U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg displayed his disrespect this week for Americans not buying into the leftist push to sell electric vehicles.
The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana mocked those who refuse to buy EVs in discussing challenges facing the auto industry on Fox News, comparing it to those who clung to landlines in the early-2000s as cell phones emerged.
With cuts like those coming to Ford’s F-150 Lightning assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan, “America Reports” anchors Sandra Smith and John Roberts reported on the decline of Tesla and other EV sales before Buttigieg weighed in.
“Tesla is facing more competition as GM and Ford and Stellantis and other competitive players start to make sure they get a piece of the EV market. Let’s be clear that the automotive sector is moving toward EVs, and we can’t pretend otherwise,” he said.
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“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.
Buttigieg noted the importance of the U.S. leading against China and others in the technology race and producing electric cars on U.S. soil.
“We’ve got to make sure that those are made on American soil in places like northern Indiana, where I grew up, places like Michigan, where I live right now,” he said, as he took a shot at former President Trump’s administration for allowing China to “build an advantage in the EV market.”
“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,” he said.
Buttigieg downplayed the drop in EV sales, claiming that “consumers have wanted and purchased more EVs every single year than the year before and Tesla is facing more competition as GM, Ford and other competitors make sure they get a piece of the EV market.”
Daily Mail reported:
Even with sales down of EVs, Democrats continue to push for them and against gas-powered vehicles.
At least eight states are planning to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in the next decade – and others are considering joining them.
Only zero-emission vehicles can be sold in participating states beginning from the 2035 model year, according to the Advanced Clean Cars II legislation.
Critics have pointed out that battery charging stations rely on Fossil Fuels (Renewable Energy) to get power, the same materials that leftists decry in policies.
“A lot of electricity is still generated by fossil fuels,” Buttigieg contended, “but if you look at the science of it, you’ll see that it is still more efficient, just as a matter of physics, to convert those Fossil Fuels (Renewable Energy) into energy at a utility plant and then run it through transmission lines into a car than it is to burn it.”
He reiterated that the U.S. “can’t afford to fall behind China.”
“Remember, the number one way that we have supported EVs is by making them more affordable. That’s what those tax credits are about, and that’s one of the reasons why you’ve seen the prices get closer and closer to parity, so more Americans can save both by buying an EV and then the savings that tend to come with owning one.”
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