{"id":68507,"date":"2024-06-09T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68507"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:04:55","slug":"is-the-electric-vehicle-panacea-crashing-in-california-and-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68507","title":{"rendered":"Is the Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing in California and America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing in California and America?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The idea that the panacea of electric vehicles will end \u201cclimate change\u201d may have finally crashed into the wall of reality.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on May 26 by host Margaret Brennan on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d The full interview is on YouTube<\/a>. Ms. Brennan is the most informative and objective of interviewers in the mainstream media.<\/div>\n
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Although \u201cMayor Pete,\u201d as he came to be known, was merely the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, population 103,000, in 2020, he won<\/a> the Iowa caucuses, briefly gaining national attention. He previously worked at McKinsey & Co., which hires really smart people to consult for corporate clients. According<\/a> to Mr. Buttigieg, his work \u201cconsisted of doing mathematical analysis, conducting research, and preparing presentations\u201d on studies for clients. That means he\u2019s one of the smarter people in the Biden administration.<\/div>\n

At 9 minutes and 30 seconds, Ms. Brennan said, \u201cDonald Trump repeatedly talks about President Biden\u2019s decision to force the industry toward making 56 percent of car batteries electric by 2032, 13 percent hybrid.\u201d She then played a video of President Trump at a rally in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing a car that nobody wants and nobody\u2019s ever going to buy,\u201d President Trump said.<\/p>\n

Then she continued, \u201cHe\u2019s not wrong\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, he\u2019s wrong,\u201d Mr. Buttigieg interrupted.<\/p>\n

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Ms. Brennan continued, \u201c\u2014on the purchasing. He\u2019s not. Of the 4 million vehicles purchased, you know, what, 269,000 electric vehicles were sold in the U.S. market.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the electric portion is just 6.7 percent of the total. She didn\u2019t mention the time period, but Cox Automotive<\/a> ran the numbers, and it\u2019s the first quarter of 2024.<\/div>\n
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Is the Electric Vehicle Panacea Crashing in California and America? The idea that the panacea of electric vehicles will end \u201cclimate change\u201d may have finally crashed into the wall of reality. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on May 26 by host Margaret Brennan on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d The full interview is on YouTube. Ms. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34491,34490,16350],"class_list":["post-68507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-evs-electric-vehicles","tag-john-seiler","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68509,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507\/revisions\/68509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}