{"id":1064576,"date":"2021-11-29T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064576"},"modified":"2021-11-29T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:44:28","slug":"pete-buttigieg-rural-drivers-should-buy-electric-cars-because-they-use-the-most-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-rural-drivers-should-buy-electric-cars-because-they-use-the-most-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg: Rural Drivers Should Buy Electric Cars Because They Use the Most Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpete-buttigieg-rural-drivers-should-buy-electric-cars-because-they-use-the-most-gas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064576&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday rural and suburban voters should buy electric cars because they burn the most gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who stand to benefit most from owning an EV are often rural residents, who have the longest distances to drive, they often burn the most gas,\u201d Buttigieg said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-sunday-show\/watch\/the-infrastructure-bill-in-action-127353925939\">interview<\/a> with MSNBC\u2019s Jonathan Capehart.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He also argued low-income suburban drivers would benefit from electric vehicles because gas near urban areas was more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would gain the most from having that vehicle, but these are the very residents who have not always been connected to electric vehicles that are viewed as kind of a luxury item,\u201d Buttigieg said.<\/p>\n<p>He promoted Biden\u2019s Build Back Better social entitlement bill for restoring a tax credit of up to $12,500 for union-made electric vehicles, noting \u201cfamilies who once they own that vehicle will never have to worry about gas prices again.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18931770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236004202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18931770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236004202-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg looks at an EVgo charging station during an electric vehicles event outside of the Department of Transportation October 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Electric vehicle advocates and manufacturers convened at the Department of Transportation to showcase electric vehicle capabilities and their expanding availability. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18931714\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1352107595.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18931714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1352107595-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>White House Deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reaches to retrieve her mask as U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on November 08, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Buttigieg\u2019s comments track with the White House messaging for all Americans concerned by high gas prices to buy an electric car.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden touted electric cars as a way to beat high gas prices in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-addresses-high-gas-prices-americans-can-save-money-if-they-buy-electric-cars\/\">speech<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the hundreds of thousands of folks who bought one of those electric cars, they\u2019re going to save $800 to $1000 in fuel costs this year,\u201d Biden said, referring to the $112,595 electric Hummer pickup he test drove at a General Motors factory in Detroit earlier this month<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-bidens-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm-does-not-know-how-many-barrels-of-oil-u-s-uses-per-day\/\">said<\/a> last week the best strategy to tackle high gas prices was to get Americans off fossil fuels and onto clean energy and electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the best strategy long term to protect American consumers from these energy price shocks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday rural and suburban voters should buy electric cars because they burn the most gasoline. \u201cThe people who stand to benefit most from owning an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}