{"id":249652,"date":"2024-04-25T20:18:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/electric-cars-are-the-spawn-of-the-devil-ex-cia-dude-tells-faux-news\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T20:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T20:19:05","slug":"electric-cars-are-the-spawn-of-the-devil-ex-cia-dude-tells-faux-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/electric-cars-are-the-spawn-of-the-devil-ex-cia-dude-tells-faux-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cars Are The Spawn Of The Devil, Ex-CIA Dude Tells Faux News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>If you are wondering where all the negativity about electric cars is coming from, that probably means you don\u2019t spend every moment of the day filling your cranial cavity with detritus from <em>Faux News<\/em>. If you did, you would be treated to a constant barrage of stunningly stupid nonsense from people who should know better but cannot resist the lure of an outlet for their baseless claims.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A today is a screed by Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer and host of his own eponymous podcast, \u201c<em>The Wright Report<\/em>.\u201d He told<em> Fox News Digital<\/em> that electric vehicles pose environmental problems, national security issues, and compromise the safety of drivers, making them a less than desirable alternative to gas powered vehicles.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, Those Dirty Electric Cars!<\/h3>\n<p><span id=\"more-330179\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Chip in a few&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/04\/25\/electric-cars-are-the-spawn-of-the-devil-ex-cia-dude-tells-faux-news\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! If you are wondering where all the negativity about electric cars is coming from, that probably means you don\u2019t spend every moment of the day filling your cranial cavity with detritus from Faux News. If you did, you would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Electric Cars Are The Spawn Of The Devil, Ex-CIA Dude Tells Faux News - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/04\/25\/electric-cars-are-the-spawn-of-the-devil-ex-cia-dude-tells-faux-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Electric Cars Are The Spawn Of The Devil, Ex-CIA Dude Tells Faux News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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