Buttigieg to Consumers: Fight Inflation by Spending Tens of Thousands to Buy an Electric Car

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg looks at an EVgo charging station during an electric vehicles event outside of the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC on Oct. 20, 2021. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whom some Democrats see as President Joe Biden’s successor, told MSNBC over the weekend that thanks to “incentives that make it more affordable to buy an electric vehicle” in the Build Back Better bill, “families thinking about getting an EV ... once they own that electric vehicle, will never have to worry about gas prices again.”