Schumer Announces Plan To Nix Virtually Every Gas Powered Vehicle In The Country

[livingston]

Schumer Announces Plan To Nix Virtually Every Gas Powered Vehicle In The Country
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is preparing to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on a plan that would fast-track the elimination of nearly every gas-powered vehicle in the country.

The Senate’s top Democrat wants to spend a massive amount of money enticing Americans to exchange their gas-guzzling vehicles for an electric car. Schumer’s proposal, which he announced in a New York Times editorial Thursday, shows Democrats are lurching leftward on the issue.


“That’s why I am announcing a new proposal designed to rapidly phase out gas-powered vehicles and replace them with zero-emission, or ‘clean,’ vehicles like electric cars,” Schumer wrote after suggesting scientists agree that climate change represents an imminent threat to the U.S.

Schumer Announces Plan To Nix Virtually Every Gas Powered Vehicle In The Country

Sen. Schumer is preparing to spend hundreds of billions on a long-shot plan to eliminate gas-powered vehicles.

dailycaller.com

 

[livingston]

Wonder who just purchased stock in electric cars .....?

 

[livingston]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/10/25/the-energy-202-schumer-vows-to-take-63-million-gas-powered-cars-off-the-road-as-part-of-climate-plan/5db1d0cc88e0fa5ad928da5b/

The Energy 202: Schumer vows to take 63 million gas-powered cars off the road as part of climate plan

 

[Apeman]

How's that going to work out for the poor bastards in CA that keep getting their power shut off when the wind picks up? Actually I guess maybe it would work since they wouldn't need to get to a job that's been shut down due to no power

 

[GOYABEAN]

hurry the horse and buggy is coming back

 

[Catskillkid]

From the article: Cash for Clunkers was the mechanism allowing the federal government to offer incentives of between $2,500 and $4,500 to citizens who traded in their older vehicles for newer ones. The policy received a lot of media play, but critics called the idea a failure even if it was designed with the best of intentions.

And Cash for Clunkers was literally the best thing that the Obama Administration ever did.

And unless you can prove to me that the electric cars are getting their juice from either a solar panel or wind turbine then they are NOT I REPEAT NOT zero emission. Most likely that electricity is coming from a coal fired power plant.

The only way this works is to make a massive investment in nuclear energy to correspond to it and the Left is NOT going to let that happen.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Fucktard Schumer went to the same electrical engineering school as his idiot mentor....

Where do you think electricity comes from, magic power fairies?

 

[repete]

How's that going to work out for the poor bastards in CA that keep getting their power shut off when the wind picks up? Actually I guess maybe it would work since they wouldn't need to get to a job that's been shut down due to no power

How about when the powers out and there is a mandatory evacuation because of fires?

 

[STS556]

hurry the horse and buggy is coming back

AOC won't let that happen. Horses fart too much and release the same gas that comes out of AOC's mouth when she talks.

 

[Calculon]

The left is all about control. You can stockpile gas (at least for a while) but if everything is electric they can turn it off anytime. Look at California.
Can they really be this blatant and can people be so blind?

 

[Twogunwilly]

Good, supply will outpace demand and gas will be 25 cents a gallon again; win.

 

[Saltwater60]

Fuck you, you can’t have my truck.
I drive 140 miles at times for one days work, I tow a camper, and I haul a lot of landscaping materials. An electric car will not work for me. Hydrogen fuel cell cars make way more sense.

 

[Jmac]

Guess he drank the Jim Jones Kool-Aid too

 

[ProgSpear]

Two words to describe anyone that believes this crap; fucking idiots!

 

[96coal449]

Hopefully shmucky chucky will trade his senate seat for an electric model.

FUCS

 

[Hillbilly77]

And Cash for Clunkers was literally the best thing that the Obama Administration ever did.

And even for being the best thing that the Obama Administration did, it was a screwjob.

Why should my tax dollars have gone to somebody else's brand new vehicle while I was still driving an old one? I couldn't have afforded a new vehicle payment at the time, even with a $4,000 welfare payout.

Not to mention that it totally fucked the used car market and used car prices have never recovered.

 

[96coal449]

All those "clunkers" were shipped to China. Then they were shipped back in the form of new clunkers.
Fuck you China

 

[Criticalt]

Great, where do I drop off my 2013 Nissan Rouge and pick up my new Tesla S ?

 

[Deplorable Me]

I'm sure gubbetmint will be manipulating (taxing the shit out of) gasoline prices to get the results they want.

Sort of like the conspiracy to tax the 2A to death.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Good by to long distance commuting and travel in general. Good by to RVs. This would kill small businesses relying on gas vehicles. Impact on farming?

 

[Target]

Another stoopid idea with no thought into implementing it.
Does he have any idea how far one goes on a charge?
How do we recharge said vehicles?
How long does it take to recharge one?
Who will service these things?
Batteries + 25 degree weather = reduced distance on a charge ( currently claims 250 miles).

We have two Teslas and a few hybrids at work.
We wired in charging outlets at multiple buildings that the cars may be at. One being an in-law's house in Baltimore. We also fabricated an adapter to use a dryer outlet plug to charge the car before the Baltimore 50 amp outlet was installed.
Most people are not capable of installing a charging port nor are their houses set up to have one.
I lived in an apartment for 12 yrs. No place to wire in an outlet and the parking was too far from the buildings to run a cord.

There is but one Tesla SuperCharger station in the Syracuse area, that can charge 6 (?) cars.
The closest Tesla service facility is in Rochester and that only recently opened. The guy that fixes the cars is also the mobile service tech for our area, so no full time techs.
Tesla is known to take forever to repair cars due to lack of parts.

We bought a Model 3 last Holloween and ordered snow tires/ rims with it. They got installed around Valentine's Day. Close to 6 months to get the rims. Not to mention the miscommunication , lack of knowledge, and lack of local support for Tesla.
I dealt with the retailer in Mt Kisco and the call center in AZ.

We also have a Chevy Volt, ( 30 miles on battery then gas motor kicks in) , a couple of Prius ( same thing, under 50 miles on battery then gas motor takes over).

Then there's the manufacturing of the batteries and disposal..

The Tesla is an all right car and we haven't had too many problems with it ( The Type S is a 2015) , but I don't want one and they are VERY quick . More than many people can handle.
I am not comfortable with the idiots already on the road having these little rockets.

So Shumer is , once again, farting rainbows .

 

[Bigfoot]

Nah Chuck, that will not work for me... Not interested...

But fuck you anyways.

 

[96coal449]

I wonder how @Podmonkey would feel if they did the same to diesel? Imagine an all out ban on fossil fuels.

 

[GOPerfect]

Make me a truck that will do everything that my truck does for the same price. Set up recharge stations as conveniently as gas stations are and I will consider going with this idea.

 

[96coal449]

I'd be happy to get an electric car.

As long as my diesel gen set fits in the trunk.

 

[HIghlander]

All those "clunkers" were shipped to China. Then they were shipped back in the form of new clunkers.
Fuck you China

Cash for Clunkers had engine oil removed and an additive that literally melted the engine. Someone had thought this out way before they brought it to the people.

 

[pjzwtl]

Guess he drank the Jim Jones Kool-Aid too

If only he did

 

[pjzwtl]

Make me a truck that will do everything that my truck does for the same price. Set up recharge stations as conveniently as gas stations are and I will consider going with this idea.

And it needs to recharge as fast as pumping a tank of fuel

 

[2WheelGnnr]

Where's the Electric tractors.... Will I have to trade in my '53 Ford Jubilee for an electric vaccumm that pulls a plow???!!

 

[Duke]

this works for me