We all know that the Biden administration is clueless about tackling rising gas prices.
US gas prices hit a new record yesterday, with a gallon of
regular gas costing an average of $4.865 (not adjusting for inflation), according to the most recent data from
AAA. The highest average price — $6.34 — is in California, but 10
states have now surpassed the $5 mark.
Well, Biden need not worry anymore, just yesterday, Democrat
Senator Debbie Stabenow from Michigan prescribed a solution to this problem.
This occurred during a Senate Finance Committee hearing where
the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was summoned to explain the Biden
administration’s approach towards resolving inflation
that is at a 40-year high and the rapidly rising gas prices.
It was during this hearing
that Senator Stabenow revealed that doesn’t have to worry about high gas prices
because she drives an electric car. Stabenow added that she can’t wait for more
Americans to "move to vehicles that aren’t going to be dependent on the
whims of the oil companies."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T01rGfBAvnY
Stabenow said she did not have to fuel up while driving from
her home state of Michigan to Washington, D.C. She seemed distinctly pleased
about her ideas and sported a smile as she spoke.
Stabenow is a great proponent of the electric car. She was
among those who led efforts in DC to incentivize electric vehicles made in America and
offer consumer tax credits for EV buyers. She also helped secure over $16 million in funding to set up charging
stations across Michigan early this year.
But Stabenow isn’t the innovator of this solution.
That distinction goes to Biden’s Transportation
Secretary Pete
Buttigieg who once said "families who own an electric vehicle
will never have to worry about gas prices again."
Not to be left behind in this race of perspicacity, Vice
President Kamala
Harris also talked about transitioning the nation toward
‘zero-emission’ electric vehicles.
Before we judge the merits of these solutions, let's look at
the facts.
The average cost of an electric vehicle is $55,000 i.e. the
price of an electric car is approximately $19,000 more than that of a regular
gas-powered vehicle. A Tesla car costs around $75,000.
According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),
the annual mean wage for a full-time wage or salary worker in the United States
is around $53,383 per year.
Hence for regular Americans, the price of an electric vehicle
is slightly higher than their annual in-hand salary. The increasing expenditure
owing the Biden’s inflation makes saving almost impossible. Hence owning an
electric vehicle is quite out of the question.
For those who can afford an electric vehicle, there are
practical challenges. The number of easily accessible electric vehicle chargers
that are compatible with all vehicles and technologies is not nearly enough and
widespread all over the country. The vehicle, at best, can function as a second
vehicle to drive within the city or nearby locations. Regular Americans simply
cannot afford this luxury.
How about the proponents of electric vehicles?
Harris’s net worth
is $7 million, while Buttigieg’s is worth
$7,50,000. Debbie Stabenow’s net worth is $ 300,000, however, her
husband Tom Athan, co-founder of Democracy Radio and former executive
vice-chairman of Air America is worth $5 million.
Stabenow earns around $174,000 per year, over three times
more than regular Americans. Buttigieg earns around $221,400 per year
while Harris makes $230,700. Both Harris and Buttigieg make roughly five
times more than regular Americans.
Being top officials within the government they obviously
receive copious perks, subsidies, and ‘gifts’.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that they bought
their electric vehicles at heavily discounted prices from the electric car
makers with the understanding that they would use their political power and
government fund to promote their products.
It is also not beyond the realm of possibility that they use
campaign funds or government money to recharge their electric vehicles.
They are probably running their vehicle almost free of charge,
a luxury that regular Americans who already struggling due to inflation,
obviously do not have.
A virtue that liberals claim to have is empathy. They spend
every waking moment talking about their unrelenting compassion for the less
fortunate. Some voters conflate their empty words with actions.
Most human beings instinctively know not to boast about the
luxuries they can afford before the less fortunate.
The utterances about electric cars by Stabenow, Harris, and
Buttigieg, are a perfect illustration of modern liberalism.
Their words of empathy have nothing to do with their actions
or who they really are. On some occasions when their guards are down, they reveal
their true selves.
Stabenow, Harris, and Buttigieg are career politicians, they
have lived such a cocooned life for so long that they probably have no
connection with people beyond their social and professional circles. This
has eroded all their compassion for regular people, despite being
from the party of empathy.
When they address protecting the environment, climate change,
and electrical vehicles, they see Trump supporters, whom they regarded as
bigoted and ignorant as the obstacles that prevent them from seizing control.
It is probably not just Trump supporters, the Washington
ruling class has reached levels of self-righteousness and insensitivity that
anybody, including their own voters, who disagrees with them is scoffed at
behind closed doors, called pejorative epithets, and regarded as nuisances that
need to be overcome.
Stabenow, Harris, and Buttigieg are probably convinced that
they are superior in every way to regular Americans and hence have the right to
order them to buy an expensive electric car that costs more than their annual
salary.
Stabenow probably thinks she is practicing the art of subtlety by
talking about her electric vehicle without overtly recommending it to people.
This is the kind of snobbery that would probably make Marie
Antoinette squirm.
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