During an interview with CNN Wednesday morning, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rejected concerns from striking United Auto Workers that President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandates, forced onto car companies through the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency, will reduce union jobs by at least 30 percent. [emphasis, links added]
“This technology is coming, no matter what,” Buttigieg argued. “These cars are going electric with or without us.”
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg responds to workers' concerns over Biden's forced "transition" to electric vehicles:
"These cars are going electric with or without us" pic.twitter.com/lj2ouOIBNp
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 27, 2023
While there are other demands from the UAW as workers continue to strike, a repeal of Biden’s mandate is one of them.
Ford loses $60,000 per electric vehicle the company produces and is expected to lose a total of $4.5 billion this year alone.
Make no mistake about it, the Biden Administration isn't on the side of autoworkers.
They only care about their Green New Deal agenda and a mandate-driven economy. pic.twitter.com/4KNnAASt3i
— Representative Lisa McClain (@RepLisaMcClain) September 25, 2023
Buttigieg’s comments are similar to those made by Biden Climate Czar John Kerry in 2021.
John Kerry is asked what his message would be to oil and gas workers who "see an end to their livelihoods":
"What President Biden wants to do is make sure that those folks have better choices… That they can be the people to go to work to make the solar panels." pic.twitter.com/i9TYXlD9Jg
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 27, 2021
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is vowing to repeal Biden’s mandate.
“Joe Biden’s draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs. The only thing Biden could say today that would help the striking autoworkers is to announce the immediate termination of his ridiculous mandate. Anything else is just a feeble and insulting attempt to distract American labor from this vicious Biden betrayal,” Trump released in a statement Tuesday.
“Crooked Joe should be ashamed to show his face before these hardworking Americans he is stabbing in the back. With Biden, it doesn’t matter what hourly wages they get, in three years there will be no autoworker jobs as they will all come out of China and other countries. With me, there will be jobs and wages like you’ve never seen before. Our economy will grow!”
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Boy, does he give a F*CK about American workers.
I recall a photo/meme some months ago. The foreground, the backs of four hard-hatted workers. JB facing them, “I don’t work for you.”
Buttigieg’s comments show the typical elitist attitude of forcing everything from the top down via a command economy. If Biden can’t get enough election fraud going to win in 2024, the restrictions on fossil fuel cars will come to an end. Even with Biden still in power, those restrictions are likely to be struck down by the courts. Even if neither of those happen, the realities of the market place can only be stretches so far. Auto manufactures can’t continue to make more EV’s than the pubic is willing to buy.
There is a proper place for EV’s. They should be sold according to what the free market supports.
The liberals, democrats and global warming freaks never realize that dictating to a market that was previously somewhat free, never results in the desired outcome. These are the purest of idiots ever in history.
He has Idiot, Moron, and Dunderhead written all over his fat face