{"id":1391137,"date":"2022-03-21T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1391137"},"modified":"2022-03-21T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:00:47","slug":"dear-elites-chasing-100-percent-clean-energy-your-ignorance-is-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dear-elites-chasing-100-percent-clean-energy-your-ignorance-is-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Elites Chasing 100 Percent \u2018Clean Energy\u2019: Your Ignorance Is Showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fdear-elites-chasing-100-percent-clean-energy-your-ignorance-is-showing%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=1391137&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\/51707387810_5c6ca04cb4_o-1-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As gas prices pinch Americans, quite a buzz has emerged over electric vehicles. Many ordinary Americans are lamenting both the astronomical prices at the pump and the Biden administration\u2019s subsequent push for electric cars as he blames Russia. The corrupt press is predictably suggesting those spurned Biden critics are spinning \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gas-prices-conspiracy-theories-electric-vehicles\/\">conspiracy theories<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it isn\u2019t a conspiracy theory to point out that the White House has gas-powered Americans right where it <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/09\/joe-biden-doesnt-want-your-gas-to-be-4-a-gallon-he-wants-it-to-cost-even-more\/\">wants them<\/a>, nor is it conspiratorial to note that the administration \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1501365906227793922\">President Joe Biden<\/a>, Press Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/psaki-pushes-renewable-energy-stop-dependence-foreign-oil-instead-of-increasing-us-production\">Jen Psaki<\/a>, Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10587073\/Harris-pushes-green-energy-Americans-face-record-gas-prices.html\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, Transportation Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biden-administration-targets-buses-and-trucks-in-fight-against-climate-change-184301938.html\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a>, and Energy Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\/status\/1502070585135927299\">Jennifer Granholm<\/a> \u2014 has used <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/07\/jen-psaki-is-a-lying-liar-who-lies-insane-gas-prices-edition\/\">the gasoline crisis it largely created<\/a> to pump green dreams, including a transition to electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>More than being completely tone-deaf to the plight of Americans who, while struggling to pay $4 a gallon for gas probably don\u2019t have tens of thousands of dollars lying around to buy a Tesla, the Biden administration also ignores the severe shortage of microchips and scarcity of available vehicles anyway. Given those constraints, even those who <em>can<\/em> afford to buy new cars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/11\/22973174\/gas-prices-electric-vehicles-inventory-russia\">probably can\u2019t just waltz<\/a> into a dealership and be relieved of the fuel burden.<\/p>\n<p>Even more, though, the whole electric vehicle debacle reveals two things: the Biden administration and other ruling class ignorance of the lives of most Americans, and Democrats\u2019 fake concern for the environment.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"left-wing-elites-know-nothing-of-america-s-pulse\">Left-Wing Elites Know Nothing of America\u2019s Pulse<\/h2>\n<p>The Federalist recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/11\/from-farmers-to-office-commuters-heres-how-bidens-gas-prices-are-hurting-americans-coast-to-coast\/\">told the stories<\/a> of Americans coast-to-coast suffering under record gas prices. These people included Dennis Johnson, a sixth-generation dairy farmer in Michigan, who now pays about $50,000 per month just for fuel to run his operation. Mason Gross has watched diesel costs trickle down and increase start-up costs for small businesses. In both cases, electric vehicles seem undesirable and unworkable.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Hake, who has owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wow-wi.com\/\">Wash Our Windows Wisconsin<\/a> for almost four years, told The Federalist how gas prices are affecting his operations too, and why electric vehicles aren\u2019t a good solution. To run his business and haul his equipment, Hake operates two pickup trucks with 24-gallon tanks, and while he could fill each tank for about $60 last year, this year it will cost about $100 each. When he fueled up one truck for his first job this season, he spent $85 \u2014 and the tank was only partially filled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m dreading the rest of the season here if it keeps climbing,\u201d Hake said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectric vehicles are not cheap,\u201d Hake added. \u201cWhen I buy trucks, they\u2019re typically 10, 12 years old \u2014 at least that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking for. You know, I\u2019m not looking to spend $30,000 on a vehicle. And they didn\u2019t make electric vehicles necessarily back then, especially pickup trucks. \u2026 I imagine I would be spending quite a bit more on an electric truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hake said his preference is to look for trucks from the mid-2000s that he can invest about $5,000 or $6,000 in. But even if cost weren\u2019t a factor, functionality and durability certainly are. