How Much Did Washington Waste on Electric Vehicles? | Todd Myers
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- Todd Myers reviews his new study revealing the waste of the Electric Vehicle subsidy program, which ineffectively and inefficiently spent taxpayer dollars to help people buy EVs.
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I wonder how much WA state representatives made on investments in those EV companies?
Millions
YAH patty murray .. had stock in pfizer and a company that built electric motors.... PLUS had a account in a bank in the camman islands ..........and she voted for every single one of those to be funded with BILLIONS if not a trillion tax payer dollars.. she is as corrupt as Nancy pelosi -- AND PEOPLE KEEP Fing voting for her
Make sure to ask Patty Murray that question. She's another who's benefited from a course or two at the "Nancy Pelosi School of Stock Picking" but because she's so..."low key" she escapes from that kind of questioning. But she's been in Congress for 30+ years so those questions with ANSWERS to me ARE LONG OVERDUE...
It’s money laundering
Inquiring minds would like to know
How did they waste $16 Billion? Thanks Inslee for leaving that debt.
Money laundering for the Democratic party.
They didn’t waste it man, they stole it!
Given how much home values have skyrocketed, the fact that they took all of that property tax windfall and STILL ran out and ran up debt goes to show that these assholes are straight up sociopaths. As if the legislative agenda wasn’t radical and tyrannical enough…
@@donot6185 they spent one million to get 37 disadvantaged individuals drivers license.
Every large out of control wildfires cancels out all the CO² reductions that state has made.
They don’t understand that though. They see “numbers and metrics.” My dad was a logger for 35 years and knows eons more than these chumps in Olympia.
That happened on Left wing Jay's watch by him not spending the money that was budgeted for forest maintenance so we have not instead of clear skies now because of their new non management style, the forest now burns like it does everywhere else every summer that shows the same neglect. Remember the sale of forest products and especially timber in this state is used for school construction. So while they've been playing these games in the woods trying to burn them all down (like Bill Gates would do because now he hates trees and would cut them all down if he was in charge) is the reason Little Johnny and Susie go to a school that should have been bulldozed and rebuilt many years ago now but can't because of..."a lack of state funds" used for that purpose. So how'd YOU vote last election??
Why would we want to reduce CO2?
@EnthusiasticTent-xt8fh I know
@ that’s a great question. So great that the environmentalists get it wrong every time. lol. My dad was a logger for 35 years. We need that carbon dioxide to feed our trees. Without that, we would suffocate. Maybe that’s what they want?
Not wasted but stolen by corrupted officials
Whenever the government gets involved nothing good happens, let the free market decide !!!
"But we need a "living" wage, and free medical care, and free housing for homeless addicts, and free needles, and more commuter trains, and more bicycle lanes, and more roundabouts, and better indoctrination cam... er, I mean, schools, and, and, .....
The first part of your comment was 100% accurate concerning the PREVIOUS US pres. admin. but now is GROSSLY WRONG AND OUT DATED! Of course you being from liberal Canada and having been under the oppressive tyranny of Justin for so long makes your attitude a little bit more understanding......BUT NOT in regards to the US!!!
The reason that the government messes everything up is that they attempt to please everybody. Remember, if you attempt to please everybody, you please nobody!
The money wasn't wasted. It went somewhere, just not towards what they said it was going to go towards. That's why they wanted to bump it up this year. The program worked exactly as intended by the architects of the program, so of course they wanted more.
No transparency
@@davidcooke8005 they spent 1 million on getting 37 illegals driver license. Look up video from @unDividedwithBrandiKruse
Look in to the free charging stations at the Capitol Campus, hidden away in the parking garages. You will see private vehicles plugged in to many.
To activate the charger, a card or code has to be inputed into the charger panel. I work at a municipal company and they pay to charge their personal car.
This is how Washington State sells itself and its ineffective programs (which are MANY), a measure of performance (we spent xxxx dollars on this program) rather then a measure of effects (we reduces carbon at.03% . The effects of the the state programs (which should be the focus) are overridden by a performance based concept that disregards tangible results. When will we look at the trails of money that builds these ineffective programs. Each dollar goes to a pocket. Accountability does NOT exist. If you FIX a problem, there will be no more money from the federal government, donations and other lanes. That's why the problems aren't fixed and managed to ensure a continuing income for SOMEONE! Great video of the reality of Washington State!
