CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has written a letter to President Joe Biden raising concerns about “pushing a massive and hasty shift to EVs (electric vehicles), through tax credits for upper-class buyers, billions in new spending, and oppressive new agency rules.”
In the January 19 letter, Morrisey focused on the severe winter weather much of the nation currently is experiencing. It includes reports, mostly from the Midwest, “of calamitous failures of EVs have rolled in.”
“This very cold and snowy weather pattern we’re experiencing has revealed that our power grid cannot support this massive push for EVs from the Biden administration — its woke agenda is placing more strain and demand on our nation’s electrical energy grids," Morrisey wrote in the letter. "At the same time, this administration has taken dramatic measures to weaken our grids.
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"We have shown why the country is not ready for an all-EV future: the technology to power EVs is currently unreliable, make us more dependent on foreign powers like China, and put car ownership out of reach for millions of lower-income Americans.”
In the letter, Morrisey urged Biden to reconsider his position.
"As President, you have a duty to ground your administration’s policies in reality, not paranoia and fear," Morrisey wrote. “While America has the resources to power our traditional, fuel-powered vehicles, we simply aren’t ready to jump into full-scale electric vehicles, a big part of this administration’s radical green new deal."