Witness Warns Chip Roy: This Federal Rule 'Would Basically Take Away Private Car Ownership'

At a House Budget Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) questioned witnesses about left-wing energy policies.
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[@coldspring624]

People need to reclaim the country

[@jasonn9907]

100% Either "We the people" reclaim the country today or else our children will be made its slaves.

[@glasslinger]

It was attempted January 6. The country lost. It's game over for us if Trump does not sweep the November election.

[@mikeh3084]

No nuclear, Go geothermal.

[@GrandMoffVixen]

@@mikeh3084 Unrealistic, as geothermal is not present everywhere, whereas nuclear plants can be built where needed.

[@mikeh3084]

@@GrandMoffVixen we have multiple sites in the US and Hawaii is it's own geothermal state.

[@larrysapp2978]

Don't want no ev cars or trucks.

[@itsablessingbeinganamerica1401]

Govenor Inslee is now giving low income families money towards EV vehicles

[@cheezeyman69]

​@@itsablessingbeinganamerica1401 Yes, while mine is having it's available budget shrink to subsidize that. That's even besides the reality that electricity prices will increase because the demand will increase for electric energy will grow, yet there is little effective to increase the supply. He and other progressives here are advocating the stand down of our hydro-electric dams while not providing a viable alternative to offset the loss in generation. Also, my gasoline engine can run regardless of weather conditions, unlike most current EVs. It gets cold here.

[@springerworks002]

@larrysapp2978 Well, good thing there is no Bill of Wants. The right to travel, was turned into a privilege. That privilege can be rvoked whenever the government feels like it.

[@akexervin851]

Defund the EPA and The Dept of ENERGY for Unconditional Acts against the American People!

[@someofthissomeofthat6014]

enforce the repeal of Chevron and reel the 3 letter orgs back in

[@StitchInTime5638]

time to defund and audit all 3 letter government agencies. once the audit is complete then we can consider if they are still needed and refund them.

[@cheesegyoza]

That will never happen.

[@alexclements5631]

Ok . And EXACTLY WHOSE JOB is it to do THIS ??? THIS NON FUNCTIONING House !!! I HAVE NOT SEEN ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS PRODUCE POSITIVE RESULTS, I SAID POSITIVE RESULTS UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION!! The People can raise hell and members of Congress turn a deaf ear ! THERE SHOULD BE , when elected members of Congress have served no more than one or two terms and have Not Provided positive results AND REPRESENTATION another candidate is voted into office to replace them!! REMEMBER THIS, THIS ELECTION AND FOR FUTURE ELECTIONS!! THIS DOES NOT JUST APPLY TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS!! IMHO…

[@MrKeithH1]

@@someofthissomeofthat6014amen

[@pencylolayahbless7480]

Diabolical

[@nancystrickland1623]

Call it what it is Chip….it’s a LIE PERIOD!!

[@patches3216]

Chip Roy isn't much of a good person.

[@MrMike-qn4xn]

​@@patches3216 Proof? Back it up soy boy😂

[@stevez340]

@@patches3216Yeah, he’s no Kamala Harris😂🤣😂

[@tedmoser3657]

The green scam is absolute lunacy!

[@sdrc92126]

It's working for the billionaires

[@tristenklein5940]

@@sdrc92126correction, leftists oligarch billionaires! Buffet, Soros, Styer, Gates, Zuckerberg etc

[@rlanza2468]

Drill Baby Drill!

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

We should. In the USA we have regulations to prevent most of the pollution and other issues caused with fracking. Its not perfect, but its better than letting China drill. Who will dump the pollution right into the river or in a hole on site. I don't understand how Western climate activists completely dropped the ball on the pragmatism vs idealism issue. Oil isn't going anywhere so why are we offloading the extraction to countries that don't even pretend to care about properly managing waste, (worker) safety, or the pollutants? Drill baby drill. Make a bunch of American oil workers incredibly wealthy just working the oil rig. 6 figure salaries just working as labor. Why aren't we doing this??

[@itsablessingbeinganamerica1401]

Amen 🙏🏻

[@ji8044]

The US is the largest oil producing nation in the world, right now. Republicans know less about the US than the average Albanian does.

[@victoroneill7924]

I live in an all electric home in Texas and our electric coop has invested a lot of money in wind generators and solar panels (that only generate electricity when the wind blows or the sun is shining). We now electric outages and much higher electric bills in the winter. The generating heat with electricity is very inefficient. Nothing beats natural gas for generating heat efficiently and we have a lot in Texas!