And just when you think things can't get any more wasteful, there's a congresswoman wanting cow farts counted...
Can we start by having the assgas escaping those in Olympia metered first?
For scientific comparison data of course...
They could not shut down the farms by the steam by the water testing that is done every year by all of the schools.
All of the samples are taken close to a farm.i went to multiple different places as a chaperone .
There are samples taken all over the world on the same date.
Washington is out of control, so much waste that and more!
So much illegal immigrants and a invasion of green cards immigrants from india... need to be deported
WA state politicians have a severe case of California envy and want WA state to be just like California. For the love of Heaven! WHY???
IMO, Calif is run by complete idiots, so why would anyone want to copy that. Their successes are few, their failures are many, and the
price is so far out of control that these government programs threaten the viability of the state of WA. I would cheerfully leave this
state in the rearview mirror and move to a so-called "red state", if not for strong family ties.
But yet seniors are living on $1,000 when a one bedroom one bath is 1,400 gee I wonder why we have so many homeless people on the streets
But they get $200 for their utilities so they're happy to vote them again and again
Rent around here is stupid. I got a 2 bedroom apartment laundry included for $850/ month a decade ago. A ghetto 3 bed 2 bath was also $850.
Even with 40% inflation since then, that’d be about $1,200 now. But the rent has at least doubled.
It’s completely unsustainable and disenfranchising to have property values increasing that quickly.
$45 million and only half the number of projected EV sales? Where did the other half of the money go?
Democrat political campaigns.
If you guys drive through Moses Lake, there’s two big buildings out Wheeler Road. jobs put on a hold because they ran out of money and that was our tax dollars
Audit Wa state!
No way. Corruption corruption
Key word CO2....anyone that thinks CO2 is the problem, obviously knows nothing of how plants and trees work. But hey, let's make it greener by putting in more high-rise buildings. I bet the Egyptians wish they had the green new deal before being covered in sand!
You’re right about co2, but I’m all for building plenty of new high rises in the city. It lets plenty of people live there and use that infrastructure and reduces the amount of countryside paved over into sprawl.
We do also need a lot more single family homes, but if a lot of the housing demand can be sponged up by urban density, it makes the outer lying areas way less crazy.
People need to stop saying that the government is “incompetent” or “stupid.” They know exactly what they’re doing, and we’re the stupid ones!
We want our frigging MONEY BACK!!!!!
Did you factor in transit and municipalities?
Also when transit started buying fully electric coaches, Insle mandatated Protera coaches.
One coach in the country burnt to the ground from a thermal disaster, batteries. All of them have been taken off routes and batteries disconnected.
"They" hand our money 💰 to their donors. Contracts to their family members. How many times do you dip chips have to take it.
And democrat political campaigns. Money laundering
They are putting new charging stations at The Port of Ilwaco. So not at a central lication and at a fishing port 🤔 Right by a condemed rv park full of squatters.
Bye Bye copper wires!
Very good video. Concise, to the point, and well presented.
I thought their stupid thing with the green bikes was going to solve all our money problems.
I bet an EV can't drive from Seattle to Spokane on one charge mid winter. Last time I heard, EVs can't go 400 miles on one charge. What good is a car you can't drive across your own state non stop.
They can't. And to put it in perspective, my C8 stingray, mid engine super car could just about make it from Spokane to Seattle... Under the right conditions, I can get almost 400 miles out of it. Best gas milage so far is 25.5 miles per gallon, and I wasn't trying... I was actually doing pulls, but mainly freeway driving.
The tank is 18 gallons, so if I could maintain that 25.5 mpg... I could go 459 miles on one tank of gas.
"You don't need to drive that far, stay where you are."
Great video
$2,072.00 for a Latee? No worries, the money does not come from the decision makers, it is taxpayer money. Zero accountability.
