You cannot have an honest debate with someone when their wealth depends on them choosing to remain ignorant.
@ChineduOpara
2 ай бұрын
Your comment should be on a T-shirt.
@dawica
2 ай бұрын
@@ChineduOpara It's pretty much a rephrasing of the Upton Sinclair quote “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
@ChineduOpara
2 ай бұрын
@@dawica That's immediately what I was reminded of.
@ColmCoffey
2 ай бұрын
I wonder what solar farm is paying off this Bruce guy
@TM-rv5ke
2 ай бұрын
Bruce is toast.
@datadumped
2 ай бұрын
You can't have a science debate with someone who either doesn't know the facts, or refuses to accept the facts that don't fit their narrative.
@grateful3300
2 ай бұрын
Which one are you talking about?
@datadumped
2 ай бұрын
@@grateful3300As Joe Biden called him "Bootyjuice". The batteries are toxic, and you generate more greenhouse gases producing them. The majority of neighborhoods in the USA are rated for 50 amps. You need a 200 amp rating per charging station. The tires are toxic, making them and using them. The tires don't last as many miles as tires for internal combustion engine vehicles. The small pieces of tires that are falling off as they are driven on the roadways are washing into rivers, streams, and ponds. Those pieces are toxic to humans, as well as wildlife. Don't forget that you have to FORCE electricity into a battery. And due to the "I squared R" losses, both in the battery and the wiring. To charge a 12 volt I.C.E. vehicle battery you have to push it in at greater than 14 volts for a number of hours depending on the amperage that you have the charger set at. When you "Jump" an I.C.E. vehicle's you are bypassing the dead battery.
@robertbeard230
2 ай бұрын
This is the same argument one would use to claim that we’re “saving the environment from harmful mining practices” by instead buying materials mined in Africa. There’s an entire region in Africa where the plants, groundwater, rivers, lakes, and soil are all poisoned, where people are forced to work as virtual or literal slaves from the time they’re old enough to swing a hammer, and where the demand for that exact industry in that exact region would increase by a factor of twelve if this party’s agenda is signed into law. But this dude thinks it’s “cleaner” so long as he doesn’t have to see it, and therein lies the entire cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s philosophy; “The truth is what we can convince people of, and we’ll hide whatever doesn’t support our ideology.” It’s no different than a flat earther claiming that the moon is a hologram, a young-earth creationist claiming that fossils are fake, or those weirdos that claim Australia doesn’t exist. You could put a flat earther into orbit and they’d claim the windows on their spacecraft are TV screens. You could show a young-earth creationist a fossil right where it’s sitting in the limestone and they’ll claim it’s an optical illusion. You can fly an Australia-denier to Australia and they’d fully believe you’d landed them in Arizona. This man here wants us to believe that nothing else exists beyond what we can physically see. He’s the kind to play peek-a-boo with his kids until they're adults and be fully invested in trying to convince him he really is invisible when their eyes are closed.
@datadumped
2 ай бұрын
@@robertbeard230 They are literal slaves. The people who are slaving in the gold mine in that movie "The Rundown" are treated better. I have always said, since I got out of the military, that the people in this country have lived protected for so long they have no idea how the people in the rest of the world live. They have to make up stuff to feel oppressed about. When Barack Obama was president his brother in Africa's annual income was around $200(if I remember correctly). Telephones, stores, electricity, and potable water are only in the larger cities. Many people in Africa live in huts made out of sticks covered with mud, behind fences woven from brambles with 2" long thorns.
@redman4316
2 ай бұрын
@@datadumpedGo to Africa and help them then!
@mikemian
2 ай бұрын
The arrogance of ignorance.
@133rip
2 ай бұрын
It's not even "willful" ignorance. He was born with it.
@davidbrock4104
2 ай бұрын
Yep.
@kathleenobyrnes6753
2 ай бұрын
Never heard that Love it!!
@johngalt0096
2 ай бұрын
A Republican From AR, of course. Great schools there; and feed lots; and plants. 🌱
@4me2poop0nU
2 ай бұрын
Not ignorance. Purposeful liar
@flyppster
Ай бұрын
Busting out numbers and facts vs. “I was told,” “what I think,” and “what I’ve heard.”
