{"id":2253483,"date":"2024-05-26T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-grilled-over-biden-admins-push-for-electric-vehicles-failure-to-build-charging-network\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T21:39:15","slug":"buttigieg-grilled-over-biden-admins-push-for-electric-vehicles-failure-to-build-charging-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-grilled-over-biden-admins-push-for-electric-vehicles-failure-to-build-charging-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg Faces Questions on Biden&#8217;s Electric Car Push and Lack of Charging Infrastructure"},"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\">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%2Fbuttigieg-grilled-over-biden-admins-push-for-electric-vehicles-failure-to-build-charging-network%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=2253483&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>It appears there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ray-epps-charged-with-misdemeanor-over-j6-capitol-protest\/\" title=\"Ray Epps faces misdemeanor charges for his involvement in the J6 Capitol protest.\">missing content<\/a> in your request. \u200dThe provided excerpt only \u200bincludes HTML for\u200b a &#8220;Read more&#8221; button and\u200d doesn&#8217;t contain any text or\u200d topic\u200b for \u200csummarizing. 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Please provide a \u2063complete passage or context\u2063 to summarize.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted over the weekend about President Joe Biden\u2019s attempt to push Americans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/imagine-if-trump-had-said-that-jesse-watters-and-dagen-mcdowell-say-reporters-would-have-seen-bidens-joke-as-a-threat-from-trump\/\" title=\"\u2018Imagine If Trump Had Said That\u2019: Jesse Watters And Dagen McDowell Say Reporters Would Have Seen Biden\u2019s Joke As A Threat From Trump\">buy electric vehicles<\/a> and his administration\u2019s failure to turn billions of dollars in federal investment into a network of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-becomes-the-first-millennial-confirmed-to-a-cabinet-position\/\" title=\"Buttigieg Becomes The First Millennial Confirmed To A Cabinet Position\">charging stations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg faced the questions during a Sunday CBS News interview on \u201cFace The Nation\u201d with host Margaret Brennan when asked about former President Donald Trump hammering Biden over the issue on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan played a video clip of Trump saying: \u201cDo you notice [Biden]\u2019s trying to save the electrical vehicle but not the gas-powered, which is the vehicle that everybody wants. They\u2019re going crazy with the electric car, costing us a fortune. We\u2019re spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing a car that nobody wants and nobody\u2019s ever gonna buy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brennan responded to the clip of Trump\u2019s remarks by stating: \u201cHe\u2019s not wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg insisted that Trump was wrong, to which Brennan responded: \u201cOn the purchasing, he\u2019s not. Of the 4 million vehicles purchased, you know what- 269,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-slams-biden-for-ignoring-tesla-says-he-would-behave-at-white-house\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Slams Biden For Ignoring Tesla, Says He Would Behave At White House\">000 electric vehicles<\/a> were sold in the US market. It\u2019s up like 2%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the interview, Brennan pressed Buttigieg about the $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021 for a charging network for electric vehicles that has produced only seven or eight charging stations total, a job that Buttigieg is supposed to be overseeing, Brennan said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg claimed that they were really hard to build and that 500,000 would be built in the next six years after the administration had built less than ten after three years.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was pressed on President Joe Biden&#8217;s push for electric vehicle adoption. The lack of a comprehensive charging network, despite significant federal investment, was a contentious point in the discussion. These issues surfaced during Buttigieg&#8217;s appearance on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2253484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/Buttigieg-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/Buttigieg-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253483","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}