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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Cell phones, like computers have made millions of people lazy, reliant on them, given the government the opportunity to track you, your calls and messages, and another way for criminals to access your personal information. I hate my cell phone, and only use it for calls and the occasional texts to confirm doctor appointments and refill mail-order scripts. The government already knows all that through my Medicare, and secondary insurance companies anyway, as well as my health record via my medical group’s database. Everything is there for the Feds to access. I got rid of my landline two years ago, because all I ever got were spam calls, even with Spectrum’s so-called call filter. I ended up turning the ringer off years before, because of that. My landline basically just gathered dust, and made my cable bill higher. So much for bundling.
Well, he is a mentally ill homosexual.
He majored in fudge packing.
Right... BTW, I am not giving up my land line
Take a LONG look at maps of the western USA & ask yourself-—HOW MANY OF THOSE people do not have CELL reception?
Exactly! Pillow biter says what?!
LIVE RURAL.
POWER GOES OUT-—
Can call in to POWER Company to report outage-—
They used to have party lines. Now they have shared cars.
I have had AT & T service since 18 years old. NOW 84.
My land line has all above ground wiring—but it turns out that when trees hit power lines they take out the electricity but the phone lines (below the electric lines) remain intact.
They can even remain intact when the entire pole goes down.
That is boring old infrastructure that is resilient and works.
Two years ago I was stuck in a snowstorm/traffic jam for 15 hours. I had 1/4 tank of gas and very little food. So what? It wasn’t really much more than an inconvenience. In an EV, I’d be dead
“Take a LONG look at maps of the western USA & ask yourself-—HOW MANY OF THOSE people do not have CELL reception?”
I’m not talking about cell “reception”.... especially under “normal” conditions. I’m talking about Marxist control of communications during disaster scenarios and their “nudge” factor in phasing out landline phones ... forcing folks to digital, which depends upon electricity through a modem. If power is out, your home phone won’t work and a lot of people are dependent upon that mode of communication only.
As for cell phone usage during emergencies... remember the “cell reception” during the Lahaina fires?
The Federal Communications Commission is tracking service and site outages in Lahaina, Kapalua, Napili-Honokowai, Kaanapali, Launiupoko and Olowalu, via data reported from network operators. According to the FCC’s data published as of early Sunday morning, there were 21 cell sites serving those areas of West Maui, and 20 of them were down.”
The government has the power, via a so-called “kill switch”, to shut off communications in any area they deem a “disaster area”.
“”Is it harder for the US government to kill cellphones or the internet? Communications experts say that killing phone service is probably easier, because there are only a few companies the government has to deal with to smother cellphone communications (the kill switch doesn’t generally govern land lines). Most mobile-phone service passes through physical connection points that are controlled by the big-name phone companies, including AT&T and Verizon. The US government would essentially have to compel these companies to turn off their cellphone towers. The feds could also use cellphone jammers to interrupt service in a localized area.””
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/internet-phone-kill-switch-explained/
He’s an idiot.
Buttplug, they didn’t BAN landlines before they had cellphone technology in place.
People weren’t FORCED by government - away from landlines to cellphones..
When we saw cellphones working, we VOLUNTARILY went there.
Big difference, dummy.
Perfect analogy. Just perfect.
My mother in law lives a few miles from the second largest city in her state, yet she’s in a dead zone. She has a cell phone that uses wifi calling. Her internet goes out frequently. Power goes out on occasion. She’s a bit elderly and not in the best of shape. But she refuses to get a land line.
OK Bootygag.... which government program forced cell phones on the public?
Petey Buttfudge is the guy sitting by himself in the back of a cafe’ eating soup with a fork. No, he probably uses a trendy chop stick. What a total moron.
Many mountainous regions-like in SW Colorado-have only land lines (still on poles). Mountains and river canyons are too high to get mobile service.
He doesn’t know what an electron is because Govenmementium has no electrons. Highly Secretive Government Research Facility Announces Discovery Of Heaviest Element Ever Known
Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:48:04 AM by MindBender26
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 – 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of morons promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons
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