@L0REN0R2Z0RR0
Ай бұрын
"People tell me" "Everybody says" "Nobody knows" Supporting your own stupidity by acting as if many people have the same opinion as yourself, that's the first rule of Trumpism
@Athaion0
Ай бұрын
@@L0REN0R2Z0RR0I agree with everything you say except the trump part. Not gonna change your opinion on it but that’s not accurate at all
@danielnoonan8046
Ай бұрын
@@L0REN0R2Z0RR0you do realize that it’s Pete that looks silly in this clip?
@AquariumTV
Ай бұрын
That is called the "trust me bro" argument. A lot of "trust me bro" arguments coming out of the MAGA crowd.
@danielnoonan8046
Ай бұрын
@@AquariumTV wait…are you saying that the environmental production costs (kobolt/lithium mining, shipping of said material and the manufacturing of it into a battery) plus the extra grid strain is for sure better than a traditional car? If people like Pete were truly about the environment they would push for people to buy 10 year old traditional cars…. Whose environmental footprint is already accounted for.
@cindyrhodes
2 ай бұрын
The arrogant ignorance of these officials is effing disgusting.
@JoJoH.Minn.
11 күн бұрын
DEI
@DanYHKim2
Күн бұрын
He's not ignorant. He's lying.
@kgarrett1404
Ай бұрын
Fact checked and schooled!
@jeremy2875
2 ай бұрын
He is being critical of the cost of getting electricity to the car, while completely ignoring the cost of getting gasoline into a car.
@crootun
2 ай бұрын
That’s exactly how I was seeing it too.
@MrAuswest
2 ай бұрын
@@crootun Me three.
@willdejong7763
2 ай бұрын
The cost of getting the gas into the car is right there in the price paid at the gas station...
@eyv
2 ай бұрын
@@willdejong7763 EVs cost a lot less per mile than gas, even in states where electricity is expensive.
@chrisjones6030
2 ай бұрын
@@willdejong7763 Not if you factor in the subsidies paid to the oil companies.
@casim8842
2 ай бұрын
There are none so deaf, as those who will not hear.
@CHEZZDOG
Ай бұрын
Wut?
@schrodingerscat8621
2 ай бұрын
A woodchuck trying to debate a scholar is embarrassing to watch!🤦🏻♂️
@carbine090909
2 ай бұрын
Not the best epithet because Mayor Pete looks like a human Stewart Little.
@DegenerateToo
2 ай бұрын
I’m betting, Westerman receives money either directly or indirectly from the fossil fuel industry! 😮
@HH-jg4ju
2 ай бұрын
Why these fools think Pete is slow. Bruh
@MedicRN
2 ай бұрын
@@carbine090909Ah yes, all insults and zero substance....typical.
@carbine090909
Ай бұрын
@@MedicRN Hey, I'm voting blue, lol. I just think Buttigieg looks like a cartoon mouse - it's cute! And Stuart Little was awesome!
@mishawnuodo1
2 ай бұрын
You can't make logical sense! It's not fair to my donors!
@disc0pat1
2 ай бұрын
Haha!
@AndrewBlucher
2 ай бұрын
Truth
@matthewlangley3524
2 ай бұрын
It's a short video. You should watch the whole and put a little effort into what is being said.
@neutrino78x
2 ай бұрын
@@matthewlangley3524 LT Buttgieg USNR is correct. Even if you use a coal generator...which is more and more rare these days....the fact that it has to emit far less CO2 to generate the electricity for the EV than your car does means that it is far better for the environment.
@megamanx466
2 ай бұрын
@@matthewlangley3524 ...Or just look the numbers up yourself and do the math. Oh and ICE vehicles have been evolving for 100 years now to get to 25-30% efficiency... unlike EVs. 🤷♂️
@jodyhall8731
2 ай бұрын
They know the facts. They just keep denying them
@sarahpauline4904
2 ай бұрын
Some of them. Some of them are honestly not capable of logic.
@stiffjalopy4189
2 ай бұрын
I used to think that, but this crop may actually not know the facts.
@ArtGirl82
2 ай бұрын
A lot of them drive EVs and then take campaign donations and jobs from the fossil fuel industry
@mikecarroll3538
2 ай бұрын
@@stiffjalopy4189 this is an excellent statement this new generation of Trump Republicans aren’t even hiding from facts they know to be true they now believe their own bs which is honestly scarier.
