By CNSNews.com Staff | May 13, 2021 | 3:01pm EDT
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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at a press briefing on Wednesday after joining with Republican congressional leaders in a meeting with President Joe Biden about his stimulus plan that the American people want electric cars.
Pelosi indicated that Republicans in the meeting had expressed some hesitancy about using the bill to promote electric vehicles.
“One area of shall we say not total agreement was electric cars,” said Pelosi.
A reporter later asked Pelosi: “Do electric cars need to be in the bill?”
“Well, I m not having–I think the American people want electric cars,” she responded.
Nancy Pelosi: ‘The American People Want Electric Cars’ By CNSNews.com Staff | May 13, 2021 | 3:01pm EDT
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at a press briefing on Wednesday after joining with Republican congressional leaders in a meeting with President Joe Biden about his stimulus plan that the American people want electric cars.
Pelosi indicated that Republicans in the meeting had expressed some hesitancy about using the bill to promote electric vehicles.
“One area of shall we say not total agreement was electric cars,” said Pelosi.
A reporter later asked Pelosi: “Do electric cars need to be in the bill?”
May 12, 2021 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio, Committee Members and Mayors for a press event on the urgent need for infrastructure investment. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I think it s very clear to see why we are so blessed to have Peter DeFazio as the Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He has decades of experience and knowledge on the subject. He has a vision about how we take our country into the future. As I say to him all the time, ‘Peter, our hopes are riding on you.’ Because he knows the territory, and he knows the issues.
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Advantages, obstacles
If the network is installed, Christopher Mitchell, director of the community broadband networks initiative with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, said he expects private companies to lower their rates to compete with the city s offering.
Competition would keep more money in the community, which is good for the local economy, but it could slow the city’s efforts to move to a higher capacity, more reliable fiber optic network.
Mitchell said the biggest advantage of building a fiber optic network is competition for the dominant provider, which leads to better prices and faster upgrades.
Another upside is keeping revenue in a community rather than sending it to a corporation out of state.