The Patriot Post® · The Struggles of Pothole Pete

Since the 1980s, we’ve been told that global warming would leave American cities underwater within decades, droughts would leave us starving, and melting ice caps would leave polar bears and seals without a home.

Indeed, back in 2006, former vice president and climate change zealot Al Gore predicted we had 10 years to save the earth. Ten years later, though, the oceans didn’t rise, and Rush Limbaugh reminded the public that Gore’s outlandish prediction didn’t pan out as planned.

Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” turned out to be a very convenient lie for Gore and the climate propagandists who’ve scammed governments and their taxpayers out of billions of dollars for green initiatives that do nothing for the environment. Unfortunately, after years of indoctrinating school kids into thinking the planet is on life support and pushing scare tactics to the rest of us on TV, in movies, and on social media, millions of Americans still believe it.

Few seem to remember the fact that in the 1970s, these same fear merchants in the media and scientific community were pushing global cooling, warning of an ice-covered globe if we didn’t give up cars, refrigerators, and capitalism.

But facts don’t matter when you’re more interested in brainwashing the masses than in saving the planet. Whether they call it global cooling, global warming, or climate change, it’s all the same fraudulent scheme.

It doesn’t take much work to look beneath the thin veneer of the climate cult to see there’s nothing of substance there. Take Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, for example. His record is embarrassing, to say the least. As PJ Media’s Matt Margolis reports, “Buttigieg’s tenure as Transportation secretary has been marred by incompetence and scandal. Typically, most people wouldn’t even know who the U.S. Transportation secretary is, yet Buttigieg has been repeatedly thrust himself into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. His decision to take paternity leave during the supply chain crisis, his pledge to invest $1 billion to address ‘racist’ highways, the Southwest Airlines fiasco, the FAA outage, the Chinese spy balloon incident, and his poor handling of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the subsequent environmental disaster were all huge black marks on his record.”

Buttigieg probably thinks he’s getting away with it all; otherwise, he wouldn’t go on to peddle ridiculous claims like climate change being responsible for airline turbulence.

He’s constantly bloviating about the threat of rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions, so it’s no wonder he’s in favor of phasing out fossil fuels and forcing everyone to drive EVs. But while he’s trying to take your gas-guzzling SUV, Pothole Pete’s flying first class on a carbon-spewing jet.

A couple of years back, Tucker Carlson wrote, “If you’re yapping about carbon emissions and climate and then flying private, what you’re really doing is hoisting a screaming middle finger to the country, to the plebs below in their SUVs.”

And if there’s really a climate emergency like we’ve been warned about ad nauseam, then Buttigieg should be rolling out electric vehicle charging stations like nobody’s business.

Back in 2022, Buttigieg sounded full of confidence: “Wherever you live, wherever you’re headed, you can be as confident about filling up your EV as somebody is today driving a gas-powered vehicle. This is a classic example of good policy that can drive good environmental outcomes.”

Yet after the Biden administration set aside more than $7 billion to build a half-million EV charging stations by 2030, there are only eight — not 800 or 80, but eight. And Pete thinks that’s good policy?

Even CBS News had to ask about the lack of production. On “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan questioned Secretary Pete about the paltry numbers of EV stations. Pete’s only defense is that it’s not 2030 yet.

It’s funny how they keep moving the goalposts, but each time we reach Earth’s breaking point, there’s nothing but more scare tactics and bad policies, from carbon and mileage taxes to windmills that churn out as much power as one of those potato-powered clocks that the kids had back in the day.

So they keep the propaganda machine going, like the time Buttigieg unloaded a bicycle from an SUV to make it look like he’d biked all the way to a cabinet meeting.

It’s all about optics, but there’s nothing to laugh about.

The Biden administration is dead serious about convincing Americans to join the climate cult, sacrificing their cars and their freedom in the process. But as long as Pete Buttigieg remains one of the cult’s leaders, climate change will continue looking more like a scam than a threat.