The Climate Emergency

Predictably, the radical left is once again using the summer heatwave to declare a “climate emergency.” Remember this when it’s winter and it’s -13 outside. It’s called weather. It happens. 

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was again pushing electric vehicles (EVs) that most Americans can’t afford as some sort of planet-saving solution. 

They really are the “Marie Antoinette Party.” You know -- the French royal who suggested her suffering subjects should eat cake when they couldn’t even afford bread. As the American people are going broke trying to buy gas, Pete says, “Let them drive EVs.”

The average price of a new electric vehicle is $67,000. That’s nearly twice the average price for a new compact SUV ($35,000) with a traditional gasoline engine. 

Incredibly, Buttigieg tried to argue that people can afford the higher car payments for electric vehicles if they’re not buying gas at $5.00 a gallon. 

Well, the problem with that analysis is that many Americans can’t afford any car payment at all. The average age of cars on the road today is 12.2 years old. Americans are keeping their cars longer so they don’t have to make car payments.

Once again, they are clueless about how the average American family lives.

Kudos to Rep. Thomas Massie for explaining some basic facts to Secretary Buttigieg. He noted that charging an electric vehicle uses 25 times the amount of electricity as the average refrigerator and four times the amount of electricity as the average home uses for air conditioning. 

So, let’s assume that everyone suddenly went out and bought electric vehicles and plugged in the equivalent of 25 refrigerators or four air conditioners. If every American actually took their advice, we would crash the electrical grid. And where exactly is all that extra electricity going to come from?