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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Petey Buttfudge is the guy sitting by himself in the back of a cafe’ eating soup with a fork.
No kidding.
“The reality is the automotive sector is moving towards EVs”
The reality is that is only happening because of the gigantic government cudgel and the HUGE tax incentives. It is only happening because Gangster Government has decreed it. It is most assuredly NOT free market forces at work.
I have a landline...I love it. I sit on the couch...nice and comfy...and talk with my friends. Landlines can be forever!!
Land lines still work if the power is out. They save lives when the power is out.
Corrupt idiot.
Land lines are good when the cell tower is out of service. I have both.
Oh I love this comparison !
Let’s go !
Electric vehicles ARE LIKE landline phones.
They have to be tethered to a cord, they are clunky and impractical, they have limited functionality.
Cmon Pete boy, throw us another softball !!
Did Xi give Buttygig permission to excoriate China? Will that affect the next 10% to the Big Guy payoff?
Out of touch elitist. Let the market decide without a mandate from the government.
EV’s will require more power land lines if the Dims have their way of forcing EV’s onto people. Sounds like a step back to me.
I believe one man can and will change that...Elon Musk...And I do believe...he will go back to Gas cars...under the Tesla brand...and it will work...and he will tell the government to stick it.
There’s not a single piece of evidence that Buttigieg has any background whatsoever in transportation, business, science or engineering.
It’s doubtful he can even tell you what an electron is.
He has no idea what he’s talking about.
His background here (he majored in history and literature):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg
my land line phone was pretty affordable and didn’t need charging...
yeah, i miss the landlines.
Idiot. The government has never ordered me to use a cell phone.
I do not think Musk will ever make a gas powered car.
possibly he will make an electric car with a small range extender, but if he does it will be some kind of non-piston engine.
that said I think the odds are extremely low.
I love landlines, too. The house we bought in July isn’t even wired for landline. Pfffft!!!
EV charging stations should be required to rely on windmills and solar panels.
True that.
But Plug is an idiot. And a fraud and a liar.
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