BUSINESS INSIDER
"'Nobody' in Biden's West Wing is shutting down chatter of Buttigieg as a potential presidential successor: report"
insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman)
27 NOVEMBER 2021
* Buttigieg is being openly discussed a potential Biden successor in the West Wing, per Politico.
* Some staffers of color feel that the chatter is a slight to Vice President Harris, per the report.
* Buttigieg this week on NBC's "Meet the Press" emphasized his strong work relationship with Harris.
When Pete Buttigieg arrived in Washington, DC, earlier this year, the former South Bend, Ind., mayor had already become a household name through his scrappy 2020 presidential campaign that saw him soar in Iowa and New Hampshire before his eventual exit from the Democratic primaries at the hands of now-President Joe Biden.
As a 39-year-old veteran who has already sought the highest office in the land, the US Transportation secretary is seen as a potential successor to Biden in 2028 — or in 2024 if the president reverses course from a planned reelection bid.
Buttigieg, who was confirmed to his Cabinet post in February, recently told Politico that he likes his job and has not thought much about electioneering since getting settled in the nation's capital.
"I'd say the other thing that I'm really enjoying about this job, although it's very demanding and obviously requiring a lot, is that this is the least I have had to think about campaigns and elections in about a decade and that's a very good thing," he said in Phoenix late last week.
However, while Buttigieg has been focused on his role — which has only become more prominent with the passage of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill — some in the Biden White House have already raised his name as a future Democratic presidential nominee.
"Nobody in the West Wing shuts that down," an individual with knowledge of the situation told Politico.
"It's very open."
The Buttigieg talk has reportedly "frustrated" several staffers of color who see the conversation as a slight toward Vice President Kamala Harris — the first female, first Black, and first Indian American to hold the office — and believe that senior White House officials should work to minimize such chatter.
According to Politico, some of Buttigieg's former 2020 staffers are pondering whether a potential challenge to Harris would be wise given the importance of the Black vote in the Democratic presidential primary process, while also noting his struggles in courting the pivotal group last year.
Buttigieg's political action committee, Win the Era, has been quiet since he joined government earlier this year, but it is still active, with former campaign aides Maxwell Nunes and Michael Halle helping with its upkeep.
However, while on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Buttigieg brushed off any talk of a rivalry with Harris.
When the secretary was asked if coverage of Harris's political standing had any effect on their relationship, he rejected the idea.
"No, because she and I are part of a team that is disciplined and doesn't focus on what's obsessing the commentators."
"We're too busy with a job to do."
"She, as the leader in this administration, with her leadership role, and I, and the president, and everybody else in the cabinet and across the administration, are laser-focused on getting the job done," he said.
"We have been assigned by the president to take on — literally — projects and legislation of generational significance."
"There's no room to get caught up in the parlor games, and I'm proud to be part of the Biden-Harris team," he added.
While in Arizona, Buttigieg touted the newly-signed infrastructure bill, while also speaking on supply-chain issues that have been driven by the coronavirus pandemic and high consumer demand.
"What excites me most is that we're going to have a lot of groundbreakings and eventually a lot of ribbon cuttings," he said of future projects that are set to be approved in the coming year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... hp&pc=U531
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
"While consumers and travelers suffer, Buttigieg focuses on 'racist' roads"
Opinion by Washington Examiner
5 JULY 2022
A gallon of gas is almost $5, hundreds of airline flights are being canceled every day, and a possible strike by West Coast port unions is threatening to make an already unreliable supply chain even worse.
But don’t worry, America, your transportation secretary is focused like a laser on the top issue facing consumers and travelers today: racist roads.
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said last April.
He was pushing for the inclusion of the Reconnecting Communities program in President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion Build Back Better plan.
Fortunately for the Reconnecting Communities program, it was not included in Biden’s failed Build Back Better agenda.
It was instead stuffed into the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in July 2021 before sitting in the House for months, where it was held hostage by far-left Democrats.
The legislation didn’t pass the House until November, and Buttigieg did not announce the first round of Reconnecting Communities funding until last Thursday.
The program is admittedly modest — just $1 billion over five years, including $245 million in spending this year.
States, counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, and even private entities that own transportation facilities are all eligible to apply for grants.
Grant money can be spent on projects that “help reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.”
Projects that “are focused on equity and environmental justice” will be given special preference.
Examples cited by the Department of Transportation include pedestrian walkways over existing highways, redesigned intersections, and bus rapid transit lines.
So chalk it up as another billion dollars spent on a grant program that will mostly line the pockets of big-city Democrats and their developer donors.
No, it’s not the end of the world.
But it certainly is not a solution to any of the very real transportation-related problems facing consumers and travelers.
Pedestrian walkways aren’t going to lower the price of gas.
Buses aren’t going to uncancel flights.
Redesigned intersections are not going to fix our nation’s supply chain problems.
A cynical person might say that the Reconnecting Communities program is just a woke, box-checking exercise that gives the Biden administration a talking point to lean on when black voters ask what exactly has Biden delivered for them other than high inflation and an impending recession.
Why the mayor of a Midwestern college town was somehow qualified to be transportation secretary remains a mystery that may never be solved.
While Buttigieg is not to blame for many of the transportation problems facing the country (Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior did far more to cause high gas prices, for example), he has not offered any real solutions either.
If Democrats do choose to move on from Biden in 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris shouldn’t worry about Buttigieg running on his record as transportation secretary.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/w ... bc4a677f9a
"While consumers and travelers suffer, Buttigieg focuses on 'racist' roads"
Opinion by Washington Examiner
5 JULY 2022
A gallon of gas is almost $5, hundreds of airline flights are being canceled every day, and a possible strike by West Coast port unions is threatening to make an already unreliable supply chain even worse.
But don’t worry, America, your transportation secretary is focused like a laser on the top issue facing consumers and travelers today: racist roads.
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said last April.
He was pushing for the inclusion of the Reconnecting Communities program in President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion Build Back Better plan.
Fortunately for the Reconnecting Communities program, it was not included in Biden’s failed Build Back Better agenda.
It was instead stuffed into the bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in July 2021 before sitting in the House for months, where it was held hostage by far-left Democrats.
The legislation didn’t pass the House until November, and Buttigieg did not announce the first round of Reconnecting Communities funding until last Thursday.
The program is admittedly modest — just $1 billion over five years, including $245 million in spending this year.
States, counties, cities, nonprofit organizations, and even private entities that own transportation facilities are all eligible to apply for grants.
Grant money can be spent on projects that “help reconnect communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure.”
Projects that “are focused on equity and environmental justice” will be given special preference.
Examples cited by the Department of Transportation include pedestrian walkways over existing highways, redesigned intersections, and bus rapid transit lines.
