{"id":54074,"date":"2022-08-04T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54074"},"modified":"2022-08-04T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:27:07","slug":"republicans-get-pissy-when-buttigieg-praises-biden-bill-that-makes-evs-more-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54074","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Get Pissy When Buttigieg Praises Biden Bill that Makes EVs More Affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party seems to be committed to establishing itself as an anti-American confederacy that is focused only on acquiring and maintaining money and power. They demonstrate on a daily basis that their only loyalty is to the twice-impeached, former reality TV game show host, and aspiring authoritarian dictator, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Republicans Get Pissy When Buttigiege Praises Biden Bill that Makes EVs More Affordable%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54074\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Dem\/biden-gop-titanic.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Biden, GOP, Titanic\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The GOP (Greedy One Percent) appears to have little interest in advancing any affirmative policies. They have no principles, no ideas, and no purpose other than to obstruct Democrats from implementing the overwhelmingly popular programs addressing reproductive choice, gun safety, climate change, voting rights, tax fairness, healthcare, and more. The record of the past two years <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53050\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">validates the success of the Democrats&#8217; efforts<\/a><\/strong>. The GOP, by contrast, are dismissing this at their own political peril.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54049\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rep Eric Swalwell Says \u2018This is Gonna Be a Wave Election Alright&#8230;A BLUE One!\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Republicans remain staunchly devoted to their current perverse agenda of preventing any positive progress on behalf of the American people. They illustrated this again after Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, appeared on MSNBC to tout the benefits of the <em>&#8220;Inflation Reduction Act&#8221;<\/em> offered by President Biden and the Democrats. Buttigieg made several points about the bill&#8217;s provisions, which predictably sent the Republican National Committee (RNC) into a tizzy on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>RNC:<\/strong> Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defends the green energy handouts \u2014 a $7,500 giveaway to wealthy Americans for electric vehicles, which have an average cost of $67K \u2014 in the Bidenflation Scam.<br \/>\n<strong>Buttigieg:<\/strong> I&#8217;m excited about the electric vehicle provisions because what this will do is reduce the price, through tax credits, of an electric vehicle. And if you see that lower sticker price and can afford an EV, you&#8217;re also gonna be saving money every day that you own it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg defends the green energy handouts \u2014 a $7,500 giveaway to wealthy Americans for electric vehicles, which have an average cost of $67K \u2014 in the Bidenflation Scam. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E3UJaOlxJe\">pic.twitter.com\/E3UJaOlxJe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1555219996158181376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s curious that the RNC is so outraged by a $7,500 tax credit that will enable Americans to purchase a clean energy car and save money on fuel, but they aren&#8217;t the least bit bothered by billions of dollars going to oil companies who will use it to further pollute the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC also dishonestly tries to mislead by citing the average cost of an electric vehicle. Nobody buys a car based on what the average price is of all makes and models. The presence of BMWs and Mercedes and Audis would make the averages for all sedans also look unattainably high. The truth is that many EVs are available for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cars.com\/articles\/here-are-the-11-cheapest-electric-vehicles-you-can-buy-439849\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less than $35,000<\/a><\/strong>. And the RNC knows that. However, they went on to disinform with a bit of sarcasm, saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>RNC:<\/strong> Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: Electric vehicles are the &#8220;best&#8221; solution for Americans facing sky-high gas prices<br \/>\n<strong>Buttigieg:<\/strong> The best thing we can do for the medium and long term is make sure Americans have more options through greater fuel efficiency, and greater access to vehicles that don&#8217;t require gasoline at all. So that Americans don&#8217;t have to worry about what&#8217;s happening in some Middle Eastern capitol or foreign war zone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: Electric vehicles are the &quot;best&quot; solution for Americans facing sky-high gas prices <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xIsLGIeq7e\">pic.twitter.com\/xIsLGIeq7e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1555217379839414276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Buttigieg is right. There is no better option, for the environment as well as people&#8217;s pocketbooks, than moving toward a cleaner future in transportation. But the RNC just lamely mocks that notion without putting forward any other proposal that they think would be better.<\/p>\n<p>This is typical of today&#8217;s Trumpified Republican Party. The only things they offer are hurdles to block progress and hostility toward those who actually want to make life better for the American people. And their lame attempts to distort reality are easily rebutted, as Buttigieg has proven before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53855\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Buttigieg Delivers Deft Smackdown of a Pinhead Republican\u2019s Lunatic Anti-Biden Harangue<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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They demonstrate on a daily basis that their only loyalty is to the twice-impeached, former reality TV game show host, and aspiring authoritarian dictator, Donald Trump. Click here to Tweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[219,473,1,1200],"tags":[218,1145,377,1369,301,397],"class_list":["post-54074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-general","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-environment","tag-joe-biden","tag-pete-buttigieg","tag-republicans","tag-rnc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-e4a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53855,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53855","url_meta":{"origin":54074,"position":0},"title":"Pete Buttigieg Delivers Deft Smackdown of a Pinhead Republican&#8217;s Lunatic Anti-Biden Harangue","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/20\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Among the most damaging deviations of Donald Trump's infestation of the White House has been the spread of his deranged brand of ignorance and asininity. 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