'Just Answer The Question': John Duarte Goes Back And Forth With Buttigieg Over EV 'Slavery'
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- During a House Transportation Committee hearing last week, Rep. John Duarte (R-CA) spoke about child slavery in the electric vehicle and rare mineral mining industries.
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Why is that “guy” allowed an open mic? He is so rude. He is a liar.
Being cordial and telling the truth are immediate disqualifiers for any posting in the current administration.
@@pantarkan7 Yeah I agree! They ought to be cordial and tell the truth like "Trumpty Dumbty".😂
Well, he is a Congressman so I guess that's why he gets a mic and grandstands like the rest of them.
Can the witness just simply say, "No" that they don't want to answer the question? Just say you don't want to answer the question!
He was giving a qualified answer to expose the bad faith of the Congressman's question. The reductive "yes or no" binary is an elementary debate tactic that is easily circumnavigated by qualifying an answer with factual context. That the congressman was too emotional to receive that context in good faith does not discredit it. Pete is an excellent orator and an intelligent politician, so of course he came with receipts. This video represents the general lack in finesse and intellectual integrity with which this congressman approached his time in this hearing.
@@matthewgoral4014 Well said
complete and utter failure.
extremely successful if you're a democrat
So successful in doing what they're told but not successful as in competency.
@@dandyandy642 well, if you're a democrat, successful in competency also
If Japan which is a smaller country can have high speed rail why can't the United States have it.
@@joeatalig5005 Japan probably didn't allow Beuracrats and 10 other 3 letter agencies and regulators suck all the efficiency out of theirs along with making cost 500% more than it should.
"then why didn't you vote for the provision to move it onto us soil?"
So John Duarte is accurate in slave labor that is used in the Congo for Cobalt. But his focus is on Lithimum-Ion batteries which are not just used in EVs. Cobalt is used in laptops, Cell phones, Vacuums, Turbine blades, and medical implants.
Pathetic...
Buttigieg is so very good at sparring with these guys. They have their hands full.
he speaks as though something has been stuck down his throat causing him to be hoarse
When are Gorsich, Alito, Thomas, &,Kavanaugh being subpoenaed to testify before Congress?
“Then why didn’t you vote for the provision to move it onto US soil?”
Was there a question, or did John just want to babble and not let Peter answer?
I'm guessing Duerte just likes to hear his own voice
A Republican concerned about children, who would have thought? Don’t care about schools or lunch in schools.
GOP is actively trying to make child labor legal in US (many GOP states have already passed laws towards this). Like hell they care about some colored kids in some "shithole" (according to their Supreme Commanda Drumpf) country far away.
I hope his office toys are all packed.
Because one side didn't come to an agreement on trade means we now have to subsidize child slavery? No. I don't think that's how it works.
Congressman: “Why haven’t you made it it better?!”
Buttigieg: “Why didn’t you vote with us to make it better?”
Congressman: ::silence::
The government should never give money to industry
Lockheed Martin on line one...
I’m tickled that the federal government refused to assist Chrysler from going under back in the 1980s. To have had yet another viable American car manufacturer would have been a veritable disaster!
Let other countries support their industries. We should never do so.
Great, stop with oil and agro industry subsidies then too.
Oil companies are waiting in the lobby with your check Mr. Trump.
LOL......Funny how that opinion is ONLY popular when it's EV's that are being subsidized! Meanwhile, how many banks, automakers, fossil fuel companies, defense companies, etc., have been subsidized in years gone by...!?
Wow, what a master of double talk.
Pete is right, congress has the power to stop this on its track by legislating that no batteries sold in the US (EVs, cell phones, etc..) can have any components from the Congo... of course that will never happen
he needs to go.
It would help if tDuarte actually allowed Buttigieg to answer instead of grandstanding.
Why should everyone’s TaxDollars subsidize your neighbor so he can buy an EV ? If they’re so great, let the market decide
The market let me decide to get my Volt in2016, although I did get a rebate that covered some of the costs, but I would have bought it without the rebate. I love it. I spend about $15 a year on gas. More and more people are getting EVs. It’s good for the air and good for the budget. Oh, and I charge it in the daytime mostly because I have solar panels, plus it almost never needs an oil change.
100 years ago with less tech and hand tools, we built this country quicker, better and cheaper. WHY?
Because God was on our side then.
GOVERNMENT
Congress is a strange place. They ask a question, then don't let you answer.
He took maternity leave 😅😅😅😅
It was a tough delivery Lord knows but he made it through somehow.
His throat got pregnant!🎉
Ya he had a colonoscopy 😆
No, he didn't. He took parental leave, just like every other government employee is allowed to do. Your comment is homophobic which reveals yours.
Breast feeding is a two man job.
In order to stop this BS take away the government funding and mandates.
Imagine that the continental railroad across America was completed in 1869, in 2024 they cant even build a rail line in California
Slave labor for much of it, Chinese immigrant labor after slavery was abolished.
