{"id":1506844,"date":"2022-06-07T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1506844"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:51:08","slug":"tone-deaf-while-americans-suffer-inflation-dem-senator-brags-about-avoiding-gas-prices-with-her-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tone-deaf-while-americans-suffer-inflation-dem-senator-brags-about-avoiding-gas-prices-with-her-ev\/","title":{"rendered":"Tone-Deaf: While Americans Suffer Inflation, Dem Senator Brags About Avoiding Gas Prices With Her EV"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ftone-deaf-while-americans-suffer-inflation-dem-senator-brags-about-avoiding-gas-prices-with-her-ev%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=1506844&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>In a staggeringly tone-deaf moment while Americans are struggling with inflation, Michigan Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow, who has been making a living by serving in one political job after another for almost 50 years, boasted that while driving her electric vehicle from her home state to Washington D.C. she didn\u2019t have to pay the high prices of gas.<\/p>\n<p>Stabenow attacked oil and gas companies in mid-May, accusing them of \u201cmaking prices at the pump go up and up so that they can continue to make record-high profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oil and gas companies are making prices at the pump go up and up so that they can continue to make record-high profits. These companies are exploiting hardworking Michiganders.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Debbie Stabenow (@SenStabenow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenStabenow\/status\/1526962852019556353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, she bragged, \u201cI do have to say, on the issue of gas prices, after waiting for a long time to have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle, I got it and drove it from Michigan to here last weekend, and went by every single gas station. It didn\u2019t matter how high (gas prices) was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so I\u2019m looking forward to the opportunity for us to move to vehicles that aren\u2019t going to be dependent on the whims of the oil companies and the international markets,\u201d she added in another attack on energy companies.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michigan Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow brags that she passed &#8220;every single gas station&#8221; in her brand new electric vehicle, &#8220;and it didn&#8217;t matter how high [gas] was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The average cost of an electric vehicle is more than $56,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2TJbrgClwo\">pic.twitter.com\/2TJbrgClwo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1534204175076282371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average transaction price for an electric vehicle (EV) is $56,437,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/eight-straight-new-vehicle-prices-mark-another-record-high-in-november-2021-according-to-kelley-blue-book-301442015.html\">according to Kelley Blue Book<\/a>,\u201d CNC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/29\/electric-vehicles-are-becoming-more-affordable-amid-spiking-gas-prices.html\">reported<\/a> last December. \u201cRoughly $10,000 higher than the overall industry average of $46,329 that includes gas and EVs. In terms of pricing, an EV is equivalent to an entry-level luxury car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The average price of regular gasoline reached a record $4.87 a gallon according to AAA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/06\/energy\/record-gas-prices-causes\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported on Monday, \u201cup 25 cents a gallon in just the last week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Stabenow is demagoguing the public by telling them to move to electric vehicles, consumers across the country are having a hard time making ends meet as inflation takes a huge chunk from their paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. inflation is running even closer today to its 1980 peak, fresh analysis of historical price data shows,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-06-06\/us-inflation-nearer-1980-peak-than-thought-summers-group-says?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_content=billionaires&#038;cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-billionaires&#038;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&#038;utm_medium=social\">Bloomberg News<\/a> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c \u2026 the figures showed that core inflation ran at an estimated 9.1% in June 1980 \u2014 versus the reported peak of 13.6%,\u201d Bloomberg continued. \u201cThe panel of economists argued that the fresh look at data from the 1950s and 1980s \u2018serve as a caution against overly optimistic forecasts of an inexpensive disinflation in the current cycle \u00a0\u2014 the disinflation that needs to be achieved now is large by historical standards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a staggeringly tone-deaf moment while Americans are struggling with inflation, Michigan Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow, who has been making a living by serving in one political job after another for almost 50 years, boasted that while driving her electric vehicle from her home state to Washington D.C. she didn\u2019t have to pay the high &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1506902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506844","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\/1506844","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}