[@jw11432]

Fellow Texan here and we are piped for gas, which powers our water heater and our central heat. The gas bill is always higher in the winter because of this. But I've gotta say, my gas bill has never exceeded $200. It's probably on average, in the winter, about $140-150.

[@ji8044]

No that's false, you don't understand even the most basic aspects of energy production.

[@GrandMoffVixen]

@@ji8044 Then prove it. Citations, or you are a liar.

[@jw11432]

@@ji8044 Electrically generated heat is objectively less efficient than burning natural gas.

[@bobmorgan1575]

@@ji8044 YOU don't understand physics. Every time you transform energy from one form to another you incur losses. Transmitting electric power from the generation source to the end user also incurs a continuous loss on every inch of electric line it travels through. Those losses add up quickly.

[@destiny3423]

Give the power back to the people!! We need to start voting on some of these regulations..

[@johnnyblade6088]

Give the power back to the people? What do you mean? We've always had the power, we just don't practice using it enough. We need to remind these people that its what we say goes, not what they say. We the people need to be more aggressive when it comes to dicision making that effects our lives, not theirs.

[@slappy8941]

No one's going to give you power, you have to take it.

[@Brad-pc3bi]

They are building infinite apartments but essentially zero cheap starter homes. I wonder why....hmmmm...

[@phillipmatthews8341]

You are correct, this country needs millions of starter homes.

[@TxDragon55]

It is program that the United Nations came up with to control the population. They want everyone to live within a "15 minute" city which will be like a concination camp. It is all in the information that President Clinton signed called "AGENDA 21". I have been tell people about this for 2 decades now.

[@joeysdream7166]

They want everything centralized. Easier to control.

[@TERRY-cb2ku]

They want to ban us from having/owning private property, automobiles, etc which would possibly confine us to "fifteen minute" cities. We would be perpetual debt slaves as renters and every other imaginable service which government would control.

[@paularnold4320]

Look at Russia look at many other communist countries and see what kind of housing they have, their apartments you don't see many homes like here in the US

[@SteveMarton-g3q]

TRUMP 2024 MAGA FJB

[@dorthyadams816]

Defund fema

[@markgrafstrom1704]

So when do we the people get to show these communists we don't want that? Things are boiling over guys, better stop talking and DO something!

[@pamc3338]

They needed an enormous amount of gas to get those people out of the floods in NC solar and batteries would'nt have. Jeesh what a dumb govt we have.

[@jonjuan1955]

Thank goodness wars don’t use fuel. And shipping humans across the earth does not effect fuel usage or have a carbon footprint!

[@tonysc7610]

We have a government that hates us, is what we have.

[@purplestareye]

Not dumb treasonous! Sold out to Globalists

[@Conservative_carnivore]

*Corrupt not dumb

[@TexasGrandma2010]

Corrupt. Those running things know exactly what they are doing.

[@rlanza2468]

TEXAS - USA PRESIDENT 2024 - FAVORED TICKET: Former 45th Incumbent Nominee: TRUMP / VANCE

[@mikebaucom4638]

Thank you, how hard is it to understand. If you keep listening to rich celebrities and government officials... You will go broke.

[@bobrr7598]

This should be NATIONAL news.

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US SENATE - TEXAS - 2024 FAVORED LIST: Incumbent - TED CRUZ (R)

[@michelevk569]

What about the Human Right to Free Movement?

[@gobbletegook]

Free movement? Is that the one where you flush twice...because its a long way to Mar-a-largo?

[@Kainis80]

there are exactly zero human rights anywhere. What there are, are what government affirms it gives a person. And that person's willingness and ability to defend what they believe to be their rights, violently if necessary. If the government doesn't think you should "move freely", you aren't going to.

[@aaronwilcox4376]

Is the government also chopping off your feet? We do have the right to travel freely in the US. There is no guarantee of horse, carriage, train, airplane, or automobile, however.

[@rebeccadee4107]

​@@Kainis80There are still hunter-gatherer tribes that operate and are sustained without a government making them pay a currency for shelter or clothing ie homeowners tax and sales tax. It is western civilization that makes citizens slaves to a government.

[@butterfinger1171]

You can travel freely all you want on foot by bicycle or a horse..

[@sisterphyllis7890]

Texas should repair that grid. There was no reason why its people had to suffer the way they did.

[@pauliecopez2683]

They knew about it 10 or more years prior. They knew if it got that cold it would happen.

