Little Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) doesn't like your car. Or your pickup. Gives you too much mobility or sumpin'sumpin.
So when the Biden Federal Highway bureaucrats create a new rule designed to eliminate internal-combustion engines--like the ones in your car and pickup--Tammy will NOT vote against it.
Three Senate Democrats crossed the aisle on Wednesday to vote against a plank of the Biden administration’s electric vehicle (EV) agenda.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jon Tester of Montana voted with their Republican colleagues to nullify a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rule that critics have characterized as an effort to reduce the number of gas-powered cars on America’s roadways. Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who typically caucuses with Democrats, also voted in favor of the nullification resolution, bringing the final vote tally to 53-47....
No Tammy in sight. Only Democrat Senators who give a flying damn about their constituents vote against this crap.
But that doesn't include Tammy.
You know she's not the brightest bulb in the hardware store?
ReplyDeleteShall we talk a little sense about electric vehicles?
By all rational accounts, not ready for prime time. Limited (and inconsistently predictable*) driving range. Expensive. More crash prone. Difficult to quickly recharge. Etc.
Toyota, the world's top vehicle maker and seller, focuses its product on proven hybrid technology. Yes, they are continuing research and development of electric vehicles and someday maybe they will be viable. (For example, Toyota is working on technology to fully recharge an electric vehicle in ten minutes.)
Instead of Team Biden pissing in the wind on EVs the common sense solution would be to move, like Toyota, in the direction of hybrid vehicles which are more cost effective. And we could stop importing oil and tell those countries that want to keep up their silly wars that they'll do so on their own dime.
Win-win.
Of course, it's too much common sense. But if common sense was truly common, Wal-Mart would sell it, Target would have an upscale version, smart people would find it at Dollar Tree and some would need the giant size from Costo!
*Or is it consistently unpredictable. Note that Hertz is taking a bath in red ink for its premature purchasing of TVs.