@Chainyanker007
Ай бұрын
The facts they know are 'alternative facts' that's the problem.
@Whoretensia
Ай бұрын
It’s nice when a cabinet secretary knows words and facts
@mitchyoung93
Ай бұрын
But he is wrong
@moeball740
Ай бұрын
No he isn't. The fossil fuel industry is a dying dinosaur and uttering their last gasp. Not only are their cars less efficient, but trying to claim that their production processes are cleaner than the production of EVs is laughable.
@fmcloughlin85
Ай бұрын
@@moeball740 Not about the efficiency of EV vs non-EV cars. You need to consider the entire system from when the electricity is 1st created to when it gets into the car. The system as it stands now cannot support the power needed if everyone had EVs
@billsmafia5906
Ай бұрын
Why choose either? Hybrid vehicles with a cleaner burning fuel sounds like a great stop gap til we get the range of EVs up!!
@bigweathertruther6373
Ай бұрын
It’s disingenuous to only point to the energy efficiency of each type of car, considering EVs are primarily powered by fossil fuel power plants. Buttigeg is still correct that EVs emit less carbon, but it’s not 90% to 20% (for ICE). In countries more reliant on coal power, EVs still result in less carbon emissions but do result in much higher SOx, NOx, N2O and PM10 emissions than ICE vehicles.
@TerryBennett-v7l
27 күн бұрын
No matter what all of them leave a carbon trail, the products that is made to make win electricity and solar electricity.Or all have a carbon trail
@Ncaa67
2 ай бұрын
I’ve worked in automotive for years and Pete’s right about the EV. That congressman is ignorant.
@emraldeyz1
2 ай бұрын
Nah, he's not ignorant, he is bought and paid for by fossil fuel advocates.
@ryanvannice7878
Ай бұрын
Listen again. They agreed on efficiency if the boundary is drawn around the car only. Pete was acting like the efficiency of the EV was the primary factor impacting CO2; the congressman was calling him out on that - then it turned into a non productive pissing contest from both men.
@emraldeyz1
Ай бұрын
@ryanvannice7878 the Congressman is also assuming that electric power generation will always come from fossil fuels. We are transitioning away from that as well. But he is a shill for Big Oil and coal so he'll never support EVs no matter what. Unless of course someone pays him to.
@Ncaa67
Ай бұрын
@@ryanvannice7878 I listened, EVs and especially hybrid vehicles are much more efficient regardless of the source. And if you get into the complexity of vehicle manufacturing EVs are simpler. Also I am old enough to have seen the emissions requirements change from the late 70s, to the horrible 80 and then actually start really making since in the 90s when fuel economy and emissions started to improve. Here’s the thing, it is not about if we can because we are a capitalist country which makes us stronger as far as competitiveness. I think it’s important to have capitalism but it has to have some oversight so are well-being is not being sacrificed. Companies are required to do their best to make profits for the shareholders. I have some shares in different companies so I’m with it. The way a capitalist country controls the damage corporations can do is attach a cost to it. So in this case car companies must innovate to meet the requirements to make our country safer, stronger and healthier. If car companies make gas powered cars that get 124 mpg(and there is one) and they meet emissions requirements well then they are good to go. The thing is energy independence is security. By the way, think about this, if you have a petroleum company and cars become more efficient then wouldn’t it be easier to sneak prices up? You would have lower production cost because you have to pump less out, your reserves would last longer and you would potentially make MORE money. I think the individuals that have these companies want to be in control and feel threatened by others making changes but if they got there head out of … the dark…they could make even more money. Anyway, on your advise I will listen again and I will do my best to keep a more open mind to your view, thank you for your opinion.
@Ncaa67
Ай бұрын
Yep, I just listened to it again on your advice. Look at the first few seconds. Pete is stressing the efficiency of the vehicle regardless of the source. So I get your point about delivery of that energy however the thing that is not revealed in this short is the sources of energy are also changing to improve energy independence . Personally I think hybrid vehicles are currently the way to go for now. But battery tech is changing constantly. Look at the new Tesla battery or sodium ion technology etc. when batteries charge in less than 8 minutes to 75 or 90 % capacity then that is when you get to see capitalism start to become the innovation powerhouse that makes America really rock and roll!!
