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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg smirks to Americans to 'go green' or get used to soaring gas prices
American Thinker ^ | 04/04/2022 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/04/2022 9:48:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Joe Biden's transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has a smarmy, smiling message for all of us pudknocker Americans who don't quite buy into the 'going green' agenda of the Bidenites:

 

BUTTIGIEG: “Until we achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy,” get used to price hikes. pic.twitter.com/UMWBrVPe9R — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 3, 2022

 

Here's what he actually said:

...so, less dependent on foreign oil, and that protects us from shortages at fuel stations, but here's the thing  to remember, even if all of the oil we use in the U.S.A. were made in the U.S.A., the price of it is still subject to powers and dynamics outside of the U.S.A. Which means that until we achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy created here at home, American citizens will still be vulnerable to wild price hikes like we are seeing right now... 

..which is smug, certain, smiling, and ... and a very odd message to shill out to the American public as gas prices hit $5.85 a gallon on average in California and $4.26 nationally, and midterms beckon.

It's an astonishingly ignorant and charlatan-like statement.

Buttigieg argues that domestically produced green energy is somehow not subject to global price swings, while only oil and natural gas somehow are.

How do we unpack this?

To start, he apparently has never heard of all the gas and coal it takes to fire up all those electrical servicing stations, so 'bzzzt!, wrong, Pete!' Electrical charging stations and virtually all green energy 'alternatives' are highly dependent on oil and gas prices, as well as other global commodity prices such as lithium, cobalt, and other rare earth minerals well ensconced in the hands of players like China.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: gasprices; genderdysphoria; greenenergy; homosexualagenda; indiana; petebuttigieg
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1 posted on 04/04/2022 9:48:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Democrat Party versus the American people.

Again.


2 posted on 04/04/2022 9:50:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: SeekAndFind

beatings will continue until morale improves


3 posted on 04/04/2022 9:52:42 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: SeekAndFind

Buttgigger has brain damage from too much butt sex.


4 posted on 04/04/2022 9:53:05 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BenLurkin

The Democrat Party and Assistant Democrats vs the American people.


5 posted on 04/04/2022 9:53:50 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Let them eat cake!”—Buttigieg


6 posted on 04/04/2022 9:54:04 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Can’t wait until this whole administration is gone. Let’s hope it happens in 2024.


7 posted on 04/04/2022 9:54:32 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: SeekAndFind

Can someone in a press conference ask that smug SOB where the “clean energy” to power those electric vehicles is supposed to come from. If he says wind and solar, point to the rolling brownouts last year in TX that were caused because they relied on solar and wind to generate power. What happens when tens of thousands of people “plug in” to recharge their 1000lb batteries each night? This guy’s is a clown who is way over his head in a job he has no clue how to manage.


8 posted on 04/04/2022 9:55:20 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Uniparty has declared war on the American people....

While howling Russia, Russia, Russia.


9 posted on 04/04/2022 9:55:21 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suspect that part of the Ukrainian debacle has to do with the Democrats desire to raise fuel prices without taking the blame.


10 posted on 04/04/2022 9:55:28 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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The libs have proven going green equals punishment voters do not want.

The youth are unhappy with high prices and lack of affordable rentals. Biden escorting more illegals in who will require housing.

11 posted on 04/04/2022 9:55:35 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SeekAndFind

Green = communism.


12 posted on 04/04/2022 9:57:11 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: SeekAndFind
Produce your own energy if you can.

It's not a green energy vs fossil fuel argument. It's a personal independence vs depending on government policies argument.

I think fossil fuels are way more efficient than solar. But I put solar on my house because I control it, unlike natural gas and the power from the utility. It produced 56% of all the power I consumed since I installed it, even though my house is all-electric. The costs of the 44% of power I purchased from my utility are still subject to gubment bureaucrats (both federal and local). But at least the other half isn't.

13 posted on 04/04/2022 9:57:13 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

what about electricity prices? Will that stay the same if we all get electric cars?


14 posted on 04/04/2022 9:58:03 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: SeekAndFind

Failure as mayor of South Bend, but that didn’t matter. He filled the “homo” checkbox for the Dems.


15 posted on 04/04/2022 9:58:05 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: SeekAndFind

Indoctrinated Americans not only agree with him, they cheer his attitude.


16 posted on 04/04/2022 9:58:27 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: BenLurkin
> The Democrat Party versus the American people. Again. <

Yes, indeed. And Nancy Pelosi has some advice for anyone who complains.


17 posted on 04/04/2022 9:58:52 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, that’ll go over real good at election time, Pete. Cya’ in November.


18 posted on 04/04/2022 9:59:47 AM PDT by Bullish (This is the most bloated and most inept govt in history.)
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To: woweeitsme

By 2024 there won’t be anything left to save.


19 posted on 04/04/2022 10:00:13 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

A fool will always believe there is a utopia and a leprechaun.


20 posted on 04/04/2022 10:00:24 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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