Comments - Angus King wants to convert Defense Department vehicles to electricity - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T01:15:41Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A242096&xn_auth=noBiden Energy Secretary: Buy a…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-18:4401701:Comment:2422922022-06-18T22:18:43.714ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Biden Energy Secretary: Buy an EV Peasant!</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Essay by Eric Worrall</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who last month pocketed 1.6 MILLION exercising share options on an Electric Vehicle company, has suggested people experiencing gasoline pain should just buy a…</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Biden Energy Secretary: Buy an EV Peasant!</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Essay by Eric Worrall</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who last month pocketed 1.6 MILLION exercising share options on an Electric Vehicle company, has suggested people experiencing gasoline pain should just buy a medium-size crossover EV, for about $45,000, plus sales tax, dealer prep/documentation.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm insists high gas prices are ‘a very compelling case’ to buy an electric car.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">She is worth $8 million and recently exercised $1.6 MILLION stock option in electric car company</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Granholm, in a clip surfaced Tuesday, made the case for going electric amid sky high gas prices </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">If you filled up your EV [electric vehicle], and you filled up your gas tank with gasoline, you would save about $60 per fill-up,’ she said </p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Granholm made similar points in a White House press briefing in May 2021. ‘If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you.’</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Granholm, who is worth $8 MILLION according to Forbes</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Last month she also exercised stock options in Proterra, an electric vehicle company where she served as a director</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">She ended up pocketing $1.6 million on the transaction, according to an energy department spokesperson </p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">What a self-serving charmer – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Granholm">Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm</a> financially benefitted from a company whose value is soaring thanks to a gasoline price crisis which the Biden administration she serves helped to create, via their war on oil pipelines and oil and gas exploration.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">No word yet, if any of the Biden family serves on the boards of EV companies Jennifer is involved with. Hunter, where are you? The boards are calling for your “services”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Breitbart reports <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/15/joe-biden-threatens-to-use-emergency-war-powers-in-letter-to-oil-companies/">Biden has instructed Granholm to meet with oil companies</a>, to figure out ways to boost crude production and reduce gasoline pump prices.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">This follows on from <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/578436110-Joe-Biden-letter-to-oil-companies.pdf">a letter Biden sent to oil companies</a>, which contained the ominous warning “my Administration is prepared to use all reasonable and appropriate Federal government tools and authorities to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term”.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Biden expects oil companies to bring an explanation for their lack of production to their meeting with Granholm. </p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Report: Philadelphia’s Electric Bus Fleet in Complete Shambles</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">By Paul Homewood</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Proterra, which had Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on its board of directors, when Philadelphia pulled the buses off the streets last year, has been highlighted by the Biden administration as a business of the future.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">President Joe Biden visited the company’s factory in April and pledged in his initial infrastructure package proposal to include federal money for the electric vehicle market.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">The company has since been touted by top officials including White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy, who in a <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/dem-megadonors-officials-financially-tied-to-electric-bus-company-boosted-by-biden/">public meeting</a> asked Proterra’s CEO how the federal government could spur demand for Proterra buses.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">The cost of Proterra’s electric buses has gained attention in recent weeks.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">On a recent trip by Biden to La Crosse, Wis., it was revealed that two buses the city ordered from Proterra for $1.5 million in 2018 have still not been delivered.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past five days, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PTRA/">Proterra’s stock price</a> has fallen over 25 percent.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Philadelphia’s Proterra buses were first rolled out for the 2016 DNC convention with a promise that the city was “plugging into an emissions free future.”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Granholm was on Proterra’s board from 2017 until earlier this year. It was during that time that both SEPTA and Proterra learned that the heavier buses were cracking, according to the WHYY report.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Philadelphia placed the Proterra buses in areas where it thought they could succeed but quickly learned it was mistaken. Two pilot routes selected in South Philadelphia that were relatively short and flat compared with others in the city were too much for the electric buses.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Even those routes needed buses to pull around 100 miles each day, while the Proterras were averaging just 30 to 50 miles per charge,” WHYY reporter Ryan Briggs wrote. “Officials also quickly realized there were not parking spaces room at the ends of either route for charging stations.”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Similar problems have been found in other cities that partnered with Proterra. Duluth, Minn., which, like Philadelphia, <a href="https://www.proterra.com/press-release/free-ev-bus-rides-for-all-as-septa-proterra-and-peco-democratize-transportation-at-the-2016-democratic-national-convention/">waited</a><a href="https://whyy.org/articles/phillys-entire-fleet-of-battery-powered-buses-has-been-mia-since-february/">three</a> years for its Proterra buses to be delivered, ultimately pulled its seven buses from service “because their braking systems were struggling on Duluth’s hills, and a software problem was causing them to roll back when accelerating uphill from a standstill,” according to the <a href="https://www.duluthmonitor.com/2020/09/19/electric-bus-pilot-project-reveals-problems/">Duluth Monitor</a>.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Proterra did not respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/report-philadelphias-proterra-fleet-in-complete-shambles/">https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/report-philadelphias-proterra-fleet-in-complete-shambles/</a></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"> </p> There's nothing worse than be…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2424512022-06-17T23:30:56.752ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>There's nothing worse than being booed at a Moose Lottery Reveal.</p>
<p>There's nothing worse than being booed at a Moose Lottery Reveal.</p> Janet Mills booed unmercifull…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2422862022-06-17T20:08:46.367ZDan McKayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DanMcKay
<p>Janet Mills booed unmercifully at Moose Lottery Reveal, from someone who was there.</p>
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<p>Janet Mills booed unmercifully at Moose Lottery Reveal, from someone who was there.</p>
<p></p> Seth Berry as a member of the…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2425122022-06-17T20:05:05.840ZDan McKayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DanMcKay
<p>Seth Berry as a member of the legislature was a communist. Now, he is a communist on the loose. Best to do the opposite of anything he conjures up.</p>
<p>Seth Berry as a member of the legislature was a communist. Now, he is a communist on the loose. Best to do the opposite of anything he conjures up.</p> Oh, what a good idea, and the…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2424452022-06-17T16:44:00.006ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>Oh, what a good idea, and the vehicles should have short-mast "ego-blow" wind turbines on top of their roofs and solar panels on their hoods. Wean them off of fossil fuels!</p>
<p>Oh, what a good idea, and the vehicles should have short-mast "ego-blow" wind turbines on top of their roofs and solar panels on their hoods. Wean them off of fossil fuels!</p> Angus King is not ignorant ,n…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2423632022-06-17T10:37:10.123ZDudley G. Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/DudleyGGray
<p>Angus King is not ignorant ,nor dumb, but he is a master prevaricator, showman,and very clever at lining his pockets with taxpayer funds. He cares not a wit about the environment, although he is excellent in convincing others that he is. His trail of self-aggrandizement is many miles and years long Independet!!!</p>
<p>neither wheat nor chaff. Unfortunately, Maine voters have been hoodwinked by his gift of gab for many years</p>
<p>Angus King is not ignorant ,nor dumb, but he is a master prevaricator, showman,and very clever at lining his pockets with taxpayer funds. He cares not a wit about the environment, although he is excellent in convincing others that he is. His trail of self-aggrandizement is many miles and years long Independet!!!</p>
<p>neither wheat nor chaff. Unfortunately, Maine voters have been hoodwinked by his gift of gab for many years</p> Additionally, Angus [The Igno…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2424292022-06-17T02:45:52.792ZRobert Fellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/RobertFeller
<p>Additionally, Angus [The Ignorant] seems to be forgetting that it takes FOSSIL FUEL to generate electricity to charge the battery of any electric vehicle. Angus must have taken lessons from AOC in economics - what a baffoon.</p>
<p>Additionally, Angus [The Ignorant] seems to be forgetting that it takes FOSSIL FUEL to generate electricity to charge the battery of any electric vehicle. Angus must have taken lessons from AOC in economics - what a baffoon.</p> Angus King is dumber than a b…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-06-17:4401701:Comment:2421932022-06-17T02:43:11.298ZRobert Fellerhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/RobertFeller
<p>Angus King is dumber than a bag of rocks and every time he opens his mouth he proves it. I can just see going into battle and looking for an outlet to plug into especially after the enemy would knowingly go after the power generation stations. My father used to tell me that it was far, far better to keep your mouth shut than to open it and prove to the world your level of ignorance.</p>
<p>Angus King is dumber than a bag of rocks and every time he opens his mouth he proves it. I can just see going into battle and looking for an outlet to plug into especially after the enemy would knowingly go after the power generation stations. My father used to tell me that it was far, far better to keep your mouth shut than to open it and prove to the world your level of ignorance.</p>