And how much do tax payers spend in oil/gas subsidies???
Definitely cancel the program.
Even Trump can't save us in this state. This is a Mini-California for taxpayer punishment. Voter ID act might be a start. Olympia operates with impunity and steamrolls conservatives.
Thank you for this report
There is nothing unusual with politicians doubling down on failed programs. A good servant of the public would change course once the data is revealed, but politicians ,in general, just love spending the taxpayers $$$ and bragging in front of the media.
Is it true that too few eastern Washington conservatives vote and if they did republicans would be in charge of our state ?
The coastal Liberals far outnumber the eastern Conservatives.
The state is $14 billion in debt beyond abilities to pay. Do you wonder why? The legislature wants to raise your taxes to pay for the debt and more of these programs. The state is democrat run without any solutions. You vote for this.
We are sick of it move on Washington
Factual info. Technology needs to move at the pace of value.
EVs are a Huge Waste of MONEY and ENERGY
I totally agree! I love my Tesla Model 3, but there should definitely not be any subsidies for things like this! Heck, I NEVER charge anywhere but at home, and on very rare occasions, using a Tesla Supercharger when I’m traveling. I’m willing to bet that most V2 shopping center charging stands rarely get used.
This is why I vote NO on every tax increase here!
Getting really sick of this bull
.. 37 years on the puget sound... might not make it to 40... Idaho looking better n better
I'm looking at Lewiston
Don't give them more ideas. They might think that $2,072 of taxpayer money for one latte is a bargain and spend $200 million on a new program to give out free lattes.
As a 64 year old Washington born man, lifelong resident I’m about to leave. Idiots running the place. The green crap is such a joke and waste of money, add to that druggies ridiculous gun laws. Nothing they have done has helped the residents. 😢
Don’t you mean how much did democrats waste
I bet you they never include the CO2 increases caused by all the vehicles used to build, construct & employees to get to work to build these.
Remember 10 % for the big guy. Evan if it's for a heated sidwalk in Vt. 😖
Waste? Sounds more like a hustle of some sort to me. That money went in someone's pocket for sure.
It takes money to go after the 1st and 2nd Amendments. Buying judges etc..
Citizens should be able to buy their vehicles of preference with no subsidies period...EV across the board are too expensive for regular citizens...
Tell me why I'm paying for other peoples' cars.
The blue hustle.
Cancel the program? What do you do with the 300 government employees hired to manage the program?
Kickbacks
Not to mention all the fires. That will cause our insurance rates to raise
For that amount of money why not just buy the EV's themselves and have the government make use of them in their various departments. Makes about as much sense and maybe result in more EV's on the road.
You should know that Big Oil is a main donor to Washington Policy Center.
and George Soros ?
@@CampDavid54 Not that I am aware of.
Like the outrageous amount of money given to fortune 500 companies that are raking in huge profits like the Petroleum Industry, for many decades
The chump change that the EV industry gets is nothing in comparison
Where's the money going???? WHERE'S THAT INFO???
Who funds Todd?
How much was wasted? The answer is every penny they spent.
our tax dollars at work, glad they're thinking fiscally
How much CO2 have the LA wild fires created ? All of it
It reduced "transportation" related co2 by .02..but increased electrical consumption by how much?? And that has an impact on CO2, even if the electricity here is 100% renewable or even nuclear. "Renewable" construction, maintenance, mining, power storage, etc all have direct CO2 increases that are likely to "break even" never or at impractically long timelines.
Having the infrastructure in place is expensive, but once it is there, you can ride the tide of EV popularity. EV vehicles will, by necessity become more popular, and if Trump tariffs Canadian oil (Which the US gets 60% from) $5 or more dollars a gallon fuel would make them attractive. One can assume that government reps. are somewhat compromised regardless of the issue? Sad but true.
Google AI says that EV fires are 20 to 80 times as severe as ICE fires in terms of pollution.
We actually want more co2. We are closer to a carbon shortage than too much.
Those with common sense, that live in Washington and Oregon are just along for the ride................and no say .
Keep voting BLUE
Well, you just didn't throw Enough money at the problem, to make it work properly!
