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How Out of Touch Are They?

These days just about everyone is suffering from high gas prices. Granted those who do not drive very much and those who drive electric vehicles are not suffering, but who are those people? Obviously those individuals are the ones who can work from home, and/or those who are affluent enough to be able to afford an electric car. Can the hoi polloi work from home? … ‘No!’ Can the common man afford an electric car? … ‘Hell no!’ Yet our Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is apparently not aware of this disconnect.

From Blazemedia:

“Last month, “Mayor Pete” made headlines when he said (in all seriousness) that the obvious solution for dealing with insanely high gas prices is to just go buy an electric vehicle. Maybe Mayor Pete doesn’t realize that most of us can’t afford to buy a new car at all, let alone an EV that costs “roughly $10,000 higher than the overall industry average,” according to Kelley Blue Book.”

Since I have been recently accused by some of being too harsh and biased against Democrats in high governmental positions, I decided to reconsider my position on Buttigieg’s apparent uninformed thought process. Maybe “Mayor Pete” was misquoted or perhaps he was up all night with the new babies, and thus did not realize what he was saying.

But no …!

Again from BlazeMedia:

“Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has doubled down on his out-of-touch messaging to Americans who are struggling to pay skyrocketing prices at the pump. He has let Americans know that we all need to get used to ‘wild price hikes’ until we ‘achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy.’”

After listening to him say this, one consequently might ask, “Why is someone that is so out of touch with reality in such a high government position?” 

Err, … the answer is obvious! Look at who appointed him … J.B., who is as out of touch as “the Mayor.” On 3/31 Biden had an equally atrocious statement from the White House where he touted his plan to tackle the problem of high gas prices.

Biden explained:

“Under my plan, which is before Congress now, we can take advantage of the next generation of electric vehicles, that a typical driver will save about $80 a month from not having to pay gas at the pump.” 

In response to this absurdity, Twitter exploded:

“A ‘typical driver’ with an average credit score financing a bare bones Nissan Leaf will have a car payment of around $560 a month. So a net ‘savings’ of -$480 per month,” tweeted writer Jim Jamitis.

“The old man and his whole staff is way out of touch,” read another very popular response.

“These people live in a totally different world than the average citizen. They just don’t get it or else they do get it and keep pushing it hoping it comes true,” replied one critic.

From my perspective, OMG! “Out of touch” is much too kind!

And finally, a question to myself: “Should I continue to reconsider my so-called ‘biased positions’ on these high government bureaucrats?”

“Nē quaquam rūrsus!” (Translated from the Latin … “never again!”)

4/9/22

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