So chalk it up as another billion dollars spent on a grant program that will mostly line the pockets of big-city Democrats and their developer donors.
No, it’s not the end of the world.
But it certainly is not a solution to any of the very real transportation-related problems facing consumers and travelers.
Pedestrian walkways aren’t going to lower the price of gas.
Buses aren’t going to uncancel flights.
Redesigned intersections are not going to fix our nation’s supply chain problems.
A cynical person might say that the Reconnecting Communities program is just a woke, box-checking exercise that gives the Biden administration a talking point to lean on when black voters ask what exactly has Biden delivered for them other than high inflation and an impending recession.
Why the mayor of a Midwestern college town was somehow qualified to be transportation secretary remains a mystery that may never be solved.
While Buttigieg is not to blame for many of the transportation problems facing the country (Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior did far more to cause high gas prices, for example), he has not offered any real solutions either.
If Democrats do choose to move on from Biden in 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris shouldn’t worry about Buttigieg running on his record as transportation secretary.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/w ... bc4a677f9a
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
MARKETWATCH
"Buttigieg defends Kavanaugh protesters’ right to demonstrate during his dinner"
Mike Murphy
10 JULY 2022
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday defended the right of abortion-rights protesters to demonstrate against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside of a restaurant where he was eating dinner.
“People are upset."
"They’re going to exercise their First Amendment rights."
"As long as that’s peaceful, that’s protected,” Buttigieg said on “Fox News Sunday,” according to a transcript.
He said public officials should expect some amount of criticism and protests.
“The bottom line is this: Any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment, but should never be free from criticism, or people exercising their First Amendment rights.”
— Pete Buttigieg
Last week, Politico reported Kavanaugh left a downtown Washington restaurant through the back door after abortion-rights protesters gathered in front of it while he ate.
According to the report, Kavanaugh had not noticed them and left after completing his meal.
When asked by Fox News anchor Mike Emanuel if he’d be comfortable with protesters demonstrating against him while he was eating at a restaurant, Buttigieg replied: “Protesting peacefully outside in a public space?"
"Sure."
"Look, I can’t even tell you the number of spaces, venues, and scenarios where I’ve been protested.”
Last month, Congress approved new security measures to protect Supreme Court justices and their families after an armed man was arrested in front of Kavanaugh’s home and charged with attempted murder.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/bu ... ac9342d78d
"Buttigieg defends Kavanaugh protesters’ right to demonstrate during his dinner"
Mike Murphy
10 JULY 2022
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday defended the right of abortion-rights protesters to demonstrate against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside of a restaurant where he was eating dinner.
“People are upset."
"They’re going to exercise their First Amendment rights."
"As long as that’s peaceful, that’s protected,” Buttigieg said on “Fox News Sunday,” according to a transcript.
He said public officials should expect some amount of criticism and protests.
“The bottom line is this: Any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment, but should never be free from criticism, or people exercising their First Amendment rights.”
— Pete Buttigieg
Last week, Politico reported Kavanaugh left a downtown Washington restaurant through the back door after abortion-rights protesters gathered in front of it while he ate.
According to the report, Kavanaugh had not noticed them and left after completing his meal.
When asked by Fox News anchor Mike Emanuel if he’d be comfortable with protesters demonstrating against him while he was eating at a restaurant, Buttigieg replied: “Protesting peacefully outside in a public space?"
"Sure."
"Look, I can’t even tell you the number of spaces, venues, and scenarios where I’ve been protested.”
Last month, Congress approved new security measures to protect Supreme Court justices and their families after an armed man was arrested in front of Kavanaugh’s home and charged with attempted murder.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/bu ... ac9342d78d
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
THE WASHINGTON POST
"Buttigieg says officials like Kavanaugh ‘should expect’ public protest"
María Paúl
11 JULY 2022
Two days after Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh fled abortion rights protesters at a Morton’s steakhouse in D.C., Chasten Buttigieg — husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — tweeted his assessment of the incident.
“Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions,” Chasten Buttigieg wrote, alluding to Kavanaugh’s recent vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court decision that had guaranteed abortion access on the basis of Americans’ right to privacy.
The tweet drew criticism from some conservatives, including former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who decried what he called an endorsement of “the use of mob intimidation tactics” as “wildly irresponsible.”
But Pete Buttigieg defended his husband’s remarks during a Sunday interview with Fox News’s Mike Emanuel.
“Any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment but should never be free from criticism or people exercising their First Amendment rights,” Buttigieg said in a “Fox News Sunday” appearance.
He added that officials “should expect” public protests — especially after “an important right that the majority of Americans support was taken away.”
“As long as I’ve been alive, settled case law in the United States has been that the Constitution protected the right to privacy,” Buttigieg said.
“And that has now been thrown out the window by justices, including Justice Kavanaugh, who as I recall swore up and down in front of God and everyone, including United States Congress, that they were going to leave settled case law alone.”
After a draft of the opinion to overturn Roe leaked in May, some abortion rights supporters began protesting outside of conservative justices’ homes.
With frustration mounting over abortion restrictions at the state level, advocacy groups like ShutDownDC have called for more public displays of dissatisfaction — offering service industry workers up to $250 for sightings of the justices who voted to overturn Roe.
On Wednesday, while a crowd was gathering outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home, ShutDownDC said it had received a tip that the justice had “snuck out for a swanky DC dinner.”
Its Twitter account then offered to share his location with its nearly 25,000 followers.
As protesters gathered outside Morton’s, the justice managed to leave through the back exit without eating dessert, according to Politico.
The incident was soon condemned by the restaurant, which told the news outlet that “politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.”
That statement landed Morton’s in hot water.
Since last week, the restaurant’s Facebook page has been flooded by negative ratings, and its Yelp page no longer allows posts because of “increased public attention … which often means people come to this page to post their views on the news.”
Some have made calls to boycott the restaurant across TikTok and Twitter, and thousands have reportedly made phony reservations.
In the Fox News interview Sunday, Pete Buttigieg — who has also been the target of protests over the years — denounced violence or harassment against officials but said that people have the right to challenge those leaders in public.
“Protesting peacefully outside in a public space — sure."
"Look, I can’t even tell you the number of spaces, venues, and scenarios where I’ve been protested,” he said.
The transportation secretary also compared the Morton’s protest — during which “the justice never even came into contact with these protesters, reportedly didn’t see or hear them” — to the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, in which a mob “very nearly succeeded in preventing the peaceful transfer of power.”
“I think common sense can tell the difference,” Buttigieg quipped.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/butti ... 2617a3de7e
"Buttigieg says officials like Kavanaugh ‘should expect’ public protest"
María Paúl
11 JULY 2022
Two days after Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh fled abortion rights protesters at a Morton’s steakhouse in D.C., Chasten Buttigieg — husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — tweeted his assessment of the incident.
“Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions,” Chasten Buttigieg wrote, alluding to Kavanaugh’s recent vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court decision that had guaranteed abortion access on the basis of Americans’ right to privacy.
The tweet drew criticism from some conservatives, including former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who decried what he called an endorsement of “the use of mob intimidation tactics” as “wildly irresponsible.”
But Pete Buttigieg defended his husband’s remarks during a Sunday interview with Fox News’s Mike Emanuel.
“Any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment but should never be free from criticism or people exercising their First Amendment rights,” Buttigieg said in a “Fox News Sunday” appearance.
He added that officials “should expect” public protests — especially after “an important right that the majority of Americans support was taken away.”
“As long as I’ve been alive, settled case law in the United States has been that the Constitution protected the right to privacy,” Buttigieg said.
“And that has now been thrown out the window by justices, including Justice Kavanaugh, who as I recall swore up and down in front of God and everyone, including United States Congress, that they were going to leave settled case law alone.”
After a draft of the opinion to overturn Roe leaked in May, some abortion rights supporters began protesting outside of conservative justices’ homes.
With frustration mounting over abortion restrictions at the state level, advocacy groups like ShutDownDC have called for more public displays of dissatisfaction — offering service industry workers up to $250 for sightings of the justices who voted to overturn Roe.
On Wednesday, while a crowd was gathering outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home, ShutDownDC said it had received a tip that the justice had “snuck out for a swanky DC dinner.”
Its Twitter account then offered to share his location with its nearly 25,000 followers.
As protesters gathered outside Morton’s, the justice managed to leave through the back exit without eating dessert, according to Politico.
The incident was soon condemned by the restaurant, which told the news outlet that “politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.”
That statement landed Morton’s in hot water.
Since last week, the restaurant’s Facebook page has been flooded by negative ratings, and its Yelp page no longer allows posts because of “increased public attention … which often means people come to this page to post their views on the news.”
Some have made calls to boycott the restaurant across TikTok and Twitter, and thousands have reportedly made phony reservations.
In the Fox News interview Sunday, Pete Buttigieg — who has also been the target of protests over the years — denounced violence or harassment against officials but said that people have the right to challenge those leaders in public.
“Protesting peacefully outside in a public space — sure."
"Look, I can’t even tell you the number of spaces, venues, and scenarios where I’ve been protested,” he said.
The transportation secretary also compared the Morton’s protest — during which “the justice never even came into contact with these protesters, reportedly didn’t see or hear them” — to the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, in which a mob “very nearly succeeded in preventing the peaceful transfer of power.”
“I think common sense can tell the difference,” Buttigieg quipped.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/butti ... 2617a3de7e
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
FOX NEWS
"Amid high gas prices, Pete Buttigieg slammed for telling Americans to switch to electric cars"
Gabriel Hays
17 JULY 2022
Critics heaped scorn upon a clip showing Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg excitedly talking about the prospect of "most Americans" switching to electric vehicles due to high gas prices.
During the short clip, which was taken from a Thursday interview between the government official and radio show BigBoyTV, Buttigieg discussed how the U.S. government is looking to cut the cost of electric vehicles so that more Americans will buy them and get out of paying so much for gas.
All smiles, Buttigieg claimed, "We’re for cutting the cost of electric vehicles, because when you have an electric vehicle then you’re also gonna be able to save on gas, but you’ve got to be able to afford it in the first place."
Buttigieg continued, "Now we’re actually starting to see on some models, the cost come to where, even if your car payment’s a little higher, your gas payment will be a little lower and you come out ahead."
The clip ended with him claiming, "But the prices still need to come down for most Americans to be able to get an EV."
For Americans angry at Biden’s energy policies – which critics claimed seem to have followed through on his campaign promise to get Americans off fossil fuels – Buttigieg’s statements added insult to injury.
The official Twitter account of the Republican Party seized on Buttigieg’s statements, writing, "Don’t forget, with the Biden administration the pain is the point."
Businessman and BurnRate CEO Robert McLaws made several crucial points in response to Buttigieg’s clip, tweeting, "1) Imagine Texas’ grid problems if they went 100% electric vehicles. 2) Without nuclear, where is this electricity going to come from? Answer: coal. 3) Meanwhile, how do we get people to buy electric cars when insane inflation means they can’t even afford food or housing?"
Author Denise McAllister warned voters to remember Buttigieg’s statement when he runs for President of the United States, a prospect she lamented.
She tweeted, "Remember this when Pete campaigns to be president in the future."
"A race he’ll likely win — unfortunately."
Congressman Dan Bishop, R-N.C., slammed Buttigieg, tweeting, "What a joke."
"We have the capacity to produce reliable energy right here at home, but the Biden administration would rather destroy our economy to promote their delusional ‘green’ fantasy."
The Republican National Committee Research team Twitter account shared the clip and accused Buttigieg of "bragging" about this policy.
It tweeted, "Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg brags about how high gas prices are forcing people to electric vehicles."
U.S. congressional candidate for the state of Minnesota, Shukri Abdirahman, flayed the Transportation secretary on the platform, tweeting, "Hey, Pete."
"Not all of us make $221,400 a year to rush off onto maternity to chestfeed babies, declare highways racist and ignore supply chain crises like you."
"Makes me think you're perfectly content to see gas at $5, even $7 in some places, just so you can plug electric cars."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 6a5d74495c
"Amid high gas prices, Pete Buttigieg slammed for telling Americans to switch to electric cars"
Gabriel Hays
17 JULY 2022
Critics heaped scorn upon a clip showing Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg excitedly talking about the prospect of "most Americans" switching to electric vehicles due to high gas prices.
During the short clip, which was taken from a Thursday interview between the government official and radio show BigBoyTV, Buttigieg discussed how the U.S. government is looking to cut the cost of electric vehicles so that more Americans will buy them and get out of paying so much for gas.
All smiles, Buttigieg claimed, "We’re for cutting the cost of electric vehicles, because when you have an electric vehicle then you’re also gonna be able to save on gas, but you’ve got to be able to afford it in the first place."
Buttigieg continued, "Now we’re actually starting to see on some models, the cost come to where, even if your car payment’s a little higher, your gas payment will be a little lower and you come out ahead."
The clip ended with him claiming, "But the prices still need to come down for most Americans to be able to get an EV."
For Americans angry at Biden’s energy policies – which critics claimed seem to have followed through on his campaign promise to get Americans off fossil fuels – Buttigieg’s statements added insult to injury.
The official Twitter account of the Republican Party seized on Buttigieg’s statements, writing, "Don’t forget, with the Biden administration the pain is the point."