@lorisutherland4752
2 ай бұрын
I can’t wait to vote for him to be president.
@terrygarrett2754
2 ай бұрын
Peter puffer failed as a mayor of a small town...got recalled what drugs make you think he would be a good president?
@trasewagner7582
2 ай бұрын
@@terrygarrett2754 I’m totally voting for Pete. Did you watch him destroy the Fox News anchor the other day on Fox?
@msdarby515
2 ай бұрын
@@trasewagner7582ohhhh, destroyed a news anchor, totally qualified to be President of the United States. 🙄 Only Leftists think that's good logic.
@cpmow831
2 ай бұрын
@@terrygarrett2754all of the cops and firefighters hated him too.
@daneiten1
2 ай бұрын
@cpmow831 cops hated him? All I needed to hear, has my vote.
@cpr1200r
2 ай бұрын
The chair must think that gasoline naturally flows from the ground next to every gas pump in america.
@cipherpac
2 ай бұрын
Pretty sure he thinks gas pumps are plants that grow directly out of oil deposits and refine the crude into gasoline as it passes through their root system up to the surface into vehicles. Just the way the lord intended since creation. 😅
@zookytar
2 ай бұрын
Not sure he thinks that but most of his money (from donors) comes from pretending it's true.
@TheGumpyGump
2 ай бұрын
@@zookytarI'm not sure he thinks, at all.
@mummeliini123
Ай бұрын
The same way the other party thinks batteries just pop into existence and electricity flows through the atmosphere to the outlet of your house
@benjaminkerby4998
Ай бұрын
@@mummeliini123Electricity does kind of flow to the outlets in my house from the atmosphere with the solar system on top of my house. Saved me big time to with the last outage too.
@jrgordon47
Ай бұрын
Great job Pete... 🖖🐝💪👍🐸
@thomasnisen3214
2 ай бұрын
He needs to be out of government!
@engletinaknickerbocker5380
20 күн бұрын
I think it's been a few years since he's had a physics class.
@Ti5qu4ntum
2 ай бұрын
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."
@JDFinsFan
Ай бұрын
“But I’m paid to argue against you and will remain stubborn and ignorant on my stance as it doesn’t fit the narrative I need to spin.” The Chariman 🤡
@childlessdoglady
2 ай бұрын
Westerman is a walking advertisement for the Dunning Krueger effect.
@Dbb27
2 ай бұрын
Lol! 😂
@elizabethjourneyparker5932
2 ай бұрын
Dunning- Kruger Effect is certainly proven by Westerman
@0MohawkWarrior0
2 ай бұрын
@@JimDavis440It appears that you have the same lack of scientific understanding as Westerman.
@cwr8618
2 ай бұрын
@@0MohawkWarrior0enlighten us
@JimDavis440
2 ай бұрын
@@0MohawkWarrior0 BOOTYEDGE is 30x more likely to have AIDES and every other disease, behind cancer, and pro lapse according to the CDC. Can't fake those numbers. SAD!!!! 😭 🤢
@fatboyrowing
10 күн бұрын
And it’s hard to find accurate facts when a subject is so politicized.
@sloflo1
Ай бұрын
Never go against a Buttigieg when FACTS are on the line!
@zoyadulzura7490
Ай бұрын
Yup. I don't think Buttigieg has ever lost an argument.
@NYlivinginTN
Ай бұрын
That's only slightly less well known 😅
@MakerMelton
Ай бұрын
You win the comments in my book, and I mean it!
@Benefacez
Ай бұрын
Haha, nice Princess Bride reference, I lol'd :)
@OlalOop
Ай бұрын
He might be right, but we don’t hear the right arguments in this clip. He didn’t answer what the overall efficiency is.
@tjendenys5028
2 ай бұрын
I wouldn't call this a clash... I'd call this a trouncing! That conservative congresman should be ashamed of his lack of knowledge.
@arriuscalpurniuspiso
2 ай бұрын
He gets an F minus on this quiz
@robertbloom4424
Ай бұрын
He's just trying to word salad his way through in order to keep getting that oil money. He looked idiotic here, but it won't impact him in the least. At least not yet.
@mariaabraham4698
Ай бұрын
I agree 100%.
