Jennifer Granholm on a 1978 episode of "The Dating Game"
Posted on 09/16/2023 8:49:33 AM PDT by rktman
President Joe Biden's Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, refused to take responsibility after an incident involving her administration's push on the Left's Green New Deal went haywire.
Advertisement Granholm blamed her staff's poor judgment after police were called for clogging electric vehicle (EV) chargers with a gas-powered car.
During a House Science and Technology Committee hearing, the Biden staffer was grilled by Rep. Scott Franklin (R-Fla.) over the incident that occurred in Georgia during her four-day EV road trip in June.
According to a 911 call, Granholm's staff left drivers up in arms after they blocked open chargers with a non-electric car outside a local Walmart while the Biden administration official was still en route.
"Let me just say, I have a fantastic young staff, just fantastic," Granholm said. "It was poor judgment on the part of the team."
Franklin pressed Granholm on why her staff blocked the charger, to which she responded by saying, "I can only imagine they wanted to continue moving."
Granholm continued to shift the blame away from her, making sure Franklin knew it was "not her" that was "saving the spot."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
You also can’t just walk down the road and get a container of electrons when the battery dies. That’s going to be an unfixable problem for EVs. It’s dead simple to pour a can of gas into a car that runs out if it, and the gas in that small can contains a lot of energy to get the car back on the road. It also only take a few seconds to pour it into the tank and get going.
The EV, though, is dead in the water in that scenario. Even if you had some kind of emergency battery to bring to the scene, it’s not going to be able to do anything. It takes high voltage to recharge EVs, and requires very high voltage in the 240 to 900 volt range to charge them in a halfway reasonable timeframe. You could use 120 volts, easily obtained from a common generator or an inverter on a vehicle, but that low voltage will take hours even to generate a partial charge, and gee, what fuels those generators or a vehicle engine driving an inverter?…GASOLINE! Among all the other problems with EVs, the impracticality of quickly “refueling” a dead EV out in the middle of nowhere is a fatal (maybe literally) flaw. Every EV with a dead battery will have to be towed.
Translation: you little people just have to stay out of the way and suck it.
YOUR TIME DOES NOT MATTER!
How hard is it to say that the actions of your staff are your responsibility.
Sharing is caring. 😂👍
It’s a great example. If you want a smooth road trip in your EV you too can have your servants drive ahead and do this. Problem solved.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of idiots.
“Every EV with a dead battery will have to be towed”
There are some specially equipped tow trucks with onboard fast chargers — not much total charging capacity but enough to get the EV to the next charger, hopefully, like a gallon of gas.
Of coarse she blames her staff because shes an idiot who doesnot belong in her position
There won’t be if the left gets its way in its crusade to “stop oil.” That scenario is a perfect example of the utter absurdity of “green energy.” Rube Goldberg-esque convoluted “solutions” to a problem that doesn’t exist. Every (very predictable) problem that arises with “green energy” is patched over with yet another layer of unnecessary complexity, ad infinitum, until the end result is a ridiculously complex, ineffective, and unaffordable mess. It is incomprehensible that we’re just throwing away simple, efficient, and affordable energy sources that have stood the test of time in exchange for this idiocy, while the brain-dead zombies cheer on the destruction of modern civilization.
Yes, but for a brief moment she experienced our problem 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve read that you run an EV out of power, it Bricks. Need to go to the dealer….. I can’t remember that happening when I ran out of gas…. 🧐
It's been done, in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Just another good reason not to own one of those troublesome things! The reasons seem to be continually adding up.
Bottom line, her photo op at the charger was worth more than 10 “little people” charging their cars to get on with their lives.
Why did that spot have to be reserved in the first place? If it were a gas pump, refueling of a vehicle would take no more than 10 minutes. Because refueling an EV takes many multiples of that 10 minutes, Granholm’s accomplices viewed blocking the charging station as essential, if she were to get recharged and on the way in any reasonable time. There is another compelling argument for not owning and EV and not forcing other people to own them.
Heard one ran out of electrpns on a “motorway “ in the UK the other day and screwed up traffic for 9 hours. DOH!
Looks like it is sporting an Adam’s apple as well.
Women don’t usually have such large ears - I have never seen ears that size on ANY woman EVER.
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