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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Mayor Pete Gets a Lesson in Electric Infrastructure
2022-07-22
[Townhall] Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) explained to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday how President Biden’s "impractical electric car policies" will hurt middle America.

Massie began by explaining that he has driven an electric vehicle for 10 years and even has solar panels on his home, but that the administration’s push for a rapid transformation of our energy sector is unrealistic given the U.S.’s current infrastructure.

Massie, an MIT graduate, ran through some numbers. "The average household uses 1,870 kWh/year for air conditioning," Massie said.

"It would take four times as much electricity to charge the average household's cars as the average household uses on air conditioning. So, if we reach the goal by 2030 that Biden has of of 50 percent adoption, that means the average household would use twice as much electricity charging one of their cars as they would use for all of the air conditioning that they use for the entire year."
Math b hard!
Massie pressed Buttigieg to answer how that would impact the grid.

The former South Bend mayor acknowledged the current grid would not be able to handle it but said work is being done to "map out some of the needs."
Nice plan ya got there, Mr. Transportation Secretary. How much will it cost to upgrade the grid, who will pay for it, and will the greenies allow its construction?
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Posted by:Bobby

#12  His audience though is well below. I'll tell ya, I'm losing my ass on AC bills this time of year, lines are stressed, and nobody is trying to charge up their Case or Massy.

I agree about the Maternity Leave - when two guys buy a child, children in this case, it should be called something else.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-22 12:56  

#11  ^#6 Air Conditioning is really only used in earnest 1/3 to 1/4 of an entire year,

Massie is a MIT grad. I assume he considered that in "average".
Posted by: Bobby   2022-07-22 11:49  

#10  Can't have "maternity" leave with no mom in the house...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-22 11:28  

#9  Maternity leave. Told his husband that he was just heading over to Europe to talk about trains and pick up some baby formula when there just happened to be a monkeypox rave going on. South Bend indeed.

The type of brother fucker who would interrupt with with a wellahksually and smirk about it, even being deliberately wrong just to see who would contradick him.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-22 11:13  

#8  Ref #8: Peter Buttgig is a miserable twerp

Giving "miserable twerps" a bad name is really not wat we do here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-22 10:53  

#7  Maternity Leave?!
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-07-22 10:50  

#6  Peter Buttgig is a miserable twerp who took 8 weeks of unauthorized maternity leave and would have taken more had he not been called by the office. There is no gag in the movie Office Space even close.

Assuming Massie doesn't mean general HVAC, Air Conditioning is really only used in earnest 1/3 to 1/4 of an entire year, depending upon location, all the more damning.

"And a charging station in every corn field."

Imagine, you have just a few days of the right weather for harvest, and your grain train travels from the shed to the field and you are already at half power. Look up the migration routes of custom cutters, and imagine them stopping every 100 miles for 2 hours. Then imagine those 2 hours count against the number of allowable driving hours per day, plus whatever the waiting time for an open charging station.

All those heavy electrical wires and nodes just sitting out there in tornado alley, collecting ice in the winter, sparking when the wind blows.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-07-22 10:48  

#5  [Massie said] President Biden’s "impractical electric car policies" will hurt middle America.

That's the aim of these Greenie Weenies. They [EV proponents] should be required to get everywhere via bicycles, EVs or on foot. Moreover they need to give up their planes and foot the bill themselves for their greenie transportation.
Posted by: JohnQC   2022-07-22 10:43  

#4  
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-22 10:27  

#3  As I said in a previous post, the bastards in power know that the grid will not support all the EVs planned. It's by design to keep us from being able to travel. Much easier to control a population that can't travel
Posted by: Warthog   2022-07-22 10:17  

#2  We're gonna need a whole lotta Coal fired power plants!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-07-22 01:49  

#1  I listened to Dave Smith break this down on the Part Of The Problem podcast. Massie wasn't actually rude to Buttigieg. But it's obvious that this is a politically motivated, non-serious pose by the Biden Administration. I'm guessing if they were serious we'd need to be breaking ground on 100 nuclear power stations right now.
Posted by: Secret Master   2022-07-22 01:30  

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