Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operation was his priority.
“I don’t have any concern about it,” he said, when asked about the higher prices at the pump. “They’ll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.”
The comments mark a shift in tone for the president, who touted a drop in gas prices in his State of the Union address last month and at a Texas rally focused on energy that took place just hours before the U.S. launched its air strikes on Saturday.
Those EVs are looking pretty promising now aren’t they?
When 40% of electricity is generated with natural gas, it doesn’t matter that much.
Surely at least this way of generating power for EVs is more efficient than an engine that has to fit in a car?
Guess what? I can change how the power is generated for an electric car. I can’t change a gas engine to not be a gas engine. I know, it’s crazy right. Also, this may sound unbelievable, but natural gas electricity is way cleaner per mile than gasoline. So an electric vehicle charged by natural gas is still significantly better than a gas engine.
Granted, all of that is terrible compared to public transit, but most American’s don’t have a choice to use public transit, significant infrastructure changes must be made first, and we are decades away from that at best. So for now, electric cars are the best option, while hopefully the politicians start working on the infrastructure problem.