@franciskeys9810
Ай бұрын
The lack of knowledge is you. Bruce Westerman has an undergraduate degree in engineering. Mayor Pete couldn't solve a multivariable equation if his life depended on it.
@yukefort8402
Ай бұрын
There is no form of infrastructure in place, nor is that proposed infrastructure cleaner in its totality. The process of getting the energy to the vehicle is what’s inefficient. Not to mention the fact that there isn’t enough material on Earth to keep the EVs powered for what this administration proposes, long or short term. Then you tackle the amount of unclean energy it takes to build and power large enough vehicles/machines to extract and transport the metals needed in order to replace the hard labor currently used in Africa. The African labor mines provide the massive bulk of material used to make EV batteries. This plan was never meant to actually work. It’s all a lie. Pete’s wrong
@BirdmanPB
2 ай бұрын
In a battle of wits, only one of these men showed up armed.
@elyandlindashehab2271
Ай бұрын
It's so nice to have people who work for our government who knows what he is talking about.
@mrxboyd9
Ай бұрын
I agree. I’m shocked the Congressman knows so much.
@archigos
Ай бұрын
But he doesn’t, he’s entirely wrong here
@elyandlindashehab2271
Ай бұрын
I'm talking about Buttigieg.
@elyandlindashehab2271
Ай бұрын
@@archigosI'm talking about Buttigieg.
@joeBishop866
Ай бұрын
You certainly did not see that here.
@richardr9294
Ай бұрын
Congressman Westerman, you're out of your league. Plus rude for interrupting Pete when he's answering your question.
@horsepanther
Ай бұрын
Almost anyone debating Pete is out of their league.
@therondon8437
Ай бұрын
At this moment what he is talking about is absolutely rubbish
23 күн бұрын
😂😅😂😅😂😅!!!!!!!
@briankepner7569
2 ай бұрын
I think they should hire smarter politicians rather than ideologues
@davidm5707
2 ай бұрын
It's Arkansas! Look at their governor.
@Bronte-on6tm
2 ай бұрын
Well, after all, these politicians are voted in. Look at the voters...that will explain everything.
@stevenfeil7079
Ай бұрын
He is not ignorant. He is a liar and a scam artist.
@brianclemetson8781
16 күн бұрын
The one question people don't want to answer... When do we talked about the energy it takes to harvest the materials needed to make batteries???? I think you guys are definitely a good thing for society when it makes sense for a business to do it and not be demanded by a government
@LanceHall
2 ай бұрын
Congressman needs to understand logic. If you are using less at the end your net efficiency is higher.
@Poemi10304
2 ай бұрын
GOP: Logic has no business here!
@MROS33871
2 ай бұрын
He's paid otherwise...
@mountainman615
Ай бұрын
During a hurricane evacuation, a 2 hour trip turned into 6 hours due to bumper to bumper traffic. I had extra cans of fuel in my truck just in case! Anyone with an EV would have been stranded on the side of the highway in blistering southern heat!
@AJ-ij4cq
13 күн бұрын
The problem is when I need to spend $20k to replace the batteries in 5 years.
@colonel_popcorn
Ай бұрын
It's not about the efficiency of the motor it's about the carbon cost of building 15T $ of grid
@tonyduncan9852
Ай бұрын
The only place where one MUST argue with a fool.
@michaelespinoza9618
2 ай бұрын
Harvard grad vs an ignorant good old boy. 😂
@PatriciaWehrle-pn8tc
Ай бұрын
Brilliant comment!!! So true😅
@dianasayson2846
Ай бұрын
Tbf, the rep is supposed to be an engineering graduate
@joshottmann5656
17 күн бұрын
the sad thing is ignorant people don't realize they're ignorant....
@EddieAR-jw4vz
23 күн бұрын
It is impossible to switch to anything even close to 50 percent EVs…unless you cutoff power to every building in the country.
@stephendaley266
2 ай бұрын
The answer to the original question is roughly 40%. A little more than 40% of our electricity comes from a combination of solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear power.
@dwolfcoach
2 ай бұрын
That depends on the state. But the US as a whole doesn't get that much energy from renewable sources. 2024 is only about 26%. I have photovoltaic solar panels and charge my ev w them. It's a beautiful thing.
