RFK Jr slammed as resurfaced interviews show his support for higher gas prices and electric cars

WASHINGTON, DC: In the past, independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr suggested that rising petrol prices for customers would drive a change in the industry toward electric automobiles, Fox News stated.

Kennedy asserted that gasoline would reach its 'true price' of up to $22 per gallon if subsidies to oil firms were stopped and they were forced to pay specific expenses associated with oil production. He made this claim in several media appearances and at least one speech dating back to 2003.

Resurfaced interviews show RFK Jr's support for higher gas prices and electric cars

Kennedy said during an interview in 2023, "The No 1 thing we need to do as a nation, more important than the moonshot, more important than anything else, is to get off of foreign oil, whatever it takes, and I think if we had true markets, we'd spend $5.2 trillion a year on subsidies to the carbon industry, and that doesn't include the $8 trillion that we spent on wars protecting essentially oil pipelines."

He added, "If those companies were forced to internalize those costs, gasoline would cost its true price, which is about $22 a gallon, and we would be figuring out using American initiative and our industrial genius other ways to get around."

In a 2016 speech at the University of California, Berkeley, Kennedy presented a similar case, telling the audience that the price of oil would eventually rise if oil companies were 'forced' to internalize costs associated with the effects the industry had on the local population, such as healthcare costs, crop damage, acid rain damage, and other pollution costs.

He said, "We'd be paying $12 at the pump, and we'd be sending the correct signals to the marketplace. And the market would be saying, we need an alternative to a gasoline car because every American would say, ‘Well, it costs about 0.30 cents a mile to drive an electric car, and it costs about $4 a mile once you get to buy a gasoline car."

He added, "We'd very quickly transition, and you would incentivize all these people out there who are adding efficiencies to lithium-ion batteries and looking at different battery systems."

He proceeded to contend that the federal government need to establish an 'ecosystem' that rewards the most energy-efficient technology on the market and 'punishes the inefficiencies of oil and coal'.

Internet slams RFK Jr as old interviews show his support for higher gas prices and electric cars

Several internet users slammed RFK Jr. as resurfaced interviews showed his support for higher gas prices and electric cars. A user wrote on X, "This guy is a serial liar" while one added, "He lost my support with his abortion rights."

A person also stated, "Drilling for Lithium is harder on the climate than drilling for oil. So makes no sense" whereas one mentioned, "Need to clean this up and explain."

A user added, "He is another liar. There is no one to vote for that has a drop of integrity."

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