They used slave labour to do it. Tell me why you are in favour of that?
Bring back classic American Muscle Cars and let Americans enjoy our roads w/o these ridiculous new ideas requiring wasteful spending for no reason. Stop it.
Perfect example of being intelligent yet harmful.
That Rep was all transmit and no receive, which a the worst way to learn and do your job well. More of his constituents should see him fail to move or improve anything like this.
The original rail project was going to cost $40B, have something like 16 (22?) stops, go 200MPH, carry thousands and be done in 10 years. 15 years later, cost is up to $140B, it's got 6 stops, will go closer to 80MPH, might get a few hundred passengers and will not be finished this century... but it's an important expenditure of funding. (insert eyeroll here)
DEI in action, ladies and gentlemen.
His in denial and will not answer the questions! Poor children in slavery! God forgive our country!
This reminds me of a song.
How is that going to be built,what is that train going to be powered with
How discouraging that my Congressman has no vision for the future of our country, nor does he care that I have contributed no pollution to the Central Valley air in the last eight years. My Chevy Volt is serving me very well. I will drive it for the rest of the life unless it gets totaled.
How was he even supposed to address the topic if not given the space to do so. I see this all the time. They have these hearings just so the elected official can flap their jaw for their given amount of time and purposely don’t give the person time to address the topic. So frustrating.
Why didn't he vote to mine on US soil?
Oy, gevalt.
Duarte is a hypocrite, now a public one.
Why should I help fund something I can't even buy it's bs I love gas cars anyway
I love The Secretary of Transportation! He’s no idiot.
People are leaving California and you want to spend money like this.
Yes . That’s what their game is. Get a unpopular, very expensive project started. Then hit us with the harder much more expensive second phase. Which if uncompleted makes phase 1 worthless.
Half-man Adam has a new job babysitting for Pete's new daughter.
O look it's Peter puffer.
Lololol 🤣
He is a veteran. Five says your a coward.
@barryshannon5253 I'm a veteran, served in Iraq and Afghanistan. How would you like to pay? Like you, he's exactly the kind of guy that would tell you "I'm a veteran." Just go back to whoville.
don't fk with pete he will make you look like a fool
@honpot2016 clearly you voted for him. How did puffer get the job anyway?
Mayor, Pete, ladies, and gentlemen
Oh good! Only
""a FEW children are dying in the Congo to mine COBALT.. ""!
PHEW!!! That's ok then! Buttigieg to the rescue! 🎉
Evidence, not a conversation you had with ???????
This guy isn’t a liar, he’s worse. He actually believes he’s the good guy, and doing the right thing.
look how STUPID battery packs cost for cordless tools. I hate every product that China makes that , just falls apart or is subpar.
don't fk with pete
Pete has a pube hair on his lip.
HAHAHA....GOOD ONE
Buttigieg embarrasses republicans every time they debate. I'm surprised they continue to try...
Let him speak if you asked questions JFC
Bring up Idaho Farms that have gotten their water shutoff in the middle of summer after all their 500,000 acres of farmland have been planted. And the colbalt that needs TONS of water locAted in Idaho which in the 80s contaiminated the water and had to be shutdown
Half a million acres is a corporate farm. Screw them.
Mfkr looks like Pee Wee Herman, but Pee Wee’s waaay smarter 👍
mayor pete..
I have rarely seen anyone lay a glove on Buttigieg. He is a formidable opponent.
The Transportation Dept. Head is real cute, and I don't mean looks. And some talk about this guy being Presidential material??? Ha ha...
Harris / Buttigieg 2024
DEI at its best.
He’s such a diva when he can’t answer the question.
and?
Who is paying this guy to say all this stuff?
Don' mess with PETE!!!
Great dei hire.
Buttigieg don't talk over the Congressman.
That’s the problem with these people. No respect at all. Instead they bully their way through their disrespect.
Why not? He's in the administration that recognizes there's no need to tell congress anything the administration doesn't want to admit.
Congressman shouldn't ask questions that require an explanation, then demand a yes or no answer, then cut off and talk over the witness when some of us are interested in the actual answer.
@@gregh7400 Just say " I can't answer the question".
@danseemiller1279 That would be a lie. He can answer the question but that would cut into the political grandstanding all members of Congress love to engage in.
😂I like Pete. The only problem is that he is highly sophisticated for yesterday's politicians....it see very hard to go back to try and fix older problems that were never addressed before, now very costly and time consuming.... only hope that Pete doesn’t give in.....and give in to all today's rhetoric....thanks Pete ....
The problem isn't child labor, it's the subsidies. Enough already. Let manufacturing stand on its own merits. If it fails, oh well. Next.
So it’s fine when the government subsidizes gas vehicles and airplanes like it has for decades but EV is somehow different?
Hes the wife
You're the wife.
Turn his Mike off, he is so rude.
Your time is expired
OMG...
