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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg used a defective analogy on Fox Information this week to taunt People for refusing to purchase overpriced, environmentally dangerous electrical automobiles. However People gave the inept and elitist Buttigieg a brutal actuality verify on social media afterward.
Buttigieg was a visitor on “America's Newsroom” with John Roberts and Sandra Smith when he embarrassed himself. Roberts began by telling Buttigieg about Tesla's falling gross sales and the way auto corporations are shedding massive numbers of their employees at energy vegetation.
He then started asking why the Biden regime continued to attempt to push EVs down everybody's throats. Buttigieg responded by twisting EV statistics earlier than mocking People immune to EVs, evaluating the state of affairs to those that opposed the cellphone revolution within the early 2000s and as a substitute need landline telephones ceaselessly. Have been.
Watch:
Pete Buttigieg condemns People who don't need to be compelled into electrical automobiles:
“I feel it's the early 2000s and I'm speaking to some individuals who assume we’d have landline telephones ceaselessly.” pic.twitter.com/fnHXMOGdlu
– RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) 2 April 2024
Related transcript:
Roberts: Tesla gross sales fell 8.5% within the first quarter of this yr. Ford is shedding two-thirds of its employees on the F-150 Electrical Lightning plant this week. Additionally it is decreasing battery manufacturing services as a result of declining gross sales.
EV gross sales are nowhere close to what this President desires or expects, but the administration is making an attempt to pressure them into shoppers' palms. Why?
Buttigieg: Let's be clear that the automotive sector is shifting towards EVs, and we will't fake in any other case. Typically, when these debates occur, I really feel prefer it's the early 2000s, and I'm speaking to some individuals who assume we’d have landline telephones ceaselessly.
Social media customers instantly jumped on the failings in Buttigieg's arguments. There have been causes that cell telephones have been superior to landlines, whereas EVs have many drawbacks in comparison with gas-powered vehicles and the one method for EVs to be “aggressive” is to crack down on standard automobiles.
Plus, landlines value virtually nothing in comparison with electrical vehicles, and lots of People nonetheless use them.
That's the issue – Democrats assume EVs are to gas-powered vehicles what landlines have been to cell telephones.
In actuality, EV means gas-powered vehicles, as was the case with Fyre Fest music festivals. It sounded good, it had potential, nevertheless it was constructed on false guarantees and synthetic market forces. https://t.co/EVONdjLVpa
– Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) 2 April 2024
The price of proudly owning a landline is a fraction of a % of the common value of an electrical automobile.
In any other case, nice resemblance to the neatest man within the administration. https://t.co/thp4UVjTOy
– Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) 2 April 2024
Okay, however you really had the reason why cellphones have been higher than landlines. What’s your argument in favor of EVs aside from “they're new”? https://t.co/9ltdQtZt91
– Noam Blum (@neontaster) 2 April 2024
Pete Buttigieg makes enjoyable of People who don't need electrical vehicles. There aren't sufficient charging stations, what has Pothole Pete been doing for 3 years? https://t.co/zho3auMBg9
– David Musiker (@DavidMusiker) 3 April 2024
Does Pete assume the federal authorities has banned land traces???
I do know he doesn't go to the workplace a lot, however doesn't he have a telephone on his desk? pic.twitter.com/a8G69bOfHp
– Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) 3 April 2024
Bear in mind when the federal government imposed synthetic restrictions to maintain shoppers away from landline telephones, whereas forcing us to purchase mobile telephones?
– JD Breen (@realjdbreen) 2 April 2024
Do landlines nonetheless exist? And, don't they work?
– ReadingMyLifeAway (@AliceCaterpill1) 2 April 2024