Let them eat cake!

Pelosi "look at my ice cream!"

😆, yup that’s another one. They are so arrogant they don’t see it.

Kind of like if we had universal healthcare, Obamacare wouldn't have been such a disaster lol.

No the left is just incompetent and doesn't understand cause and effect.

While I agree they are incompetent and don’t understand cause and effect, I also believe their leadership is elitist and believes they are superior
To the dumb American peasants who they need to tell what to do.

Especially since she owns stock in an electric car company.

WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME :0)

Yes she did. Or do you mean Marie Antoinette? There is debate that she never actually said that.

Well, maybe if electric cars were made more affordable for poor working class shmucks like me, we’d consider switching to electric.

Not me, I live in Cali and electricity ain’t much cheaper than gas and there’s already a sufficient shortage for power to go out several times each summer.

That sucks, sorry to hear that. Have you considered moving to a red state? :(

Everybody has, but it’s my home and I have trouble with cutting and running. There’s more Republican voters in California than Texas. So some local communities are still sane but statewide the communists are in charge.

Stay there and fight for change, my friend.

I mean...she's not wrong...but that's such a gross oversimplification of the issue.

It assumes that people have the financial freedom to just buy a new electric car to avoid the energy shortage.

Or that it's better to save a few emissions than put a pump station out of business, for example.

Charging an electric car with a fossil fuel driven electric plant does almost nothing to tomcorrect climate change. And how many electric tanks and aircraft does the US military have?

There are plenty of great ways to generate lots of clean power, many of which are in use. Don't make the mistaken assumption that all electricity is generated via fossil fuel.

I'm not sure why we've not gone largely nuclear yet, for example. This ain't the 50's; reactors are safe, we can dispose of the waste effectively, and overall it's far more efficient for generating large amounts of power safely. There are also some really neat new hydrogen plants that can refine hydrogen from water via hydrolysis. You could then use this hydrogen as a fuel itself or burn it for electricity. Either way it's very clean and very efficient.

And you and I both know the U.S military doesn't use electric engines in its vehicles because the technology to effectively power them simply does not exist. Tesla's aren't tanks. Tanks need absurd amounts of power to both simply move the massive vehicle and power an ever growing suite of onboard systems. Aircraft are even more demanding in these regards. They'll go electric one day, but most definitely not today.

Those options do exist, but as of 2019, the US still got 80% of its electricity from fossil fuels, according to eia.gov.

Well no kidding...we're still developing the technology (outside of nuclear, but that's not used more commonly because of misplaced fears by uninformed idiots).

Again, as electricity and hydrogen continue to become more efficient and more viable when compared to traditional gasoline, they will become more commonplace. This is just the basic reality of the situation. Can't run when you've barely learned to walk.

I wonder if solar powered cars are a thing. If they are, they’re probably expensive too.