How is it that Buttigieg, who was mayor of a small city in Indiana, can possibly with a straight face spout the urbanite nonsense about electric vehicles as a panacea?
They are great if you live in a densely populated megalopolis with air pollution problems, never want to leave it (think about many New Yorkers and Angelinos) and thus never want to drive more than, say 150 miles roundtrip. Were I a New Yorker or an Angelino, I'd want one, and would advocate my neighbors getting them, too, but once you get out into the heartland, yes, even into Indiana, they become an absurdity.
(There is a small fraction of the stupidity the American Left advocates that cannot be accounted for by their patently absurd Rousseauian tabula rasa view of human nature, their economic illiteracy, and their hatred of Christianity, and most of that small fraction is urbanite stupidity -- advocating things that are genuinely good in dense urban population centers as if they were universally good -- electric vehicles are part of that small fraction.)