Businessman and BurnRate CEO Robert McLaws made several crucial points in response to Buttigieg’s clip, tweeting, "1) Imagine Texas’ grid problems if they went 100% electric vehicles. 2) Without nuclear, where is this electricity going to come from? Answer: coal. 3) Meanwhile, how do we get people to buy electric cars when insane inflation means they can’t even afford food or housing?"
Author Denise McAllister warned voters to remember Buttigieg’s statement when he runs for President of the United States, a prospect she lamented.
She tweeted, "Remember this when Pete campaigns to be president in the future."
"A race he’ll likely win — unfortunately."
Congressman Dan Bishop, R-N.C., slammed Buttigieg, tweeting, "What a joke."
"We have the capacity to produce reliable energy right here at home, but the Biden administration would rather destroy our economy to promote their delusional ‘green’ fantasy."
The Republican National Committee Research team Twitter account shared the clip and accused Buttigieg of "bragging" about this policy.
It tweeted, "Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg brags about how high gas prices are forcing people to electric vehicles."
U.S. congressional candidate for the state of Minnesota, Shukri Abdirahman, flayed the Transportation secretary on the platform, tweeting, "Hey, Pete."
"Not all of us make $221,400 a year to rush off onto maternity to chestfeed babies, declare highways racist and ignore supply chain crises like you."
"Makes me think you're perfectly content to see gas at $5, even $7 in some places, just so you can plug electric cars."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 6a5d74495c
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
Mediaite
"CNBC Host Presses Buttigieg in Tense Clash on WH Green Energy Push: ‘How Do You Declare a Climate Crisis in the Middle of an Actual Weather Crisis?’"
Zachary Leeman
20 JULY 2022
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s feet were put to the fire on CNBC on Wednesday as the question about gas prices potentially rising again, as well as the White House’s green energy push amid heat waves affecting both the U.S. and other countries.
During an exchange with Joe Kernen, Buttigieg was pushed on President Joe Biden’s reported plan to declare a climate emergency when energy prices are on the rise and large sections of the world do not have mass air conditioning.
“There are real possibilities that people might not have air conditioning during a heat wave or in the winter, they may not have enough energy to heat their homes at this point,” Kernen said.
The CNBC host went on to say carbon mitigation efforts would be offset by other countries not making the same pushes, essentially offsetting anything the U.S. would do to cut back on carbon usage.
“Those probably aren’t really going to cut down emissions until 2030 and while we’re dealing with these, we’ve got India building coal plants, China building coal plants hand over fist and emitting and not really helping our efforts whatsoever."
"When wind and solar won’t power the homes in Europe, how do we not use hydrocarbons to make sure in the near term these people aren’t either freezing or dying from the heat."
"It seems like a real quandary,” Kernen said.
He added, “how do you declare a climate crisis in the middle of an actual weather crisis?”
“This is what a transition looks like."
"This is exactly the challenge we’re living through,” Buttgieg responded, adding that “we’re running out of time” when it comes to climate change and alternative sources like electric must be looked at, especially for energy transportation.
“I don’t think we should be following the lead of India and China,” he also said.
“The realities may set in Europe and we may see the downside — for example, if the president declares a climate emergency executive order, we are going to stop drilling in the outer continental shelf."
"We’re going to do all kinds of things that limit production of hydrocarbons at this time with the idea that by 2030 everyone is going be along with us,” Kernan shot back, arguing emissions will rise by 2030 “no matter what.”
In a back and forth, Kernen said people will “freeze and die from the heat” for something “that may not happen by 2030,” adding the world needs more carbon in the short-term.
“I’ve never known the United States to be a country that looks around the world and says, ‘what’s the lowest common denominator."
"Let’s do that,'” Buttigieg said.
Becky Quick also pushed Buttigieg on gas prices potentially rising again after they fell slightly in recent days, asking if the “victory lap” the White House is taking is premature and they will need to “take blame” if there is another rise.
The transportation secretary ran point for Biden, arguing he has no control over gas prices, but efforts he’s made to widen access to oil is showing “encouraging signs.”
“No one’s out here saying mission accomplished,” Buttigieg declared.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cnbc- ... cf134aede3
"CNBC Host Presses Buttigieg in Tense Clash on WH Green Energy Push: ‘How Do You Declare a Climate Crisis in the Middle of an Actual Weather Crisis?’"
Zachary Leeman
20 JULY 2022
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s feet were put to the fire on CNBC on Wednesday as the question about gas prices potentially rising again, as well as the White House’s green energy push amid heat waves affecting both the U.S. and other countries.
During an exchange with Joe Kernen, Buttigieg was pushed on President Joe Biden’s reported plan to declare a climate emergency when energy prices are on the rise and large sections of the world do not have mass air conditioning.
“There are real possibilities that people might not have air conditioning during a heat wave or in the winter, they may not have enough energy to heat their homes at this point,” Kernen said.
The CNBC host went on to say carbon mitigation efforts would be offset by other countries not making the same pushes, essentially offsetting anything the U.S. would do to cut back on carbon usage.
“Those probably aren’t really going to cut down emissions until 2030 and while we’re dealing with these, we’ve got India building coal plants, China building coal plants hand over fist and emitting and not really helping our efforts whatsoever."
"When wind and solar won’t power the homes in Europe, how do we not use hydrocarbons to make sure in the near term these people aren’t either freezing or dying from the heat."
"It seems like a real quandary,” Kernen said.
He added, “how do you declare a climate crisis in the middle of an actual weather crisis?”
“This is what a transition looks like."
"This is exactly the challenge we’re living through,” Buttgieg responded, adding that “we’re running out of time” when it comes to climate change and alternative sources like electric must be looked at, especially for energy transportation.
“I don’t think we should be following the lead of India and China,” he also said.
“The realities may set in Europe and we may see the downside — for example, if the president declares a climate emergency executive order, we are going to stop drilling in the outer continental shelf."
"We’re going to do all kinds of things that limit production of hydrocarbons at this time with the idea that by 2030 everyone is going be along with us,” Kernan shot back, arguing emissions will rise by 2030 “no matter what.”
In a back and forth, Kernen said people will “freeze and die from the heat” for something “that may not happen by 2030,” adding the world needs more carbon in the short-term.
“I’ve never known the United States to be a country that looks around the world and says, ‘what’s the lowest common denominator."
"Let’s do that,'” Buttigieg said.
Becky Quick also pushed Buttigieg on gas prices potentially rising again after they fell slightly in recent days, asking if the “victory lap” the White House is taking is premature and they will need to “take blame” if there is another rise.
The transportation secretary ran point for Biden, arguing he has no control over gas prices, but efforts he’s made to widen access to oil is showing “encouraging signs.”
