Why do Republicans hate electric cars?

[Anonymous]

A.) Nobody is shoving Teslas in your face. That comment makes no sense.
B.) Nobody has taken your choice away.
C.) No, there's no grand scheme to control you. Tesla is a company, they make cars. People buy their cars because they like them. If you don't like them, fine, don't buy one.
D.) CA = 'crazy ville?' Unhinged comment. No further commentary needed there.
E.) EPA has not taken over anyone's thought process. Pollution is actually a real thing. When people spew black smoke from their diesel powered 4x4s it actually does make people sick via PM2.5 particulates that are so fine they pass through the lung's membranes and go straight into your blood stream.
F.) You know who's sucking off of taxpayers? Oil and gas companies that have pipelines that spill and poison rivers and farmers fields, coal companies and power plants that fill rivers with toxic coal ash sludge, et cetera - and it ends up being taxpayers bearing the cost of cleanup. They privatize the profits but socialize the cost and risk. So much for free market.
And by the way:
G.) The fossil fuel industry in the US has been subsidized for over 100 years.

Those are realities. And they won't "go away.

Love this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why do you start inane threads about Republicans hating....insert subject...based on such a limited discussion?

FYI, contractions require a ' so you spell don't rather than dont.

There are several Republicans who replied to this post that they would simply not buy electric cars because Democrats like them. Does that sound inane to you?

Yes it does. Especially since you have no way of knowing that they are in fact what they say they are.

[Anonymous]

I'm not against electric cars, but I am against the huge subsidies that electric car buyers get from the government. The government has better things to do with their money than cut checks to wealthy people who buy a $100,000 electric sports car. How about helping some poor people for a change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not against electric cars, but I am against the huge subsidies that electric car buyers get from the government. The government has better things to do with their money than cut checks to wealthy people who buy a $100,000 electric sports car. How about helping some poor people for a change.

Have you read the farm bill lately? That is exactly what that does with agriculture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I am sure you are aware that the US is a net exporter and very little foreign oil (mostly North Sea) is imported to produce gasoline. Of course you knew that. Just forgot.

No, the vast majority of our oil is imported and we are importing more than before. That is because our refiners are tuned for heavy oil (not natural gas)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/04/17/why-u-s-crude-oil-imports-are-rising/#7543655b143f

The vast majority? BS More than ever? BS

"In 2016, U.S. net imports (imports minus exports) of petroleum from foreign countries were equal to about 25% of U.S. petroleum consumption. This percentage was up slightly from 24% in 2015, which was the lowest level since 1970."

Reason being refining? BS You didn't read the whole article because if you did you would see there are a number of reasons, not just refining.

FYI, Canada is the largest gross exporter to the U.S. with the next three, all below 10%, being Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela. And if the barrel price gets back to a reasonable $75 you will see our production go back up.

[Anonymous]

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6

According to EIA we still import about 25% of petroleum products. Which means our economy can still easily be held hostage but foreign entities.


Even if you're a hardcore Trump supporter and you dont believe in Climate change or the apparent effect of vehicular pollution it is still in our best interest economically, financially and regarding our security that we get out of OIL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6

According to EIA we still import about 25% of petroleum products. Which means our economy can still easily be held hostage but foreign entities.


Even if you're a hardcore Trump supporter and you dont believe in Climate change or the apparent effect of vehicular pollution it is still in our best interest economically, financially and regarding our security that we get out of OIL.

They don't care. They will burn down the country before they admit that liberal policies are good. Remember how a few decades ago, good conservatives could get behind cap and trade? Not anymore. It's heresy to admit that cutting back on fuel consumption, or even pollution, is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6

According to EIA we still import about 25% of petroleum products. Which means our economy can still easily be held hostage but foreign entities.


Even if you're a hardcore Trump supporter and you dont believe in Climate change or the apparent effect of vehicular pollution it is still in our best interest economically, financially and regarding our security that we get out of OIL.

They don't care. They will burn down the country before they admit that liberal policies are good. Remember how a few decades ago, good conservatives could get behind cap and trade? Not anymore. It's heresy to admit that cutting back on fuel consumption, or even pollution, is a good thing.

Speak for yourself and your own hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6

According to EIA we still import about 25% of petroleum products. Which means our economy can still easily be held hostage but foreign entities.


Even if you're a hardcore Trump supporter and you dont believe in Climate change or the apparent effect of vehicular pollution it is still in our best interest economically, financially and regarding our security that we get out of OIL.

It would be good to remember that OIL (as you capitalize it), is used for far more than energy. It is used in nearly everything you touch or use or walk on or drive on every single day. The tires on your car, the lipstick on your lips. The keyboard and computer you typed this message on . . . the roads and sidewalks. Your nail polish remover. Medications. Everything.

Calm down on the big oil diatribe. They do more for your life than just power you.

[Anonymous]

Because electric car = reduced emission= climate change is a hoax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6

According to EIA we still import about 25% of petroleum products. Which means our economy can still easily be held hostage but foreign entities.


Even if you're a hardcore Trump supporter and you dont believe in Climate change or the apparent effect of vehicular pollution it is still in our best interest economically, financially and regarding our security that we get out of OIL.

It would be good to remember that OIL (as you capitalize it), is used for far more than energy. It is used in nearly everything you touch or use or walk on or drive on every single day. The tires on your car, the lipstick on your lips. The keyboard and computer you typed this message on . . . the roads and sidewalks. Your nail polish remover. Medications. Everything.

Calm down on the big oil diatribe. They do more for your life than just power you.

Great. And it would be also good to remember that non-fuel uses of oil total to less than 16% of our consumption, and it does not end up in the atmosphere. So not relevant to he discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6

According to EIA we still import about 25% of petroleum products. Which means our economy can still easily be held hostage but foreign entities.


Even if you're a hardcore Trump supporter and you dont believe in Climate change or the apparent effect of vehicular pollution it is still in our best interest economically, financially and regarding our security that we get out of OIL.

They don't care. They will burn down the country before they admit that liberal policies are good. Remember how a few decades ago, good conservatives could get behind cap and trade? Not anymore. It's heresy to admit that cutting back on fuel consumption, or even pollution, is a good thing.

Could get behind it? Hell, it was THEIR IDEA! Yet another example of conservative hypocrisy. As if we needed more.

[Anonymous]

reat. And it would be also good to remember that non-fuel uses of oil total to less than 16% of our consumption, and it does not end up in the atmosphere. So not relevant to he discussion

Citations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Republican and I am not in favor of anything being shoved in my face, I think I deserve the right to choose. I see all electric, self driving cars as another means of control by the left. Not interested, over time I suspect electric cars will become the norm, and that is how it should be, over time. Not government mandated, it should be a result of freedom of choice. Also, I won't purchase anything made in CA until they come back from
"crazy ville" and that may never happen.

Elon Musk is not liberal, he’s publicly said that he’s a mix of democrat and republican. Also, I’m not quite sure what you mean by “crazy-ville,” but I think it’s safe to assume you mean that you won’t by anything made in a liberal state (even though the people make the cars aren’t necessarily liberal, and that wouldn’t affect how they make the cars). I do agree that electric cars shouldn’t be governmentally mandated, and I’m sure Elon Musk agrees with that, because he started an electric car company rather than telling the government to illegality gas cars. I’m also not sure how electric cars are shoved in your face more than gas cars, because the biggest electric car company doesn’t run any ads. That being said, I respect your opinion, and your right to choose which kind of car you drive

[Anonymous]

Teslas are 82% powered by coal and natural gas.

That is a FACT.