On the recordNovember 7, 2023
The problem is that if you listen to our Secretary, we saw that in 2 months after he made those comments, California asked EV owners to stop charging amid a heat wave. Secretary Granholm literally pushed aside a pregnant woman and her family from the ability to charge at a charging station in order to do a photo op. That is what we are doing. This is all about projecting an image. It is not about the real-life impact on American families. That is the truth. For example here, one of the Secretary's appointees to DOT's Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity--don't get me started on that--has said: ``All cars are bad.'' All cars are bad. This is about undermining the American way of life, and the fact of the matter is, if you eliminate the internal combustion engine--by the way, the internal combustion engine that is sitting in President Biden's 1967 Corvette--which I believe is a 327; I don't think he has the 427--doesn't get exactly a great deal of really good gas mileage and, in fact, is spewing out a whole lot more carbon than the average American's vehicle. By the way, I am totally fine with that because it is a great car, a great example of American awesomeness, to be clear. The fact is when you have got an appointee of the Committee on Transportation Equity saying, ``All cars are bad,'' that tells you exactly what the situation is.…
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