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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has repeatedly labeled some highways and even underpasses as racist while turning a blind eye to the Biden administration’s electric vehicle (EV) policies. It actually deserves that name.
Team Biden has promoted EVs through numerous mandates and subsidies, most recently with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ultra-strict vehicle emissions regulations that threaten black families struggling to reach the middle class. You have to know that it is a thing.
The disproportionate burden of EVs cannot be ignored, and it’s not just high sticker prices that are deterring Black families from making the transition to electric vehicles. One-third of Americans live in one-car households, including many low-income Black people.
President Biden shakes hands with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during an event at the White House on June 25, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Given their limited range and long charging times, EVs cannot serve as a family’s only vehicle. Not to mention, many black families live in urban environments where street parking and parking lots are the norm. No amount of marketing of EV subsidies will attract willing buyers in these regions.
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Research shows wealthy Americans who earn $100,000 a year benefit the most Taxpayer-subsidized EV credits. No wonder 90% of EVs are part of suburban households that are wealthier and don’t own multiple cars.
The list goes on about how EVs don’t fit the needs of black families. For example, many government assistance programs have strict asset limits that are violated by owning an EV, even a relatively inexpensive EV.
For these and other reasons, it’s no surprise that EV sales have stalled across the board, and especially among Black Americans. No wonder the black community never asked for the EV agenda.
Perhaps that’s also why Biden’s EV supporters sometimes shift the conversation to public transportation as the answer to black communities, but that’s as far off the mark as the EV agenda. Ask Black mothers how feasible it is for them to use the bus to transport their children to after-school activities, medical appointments, etc. Public transportation like EVs do not meet the real needs of many such households.
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Perhaps the Biden administration should explore what Black communities actually want instead of just telling them what to do.
The EV/public transit agenda is troubling enough, but it’s made worse by running alongside policies that seek to drive up the price of gasoline and gas-powered cars.
It’s worth noting that many low-income blacks live in areas far from the most economically vibrant cities and suburbs with the best career opportunities. And public transportation is available to only a fraction of the jobs available to those who own a car.
In other words, Black people and others looking to move up the economic ladder need affordable gas-powered cars even more than average Americans, and thus they will be the biggest casualties of the Biden administration’s EV war. It is.
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Sadly, this is all part of the left’s long history of doing more harm than good to the black community. From welfare programs designed to encourage dependence on government and the breakdown of families, to defunding the police for the very people who want more police, to locking children in failing public schools. Until then, the result is always the same.
And now, risking personal travel for those most in need is on the Biden administration’s agenda.
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