Signed, Big Gov't Liberals, everywhere.
That's a justifiable price for a latte according to liberal politicians 😬
People still keep voting for the same Party over and over again.
LMFAO, every charger I see has cut cables from tweakers selling copper.
Washington rode a horse.
Start checking out these politicians bank account accounts
DAH, A TYPICAL BLUE STATE !!!
Washinton waste so much money. Thanks to the West side of the state aka Seattle area.
Everything with the name Inslee on it should be trashed!! Fact; Inslee has never worked a real job in his life!
Talk about waste, grays harbor washington putting in culverts for salmon to pass under roads, only problem, salmon haven't been in these streams in 30 years, some streams never. Theft, taxpayers voted $30 flat car tabs, Sinslee said nope. Changed the wording on ghe back of license renewal, instead of tax for roads now says tax for transportation. Meaning no road maintenance, money goes to his buddy at seattle bus or rail.
Wasted every dollar
Never going to buy an EV. Not ever
But wait! If you're going to talk about wasteful subsidies for cars, why not also mention the incredible amounts of wasteful subsidies for gas cars manufacturers and the gas and oil industrys over the last 10 decades? HYPOCRITE!
You’re in a tee shirt.
I don’t think anything any thing you say is important.
So what business does Hunter Biden have involving EVs ? 😂
Just can’t fix stupid
This video is Exhibit A in how to misrepresent EVs. The author claims that the money spent only reduced CO2 emissions for one year! Not true - those EVs will be reducing emissions for one or two decades each, and then the batteries will either be recycled or used to stabilize the grid, making it more reliable.
That 4700 EVs reduced Washington emissions by 0.3% (if true - the author does not tell us how that was calculated) only shows how much farther Washington has to go to reduce emissions, not that EVs are not effective at this needed process. We KNOW that EVs are effective at this.
The "Washington Policy Center" is a right-wing propaganda outfit associated with the billionaire Koch brothers and is funded through dark money. I would be very skeptical about their honesty and motivations.
Your criticisms show that you've not actually read the report. The author does indeed explain how he came up with .03% (see pages 8-9). It may make it easy for you to dismiss concerns about the actual results of state spending programs if you ignore WPC as a "right-wing" boogeyman, but the data are often from WA government sources -- a place few would label "right wing." If we are spending millions of dollars for an environmental benefit, it is our view that we should be interested in getting the benefit promised. That's not "right" or "left" but non-partisan common sense.
@@washingtonpolicycenter What report? There are no obvious links to any report in this YT video. There are no obvious links to the report at the WPC website.
Are you actually going to deny being a right-wing group? LOL! You get dark money from the Koch brothers (Oil money for Christ's sake!) , the DeVos family, the Coors family, the Walton Family Foundation, the Roe Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, and Searle Freedom Trust, for crying out loud. Not to mention the Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund - two dark money right-wing groups. Your group has ties to the right-wing ALEC. The WPC is associated with the State Policy Network, as right-wing as it gets. Talk about dishonesty - you just proved it.
The trees need CO2 to grow. For that much money 💰 just think of how many trees we could have planted instead....Hmmmmm 😮😮
Money laundering
Democrats = tax & spend !!!
Fix your microphone
WHY does this DOPE think an EV LASTS only ONE YEAR?????
The whole EV movement is a scam.
I take umbrage with that very incorrect figure of a point zero three percent decrease in carbon dioxide emissions.
It will take a small efficient EV like the Fiat 500 it’s entire usable life to simply break even on the emissions deficit involved in the construction and transportation etc of the battery alone over the equivalent gas powered Fiat 500.
The recycling and transportation of the waste EV when it’s life has expired will again put into deficit which will give the gas vehicle another three years of operation before it emits as much c02 as the EV, the gas vehicle will then operate for at least another five years before planed obsolescence and repair costs end its life.
And all that is only if the EV is exclusively charged with solar or nuclear power not gas or coal.
It will not be better under side show bob 🥴
So good at spending other people’s money 🤨
I want a large truck that is gasoline-powered. V8 RELIABLE