[@CDWCAULDRON]

it was not the grid it was planed by the energy company's and they got caught when the storm . they were trying to drive up the price of natural gas that year...

[@GregoryLander]

The GAS companies held back gas so electric froze, they wanted more $. Was not Texas fault!

[@bilindamueller3154]

Obama/obiden..

[@sisterphyllis7890]

@@bilindamueller3154, no Texas. They gave funds to the government with #45 and requested it back after he left and didn’t do anything with it.

[@8324036]

After chevron was overturned, I thought these agencies could not make all these rules.

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

It was probably a show piece. "See we did something." Meanwhile business as usual.

[@bobmorgan1575]

That would only work if we had a president that heeded SCOTUS decisions. We do not, and SCOTUS does not have the power to enforce their decisions.

[@peoplez129]

They still privately employ chevron, because virtually most of these agency's entire purpose was chevron based. What you would expect is after chevron was overturned, agencies would have needed to fire a huge amount of employees, but we never saw anything like that, which tells us that they are still employing chevron like the ruling never existed.

[@thomaskoval8524]

Defund department of energy and epa.

[@johnmeyer9108]

Vote trump2024 to much stupid goverment rules this is a free country our choices not theres vote all democrats out of office or our fredoms will be gone

[@TinaMarie869]

I wish everyone would have to see this before they vote

[@michaelcondon8510]

Send Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas this video when Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas are kicked the hell out of Gov't, never to be heard from again. I'd of called them the Three Stooges but that insults Larry, Curly, and Mo.

[@patriot77185]

Well said guys.

[@rlanza2468]

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[@LawrenceBroussard]

The average American cannot afford a vehicle anymore. The norm was two year finance not long ago, now five, six, seven, eight, nine years just to afford a note. A set of tires a few years ago where the same price of one new tire today. Very few people income have increased at that rate.

[@FractalPrism.]

tire for my prius $100. buy anywhere tire for a tesla $450. must by from tesla

[@Tehkrit]

the govt shouldnt subsidize ANY energy production... those corps make TRILLIONS....

[@Kainis80]

the US should get out of the business of ALL subsidies. If something can't survive in the market on it's own, it needs to be reconsidered.

[@rlanza2468]

ATTORNEY GENERAL - NORTH CAROLINA - 2024 FAVORED LIST Candidate - DAN BISHOP (R)

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Vote out every Dem you can! Trump 2024!

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[@samueltucker8473]

Keep your lithium dry.

[@pmichael73]

Name ONE major US industry that is not propped up by the Federal government (American taxpayer) through contracts, preferential loans, tax relief, etc..

[@FractalPrism.]

propped vs supplanted by but you realize that already bc you're falsely pushing a view to discredit reality

[@BillyWickert]

We don't hear enough from you Mr Roy...

[@JimmyJamZ12321]

Let's go, Brandon!

[@Graterstuuf]

Home ownership is what separates the middle class and the poor

[@robertewalt7789]

Home ownership is especially a good way to leave value to one’s children.

[@larrylynn5047]

It's TIME FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: To Stand up against, a [Traitor, Commie} gov. "WWG1WGA."

[@ewinbarnett9411]

EVs require far more silver metal per vehicle. At present, we are already in a supply deficit for the production of silver. It takes in excess of ten years from the time a silver deposit is discovered to the production of raw metal. But none of this matters to those attempting to impose Utopia on the rest of us.

[@AllisonHaefner-on2cl]

Remember when Biden told us, “Don’t worry. Everything you need will be 15 miles from your home.” So is that how far we’re expected to walk? And back home again?

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

I thought the old fool flubbed "15 minutes". Silly me. I'm older and wiser now.

[@MagravatorMag]

Again, they posted this almost 20 days ago. Seems like important info to me. Certainly, it would be worth posting the day of the hearing. Is it just me?

[@johnnyblade6088]

It was deliberate of course. But if anybody else were to do the same, they would be in trouble I'm sure.

[@thegadphly3275]

6:36 " systematic preferences for UNRELIABLE electricity..." 5:45 "government run industry.." socialism...

[@jw8848]

All of this over a lie.

[@TwentyWonmile]

My last trip to northern Montana a couple years ago I witnessed the now over 1 mile long train pulling all coal headed west toward the divide.....there were multiples of them that day. You know where they were going.

