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Schumer Pushes Electric Cars — Here’s Why He’s Wrong

Message to the senior senator from New York: Electric cars are still cars — and they still suck.

By Aaron Short

4:46 PM EDT on October 25, 2019

Schumer Pushes Electric Cars — Here’s Why He’s Wrong

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a ceremony where NASA transferred title and ownership of space shuttle Enterprise to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 at the museum in New York City. The transfer is the first step toward Intrepid receiving Enterprise in the spring of 2012. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Aaron Short

Aaron Short has been a New York City journalist for more than 20 years. He's also co-author of the seminal oral history of Donald Trump, "The Method to the Madness" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)

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