{"id":1363020,"date":"2022-03-07T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1363020"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:54:13","slug":"pete-buttigieg-promotes-electric-cars-public-transportation-as-solution-to-high-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-promotes-electric-cars-public-transportation-as-solution-to-high-gas-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg Promotes Electric Cars; Public Transportation as Solution to High Gas Prices"},"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\">26<\/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-promotes-electric-cars-public-transportation-as-solution-to-high-gas-prices%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=1363020&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pete-Buttigieg-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg promoted electric cars on Monday as a solution to Americans struggling from high gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well,\u201d Buttigieg said, touting President Joe Biden\u2019s $5 billion plan to bolster America\u2019s electric charging network.<\/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>\u201cSo the people from rural, to suburban, to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The failed presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, spoke at the White House with Vice President Kamala Harris to promote clean transportation after the average cost of gas spiked over $4 a gallon over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7klJLu0kXgo\">speech<\/a>, Buttigieg criticized gas-powered vehicles for their impact on pollution and climate change.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn our economy, transportation is the single biggest contributor to climate change,\u201d he said disapprovingly.<\/p>\n<p>He promoted the Biden administration\u2019s effort to convert public transit to electric buses and encouraged all Americans to ride buses instead of driving to reduce pollution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our best tools for doing that is public transit; transit gets riders for where they need to be efficiently and affordably with far less pollution from driving,\u201d he said, asserting that electric buses \u201cdon\u2019t pollute at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since becoming the transportation secretary, Buttigieg has repeatedly urged Americans to purchase electric vehicles to save the climate and save money.<\/p>\n<p>Only nine percent of passenger vehicles sold in the world in 2021 were electric, and only\u00a0535,000 electric vehicles were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/14\/evs-dominated-super-bowl-ads-but-only-9percent-of-passenger-car-sales.html\">purchased<\/a> in the United States.<\/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 a November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/29\/pete-buttigieg-rural-drivers-should-buy-electric-cars-because-they-use-the-most-gas\">interview<\/a> with MSNBC\u2019s Jonathan Capehart.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has focused intently on heavy subsidies for the electric vehicle industry and making the moral argument that they are superior to gas-powered vehicles.<br \/>In November, President Biden also\u00a0<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\/\">urged<\/a> Americans to look at buying an electric vehicle.<\/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 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg promoted electric cars on Monday as a solution to Americans struggling from high gas prices. \u201cClean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1363020","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\/1363020","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363020\/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=1363020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}