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    WATCH: Rep. Boebert Brings 8 Key Facts to Totally Expose the EV Scam

    By J.C. SosinJuly 16, 2025Updated:July 16, 2025
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    Lauren Boebert absolutely torched an EPA official during a House hearing, bringing eight key facts to the table to pull the rug out from underneath the climate activist bureaucrats who want to force electric vehicles on Americans and accusing the EPA of regulating an industry into oblivion with its stringent standards.

    For background, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on June 21, 2023, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) grilled Joseph Goffman, the former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, on electric vehicles (EVs), using facts to prove that the agency’s woke leadership was completely out of touch with the American people.

    Beginning her statements, Rep. Boebert asked Goffman, “What is the average price of a new combustion engine vehicle compared to the average price of a new electric vehicle?” Goffman replied, “I don’t know the exact dollars. I know today the EVs may be more expensive, but these rules…” The congresswoman interjected, “So, the average price of a traditional internal combustion engine was $45,600 while the average price of an electric vehicle was $61,800.”

    Continuing, Rep. Boebert said that if the EPA’s “unfavorable rules” cracking down on combustion engines were to be finalized, the result would be disastrous. She asked Goffman, “How much did the average price of an electric vehicle increase by last year?” He replied, “I don’t know.” The congresswoman, prepared for Goffman to have no answer, said, “It’s 22%.” She later added that the EPA’s regulations would increase “manufacturing costs by $1,200 per vehicle.”

    Next, the congresswoman presented another key fact, asking Goffman, “Are you aware that in temperatures under 20 degrees Fahrenheit, electric vehicles lose nearly half of their charge in their batteries?” Goffman replied, “Yes,” and Rep. Boebert went on to ask, “How much does an electric vehicle battery cost to replace?” Goffman did not know, so the congresswoman presented another fact: “Between $5,000 and $20,000 to replace an electric vehicle’s batteries, and prolonged exposure to temperatures under 20 degrees can also compromise the electric vehicle’s battery performance as much as 41%.”



    Then, when Goffman was unable to present a strategy for compensating for these egregious expenses, Rep. Boebert said, “So, I mean, we’re seeing a 22% increase in one year for the cost of electric vehicles. Even the tires on an electric vehicle wear 20% faster.” She added, ” Over…half of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings account, and you’re wanting them to spend more money on vehicles where the price is increasing by 41%, higher risk for having to change out a battery, tires that wear 20% faster than your average car.”

    Moving on, Rep. Boebert caught Goffman once again, asking him to “name two domestic mines…that you support…and that are critical to helping produce the amount of minerals necessary for the electric vehicles you have been praising today.” Goffman mentioned no mines by name, so Rep. Boebert interjected, “So, the Rosemont mine and the Resolution Copper Mine are two mines in Arizona blocked by the environmental extremists and the federal bureaucrats that would produce massive amounts of copper in the United States, the Biden administration has also blocked.”

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    Rounding out her takedown of the EPA, Rep. Boebert noted that the Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee “all oppose domestic mining,” adding, “And if we don’t mine for these minerals necessary, where are they going to come from the 40,000 children mining for cobalt in the Congo with their bare hands in these China owned mines, and then we buy these products from China, and somehow feel virtuous about ourselves while they’re building some 200 coal fired energy plants.” She concluded, “These rules do not benefit the hard-working Americans that I represent, and I hope that you would reconsider them and the costs that the American family is going to have to absorb because of them.”

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