of the vehicle mix.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catalyticconverters; companies; debbiedingell; debbiedumbshatz; dingell; ecars; evs; frozenbatteries; jennifergranholm; seatbelts; thebimboofenergy
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-31 next last
WTH is this Empty-Headed dummy talking about
1 posted on 11/02/2024 12:46:49 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah that’s right Debbie Dingbat. Companies didn’t like catalytic converters or seatbelts. But they’re going to just LOVE flaming cars, parking structures and houses. Ya dolt!


2 posted on 11/02/2024 12:49:36 PM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Dingell is saying that Big Brother knows better. Big Brother always knows better.

So if Big Brother says drive an EV and eat insects, you’d better drive an EV and eat insects.


3 posted on 11/02/2024 12:49:55 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
We are not banning the production of internal combustion engines.

Yeah right. Might as well have said "If you like your car you can keep it."

4 posted on 11/02/2024 12:51:35 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Berry, do you have one in your garage?


5 posted on 11/02/2024 12:53:33 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I won’t take scientific advice from people who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman.


6 posted on 11/02/2024 12:57:00 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Dumbass. Comparing EVs to catatlytic converters and seat belts is like comparing dingleberry to a sailcat.


7 posted on 11/02/2024 1:01:36 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I still don’t like seatbelts or catalytic converters.


8 posted on 11/02/2024 1:02:56 PM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

“Debbiew Dingell” describes her name, and also her technical IQ. Ms Dingell-berry could be out argued by any techno who could pass “Science for Poets” class.


9 posted on 11/02/2024 1:04:46 PM PDT by Da Coyote
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

All Dingels are this stupid.


10 posted on 11/02/2024 1:07:18 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

“... and global climate change is real.” Dingell[berry] said


The stupid: It burns.


11 posted on 11/02/2024 1:09:35 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course there are plenty of imbeciles in Congress but she in particular shows the peril of have a spouse inherit a seat when her spouse kicks off. Having a dead husband was her primary qualification for the gig


12 posted on 11/02/2024 1:11:10 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

CAGW is not really real.


13 posted on 11/02/2024 1:23:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Not everyone wanted facemasks and vaccines either.


14 posted on 11/02/2024 1:25:22 PM PDT by Religion and Politics (Can’t we all just get along? :))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

We don’t like you Debbie does Dingell.At least converters and seat belts work, are based on actual science and not junk global warming “science”, weren’t cost prohibitive, didn’t put thousands out of work, and on and on. While you are at it, shove your CAFE standards.


15 posted on 11/02/2024 1:33:14 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Not sure if this is a good example here.

Carl Sagan said about all outlandish scientific ideas being accepted:

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

― Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science


16 posted on 11/02/2024 1:59:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: frank ballenger

80% of all scientific papers are wrong.


17 posted on 11/02/2024 2:08:41 PM PDT by jdege
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Neither of which put car prices out of reach for most people, were based on immature battery technology, reduced the range and increased time of distance traveled, were problematic in summer heat and winter cold, had a tendency to spontaneously ignite the car, or depended on an already stretched coal and natural gas fueled energy supply. If it wasn’t already his birth name Dingle would be a top choice.


18 posted on 11/02/2024 2:08:44 PM PDT by katana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Dingell thinks the government invented seatbelts.

They were first introduced commercially by Nash in 1949 and, more significantly, by Ford in 1956. That’s 10 years before the guvmnt’ required them in new cars.


19 posted on 11/02/2024 2:12:45 PM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

What a ditz.


20 posted on 11/02/2024 2:15:25 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-31 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson