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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg might have to start biking to work again like a total nerd. That's because the Mexican-made electric SUV he purchased last year for his security detail is being recalled due to a safety defect that "could result in a loss of power [while driving], which could cause a crash," according to Consumer Reports.

A "more intermediate goal" in the U.S. would be transitioning from monthly car payments to a "monthly transportation payment that's quite a bit less than a car payment that covers everything," said Buttigieg.

Morano: "When you go and plug in your electric car and you pat yourself on the back for being nice and green, you're powering that battery, you're recharging that battery with fossil fuels. That's the first thing,  and that doesn't even bring into how they put the batteries together.

All the rare earth mining is giving China the world monopoly on this. China is buying up Africa. They're going in places like Congo, where 70% of the world's cobalt. They are using underage labor. They're using Uyghur slaves in China. They are the ones we have to turn to and they are making us more reliant on them to dig up the Earth without our higher environmental standards. We're outsourcing our pollution to get electric cars that run and recharge on fossil fuels. It makes no environmental sense in that regard."

Marc Morano - Fox and Friends - Fox News Channel - Broadcast August 6, 2021: Morano: "They don't want an up or down vote on the Green New Deal in Congress, so they are slipping it into the 'infrastructure' bill. Most Americans are not even aware that the Green New Deal is being stealthily implemented." ...

"We are trading American energy dominance for dependence on China for rare earth mining. The Biden Administration talk about climate change allegedly being a great national security threat. But their climate policy is our greatest national security threat." ... 

"This is going from bad, bad and worse. The Biden administration is virtually signally to damage American national security. We are now transforming America based on a climate scare and they are doing it by stealth means, by hiding it in infrastructure and doing it through executive orders." ...

"The administrative state is behind the scenes,  transforming America without an up or down vote by Congress on what they are really doing."

"Basically what you have here is all of the different pulleys and levers of the federal government working in the same direction to a very ambitious and urgently needed goal," Buttigieg told CNBC on August 5.  "Industry is stepping up and recognizing that there is a business as well as a moral imperative to do something," Buttigieg said.  Buttigieg revealed how the federal government would impose "enforceable targets" and gloated that that "aspirations" and "regulations come together" to help fight climate change.  Buttigieg said it was necessary for "a nationwide whole society effort to do what we need to do for our climate but also for our economy." 

“The truth is that every infrastructure decision is, already inevitably, a climate decision as well,” Buttigieg said during last week’s Climate Summit in front of more than 40 world leaders.

“Inevitably, every transportation decision is a climate decision, whether we acknowledge it or not,” Buttigieg said in an interview with The Climate 202. “So I think that's absolutely part of our mandate and part of our set of responsibilities as a department.”