Posted on 04/03/2024 8:01:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that people who do not want electric cars were like those who wanted “landline phones forever.”
Buttigieg said, “Let’s be clear consumers have wanted and purchased more EVs every single year than the year before. Tesla is facing more competition as GM and Ford and Stellantis and other competitive players make sure they get a piece of the EV market. Let’s be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can’t pretend otherwise. Sometimes, when these debates happen, I feel like it’s the early 2000s and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.”
He added, “The reality is the automotive sector is moving towards EVs and the U.S. can fall behind to China or we can claim the lead. President Biden wants to make sure those EVs are made in America especially again as more Americans choose EVs every single year then the year before. We have to make sure those are made on American soil in places like northern Indiana where I grew up, places like Michigan where I live right now. During the Trump administration China was really able to build an advantage in the EV market and Obviously not because they’re big environmentalists over in China, just because that’s the economically smart play. We’ve been working to make sure that advantage comes back on American soil.”
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same here
We still have our landlines. I heard though that those would all be going away in a few years.
Me, too, for now. I am a confirmed Luddite.
Have a burner phone for car emergencies only, as many criminals do. “often associated with avoiding authorities.”
Who, me?”
Example of a Luddite.
I have never downloaded a song in any form on an Mp3 or computer or phone.
I have never watched one minute of TV from Netflix, Paramount+ or any other source.
Did I ever mention I loathe, despise and hate him?
If not, I do.
My neice DIED at the tender age of 39 because she was unable to find her cell phone and didn’t have a landline.
I am so sorry to hear that
I gave up my landline the day the value of Broadband exceeded the cost of the landline. Pretty simple economic decision. When it is time to railroad... you railroad. EVERYBODY is willing to pay significant cash for a smartphone. The smartphone because popular on it’s own because it gave people something they wanted. The smartphone required absolutely no government tax breaks. I didn’t have to be lectured to by elites on why I should buy a smartphone. I didn’t need to be forced by government fiat to buy a smartphone.
Electric cars are the ObamaCare of transportation. EV’s receive significant tax breaks, as they are the Liberal’s wet dream, right there after they mythical “light rail” they try to keep forcing on us. Idiot government overlords want to FORCE you to give up your gas-o-mobile. You don’t need to FORCE people to buy a product if it is good.
She had an asthma attack which could have been dealt with if she could only have dialed 911. My brother and his wife have NEVER been the same since.
My brother hadn’t heard from her, so he went to her apartment and found her blue on the floor, reaching for something, but we will never know what.
Butt-gig is an AH.
No matter how many cell phones, iPads, or Tablets you may have, always have a LandLine too.
Peter is garbage
Landlines are still in use by government.
I agree.
Landlines work and are more reliable and cheaper. 3 good things EV’s are not.
I’m 80....We’ll see who wins this race.
Exactly my point.
EVs are useless in winter conditions.
Even worse, I’ve heard that battery failure can trap you inside the car in some of them. In that case, you’d better have one of those tools the EMTs carry with them to break the glass and escape before the piece of junk catches fire.
I’ve been ‘wanting’ a flying car like forever, but...
We need a morphing image that slides from one to the other and back again.
My fiber is backed up by generators at the phone company.
My house has a UPS powering the fiber-to-wire converter.
I have a generator in the barn.
(And... two old, perfectly good CB radios collecting dust in the garage.)
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