{"id":42091,"date":"2024-02-15T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42091"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:38:02","slug":"gov-desantis-blames-electric-vehicles-for-insurance-rate-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/02\/15\/gov-desantis-blames-electric-vehicles-for-insurance-rate-spikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis blames electric vehicles for insurance rate spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Floridians continue to struggle with high insurance costs, Gov. Ron DeSantis says people steering away from gasoline engines is partly to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Governor said electric vehicles contributed to an over 20% year-over-year hike in car policy costs, by way of commenting on the just-released\u00a0Consumer Price Index\u00a0report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou look at things like auto insurance. Yes, we have had major supply problems over many years for autos that impact the ability to repair. But then I think these EVs are a lot more expensive to repair and I think that impacts those rates as well,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Governor made the comments as an aside while arguing that the My Safe Florida Home program would help to cut rates. The Senate approved $100 million more this month for the home improvement grant program, which is experiencing high demand and significant backlogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis, who infamously told Floridians to \u201cknock on wood\u201d last storm season during a radio spot in Boston, advanced theories about insurance rates being driven by left-wing orthodoxy during his now-suspended presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think you have a lot of movement to things like (environmental, social and governance) and climate change and stuff which is causing these policies to be more expensive, which I don\u2019t think is a legitimate way to do it,\u201d he said in Iowa in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut I think I\u2019m concerned about this ESG, I\u2019m concerned about them trying to say climate change and everything because that\u2019s going to make some of these things very, very expensive if they\u2019re pricing in all these things that very well may not happen. And that\u2019s new from where we were 20 or 30 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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