@stephendaley266
2 ай бұрын
@@dwolfcoach That wasn't the question. Non-carbon sources. Renewable plus nuclear is over 40%.
@Indigo_moon
Ай бұрын
And what supplies energy to all the charging stations across the US?
@calvinperlee300
2 ай бұрын
So the argument is that it’s more practical to stay with non renewable resources 😂
@glasscitytransparency4996
2 ай бұрын
That's the only argument they have ever had. And I get it from people in congress. The fossil fuel companies pay them well to pretend to be idiots. I don't understand it from every day people, though.
@Thor_Odinson
2 ай бұрын
It's entirely unfair for Secretary Pete to engage in a battle of wits when the other guy is unarmed
@MajorBorris
7 күн бұрын
When the oil companies have politicians in their pockets...
@blueice6029
9 күн бұрын
It’s crazy how much they fight to keep the gas and oil industry, giving them money
@fercis9070
Ай бұрын
Don’t mess with Secretary Pete especially if you are unprepared.
@jarodstrain8905
2 ай бұрын
How dare you use actual data to make an argument. Man that's dense.
@jamescrump6356
4 күн бұрын
Dim is being kind. We need a new secretary.
@929mmr
Ай бұрын
Gas has to be found, drilled for, extracted, transported, refined, and transported again. The average pickup truck in its lifetime if it gets 200,000 miles uses 10,000 gallons at 20mpg meaning 60,000 pounds of gas used in its lifetime. That is just for one pickup.
@THMILLER
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂 he was surprised that Pete did the assignment 😂😂
@ryanalexander5438
Ай бұрын
He did very poorly.
@scottl725
Ай бұрын
Pete is Smart AF!!!Killing the Loser with facts
@raytenreiro1096
21 күн бұрын
He was a terrible mayor and even a worse secretary of transportation.
@cmpmoab
19 күн бұрын
The efficiency argument was already defined and is backed by numerous studies.
@ssfc2012
2 ай бұрын
How is this person even allowed to ask these unformed questions.
@JudyRichards-u4o
2 ай бұрын
Why do they keep arguing with Buttegeig? He has his facts straight and knows what he's talking about..
@TAShannon1
2 ай бұрын
I am a motorhead. I build diesel engines for a living. I have every reason to give in to my biases and bash EV's.... However I have done the math on this several times.... The amount of Carbon emissions required for our grid (coal, natural gas, wind, solar etc) to genereate enough KWH of electricity to propel a tesla 1 mile is approximately 3-4 times less than the amount of Carbon emmissions required to propel a 5000lb gas vehicle 1 mile. regardless, the EPA is still a captive agency which should be abolished for corruption and mass scamming. Ethanol in fuel, Diesel emmisions equipment etc. All of these things have led to massively increased carbon emissions. Hurting the very thing they were "intended" to help. It's all about the $$$
@leahwhiteley5164
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for an unbiased comment. There are pluses and minuses to each. Also, for long haul I think diesel is probably best and for inner city short hauls EV might prove more effective and decrease the smog in dense urban areas. Typical American, it has to be one or the other, no such thing as looking at situation usefulness. I'm glad to see one smart person here.
@jerrycoggin9434
2 ай бұрын
Do you mean to say that a diesel engine becomes less efficient when it has to shove it's exhaust through a bunch of filters? Shocking! Does it also become less efficient when oxygen holding air is replaced with recirculated exhaust gas that is devoid of the oxygen needed to produce combustion? Who would have thought that?
@aaronelya
Ай бұрын
At least they're not arguing about crowd sizes.
@rolandocedillo5685
Ай бұрын
85% of Americans can't even come close to understanding what thess 2 men are saying 😂😂😂
@drbichat
Ай бұрын
I only see one man
@bestowisdom
Ай бұрын
Umm…I think my 8 year old understands. Pete is leaving out data and the congressman isn’t.
@dolliscrawford280
Ай бұрын
A fossil fuel-burning car is less efficient than a fossil fuel-burning electricity plant. An Electric battery-operated car is less polluting even if the electricity comes from a fossil fuel-burning electricity plant. As time goes on nonfossil burning electricity plants increase in number, like Dams, ocean waves, Solar, and wind-powered electricity. This lowers global warming emissions. Read slowly, If you still don't understand, maybe someone else can explain it better than me. Example: When we stopped driving during the pandemic the sky was bluer, easier to breathe, and the Grey horizon was gone.
