Ladies and Gentleman, “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg, United States Secretary of Transportation and, perhaps, the face of the Democratic Party:
The Build Back Better legislation] contains incentives to make it more affordable to buy an electric vehicle, up to a $12,500 discount in effect, for families thinking about getting an E.V., families that, once they own that electric vehicle, will never have to worry about gas prices again.
Suffice it to say, I can’t remember when I’ve heard a more brainless sentiment. Buttigieg can’t possibly be this dumb, can he?
Maybe it’s just that he’s been given an impossible assignment — talk up the increasingly unpopular Build Back Better plan while shifting the blame on rising gas prices to combat the president’s tanking poll numbers.
He might as well be saying, ‘Hey, if you people had bought an electric car, you wouldn’t have to worry about gas prices right now! But no worries — we’ve got a plan to give you a pile of money so you can fix that mistake. That’s why pencils have erasers!”
‘Just go buy a new car if you don’t like high gas prices’ is such a progressive thing to say. 🙄☕
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) November 29, 2021
Still, at the risk of asking some obvious questions: Where does Buttigieg think that electricity comes from? Does he not know that it is inextricably tied to the price of petroleum products?
Here’s David Harsanyi spelling that out for him:
Natural-gas prices have increased over 150 percent in a year’s time — with help from Biden-administration policy. More than 40 percent of our electricity is generated by natural gas…
Right now, fossil fuels are responsible for generating around 60 percent of our electricity — with nuclear, a source that Buttigieg now opposes, responsible for another 20 percent. The remaining 20 percent — often at tremendous up-front costs — is generated by renewable sources [mostly hydro and geothermal].
And as Harsanyi points out, “plugging your car into an outlet for 15 hours every night is going to cost plenty if Democrats get their way and make fossil fuels more expensive.”
Even Buttigieg’s reference to a $12,500 discount for people buying a new electric vehicle is ridiculous — the average price difference between a new E.V. and a gas-powered car is $19,000!
And that is on top of the significant tax-payer funded subsidies to the E.V. industry, in the hopes that it might one day be profitable on its own. It’s farcical that even with this new subsidy embedded in BBB they’re unable to close the gap.
All of which is to say — Mayor Pete is trying to take you for a ride. Don’t let him.
Read more at The Pipeline
The article stated that the difference between an EV and gasoline car were $19,000. The Biden administration has increase the cost of gasoline by a $1 a gallon. Let’s assume typical gas mileage of 25 mpg. That calculates to driving 475,000 miles to break even on the extra cost of an EV. That assumes zero cost to charge the vehicle. This also ignores the fact that the batteries which cost many thousands would have to be replaced a number of times for that distance. The most important thing it ignores is that many families can only afford to buy used cars so the difference between what they normally buy and an electric vehicle is even greater.
I wish this Nit-Wit would buy a one way ticket to Abu Dabi