“No one’s out here saying mission accomplished,” Buttigieg declared.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cnbc- ... cf134aede3
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
FOX NEWS
"Deleted Biden campaign ad slamming Buttigieg's lack of experience resurfaces amid multiple crises"
Story by Thomas Catenacci
4 JANUARY 2023
A political campaign ad released by President Biden's campaign ahead of the 2020 presidential election attacking Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a presidential candidate in Democratic primary, for his inexperience has resurfaced amid a series of crises.
The Biden campaign released the ad on published Feb. 8, 2020, days after the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses and days before the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary.
The video — which slammed Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for his inexperience — was eventually deleted in December 2020 after Biden announced he would select Buttigieg to lead the Transportation Department during his administration.
"When President Obama called on him, Joe Biden helped lead the passage of the Affordable Care Act which gave health care to 20 million people," the now-deleted ad stated.
"And when parkgoers called on Pete Buttigieg, he installed decorative lights under bridges, giving citizens of South Bend colorfully illuminated rivers."
"Joe Biden helped save the auto industry which revitalized the economy of the Midwest and led the passage and implementation of the Recovery Act, saving our economy from a depression," it continued.
"Pete Buttigieg revitalized the sidewalks of downtown South Bend by laying out decorative brick."
The ad also stated that while Biden helped pass a ban on assault weapons and the Violence Against Women Act, Buttigieg fired the first African-American police chief of South Bend and forced out the African-American fire chief as well.
"We're electing a president," it concluded.
"What you've done matters."
Buttigieg won the highest number of delegates during the Iowa caucus and, despite the ad, finished in second behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the New Hampshire primary.
Buttigieg ultimately dropped out of the race on March 1 and Biden won the Democratic nomination with relative ease months later.
On Dec. 15, 2020, Biden selected Buttigieg for transportation secretary and deleted the ad that ripped the former small town mayor.
"He speaks to the best of who we are as a nation," Biden said at the time.
"I am nominating him for Secretary of Transportation because he's equipped to take on the challenges at the intersection of jobs, infrastructure, equity, and climate."
However, an archived copy of the ad resurfaced multiple times over the last week following a slate of recent crises facing the Department of Transportation under Buttigieg's leadership.
Fox News Digital reported on Wednesday that Buttigieg traveled to Europe on a military aircraft to attend the Fifth Invictus Games with his husband Chasten Buttigieg last spring.
The report came less than a month after a separate Fox News Digital report highlighting the Cabinet official's extensive use of government private jets, a practice that resulted in a resignation under former President Donald Trump.
In addition, Buttigieg has been battered by various crises including significant supply chain snarls, a potential rail strike and widespread commercial airline delays.
"Joe Biden warned us," Steve Guest, an adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted.
"His campaign nuked Mayor Pete for his lack of experience."
Republican communicator Matt Whitlock also posted about the deleted ad last week, saying, "Regular reminder that before he named him as Transportation Secretary, Joe Biden mocked Mayor Pete for his inexperience, noting that one of his greatest accomplishments was installing twinkly lights under bridges."
"Probably should’ve listened to his own ads."
"This was one of the most devastating ads of the Dem Primary," Whitlock tweeted.
"And a huge indictment of the Biden team’s decision to name Pete a cabinet Secretary."
In an email to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates declined to answer any questions about the ad, choosing instead to defend Buttigieg's use of a military plane to attend a sporting event in Europe.
"Could you please show us Fox’s similarly critical reporting from when Trump Administration officials and their spouses took military flights to the Invictus Games to support American veterans, before Pete Buttigieg — a Navy veteran who the President is proud to have serving in this administration — did the exact same thing?" Bates said.
Fox News Digital production assistant Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 45daeb3fd5
"Deleted Biden campaign ad slamming Buttigieg's lack of experience resurfaces amid multiple crises"
Story by Thomas Catenacci
4 JANUARY 2023
A political campaign ad released by President Biden's campaign ahead of the 2020 presidential election attacking Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a presidential candidate in Democratic primary, for his inexperience has resurfaced amid a series of crises.
The Biden campaign released the ad on published Feb. 8, 2020, days after the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses and days before the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary.
The video — which slammed Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, for his inexperience — was eventually deleted in December 2020 after Biden announced he would select Buttigieg to lead the Transportation Department during his administration.
"When President Obama called on him, Joe Biden helped lead the passage of the Affordable Care Act which gave health care to 20 million people," the now-deleted ad stated.
"And when parkgoers called on Pete Buttigieg, he installed decorative lights under bridges, giving citizens of South Bend colorfully illuminated rivers."
"Joe Biden helped save the auto industry which revitalized the economy of the Midwest and led the passage and implementation of the Recovery Act, saving our economy from a depression," it continued.
"Pete Buttigieg revitalized the sidewalks of downtown South Bend by laying out decorative brick."
The ad also stated that while Biden helped pass a ban on assault weapons and the Violence Against Women Act, Buttigieg fired the first African-American police chief of South Bend and forced out the African-American fire chief as well.
"We're electing a president," it concluded.
"What you've done matters."
Buttigieg won the highest number of delegates during the Iowa caucus and, despite the ad, finished in second behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the New Hampshire primary.
Buttigieg ultimately dropped out of the race on March 1 and Biden won the Democratic nomination with relative ease months later.
On Dec. 15, 2020, Biden selected Buttigieg for transportation secretary and deleted the ad that ripped the former small town mayor.
"He speaks to the best of who we are as a nation," Biden said at the time.
"I am nominating him for Secretary of Transportation because he's equipped to take on the challenges at the intersection of jobs, infrastructure, equity, and climate."
However, an archived copy of the ad resurfaced multiple times over the last week following a slate of recent crises facing the Department of Transportation under Buttigieg's leadership.
Fox News Digital reported on Wednesday that Buttigieg traveled to Europe on a military aircraft to attend the Fifth Invictus Games with his husband Chasten Buttigieg last spring.
The report came less than a month after a separate Fox News Digital report highlighting the Cabinet official's extensive use of government private jets, a practice that resulted in a resignation under former President Donald Trump.
In addition, Buttigieg has been battered by various crises including significant supply chain snarls, a potential rail strike and widespread commercial airline delays.
"Joe Biden warned us," Steve Guest, an adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted.
"His campaign nuked Mayor Pete for his lack of experience."
Republican communicator Matt Whitlock also posted about the deleted ad last week, saying, "Regular reminder that before he named him as Transportation Secretary, Joe Biden mocked Mayor Pete for his inexperience, noting that one of his greatest accomplishments was installing twinkly lights under bridges."
"Probably should’ve listened to his own ads."
"This was one of the most devastating ads of the Dem Primary," Whitlock tweeted.
"And a huge indictment of the Biden team’s decision to name Pete a cabinet Secretary."
In an email to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates declined to answer any questions about the ad, choosing instead to defend Buttigieg's use of a military plane to attend a sporting event in Europe.
