, Fox News host John Roberts cited a major drop in EV sales by Tesla and massive layoffs at Ford’s EV truck plant as a prelude to asking why the Biden administration is throwing so much taxpayer money at EVs whilehasn’t dimmed his self-assurance at all, insisted that leftist government commissars are right: “The automotive sector is moving to EVs, and we can’t pretend otherwise.
“Sometimes, when these debates happen,” he said, “I feel like it’s the early 2000s, and I’m talking to some people who think that we can just have landline phones forever.” Later, he compared EVs to the market for regular automobiles in the 1910s.On phones, Buttigieg is comparing apples to vehicles the public considers to be lemons.
Likewise with automobiles in the 1910s: They became popular without any government handouts, and without the government ordering that sales of horse-drawn buggies be limited.