@tannorfosterfoster1978
Ай бұрын
@@bestowisdom Your telling people it okay to only use EVs yet they produce almost the same amount of of CO2 to mine lithium.
@gorkyd7912
Ай бұрын
@@dolliscrawford280 No. False. Wrong. You're leaving out factors still. Thermal efficiency is not the only kind of efficiency, if battery cars were so much more efficient they would have a longer range. Carrying a massively heavy battery is another form of inefficiency. Fuel cost is the single biggest expense for trucking, EVs have been around since the 1800s, so why aren't the greedy corporations using electric trucks? Because they're inefficient!
@eileenboyd1337
Ай бұрын
I think he should be the next vice president. He’s so smart. He knows his stuff. 💙💙💙💙💙💙
@yukefort8402
Ай бұрын
There is no form of infrastructure in place, nor is that proposed infrastructure cleaner in its totality. The process of getting the energy to the vehicle is what’s inefficient. Not to mention the fact that there isn’t enough material on Earth to keep the EVs powered for what this administration proposes, long or short term. Then you tackle the amount of unclean energy it takes to build and power large enough vehicles/machines to extract and transport the metals needed in order to replace the hard labor currently used in Africa. The African labor mines provide the massive bulk of material used to make EV batteries. This plan was never meant to actually work. It’s all a lie.
@j.thomas7128
20 күн бұрын
Mr Westermsman is right. Ever hear the hum of high power lines? The noise you hear is electricity being lost. 10-15% of the power is lost between generation and the consumer.
@jimmy3wood
24 күн бұрын
Transportation Secretary who’s experience came from being Mayor of South Bend Ind where he oversaw the operations for about 60 busses 🤦🏻♂️
@Auss3Natasha
16 күн бұрын
So what happened to American ingenuity? This elected official has no clue.
@joeysmithee6793
2 ай бұрын
Don’t mess with Buttigieg
@iversam
Ай бұрын
It’s so cute to see corporate greed unable to fight back against sane logic
@SeveralGhost
Ай бұрын
"Don't try to make the argument that I'm not able to refute"
@bobyao135
Ай бұрын
Where can I find the second play through videos?
@tonymonxana992
Ай бұрын
Bootyjuice needs to leave. He’s not fit.
@tosseway145
7 күн бұрын
Noone talks about Thermal runaway fires that cause house fires, forest fires, and parking lot fires and spew literally tons of toxic chemicals in the air for each one. In California this is becoming more common place. One fire happened about 3 miles from my house. There is no such thing as a "Zero Emission Vehicle" Where are the fact checkers on that?
@eldritchseer
Ай бұрын
As a scientist who lives and works in Arkansas, this is such an embarrassment. Not everyone here is as ignorant as Senator Westermann is.
@adamlacy1801
Күн бұрын
Youre free to move to California
@JustAReminder
Ай бұрын
Ironically they’re about equal in efficiency.
@user-wu8sj3ee3d
2 ай бұрын
Which one is funded by Carbon based fuel corporations?
@crazekananas
2 ай бұрын
Guess which one is the engineer?
@exmx
2 ай бұрын
No infrastructure to deal with all the dead batteries; No infrastructure to charge ev’s; when your battery goes out it’ll cost $20k. Just how an iPhone battery deteriorates - a new iPhone battery lasts almost almost 2 days and a 4yr old iPhone lasts a couple hours.
@Atomicketchup
2 ай бұрын
EV batteries almost always get recycled, the precious materials in them are worth a tremendous amount of money.
@evanhil02
2 ай бұрын
EV batteries are 95%+ recyclable. But even before the point of getting recycled, they are often repurposed as backup power, this after ten+ years and over 200-300k miles of use, usually longer than the life of the car. There are already companies in the US that are recycling the batteries. And the more that get recycled the cheaper they will get.
@rbbartho1
16 күн бұрын
The only thing that Peter Buttigieg knows about transportation is that he has a history of being rear-ended.