"Could you please show us Fox’s similarly critical reporting from when Trump Administration officials and their spouses took military flights to the Invictus Games to support American veterans, before Pete Buttigieg — a Navy veteran who the President is proud to have serving in this administration — did the exact same thing?" Bates said.
Fox News Digital production assistant Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 45daeb3fd5
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
Jalopnik
"The U.S. Is Making the Same Mistakes With EVs That It Made With Gas-Powered Cars"
Story by José Rodríguez Jr.
4 JANUARY 2023
The auto industry is in the middle of a big shift to EVs, so now would be a good time for it to hunch down, hands on knees, and catch its breath.
Or if the auto industry won’t, then we, the buyers, should because U.S. automakers may be rushing us down the wrong way with bigger, faster but not better EVs.
That’s what the Atlantic claims in a report outlining the downsides of the EV transition in America, which I encourage you to go read since it lays out how automakers are repeating the same cycle of excess that got us into trouble in the first place.
The gist of it is that electric cars are better for the environment but they come with their own unique problems that we’re not trying to fix, including size and weight, speed and safety, and the relative waste of resources (battery metals) that comes with big fast EVs.
Some of those problems are hand-me-downs from combustion cars, which went from once-popular sedans to large trucks and SUVs, as the Atlantic explains:
But automakers’ focus on large, battery-powered SUVs and trucks reinforces a destructive American desire to drive something bigger, faster, and heavier than everyone else.
[...]
The forthcoming electric Chevrolet Silverado EV, for example, will weigh about 8,000 pounds, 3,000 more than the current gas-powered version.
And there will be a lot of these behemoths: A recent study from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that carmakers are rapidly shifting their EV lineups away from sedans and toward SUVs and trucks, just as they did earlier with gas-powered cars.
The timeline of EV production in the U.S. has mostly been overlooked as the microcosm that it is: electric cars have gone through the same progression that ICE-powered cars went through.
From small to big, slow to fast.
Think of the GM EV1... then the GMC Hummer EV.
How did that harmless little wedge from the 1990s beget the monstrous (yet massively popular) Hummer EV?
The answer is usually something about consumer demand, or about changes in buyer preference.
People want bigger, faster cars; people buy bigger, faster cars.
That’s why U.S. automakers keep giving them to us, but it’s not that simple.
Carmakers reportedly played a role here, too:
Indeed, carmakers are likely to claim that their EV designs and marketing pitches merely reflect the size and speed that Americans seek when considering their next vehicle.
The electrification of America’s vehicle fleet will happen faster, one could argue, the more consumers view EVs as objects of desire, rather than as obligatory concessions to the greater good.
But such claims treat car demand as fixed, overlooking ways in which carmakers’ multibillion-dollar advertising budgets shape consumer preferences.
Not to mention the fact that blaming consumer demand is a clever way of overlooking the legal (emissions) loophole bigger cars have enjoyed since the 1960s.
And that includes full-size crossovers, trucks and SUVs.
This mindset is now affecting EVs, as well.
When was the last time you saw a truly small EV in America?
I saw a new Chevy Bolt yesterday.
It was small, but not that small.
Or when was the last time instant torque wasn’t a part of the sales pitch for EVs?
I would take range over speed any day.
I guess I just want to know where the small, not fast cars went?
And why EVs in the U.S. haven’t managed to hit the reset button on size and weight.
I miss the EV1, the first Tesla Roadster, and the original Honda Insight.
The Honda e is still around overseas, and yet I miss it, too.
If you miss those cars, go read the article from the Atlantic.
At least you’ll know there are others wondering why modern EVs are so needlessly big, heavy and dangerously fast.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/th ... 905858cd95
"The U.S. Is Making the Same Mistakes With EVs That It Made With Gas-Powered Cars"
Story by José Rodríguez Jr.
4 JANUARY 2023
The auto industry is in the middle of a big shift to EVs, so now would be a good time for it to hunch down, hands on knees, and catch its breath.
Or if the auto industry won’t, then we, the buyers, should because U.S. automakers may be rushing us down the wrong way with bigger, faster but not better EVs.
That’s what the Atlantic claims in a report outlining the downsides of the EV transition in America, which I encourage you to go read since it lays out how automakers are repeating the same cycle of excess that got us into trouble in the first place.
The gist of it is that electric cars are better for the environment but they come with their own unique problems that we’re not trying to fix, including size and weight, speed and safety, and the relative waste of resources (battery metals) that comes with big fast EVs.
Some of those problems are hand-me-downs from combustion cars, which went from once-popular sedans to large trucks and SUVs, as the Atlantic explains:
But automakers’ focus on large, battery-powered SUVs and trucks reinforces a destructive American desire to drive something bigger, faster, and heavier than everyone else.
[...]
The forthcoming electric Chevrolet Silverado EV, for example, will weigh about 8,000 pounds, 3,000 more than the current gas-powered version.
And there will be a lot of these behemoths: A recent study from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that carmakers are rapidly shifting their EV lineups away from sedans and toward SUVs and trucks, just as they did earlier with gas-powered cars.
The timeline of EV production in the U.S. has mostly been overlooked as the microcosm that it is: electric cars have gone through the same progression that ICE-powered cars went through.
From small to big, slow to fast.
Think of the GM EV1... then the GMC Hummer EV.
How did that harmless little wedge from the 1990s beget the monstrous (yet massively popular) Hummer EV?
The answer is usually something about consumer demand, or about changes in buyer preference.
People want bigger, faster cars; people buy bigger, faster cars.
That’s why U.S. automakers keep giving them to us, but it’s not that simple.
Carmakers reportedly played a role here, too:
Indeed, carmakers are likely to claim that their EV designs and marketing pitches merely reflect the size and speed that Americans seek when considering their next vehicle.
The electrification of America’s vehicle fleet will happen faster, one could argue, the more consumers view EVs as objects of desire, rather than as obligatory concessions to the greater good.
But such claims treat car demand as fixed, overlooking ways in which carmakers’ multibillion-dollar advertising budgets shape consumer preferences.
Not to mention the fact that blaming consumer demand is a clever way of overlooking the legal (emissions) loophole bigger cars have enjoyed since the 1960s.
And that includes full-size crossovers, trucks and SUVs.
This mindset is now affecting EVs, as well.
When was the last time you saw a truly small EV in America?
I saw a new Chevy Bolt yesterday.
It was small, but not that small.
Or when was the last time instant torque wasn’t a part of the sales pitch for EVs?
I would take range over speed any day.
I guess I just want to know where the small, not fast cars went?
And why EVs in the U.S. haven’t managed to hit the reset button on size and weight.
I miss the EV1, the first Tesla Roadster, and the original Honda Insight.
The Honda e is still around overseas, and yet I miss it, too.
If you miss those cars, go read the article from the Atlantic.
