Posted on 02/13/2022 7:48:47 AM PST by rktman
It’s a certainty that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake,” when she heard about France’s peasants starving for lack of bread. However, it’s the absolute truth that, even as 82% of Americans are paying above sticker price for cars, while the last year has seen them struggle with rising fuel prices, Biden chose to announce that he’s going to buy a whole new fleet of cars for federal workers—600,000 cars, to be precise—all of them electric.
The past year has been a tough one for Americans. Inflation has rocketed, with three primary causes: the government’s non-stop money-printing presses; rising fuel prices that boost the price of everything and hugely increase the cost of driving; and the supply chain shortages, including chips and other car parts from China. It’s no surprise, then, that Edmunds, the market research firm, says that 82% of Americans who bought a car from a dealership in the past 12 months paid above the sticker price. This is 276 times more than in 2020:
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will be paying for them out of his “ 10% for the big guy cut” Ha Ha
Waiting for a brave journalist to ask him that...
Tone deaf, as in cranking the Yoko Ono tunes.
Brain-deaf
Maybe this will put some formerly gov’t owned petrol-fueled vehicles on the market.
Is the current demand for cars and trucks, fueled by a public that wants to avoid the mandated electric vehicles coming down the road ??
600,000 electric cars for the interagency motor pool? That’s exactly one car for every 2 federal government workers. I guess they don’t qualify for using the HOV lanes?
Is the current demand for cars and trucks, fueled by a public that wants to avoid the mandated electric vehicles coming down the road ??
I have a sister in law that used to work for the Education department. They bought a slew of electrics a few years back, maybe ten or so. They went unused just sitting in parking lots because nobody would use them. They preferred the luxury, convenience, and comfort from the internal combustion engine.
Electric vehicles are unsustainable, period. To continue down the path is collective insanity and destructive. We cannot ‘supply’ enough electricity to support an infrastructure of fully electric, that mimics our current road usages. A refueling system like the hundreds of thousands of gas stations around the nation that serve the current needs of the gas driven vehicles on the road, would be so expensive and inefficient given the current EV technology. Not to mention the environmental impacts that will be caused by EV minerals mining and waste. It’s a fools paradise.
If you poll people...only those who live in high-urban areas (SF, NYC, Miami, etc) might consider it (maybe in the 40-percent range). Rural areas and lesser-urban area....probably fewer than 10-percent. The US car producers know the score and unless they mandate this....nothing is going to happen.
Now, if you go into Europe...it’s mandated (2030 is the last year you can buy/register a new gas/diesel car). Most European car companies intend to halt gas/diesel car production already in the 2027/2028 timeframe. If they don’t get the US mandate going....it’s going to be massive losses for the European car companies getting their vehicles sold in the US.
That’s going to cost upwards of $30 billion.
EV’s can be practical for local urban driving. We went to the Studebaker Museum in South Bend last summer. Before WW1 Studebaker offered a line of light and medium duty electric trucks, but they didn’t sell too many.
“They preferred the luxury, convenience, and comfort from the internal combustion engine.”
Luxury, convenience and comfort not related to EV vs ICE.
Please cite if you believe otherwise.
We had electric cars back in the very early 1900s, and they were a fad back then, and are a fad now. The whole concept is going nowhere, except spending trillions of Taxpayer monies to subsidize crap companies, in the Solyndra model of Obummer&Co.
In the olden days of horses, the politicians tried to kill off the new fangled automobile by having a person walk ahead of the auto holding a red flag.
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FREE Market forces were on the side of the automobile.
Today the government is mandating Electric cars. Should not we allow the free market forces to show what we will use and not mandates?
Ok…enough valid analysis. Democrats will not comprehend it. 🙄
Are the auto dealers jacking up prices violating price gouging laws ?
Point being however that user satisfaction drives choices. Federal government employees chose not to use them after experiencing them. And yes that choice is a luxury.
He’s going to buy a whole new fleet of cars.
It’s what democrats call how to buy a vote con wait until they have to replace the batteries $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
your tax dollars blown
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