{"id":1561568,"date":"2022-07-19T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561568"},"modified":"2022-07-19T16:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:49:34","slug":"pete-buttigieg-says-high-gas-prices-will-benefit-those-who-access-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-says-high-gas-prices-will-benefit-those-who-access-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigieg Says High Gas Prices Will \u2018Benefit\u2019 Those Who Access EVs"},"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\">24<\/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-says-high-gas-prices-will-benefit-those-who-access-evs%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=1561568&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>Transportation Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pete-buttigieg\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> touted the benefits of higher gasoline prices during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg appeared before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to examine the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.<\/p>\n<p>In an exchange with Rep. Carlos Gim\u00e9nez (R-Fla.), Buttigieg reiterated his position that the rising cost of gas will create a greater benefit for consumers who can access electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to clarify this remark, Buttigieg purported that \u201cwe could have no pain at all by making EVs cheaper for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential candidate championed the White House\u2019s proposal that the U.S. government subsidize the upfront purchase price of electric vehicles to make them cheaper for consumers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/30\/2.tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI580YG-FILEDIMAGE-1200x746-1200x746.jpg\"><\/a> U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with SemaConnect CEO Mahi Reddy at the Prince George\u2019s County Brandywine Maintenance Facility during a visit to announce the Biden administration\u2019s Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan, in Brandywine, Md., on Dec. 13, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque\/Reuters) <\/p>\n<p>Under the president\u2019s Build Back Better plan, EV buyers would receive a $7,500 tax credit to buy a plug-in electric vehicle and up to $12,500 for union-made U.S. electric automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>Electric car makers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/electric-automakers-make-last-ditch-plea-more-tax-credits-before-us-election-2022-06-21\/\">advocating<\/a> for these types of incentives, warning the industry would fail to reach the administration\u2019s goal of 50 percent EV sales by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>But Republicans assert that this proposal mainly benefits only the wealthy, citing Grist <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/the-ev-tax-credit-can-save-you-thousands-if-youre-rich-enough\/?utm_campaign=sprout&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_content=1614637515\">data<\/a> that highlighted 78 percent of electric car tax credits were claimed by individuals earning more than $100,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Buttigieg has been making the case that drivers can avoid the high cost of gas by switching to electric automobiles, claiming that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touted the benefits of higher gasoline prices during a congressional hearing on Tuesday. 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Carlos Gim\u00e9nez (R-Fla.), Buttigieg reiterated his position that the rising cost of gas [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"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-1561568","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\/1561568","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561568\/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=1561568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}