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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With hours long charging times and limited range EVs are the epitome of landline vehicles.
Buttplug has had too many invasions into his…..well you know
Bootibuddy’s sex life appears to be affecting his brain cells. Adoring electric cars is like a male breastfeeding babies.
I would like to have a land line again but all the spam, scam, Indian, and political calls make it another PIA I dont want.
Is it the new rule within this administration that before one of PINO Drooling Spoon’s hacks tell a lie, that they must first say “Let me be clear...”?
Beware that what you think of as a land line might not be one ...
If your "land line" is carried through cable or fiber, it's not a land line and it goes down when the power goes down.
Getting ridiculed by a sodomite…
The thing is , they didnt force landlines on folks well before the technology and infrastructure were advanced enough to make it worthwhile.
Petey B has accepted the lower quality cell transmission as acceptable- my landline is far superior and i don’t have to worry about battery issues. it is my 2nd line. his standards are substandard - a guy bred in mediocrity and not aiming for top performance. and trumpeting same. bless his li’l heart.
Some of the first automobiles were electric. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." The early horseless carriages were pathetic by today's standard, both in range and in performance -- the electric car falling far short. The ICE version was an improvement, and further refinements continues to increase the utility of ICE-powered vehicles. (The racing circuit helped propel these advances.)
I will grant you that battery-powered cars have come a long way from the early electrics. But. The advances center around finding a lighter, safer energy storage device, which has been slow to come.
Let's give it up for the huge thumb of government on the scales in favor of battery-powered cars.
Remember the old joke? "I drove coast to coast in an electric care. It cost $5 for the electricity, and $3995 for the extension cord."
It’s clear Buttplug doesn’t own or use an EV or maybe he’s lying and full of crap
To the contrary, I understand that he was instrumental in getting bicycle paths built in South Bend, Indiana when he was mayor.
Some of the old technology still works well, and time has proven its reliability. The only reasons to replace old technology is 1) the new technology does the same job for LESS money; or 2) the new technology remains compatible with the older technology, but delivers faster and more satisfying service.
Battery-powered EVs are neither. Expensive to build, and not nearly as reliable, with uncertain supply chains in terms of upkeep and operating costs.
An EV is like an iPhone that takes ten hours to recharge and can only be plugged in outside your home at a dozen locations within 250 miles.
The old Apples and Oranges tactic.
And WHY is Ford backing away from EVs?
Replace every gas powered vehicle with an EV and we crash the US electrical grid.
Does anybody challenge this poofer?
Do you close all the power generation before or after everyone has an EV?
Why should I buy cars that aren’t useable for much my type of driving, more expensive to own and insure and pollute more than my ICE vehicles?
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