[@jeffreyrichard2575]

Need to get the government out of the car and energy industries completely

[@ActualHumanPerson]

Drive an iPhone that'll need updates every year until it's no longer compatible with new updates. Subscription based "ownership" is kinda already here. It's not your car so you won't be able to modify it or have someone work on it unless they're authorized to do so. All tools will be proprietary. Oh and thanks to geofencing they'll be able to restrict your travel to the approved zones that your insurance provider covers😂 Go on, try to go faster than the speed limit. The GPS won't let you. Yay future.

[@Grumpyseabee22]

There are already cars that have features that you cannot access without a paid account. Toyota is one I know of for sure.

[@tachyon8317]

​@Grumpyseabee22 BMW is another. A few years ago, the seat warmers required a subscription plan

[@finaloption...]

Hey democrats. You're DONE.

[@DAVIDZ-vk4yv]

its soooooo nice how government is trying to get involved with all aspects of our lives WITH OUT our permission!!! NICE how OUR employees gave them selves so much power over us!!!!

[@randystanton1224]

Make ford build the 300 6cyl again.

[@MegaBoricuakid]

Bruh wtf is happening

[@lm5085]

Cause people like u bruh, voting for the left, bruh. Seems bruh too many people bruh never finished school bruh.

[@edwardboundssr2444]

Not 37 minutes ago!! It’s September 19,2024 ! Three weeks old now!! Bs

[@ronaldnelson6692]

Forbes does that a lot.

[@8House]

They are winning. Big time.

[@dj012001]

In the 1990's there were policy makers stating that the power grid in the United States was under strain and many more power generation plants were needed - then. Natural gas plants have proven production and reliability outputs, and they are low polluters. The new technology of filtration and extraction systems make new coal plants great producers of electricity with a LOT less air pollution. There are proven plans and installations of smaller nuclear power plants that supply the near geographic area to the plant that are zero polluters. And, of course, why are we not reusing the nuclear material that we are storing underground? Any and every society needs, indeed, has to have, power. The current trajectory of America is for a hard scrabble life for most of us and wild luxury for a few. It is almost like America is committing suicide. Let's not do that.

[@noneyabeeswax3200]

Exactly,we are being governed by a death cult

[@whaleshrimp111]

I don't think our something like elected representatives listen to anyone not on their Foreign Mega Campaign Funders list. How much more clear could the message of that meeting be?

[@diannalaubenberg7532]

The EPA has overreached its original mandate.

[@Wildbill980]

Not giving up my truck and go to an electric vehicle

[@ken.matinale]

The oil depletion allowance has been around for more than a century. Why doesn't this guy complain about that subsidy? Grow the heck up.

[@robertf.8463]

It is clear that we no longer have a government of the people for the people.

[@SunnnyDay]

I can't wait for the hearings into why the United States does not have a depository for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, why it was made completely ready to receive the waste and then plans to use it were scrapped and who, exactly, did that. Those hearings will make it clear that the United States is vulnerable to multiple Fukushima type disasters in the future and that there will never be any robust effort to build more nuclear power plants without it. If you're lucky, you'll be able to barely afford the electricity you'll need to see the hearings.

[@paulblouin7655]

Yes

[@joevogliardo3131]

The resale value of a EV will be next to zero. Just about any over the counter electrical part that you buy anywhere in the electrical that was put on line and returned will be denied for a refund.

[@mitchc3569]

Unelected bureaucrats strike again.

[@TheGamerZapocalypse]

...End this SCAM NOW

[@SirLoinMagroin]

This only further proves the intentionality of this administration.

[@denniskimpton9981]

😂😂😂 the Grid in every state is incapable of handling electric vehicles in those numbers😂😂😂😂 then we're going to have to pay PG&E to put the infrastructure in right😂😂😂😂😂 while the government takes 3 days to respond to a national emergency in the meantime Ukraine and Israel have plenty of cash😢😢

[@dillonfredrikson7034]

Chip Roy is intelligent. On point. A real Blood hound when he makes a stand....

[@mikeelder6298]

What I don't understand is, how did government position itself to control the petroleum and coal industry?

[@cemetarygates2800]

F - Solar F - Wind

[@hooligan9794]

What a ridiculous position.

[@stephenbrecht1696]

When properly applied/utilized, they have have their own advantages.

[@cemetarygates2800]

@@stephenbrecht1696 Here we go...

[@rdonovanc5659]

Kamala can't think of anything she would do differently.

[@2fathomsdeeper]

She can't think of anything period!

