Buttigieg Says Americans Should Buy Electric Cars So They ‘Never Have To Worry About Gas Prices Agai

Another anecdote.

Figures....

And in 2016, Obama was POTUS.

 

And he denies it. Color me shocked.

 

once batteries are better, I will

solid state batteries are looking like a nice option

something that is not highly flammable, has a high capacity and lasts many years (like 20 years) or with a battery warranty for 20 years

something where the cost of replacing the battery is not more than I would have paid for gas

and don't make them like phones where you can't replace the battery yourself (that is a scam by cellphone makers)

 

So a car fire downtown is DC up in flames?

 

Of course. The market will work like it always does.

 

Lol. I really wish politicians would ask smart people for facts before speaking. Does there exist a well informed politician in DC?

sigh

 

The whole city was under a riot. Car fires, police attacked, storefronts destroyed, garbage tossed all over the streets. The audacity you have to downplay that.

 

Fairly standard Progressive BS.

They want the working and poverty classes buying $12 strawberries from Farmers' Markets 'because it's sustainable!', and they want them buying $60k cars in which to drive home from the Farmers' Market.

The worst offenders do that, plus add "and you have a moral obligation to buy from local artisan businesses this Christmas". If you buy a $5 bucket of Xmas baubles from W@lmart, instead of hand-blown glass spheres at $20 a piece, you're a horrible person.

 

Right! They can’t complain about how the right is downplaying Jan 6.

 

Oh wow. Who told you that?

I certainly champion the buy local theme, but never consider it a moral obligation.

who is doing that to you?

 

Everytime you hear the left squeal about 1/6, just respond with 1/6/2017. Washington DC was a literal war zone that day. A quick YouTube search shows all of this.

1/6/2021 there was no “destruction”. It was just a mob of unarmed people who walked into a building. Liberals act as if it was Pearl Harbor.

 

Yup. Both teams now rely on their fringe to be as radical and extreme as possible. We completely agree. It’s so sad.

 

You're an unusual Progressive, if that's true. Or perhaps you're not a Progressive (in which case, congratulations).

 

Last summer a guy drove up to my place from Kansas to buy a Kune Kune. He drove hundreds of miles extra to get here because his electric car couldn’t make it on a charge and there were not enough charging stations on any direct route either. So he wandered around from charging station to charging station….

I think electric vehicles have great potential. But they better be accompanied by a power grid to support them.

 

WS, I love ya but you're trying to have it both ways here. It's absolutely true that with time prices will go down. Technology is one of the few things where prices go down over time. Innovation goes along with that.

Problem is, Butt-whatever is "suggesting" everyone go out and buy these cars NOW, not in the future. And in the here and now, the cars are way too expensive, you can't go that far on 'em, there's too few charging stations and I'm not clear on how long it takes for you to wait to charge one. And I say that as someone who owns a hybrid, and a wife who has a Volt. And she freakin' loves her Volt, but the car can only go 30-ish miles on a full charge, then it switches to gas.

In the here and now, this guy has his head in the clouds - meanwhile, the rest of us with our hoi polloi feet on the ground can't afford what he's "suggesting". I'll be kind and say he's ahead of his time. It's still not exactly helpful to those of us who haveta live in the present.

 

to some extent. That and coal, nuclear, or NG. I would love to have a coal powered car myself. They are quick as f*ck. Still, it wouldn't pull my 5th wheel and my boat would still require gas.

 

No need to congratulate me. I’ve always rejected the extremists from both sides of the aisle.

 

Buttigieg Says Americans Should Buy Electric Cars So They ‘Never Have To Worry About Gas Prices Agai

That is true. Americans then can worry about the price of electricity.

 

And Buttigieg is the Secretary of Transportation; sounds akin to making a Stalinist in charge of the currency.

You left out (and Buttigieg swept under the rug) the worry over future sky high costs of electricity. #6 is when they get us all on bicycles and public transportation and living in urban high rises within walking distances, which is their ultimate dream.

 

How many people here can name the closest electric car charging station near their homes?
Also, how are those stations powered?
Just curious

 

We have many in our city. I see them all the time, now.

 

He's an idiot. He also doesn't understand the impact to your power bill from an electric car, nor the impact to the power grid by having more of them, not the means of how energy is produced. Total idiot.

 

The charging time of the batteries is a killer for me.

 

Why do we have so many stupid people in positions of authority?

 

If we get upwards of 10% electric cars, there are not near enough charging stations making charging lines make the gas lines of the 70s look like child's play. Do some rough math: 21 million electric cars (10% of today's total) that need recharging every two days (??) at 6 hrs per charge (a liberal estimate with today's technology and electric distribution system) requires 3-1/2 million charging stations with no effective wait time if scheduled correctly -- more or less. Then the electricity supply would be entirely in the wrong place requiring a massive change and rebuilding of the distribution grid in order to charge 3 or 4 cars at 50 - 100 amps or so in a hour or less at any one station.

See also @Steve N post #3.