At least you’ll know there are others wondering why modern EVs are so needlessly big, heavy and dangerously fast.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/th ... 905858cd95
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
FOX NEWS
"Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or 'warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die'"
Story by Hanna Panreck
1 FEBRUARY 2023
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that electric vehicles need to be "quickly mainstreamed" because lower-income Americans would benefit from them the most.
"There is now an estimate that says it’s literally — and this is not inflation, it’s four times the cost because of the number of folks that are going to benefit from it, and they’re taking advantage of it, the good news is they’re taking advantage of it."
"The bad news is the math is going to be a lot more expensive, which raises the question of actually whether the incentives needed to be as high as they are," CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin said.
Buttigieg replied that there had to be incentives that encouraged U.S.-based manufacturers to produce electric vehicles so that the electric revolution is "made in America."
He also said it was important that it happens quickly so that the U.S. "can meet our climate goals."
"Like any early technology, the early adopters of electric vehicles were people with a lot of means, a lot of resources."
"But this is something that needs to get quickly mainstreamed, especially when you consider that the Americans who stand the most to benefit from having an EV are lower income Americans paying a higher share of their family budget on gas prices," he added.
Sorkin followed up about the overall trend towards electric vehicles in the U.S. and asked if the administration was going to look back in four years and believe that the incentives were too large given that people were already moving towards electric vehicles.
"So like if we didn’t care whether the EV revolution was going to be led by China, if we didn’t care whether or not U.S. manufacturers with high labor standards were going to be at the cutting edge, then I guess we could have not bothered with the incentives and see how that played out, if we didn’t care about the pace of it, right?"
"And if we said, look, these will happen sooner or later, if these climate wins come a few years later and that warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die because of that, that’s why we have policy interventions," Buttigieg said.
President Biden touted electric vehicle tax credits in a Twitter post on Monday that included a photo of him posing in a GMC Hummer EV.
A GMC Hummer EV costs anywhere between $87,000 and $110,000 and does not qualify for the tax credit because SUVs and trucks must not exceed a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $80,000, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
"On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified," Biden tweeted on Monday.
"And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle."
The Biden administration recently awarded $1.2 billion in grant funding to different transportation-related projects across the U.S.
The administration based their grant funding decisions in part on the environmental and equity goals of the project.
The law funding these projects, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, requires officials to consider whether the project benefits a "historically disadvantaged community or population."
The law also requires officials to consider the project's construction and equipment needed and whether it would demonstrate "reductions in greenhouse gas emissions."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete- ... 080678b339
"Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or 'warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die'"
Story by Hanna Panreck
1 FEBRUARY 2023
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that electric vehicles need to be "quickly mainstreamed" because lower-income Americans would benefit from them the most.
"There is now an estimate that says it’s literally — and this is not inflation, it’s four times the cost because of the number of folks that are going to benefit from it, and they’re taking advantage of it, the good news is they’re taking advantage of it."
"The bad news is the math is going to be a lot more expensive, which raises the question of actually whether the incentives needed to be as high as they are," CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin said.
Buttigieg replied that there had to be incentives that encouraged U.S.-based manufacturers to produce electric vehicles so that the electric revolution is "made in America."
He also said it was important that it happens quickly so that the U.S. "can meet our climate goals."
"Like any early technology, the early adopters of electric vehicles were people with a lot of means, a lot of resources."
"But this is something that needs to get quickly mainstreamed, especially when you consider that the Americans who stand the most to benefit from having an EV are lower income Americans paying a higher share of their family budget on gas prices," he added.
Sorkin followed up about the overall trend towards electric vehicles in the U.S. and asked if the administration was going to look back in four years and believe that the incentives were too large given that people were already moving towards electric vehicles.
"So like if we didn’t care whether the EV revolution was going to be led by China, if we didn’t care whether or not U.S. manufacturers with high labor standards were going to be at the cutting edge, then I guess we could have not bothered with the incentives and see how that played out, if we didn’t care about the pace of it, right?"
"And if we said, look, these will happen sooner or later, if these climate wins come a few years later and that warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die because of that, that’s why we have policy interventions," Buttigieg said.
President Biden touted electric vehicle tax credits in a Twitter post on Monday that included a photo of him posing in a GMC Hummer EV.
A GMC Hummer EV costs anywhere between $87,000 and $110,000 and does not qualify for the tax credit because SUVs and trucks must not exceed a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $80,000, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
"On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified," Biden tweeted on Monday.
"And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle."
The Biden administration recently awarded $1.2 billion in grant funding to different transportation-related projects across the U.S.
The administration based their grant funding decisions in part on the environmental and equity goals of the project.
The law funding these projects, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, requires officials to consider whether the project benefits a "historically disadvantaged community or population."
The law also requires officials to consider the project's construction and equipment needed and whether it would demonstrate "reductions in greenhouse gas emissions."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pete- ... 080678b339
Re: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR FEBRUARY 4, 2023 AT 9:09 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to Biden Secretary of Transportation Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg in the Fox News story “Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or ‘warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die’” by Hanna Panreck on 1 February 2023, the other day, I saw a political cartoon with a windmill with ice-coated propeller blades on one side, and on the another, some hapless dude with his BIDEN-MOBILE plugged into a charging station and he is on his cell phone saying “but I got it plugged in right and still nothing is happening.”
And since a picture is worth a thousand words, take a minute to open this Associated Press link on an AP story titled “Germany: Wind turbine collapses hours before official launch” on September 30, 2021 to see what a modern-day windmill looks like when it has self-destructed and has come raining down in pieces to create an expensive pile of junk that doesn’t make electricity, anymore, OH, THE HUMANITY:
https://apnews.com/article/business-eur ... 087d50ed6b
That windmill which was to have a big celebration for it that same day was just six months old.
But let’s go back to Fox News and Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, once a mere small town mayor with no real accomplishments other than being thought nice, who is now one of the most important persons in the world because Peter is going to save us all from dying of global warming, where we have more Peter as follows:
Buttigieg replied that there had to be incentives that encouraged U.S.-based manufacturers to produce electric vehicles so that the electric revolution is “made in America.”
He also said it was important that it happens quickly so that the U.S. “can meet our climate goals.”
end quotes
To be correct here, those are not “our” climate goals, those are Joe Biden’s arbitrary and capricious climate goals that are being imposed on us by executive fiat, which takes us back to Fox and Peter, to wit:
“Like any early technology, the early adopters of electric vehicles were people with a lot of means, a lot of resources.”
