His boss said you can drive your EV across the country on a single tank of gas, so I guess he comes by it honestly.
National Review (11/29/21) column: "Does our transportation secretary understand how our electricity is generated? After reminding Americans that the Democrats’ infrastructure proposal includes a “$12,500 discount” for electric cars, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg declared that 'families who own that vehicle will never have to worry about gas prices again.' Indeed. And if every American rode a ten-speed bicycle to work, no one would have to worry about fuel costs at all. In reality, though, without state “incentives” and “discounts,” electric cars would be prohibitively expensive for everyone but millionaires. Even with all these state “investments,” the average price of an electric car is around $19,000 higher than the price of an average gas-powered vehicle. Surely, one day electric cars won’t be as pricey — but today, they are. Most families cannot afford them, so buying them wouldn’t make much sense. Mass electric-car ownership — and right now, those cars make up less than 2 percent of the American market — would mean completely retooling our nation’s infrastructure."
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"There's a lot of money in Washington, D.C., and I'm really scared that money is going towards persuading people in the USDA to go plant-based, to go climate change, to fund all of this other stuff … so corporate and big- investor farm systems continue to farm and gain access to our pricing in the grocery store."
– Stephanie Nash,
Fourth-Generation Dairy Farmer
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