Gretchen Whitmer Orders Michigan’s State
Fleet Be 100% Electric by 2040
Breitbart Politics,
by
John Binder
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/7/2023 9:17:52 AM
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is ordering Michigan’s state fleet of vehicles to be 100 percent electric by 2040.
In a new directive Tuesday, Whitmer announced a move to bring the state’s fleet of vehicles down to zero greenhouse gas emissions in fewer than two decades. The goal, Whitmer wrote in the order, is “essential” for her administration’s green energy agenda.
Whitmer wrote in the directive: Michigan is on the cutting-edge of mobility and electrification. Our world-leading auto industry is making the switch to electric, and we continue to attract battery, semiconductor, and clean energy investments from other states and nations. We must usher the future of mobility and clean energy into Michigan
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Cindiana 12/7/2023 9:23:46 AM (No. 1612332)
These rat governors are in a pi$$ing match, each getting more tyrannical and idiotic than the last!
36 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
reefdiver 12/7/2023 9:27:31 AM (No. 1612338)
The result will probably be a 100% unreliable fleet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/7/2023 9:28:33 AM (No. 1612340)
Global warming is so perfect. 17 years from now she’ll have had her spoils and be gone beyond the reach of the electorate.
I’ll gladly promise you anything 17 years from now for a hamburger today. How about world peace ?
32 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 12/7/2023 9:30:22 AM (No. 1612342)
They want electric so they can control you. If you say anything negative abt them they can turn off your air or heat or car. YOU are under THEIR control.
33 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 12/7/2023 9:31:55 AM (No. 1612343)
Wasting money on extremely expensive, limited utility, techno toys rather than actually useful, cost effective normal vehicles.
This nasty witch gets EVERYTHING wrong, always. Find a bad idea - and Witless will jump on it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 12/7/2023 9:33:31 AM (No. 1612345)
Queen Whitmer has been able to rule by edict and decree since the Republicans in Michigan are so inept and uncoordinated that even though the courts have repeatedly ruled against her, she just keeps on using executive privilege. Michigan is undergoing an exodus of the young and bright, similar to the Long Dark (8 years of Governor Jennifer Granholm (D)). Over the past two years Whitmer has used the one-time COVID funds to fund things like education and other recurrent spending, and when all the COVID money is gone, she will be coming back looking for massive tax increases.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SALady 12/7/2023 9:35:43 AM (No. 1612349)
Go for it. The majority of voters in Michigan elected her. They deserve exactly what they are getting!!!
EV's are notoriously undependable in cold weather. Michigan has some of the harshest winter weather in this republic. When nobody can get to work when the first even fairly mild blizzard hits because none of the EV snowplows will work, that cluster funk will be not-so-affectionately called a "Whitmer"!!!!!
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Of course by then she will be living in Florida and like the last ditzy female governor of Michigan she will be living off her fortune in EV stocks.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 12/7/2023 9:39:08 AM (No. 1612355)
Such a great state; such a horror of a governor.
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Electric Snow Plows! This will be fun to watch! Pass the popcorn please!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
VietVet68 12/7/2023 9:53:53 AM (No. 1612374)
So if you need the Michigan State Police to help you they should arrive in 3 or 4 hours after their EV is charged. I find it difficult to believe this woman is doubling down on electric vehicles even as more information comes out about their shortcomings. She must have a lot invested in the EV companies.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 12/7/2023 9:56:28 AM (No. 1612377)
Maybe she got some good stuff from Gavin to smoke. We're all going to be electric here in California in 2035.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Californian 12/7/2023 9:58:26 AM (No. 1612379)
And then the next governor will issue a different directive killing this one.
She thinks she's the queen or something. If it was such a great idea the legislature could have required it after a vote not her temporary edict.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 12/7/2023 9:58:44 AM (No. 1612380)
What happened to "2035?"
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/7/2023 10:07:00 AM (No. 1612388)
So much for snow plows to clear the Winter Snows...5 minutes under load and the batteries turn belly UP!
Maybe Commie Gov Gretchen can lend a hand and work the snow shovel! HA HA HA.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/7/2023 10:19:30 AM (No. 1612414)
Oh, this will be fun to watch. I can hardly wait to see the electric snowplows trying to plow I-75 up to the Mackinac Bridge when it's 20 below zero. It will be a hoot to see the Michigan State Police trying to respond to an accident scene with their electric vehicles parked outside in the winter, when the battery range goes from the advertised 300 miles to more like 75 miles when they've been sitting outside in January.