“But this is something that needs to get quickly mainstreamed, especially when you consider that the Americans who stand the most to benefit from having an EV are lower income Americans paying a higher share of their family budget on gas prices,” he added.
end quotes
And let us stop right there, a moment, because first of all, electricity, whether it comes from a coal-fired turbine, a gas-fired turbine, a windmill generator or a solar cell IS NOT FREE, and secondly, it is their ELECTRIC BILLS that the low income people are having trouble paying, as we see in this UtilityDive article titled “Retail electricity prices continue rapid rise; US homes could pay more than 15 cents/kWh next year: EIA – More than 20 million families are behind on their utility bills, and their debt is growing, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association” by Robert Walton, Senior Reporter, on September 9, 2022, to wit:
The federal government expects the price of electricity will continue to rise into 2023, and consumer advocates warn that customer arrears are rising as well.
end quotes
The federal government expects?
But doesn’t Peter work for the federal government?
Shouldn’t he know that?
And of course not, because as a failed Democrat presidential contender, Peter has a sinecure (a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit) with the federal government, not a real job where he would actually have to know something and be competent, which takes us back to UtilityDive, to wit:
The average price of electricity for residential consumers could reach $0.1524/kWh in 2023, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast on Thursday in its latest Short Term Energy Outlook.
That would represent about a 3.3% increase from this year — and EIA says prices are already 7.5% higher today than they were in 2021.
The agency is forecasting U.S. residential electricity prices will average about $0.1475/kWh in 2022, up from $0.1372 in 2021 and $0.1316 in 2020.
If EIA’s 2023 forecast is accurate, that would indicate an almost 16% increase in electricity prices in the four-year period.
end quotes
So that is all the stuff Peter Buttigieg doesn’t know, because Joe Biden doesn’t expect Peter to know anything, which if he did would make Peter a political threat to Joe, who also knows nothing, but let’s go back to the article to see what those high electricity prices are doing to real, not theoretical, low income people in America, to wit:
“These are very high prices and will not be affordable for many households,” Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, said in an email.
NEADA represents state directors of the federal government’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
In August, the group released data showing U.S. families have about $16 billion in utility debt, up from $8.1 billion at the end of 2019.
The average amount owed rose from about $403 to $792, the group said.
“We expect to see continued high arrearages accrued by families who cannot afford to pay these high prices on top of continued high rates [of] inflation in other essential goods like food and shelter,” Wolfe said.
end quotes
So what is Peter’s solution?
Make those people have to buy an expensive EV they can’t afford so they can wrack up even more debt!
Stupid is as stupid does!
But there is more:
Congress added $4.5 billion to LIHEAP as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, but NEADA maintains that the amount is “insufficient.”
end quotes
And here for the moment, I will rest!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-755568
Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to Biden Secretary of Transportation Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg in the Fox News story “Pete Buttigieg: EV incentives needed or ‘warming happens just a little quicker and a few more people die’” by Hanna Panreck on 1 February 2023, the other day, I saw a political cartoon with a windmill with ice-coated propeller blades on one side, and on the another, some hapless dude with his BIDEN-MOBILE plugged into a charging station and he is on his cell phone saying “but I got it plugged in right and still nothing is happening.”
And since a picture is worth a thousand words, take a minute to open this Associated Press link on an AP story titled “Germany: Wind turbine collapses hours before official launch” on September 30, 2021 to see what a modern-day windmill looks like when it has self-destructed and has come raining down in pieces to create an expensive pile of junk that doesn’t make electricity, anymore, OH, THE HUMANITY:
https://apnews.com/article/business-eur ... 087d50ed6b
That windmill which was to have a big celebration for it that same day was just six months old.
But let’s go back to Fox News and Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, once a mere small town mayor with no real accomplishments other than being thought nice, who is now one of the most important persons in the world because Peter is going to save us all from dying of global warming, where we have more Peter as follows:
Buttigieg replied that there had to be incentives that encouraged U.S.-based manufacturers to produce electric vehicles so that the electric revolution is “made in America.”
He also said it was important that it happens quickly so that the U.S. “can meet our climate goals.”
end quotes
To be correct here, those are not “our” climate goals, those are Joe Biden’s arbitrary and capricious climate goals that are being imposed on us by executive fiat, which takes us back to Fox and Peter, to wit:
“Like any early technology, the early adopters of electric vehicles were people with a lot of means, a lot of resources.”
“But this is something that needs to get quickly mainstreamed, especially when you consider that the Americans who stand the most to benefit from having an EV are lower income Americans paying a higher share of their family budget on gas prices,” he added.
end quotes
And let us stop right there, a moment, because first of all, electricity, whether it comes from a coal-fired turbine, a gas-fired turbine, a windmill generator or a solar cell IS NOT FREE, and secondly, it is their ELECTRIC BILLS that the low income people are having trouble paying, as we see in this UtilityDive article titled “Retail electricity prices continue rapid rise; US homes could pay more than 15 cents/kWh next year: EIA – More than 20 million families are behind on their utility bills, and their debt is growing, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association” by Robert Walton, Senior Reporter, on September 9, 2022, to wit:
The federal government expects the price of electricity will continue to rise into 2023, and consumer advocates warn that customer arrears are rising as well.
end quotes
The federal government expects?
But doesn’t Peter work for the federal government?
Shouldn’t he know that?
And of course not, because as a failed Democrat presidential contender, Peter has a sinecure (a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit) with the federal government, not a real job where he would actually have to know something and be competent, which takes us back to UtilityDive, to wit:
The average price of electricity for residential consumers could reach $0.1524/kWh in 2023, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast on Thursday in its latest Short Term Energy Outlook.
That would represent about a 3.3% increase from this year — and EIA says prices are already 7.5% higher today than they were in 2021.
The agency is forecasting U.S. residential electricity prices will average about $0.1475/kWh in 2022, up from $0.1372 in 2021 and $0.1316 in 2020.
If EIA’s 2023 forecast is accurate, that would indicate an almost 16% increase in electricity prices in the four-year period.
end quotes
So that is all the stuff Peter Buttigieg doesn’t know, because Joe Biden doesn’t expect Peter to know anything, which if he did would make Peter a political threat to Joe, who also knows nothing, but let’s go back to the article to see what those high electricity prices are doing to real, not theoretical, low income people in America, to wit:
“These are very high prices and will not be affordable for many households,” Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, said in an email.
NEADA represents state directors of the federal government’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
In August, the group released data showing U.S. families have about $16 billion in utility debt, up from $8.1 billion at the end of 2019.
The average amount owed rose from about $403 to $792, the group said.
“We expect to see continued high arrearages accrued by families who cannot afford to pay these high prices on top of continued high rates [of] inflation in other essential goods like food and shelter,” Wolfe said.
end quotes
So what is Peter’s solution?
Make those people have to buy an expensive EV they can’t afford so they can wrack up even more debt!
Stupid is as stupid does!
But there is more:
Congress added $4.5 billion to LIHEAP as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, but NEADA maintains that the amount is “insufficient.”
end quotes
And here for the moment, I will rest!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-755568