Why do staunch republicans hate electric vehicles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Temporary, non-scalable solution. Hydrogen will power cars, trucks, trains and ocean going vessels by the 2050s. It is the real future due to scalability and ready made infrastructure. Gas stations become hydrogen stations over time.

Musk is a modern day PT Barnum.

Is this an April Fools Day post? Hydrogen has a ready made infrastructure?? Who is the PT Barnum here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distracting the proles from real issues. Nobody in real life gives a damn what car someone else drives. We have both electric and ICE cars, it doesn't matter. It's like caring what brand of jeans someone is wearing. Do not care. Waste of mindshare. Just drowning out real issues with this fake theater.

No one wants to be told which car to buy.

[Anonymous]

Tesla just sacked their entire supercharger team today.

This is big.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a demand problem.

[Anonymous]

In 2021, the Biden administration pledged it would build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030. So far, it’s built seven.

Last month, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg—who administers the funds apportioned for EV charger construction in the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Act—said Americans should not be surprised at the time it takes to stand up "a new category of federal investment."
"It’s more than just plunking a small device into the ground," Buttigieg said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation.
But internal memos from the Department of Transportation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, as well as interviews with those who are responsible for overseeing the implementation of the electric vehicle charging station project, say the delay is in large part a result of the White House’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
"These requirements are screwing everything up," said one senior Department of Transportation staffer who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It’s all a mess."
President Joe Biden has reportedly expressed frustration with the pace at which his much-touted infrastructure projects are getting built. A "close ally" of the White House told CNN last December that Biden "wants this stuff now," and a White House spokesman added that the president "constantly pushes his team to ensure we are moving as quickly as possible."
But Biden may only have himself to blame.
Shortly after taking office, the president signed an executive order mandating that the beneficiaries of 40 percent of all federal climate and environmental programs should come from "underserved communities." The order also established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which monitors agencies such as the Department of Transportation to ensure the "voices, perspectives, and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions."
In order to qualify for a grant, applicants must "demonstrate how meaningful public involvement, inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project’s life cycle." What "public involvement" means is unclear. But the Department of Transportation notes it should involve "intentional outreach to underserved communities."
That outreach, the Department of Transportation states, can take the form of "games and contests," "visual preference surveys," or "neighborhood block parties" so long as the grant recipient provides "multilingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use languages other than English."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Distracting the proles from real issues. Nobody in real life gives a damn what car someone else drives. We have both electric and ICE cars, it doesn't matter. It's like caring what brand of jeans someone is wearing. Do not care. Waste of mindshare. Just drowning out real issues with this fake theater.

That's great. You drive what you want. But we don't need a bunch of bureaucratic ideologues throwing billions to try to prop up one industry over another. Let the market decide.

BTW, those billions spent necessarily means those billions won't be spent somewhere else, so other industries are being artificially starved for stuff no one wants if they have to pay for it out of their own pocket. That's my objection. Either pay off the national debt or return it to the tax payers.

[Anonymous]

Electric vehicles dislocate the site of energy production from the places where that energy is discharged.

That makes it easy to pretend that your electric car does not depend on fossil fuels.

Magical thinking is important to liberals, less so for republicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Temporary, non-scalable solution. Hydrogen will power cars, trucks, trains and ocean going vessels by the 2050s. It is the real future due to scalability and ready made infrastructure. Gas stations become hydrogen stations over time.

Musk is a modern day PT Barnum.

Is this an April Fools Day post? Hydrogen has a ready made infrastructure?? Who is the PT Barnum here?

It does. The infrastructure is set up for ammonia (NH3) fertilizer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Electric vehicles dislocate the site of energy production from the places where that energy is discharged.

That makes it easy to pretend that your electric car does not depend on fossil fuels.

Magical thinking is important to liberals, less so for republicans.

My electric car depends on my solar panel. Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Electric vehicles dislocate the site of energy production from the places where that energy is discharged.

That makes it easy to pretend that your electric car does not depend on fossil fuels.

Magical thinking is important to liberals, less so for republicans.

My electric car depends on my solar panel. Hope that helps.

And, when you drive your EV a couple states over - what does it depend on then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Electric vehicles dislocate the site of energy production from the places where that energy is discharged.

That makes it easy to pretend that your electric car does not depend on fossil fuels.

Magical thinking is important to liberals, less so for republicans.

Tell us again how you do not understand about point pollution, the electric power generation by type or how much pollution ICE cars generate. Republicans live in a little world of Fox News and ignorance. Please stay there.

[Anonymous]

Because charging stations are about a billion dollars apiece to build. So still no infrastructure to support them. Never will be one.

They are virtue signaling devices for people with home charging stations that use them to go go grocery shopping.

[Anonymous]

Staunch Republican. No issues with electric vehicles, drive a hybrid myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because charging stations are about a billion dollars apiece to build. So still no infrastructure to support them. Never will be one.

They are virtue signaling devices for people with home charging stations that use them to go go grocery shopping.

What in the...? Charging stations do not cost a billion dollars. And there are hundreds if not thousands of them. We only own electric cars and regularly do long (14+ hour) trips in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Staunch Republican. No issues with electric vehicles, drive a hybrid myself.

Word. Just bought the Santa Fe 2024 hybrid.
Was skeptical bout how much benefit I would get, as I’m on the highway a lot. But averaging almost 35 mpg. Not gonna lie that it’s a bit sluggish, but apparently the regular gas Santa Fe is also not a particularly peppy ride. It’s a V6 with turbo, and that’s not my favorite.
But it’s a smooth ride. Drives nice.