[@noneyabeeswax3200]

‘Nothing comes to mind’

[@MadisonClavet-r5l]

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[@DAYHOMEONE]

God bless the African-American woman who testified about the impact private car ownership. She is absolutely right. The significance of having reliable and affordable transportation is a huge factor in people's ability to hold down a job. And if you lose a job for lack of transportation you can't draw unemployment because it is considered your fault. You CANNOT set artificial mandates to transition modes of transportation. This is recipe for disaster concocted by idiots who think it makes them look good by taking a hard line for the sake of the environment. When the country collapses under these short-sighted policies how good will they look. Elites who can afford electric vehicles haven't a clue about what it takes for people to put food on the table and keep a roof over the head. Car ownership is a difficult enough prospect with gas-operated vehicles. The day you can produce an electric car with a $10000 price tag, maybe you can pull it off.

[@joshuaederer7883]

I do not comply with rules, policy, mandates or unconstitutional laws

[@paulkurilecz4209]

The best way to describe this is that there are only two types of electricity. One is called as needed, that is you get it when you need it. The other is called as available, that is you get it when it is available.

[@pascalouellette8516]

One of the logical answers to unreliable solar and wind energy companies is that they be required to pay for gas fired baseload of say 80 percent in order to continue any contracts to supply energy....

[@randywise5241]

Aren't we the people the ones that tell the government what to do, not the other way around?

[@terryshepard8063]

Didn't Congress Pass The Inflation Reduction Act ⁉️⁉️⁉️ I'm Confused Congress ⁉️⁉️⁉️

[@mmmclain1]

Forget this we are not going to electric vehicles so GET OVER IT‼️‼️

[@shawnclawson890]

I will get a bike before i drive electric

[@patricial.6758]

Just don't get yourself an e-bicycle. You know... to help you peddle. 😂😂😂 And I personally won't buy an EV car or truck because eventually changing the batteries will bankrupt the cost of the vehicle.

[@__-bc4bs]

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[@atheistconservative6211]

All according to the plan

[@michellapointe2309]

That all BS.

[@jasonjoyce5798]

Kudos to congressman Roy for bringing this up. Removing power from the existing grid is also happening at the state level as well. Please feel free to search for North Carolina House bill 951 which was signed into in 2021.

[@carlhartwell7978]

I miss the days when 'important people' used to talk about things I don't understand. I'd think 'Okay, there's no way I can work any of this out, best leave it up to them...' Now I feel like an adult watching children trying to work out the rules to hide and seek.

[@williambranch4283]

Great government ideas.

[@58nomad]

How many of the other subsidized corporations should have their subsidies removed? Such as Walmart and oil companies

[@WilliamEllison]

What the Hell is going on here.

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

The new USA motto.😑

[@thisisitmjh]

Rules are not Law.

[@BradleySmith-ef8hs]

Defund the defunder DOH!

[@davidjackson8787]

You all re leaving out the roads and bridges that can’t handle the weight of the cars with the increased weight of ev’s. If you add trucks that are electric dude I’m not getting on a bridge with a traffic jam. 🤨

[@blessedfire365xgf]

Freedom for USA citizens and our mustangs ❤

[@galekoch8991]

❤chip roy the tail pipe rule

[@JonahPedersen-tz3uk]

You will own nothing and love it.

[@toddlane4086]

They already have. Research this.. the Supreme Court has ruled at least 4 if not 5 times. You have the right to travel. That right includes the right to free travel without certification, tax or license. Free travel within your private property for noncommercial activities does not require anything the states require to use a private vehicle. Period. This shit that its a privilege to drive not a right is proven wrong by the SUPREME COURT more than once.

[@AARon-xw9pp]

why is the federal government in charge of oil and gas , when its the states that produce it. this needs to change.

[@fiendwithout]

You will own nothing

[@galewollenberg786]

Too late, you already do not own your car if the state holds your car title and has issued you a certificate of title!

[@myckee]

Screw wind and solar!!!!

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

We put solar on our RV. Smart, right? The panels heat up in the hot sun and the controller shuts down sending to the batteries. The heat affects how the batteries hold the power they get. We subsequently added an inverter converter to charge the same batteries from the diesel engine. 🤨 It's 75% reliable, however it means we have sit in the hot sun to run the AC in Summer and switch it all off at sunset to use rechargeable lamps! Plus, the panels have to be washed every month in non rainy weather. I can just imagine how people deal with this in houses!

[@VAMobMember]

We should be building SMRs (Small Modular Uclear Reactors) which have been used by USN sense 1957 without issues.