@dbrentski4800
14 күн бұрын
Thats pretty poor. Give your head a shake. WEIRD
@Jesusfreak2639
Ай бұрын
The energy conversation would need to include creating the electricity, then transmission of it across power lines. Then charging ur car. Then running the EV
@karenmarks1997
2 ай бұрын
Eat his lunch, Buttigiege
@JoePiotti
Ай бұрын
The oil has to be pumped out of the ground at low efficiency, transported 1/2 way around the world on a ship. Refined at a refinery at high energy cost. Trucked to a gas station, then burned in a combustion engine at less than 40% efficiency. With 0% recovered when braking. This argument is old and wrong. Electric vehicles are far more efficient especially when you consider the whole life cycle. And every year a lower percentage of electricity is generated by fossil fuels.
@roncgc8428
Ай бұрын
It's an argument about freedoms and gaslighting mandates. The cost to put all of the energy eggs in one basket and the risk of doing so are never factored in.
@jeromeh7985
23 күн бұрын
Best arguments for a mix of reducing energy use, more renewable and nuclear energy production. Isolating houses, train over trucks and so on...
@aaronfreeman5264
29 күн бұрын
In '73, it was all about reducing Weight, but Shipstone hasn't invented the weightless Kilo-Watt-Hour.
@rodneywoods4442
Ай бұрын
The cost of making an EV including the battery cannot be justified. The losses are much too high.
@pcppbadminton
Ай бұрын
True, but they said the same thing when ICEs started to replace horses. Not being flippant, just pointing out that the technology is still relatively new and improving rapidly. A lot more rapidly than it was 140 years ago.
@stevebriggs9399
14 күн бұрын
An EV engine is not an engine.
@sarahelizabeth7638
13 күн бұрын
His argument about the plant; perhaps we need to upgrade plants to wind and solar power?
@shayneh8668
23 күн бұрын
What about the the efficiency of the wells drilling crude, the transportation costs, the refining, etc. You can't view one energy source and ignore the other.
@dvnwnd22
Ай бұрын
"Don't try to make the efficiency argument." = "You can't win cuz I said so."
@mattd6931
Ай бұрын
Even a coal power plant is far more efficient than an ICE engine. So any losses from transmission are mitigated by the increased efficiency.
@wetrider97
Ай бұрын
It takes 100,000 miles on an EV before there is a positive environmental impact due to manufacturing and electrical production
@PapiBx2
Ай бұрын
These old boomers in office just can’t change with the times. Same scenario where they don’t like computers, or smart phones, or any other type of technology where they have to put in effort and LEARN something. It’s pathetic.
@Zeb-zh4lh
13 күн бұрын
Difficult to change old people’s opinions even with enough evidence.
@stevengaskill6515
23 күн бұрын
We should have had a law that all EV's can only charge off solar, wind or hydro dam generated electricity.
@faulty.nickel.69
8 күн бұрын
I like all the carbon emissions from the batteries and battery storage lots that have caught on fire and burned for days
@adubss9876
22 күн бұрын
Oh how democrats choose their truth and ignore the rest.
@billkazee2965
Ай бұрын
Yes. Yes he knows congressman
@stillwatching3255
14 күн бұрын
No one is buying EV’s now. What a train wreck those cars are.
@onebadunixninja
12 күн бұрын
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt, Congressman.
@extac361
18 күн бұрын
Buttigieg is simply stating EV engines are clean, without taking into account how the energy got there.
@bryanlandry1290
5 күн бұрын
They do the same thing with gas applicances. They start their efficieny calculation at the appliance and dont' discuss, enery generation, energy transmission, the cost of increasing transmission capacity, and generation capacity, etc.
@jimslade6333
22 күн бұрын
Pete is the first "bottom" to serve as a cabinet secretary.
@ColonelKurtz
Ай бұрын
Westerman makes an argument that charging an EV wholly on fossil fuel electricity would not really be cleaner/more efficient than ICE. It's possible, but based on average sources, EVs are cleaner and more efficient; and as more of our grid uses more renewable energy and with technological advancements, it will only get better.
@DanielVos-c3r
Ай бұрын
Ice engine to electricity = 30-40%,less transmission losses= 20-30%, less 90% ev losses = 18 - 27%. Ice to tyres = 30-40%.
@thomashall1719
17 күн бұрын
You can't argue with a chest feeder!
@1CDerek
21 күн бұрын
Does he really believe that we won’t need to exponentially increase production of fossil fuels to feed a country wide fleet of EVs?
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