The governor of Michigan is a moron, and so are the people who voted for her.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/7/2023 10:32:31 AM (No. 1612429)
Get them now while they're piling up on dealers' lots.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/7/2023 10:43:22 AM (No. 1612436)
I can't wait for the whole fleet to be usless, just like Whitmer.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
philsner 12/7/2023 10:44:45 AM (No. 1612437)
"I order you to live on Mars by the 23rd century.
Liberal future predictions always fall flat. I picture that looney witch in Harry Potter who constantly has edicts framed and hung on the wall at Hogwarts.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/7/2023 10:52:01 AM (No. 1612445)
Yeah, but I doubt it will be Whitmer's fleet by then.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JackBurton 12/7/2023 11:00:07 AM (No. 1612460)
Well, people aren't buying the EVs and since, ahem, money is rumored to have come in from the ChiComs for Michigan battery plants, the demand MUST come from somewhere.
This could keep a bad governor's money flow intact.... hypothetically speaking.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 12/7/2023 11:03:03 AM (No. 1612465)
Make it so...
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Whitmer is quite the automotive engineer genius, isn't she? Just order it up, and, voila, it happens.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Bmoc 12/7/2023 11:45:50 AM (No. 1612503)
Whitless is the reason I left Michigan in 2021.
I still need to understand how a solidly red state House and Senate flipped to solid blue. I tried to vote in November 2020 but had great difficulty. The 'computer' kept saying that I had already voted by mail.
Right.
I lived three blocks from the voting hall, so why would I mail anything? After roughly twenty minutes, the machine took my ballot, but I had a sneaking suspicion I voted straight blue.
I knew right then that we were screwed.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/7/2023 11:48:07 AM (No. 1612505)
Detroit cannot continue EV development unless someone subsidizes them. Sales are terrible, and expenses are through the roof. Along comes Michigan's very own, Gretchen Whitmer! It will be interesting to watch the fallout from this.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
broken01 12/7/2023 11:52:00 AM (No. 1612508)
I don't know who the bigger moronic female democrat governor is. Dim Whitmer, Hochul the Yokel of NY, Gimme Your Gun Grisham of NM or The Hobbit Hobbs of AZ. All have been a net negative to their states which isn't suprising. Whitmer seems hell bent on EV's even though there are reports that even she can understand that illustrate how problematic they are. To the people who voted for this buffoon, you asked for it you got it Toyota (the EV model).
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/7/2023 11:59:11 AM (No. 1612515)
Call me when it snows and you need a tow,
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 12/7/2023 12:10:32 PM (No. 1612525)
Fast forward 17 years. "Former governor Gretchen Whitmer died today when the ambulance sent to pick her up grounded to a halt, miles from a charging station".
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/7/2023 1:12:13 PM (No. 1612560)
It's all political. Whitmer will be long gone from office by 2040 and the very next Governor could cancel this idiotic decision, so why does she make it? Politics.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 12/7/2023 2:57:22 PM (No. 1612605)
Cool. You'll be able to easily outrun any cop in an electric. He'll be fast for a few miles....then the battery will crap out.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 12/7/2023 5:17:06 PM (No. 1612668)
No wonder Michigan is a mess. Seems the Michigan goobernor has complete dictatorial power. Why have a legislature that allocate funds and nonsense like than when the goober nor can by executive fiat complete change state allocation?
Sure hate it or those poor soul in that state when she decides what clothes, food, energy, who one can love and outlaw religion by fiat.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
rochow 12/7/2023 10:09:38 PM (No. 1612803)
I guess she has not been able to read papers that will tell her that these EV's stink to high heaven and are not worth a dime. But this dame is so pathetically stupid that nothing will change her mind. She must be getting a financial kick back for her stupidity.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/8/2023 7:24:15 AM (No. 1612967)
#10, or how about electric boats? Is she going to make Coast Guard fleet, helicopters etc. electric? Mind-boggling what extent people will go to in getting their own way. This is not leadership; it is called serving thyself. . .
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 12/8/2023 10:06:16 AM (No. 1613090)
MI will become America's carjacking paradise as cop car batteries freeze and run out of juice chasing car thieves in MI's brutally cold winters. The level of ignorance about basic physical reality among the US political class is astounding. - and it points out the reason why government should never be allowed to meddle in our affairs. It's none of their business, and they are too stupid to be trusted with anything.
But go ahead. Ms Nazi Guv - we all benefit with an immobile Deep State.
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