Another Buttigieg Scandal: Electric Bikes Keep Exploding on His Watch

In New York City, fires started by lithium-ion battery batteries killed 8, and left nearly 200 people injured.

What’s the latest?Electric scooters and electric bikes keep on exploding and causing fires that can lead to death.

• Earlier this year, a 63-year-old man was killed and nearly a dozen people injured when an e-scooter battery exploded and ignited a blaze that engulfed a three-story house in Queens, N.Y. Days later, 18 children were injured when an unauthorized day care center, also in Queens, caught fire due to a lithium-ion battery explosion.

• Earlier this month, an electric bike battery sparked a massive blaze in the West Bronx that injured seven people—two seriously—and destroyed a local grocery store.

The numbersThis is a 2022 report on electric bikes and scooter batteries that caused fires which injured and killed 147 and six others in New York City. This year the battery has been blamed New York City was the scene of 22 fires that resulted in 36 injuries, and 2 deaths.

What is the point?You can also see this article another scandal Pete Buttigieg is the Transportation Secretary who has been failing to make progress since his election. Buttigieg, 41, is obsessed with bicycles of all kinds. He bought an electric bicycle Shortly after moving in Washington, D.C., 2021.

ContextAdditional Information repaving The road that runs in front of Buttigieg’s house was where Buttigieg served as the mayor for eight years, before running to be president. He had made a deal in South Bend with Lime, an electric scooter and bike rental company, in order to put a fleet in his college town. Since then, the scooters and Lime bikes Buttigieg had worked hard to bring to South Bend are now in use. scrap metal.

Their words: “Green bikes. The Lime bikes. That’s about all I really know of [Mayor Pete Buttigieg], man. But does anybody know him? Nah, I don’t know if anybody knows him or not. I don’t know anybody that does know him.” —Mark Anthony Plummer, black resident of South Bend

End resultThese are the ideal future liberals desire.

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