The gentalmans time is EXPIRED!!!!!
How come every Forbes video is about Buttigieg? Either you are obsessed with him or you are trying to commit a character assassination
Buttegieg wins this one...again.
Hello Acknowledgnent hallejueah
I don't agree with this Buttigieg guy and not on the electric bandwagon. Seen a few clips of him verbally jousting against various members and he definitely holds his own and presents very well. This John Duarte (for one moment towards the end) seems to have faired the best against him so far.
Yep, right up to the end when Buttigieg asked him why he didn't vote to bring the industry back to US soil.
HAS buttina jug BEEN TO NEW PALISTINE OHIO YET, IF HOT WHY NOT?
I CANNOT BELIEVE buttina jug COMPARED HIS SUPPORTING CHINA TO AMERICANS SUPPORTING THE AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY. WTF OVER? SOMETHING OFF WITH THIS GUY. IS mayaorkass HIS FATHER? THEY SOUND A LOT ALIKE.
EVERY TIME I HEAR THIS GUY SPEAK SOUNDS TO BE MORE AND MORE INDICKATIVE THAT HE IS UNABLE TO MAKE A GOOD DECISION.
Wow, budigig is filibustering! His favorite stance when the subject gets pointed!
Repuke 🤮
What a joke he is
Oh look. Another liar. Does not have a single clue about construction or infrastructure. And do not even get started on the children of Congo.
Mayor pete🤮🤮🤮🤮
Wait your pete
Is my electric bill going up because they’re draining more electricity for ev charging stations?
Of course!
Your gas bill would go down then at least
Was this Room 216? That would explain why Pete was smiling so much.
Tell Pete to shut up while you're talking, very rude individual. Totally inept.
EV's are disingenuous in so many ways. They were just talking about battery components being made from materials provided by child slave labor. We could talk about the complete overhaul of the electrical grid that must happen to support EV charging. California is currently asking its citizens not to charge EVs as it is already taxing the existing grid with only 3% of total vehicles being electric.
Now, let's talk about efficiency. Electricity doesn't just magically appear out of thin air. Roughly 60% of all electricity in the US still comes from fossil fuels. Consider that high voltage power lines lose roughly 8-15% of their energy in transmission. Consider also that the average EV is roughly 30% heavier than its gas powered counterpart. I would submit that EVs actually produce more pollution because of their gross inefficiency while still relying mostly on fossil fuels for that energy. It just pollutes somewhere else and not in your neighborhood. Someone brighter than me should do the math though and figure out exactly how much more. That would make an interesting report to reference when talking about whether or not EVs are actually greener than cars powered by fossil fuels. We ultimately would want to know how much pollution a fossil fuel powered car creates driving over a given distance versus how much pollution is created at a power plant to produce the energy needed by an EV to travel the same distance.
Finally, I would want to know how much toxic material is created when scrapping each vehicle. Both have lifespans in the 8-12 year range, so both would be scrapped at roughly the same time. While I don't know for sure, I would guess that EVs create significantly more toxic waste when scrapped due to the volume of esoteric materials used in their construction. Certainly the thousands of pounds of batteries would be problematic. You might consider some sort of recycling program, but at what cost? Would that drive the cost to a point where the ave5rage person will never own a vehicle in their lifetime?
So, go ahead and drive your EV smug in the knowledge that you are doing the responsible thing for the environment, and you are morally superior to those around you and not actually destroying both the environment and the economy with one fell swoop while promoting child slavery around the globe.
I agree even with the Sarcasm. I've been saying it, not as well as you did, but Thank You.
@@rjay7019 The saddest thing is that I came up with all the numbers in just a few minutes of internet research. Anyone can check it on their own. Nobody really cares enough to look for themselves or fire off two brains cells to think about all of the things they aren't telling you.... because everyone knows EVs are good.
@Tampahop just like all the blades from the wind turbines. I live in West Texas, and they are everywhere. Up near Sweetwater, there's a blade graveyard. All you can see are stacks of old blades. What's the plan? What are they going to do with them?
@@rjay7019 Wind turbines? You mean bird Cuisinart's?
@@Tampahop exactly
Peter is awesome
He should be this next president
Oi vey
His husband dressed in drag at a celebrity Dancing with the stars in South Bend
😅😅😅😅
buttegieg for POTUS
Women ☕
John Duarte's a good congressman, well educated too. 🇺🇲
Buttuguice sassy aint he??
Electric vehicles have eh place in humanity that's great just not now!!
P Bootijuice has no common sense whatsoever.
Pee Wee Herman
Buttigieg is an embarrassment.
Buttibut is beyond arrogant.
Impeach for incompetence.
The bureaucrats actually believe they don’t need to answer to our Representatives. This must change. We are no longer a govt of the people by the people and for the people. That has been gone a long time. Trump is our only chance to get it back.
What a waste of money this guys a joke TRUMP 2024