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need trucks that can hold all the equipment and can tow all the same stuff,\u201d Hake said. \u201cI can imagine it would be difficult to find [electric vehicles] that would be able to allow me to do the same things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This story repeats itself in countless industries across the country. How are lawn care and snow removal companies ubiquitous in the Midwest supposed to ditch gasoline for electric cars? Do Washington elites \u2014 especially the Biden administration, which is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1501666216842256388?s=20&#038;t=jFe4vo2aeHrAI_JhMgvE9Q\">all in<\/a>\u201d on its goal to achieve \u201c100 percent clean electricity by 2035 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050\u201d \u2014 really expect these blue-collar workers to trade in their plow-mounted, rough-and-tumble dually diesel trucks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/a29890843\/full-electric-pickup-trucks\/\">soon-to-arrive<\/a>, gadget-mobile electric pickups that appear better suited for a coastal dad show-and-tell than for actually working? <\/p>\n<p>When these workers are 24 hours into a snow-removal job, what are they supposed to do while their trucks are recharging and the flakes are still coming down? What about independent drivers of 18-wheelers who aren\u2019t part of, say, a Walmart or Amazon fleet? <\/p>\n<p>Electric cars might have a comparable mileage range to a regular car, but what about charge time? For truck drivers, already burdened by countless regulations, dead time adds up. The same goes even for people in sales who put on hundreds of miles driving across their territories day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, more importantly, do these workers <em>want<\/em> to switch to electric? Does it pass their personal cost-benefit calculations? Climate-extreme elitists never bothered to ask \u2014 and don\u2019t care about the answer.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-do-you-think-evs-get-their-electricity\">Where Do You Think EVs Get Their Electricity?<\/h2>\n<p>This entire conversation is nonsensical, especially because electric vehicles aren\u2019t actually good for the planet. The Biden administration and other coastal elites can bloviate all day about \u201cenvironmental justice,\u201d whatever that means, but it\u2019s all just hot air. <\/p>\n<p>Do you know where the electricity for \u201cclean\u201d vehicles comes from? Most of it comes from fossil fuels, with one 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/a66872e1352a462883a88396a2c3786d\">study<\/a> showing that these nonrenewables are the primary EV energy source in 43 of the 50 states. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[O]ne of Tesla\u2019s Supercharger stations was reported to get\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/04\/16\/tesla-owners-can-now-see-how-much-solar-or-coal-is-powering-their-evs\/\">13 percent of their energy from natural gas and 27 percent from coal<\/a>,\u201d which are both fossil fuels, Federalist intern Alasdaire Fleitas <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/16\/democrats-dont-want-you-to-know-how-much-fossil-fuel-it-takes-to-power-electric-cars\/\">noted<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cPower plants burn coal to generate electricity to power electric cars and emit a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/dec\/08\/electric-car-emissions-climate-change\">higher fossil fuel footprint<\/a>\u00a0than the left would care to admit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats love to chatter about \u201cemissions,\u201d but while electric vehicles are great for virtue-signaling because they avoid the exhaust given off on the back end by gas-powered cars, they emit greenhouse gases on the front end by running on energy derived from fossil fuel combustion at a power plant.<\/p>\n<p>And this is to say nothing of how electric cars increase our reliance on super-polluters like China for battery and other manufacturing. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"none-of-your-business\">None of Your Business<\/h2>\n<p>The Democrats pushing electric cars while scurrying around to speeches and fundraisers in private jets and fleets of SUVs clearly don\u2019t really care about the planet, and they don\u2019t care about the lives of normal Americans. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s more than hypocrisy. Using gas prices to push vulnerable Americans into their green policy goals is also coercive. And bragging about \u201czero emissions\u201d by pushing expensive cars that are still built on fossil fuels and pollution is completely dishonest. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also ignorant. Americans have work, personal responsibilities, and expenses that lead them to assess costs and benefits and invest in the best vehicles to help them provide for their families and their customers. They don\u2019t want electric vehicles; they want a $5,000 pickup truck, and they have a good reason for it. Stop ruining their lives.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As gas prices pinch Americans, quite a buzz has emerged over electric vehicles. 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