Well, we're excited to have back on the show.
Congressman Greg Stevie from House Ways and Means.
It's good to see you again,
so it's great to have you on.
So the president's electric car mandate forcing America to buy
only electric cars,
it's looking like a debacle,
top fire department officials testified to House Science Subcommittee last
week.
Fire department's not ready for the coming meteoric rise in
electric car battery and lithium ion fire ion fires across
the country.
What's going on, Congressman? Yeah,
I I can tell you an interesting story from my
district in Hurricane Ian when we had the flooding and
the catastrophic flooding that we had in my district,
E VS that were flooded also caught on fire and
then burned houses down.
So that's a huge problem.
Not that just our fire departments are going to face,
but these E VS have these problems where they catch
on fire.
I saw another article where there was a an airport
parking lot and they caught on fire and it caught
everything else on fire around it because the intensity of
the heat from these are so significant that the fire
department can't get to it and do much with it.
So it's endangering the safety and welfare of our firefighters
and it's a real hazard
to the American people and those people that have purchased
those vehicles.
You know, the White House is not talking about this.
It's not talking about how electric car batteries lose half
their power in like 10 years,
how the weight, the heavier than gas cars,
the weight will tear up bridges and roads that they're
spending hundreds of billions on.
Let's listen to fire official Dan Muncie.
He's a Fire Chief for San Bernardino County,
Congressman, he testified, Yeah, the fire departments nationwide are not
ready.
Let's get your reaction to this.
Watch
chief.
As Fire Chief of San Bernardino County,
do you believe your fire department is fully prepared to
handle the challenges that come with rapid rise of EV
ownership
in your area of expertise?
No. Nor do I believe that the fire service is
ready.
As a whole, we need to ensure that we are
enacting legislation that the manufacturer of these electric vehicles prevent
fires from happening.
Yeah, but you know what?
That's not happening. You know,
it takes up to 88000 gallons of water over many
hours to put just one of these fires out.
Now let's get back to your home state of Florida.
When the Hurricanes hit the ocean,
salt water comes in. That triggers spontaneous combustion,
combustion of electric car batteries and lithium ion battery batteries.
They're not just in cars.
They're in golf carts and scooters.
Yeah. Yeah. And. And the just like you said,
the Biden administration's pushed for this.
He's pushed to the far left of the progressive part
of his party that thinks that we should be spending
all this money on these EVs.
When the American people, if you look at surveys,
you look at polls, they don't want EVs.
They want vehicles that they can get
large distances. They want to be able to have the
type of vehicles that they want.
They don't want the government telling them what type of
car and vehicle that they can purchase.
And it's unfortunate that the Biden administration and the Democratic
Congress in the Senate keep moving in that direction to
try to force every American into vehicles.
One, they don't want and two,
are dangerous. What are your colleagues going to do about
it?
What do you think? Well,
we obviously have a very pro energy agenda here in
the House
before the the the Republicans took over the majority.
There was a lot of money that went to these
EV programs where you got
7500 eighty 500 bucks to be able to purchase that.
We will obviously shut that down.
And my hope is, is that we focus on making
the United States
the energy place of the world and the country and
make us energy efficient again.
So you're worried about this,
right? What's coming out of the White House?
Yeah, absolutely. It's not the direction that that Americans want
us to go.
Congressman Greg Stubby, we really appreciate you coming on.
It's good to see you again.
Come back soon. OK.