This is one of those times the reporter thinks they are saying something deep and profound when they aren't. I don't see the irony or the humor. "Energy workers push an energy consuming car." ok.
The whole purpose of the article and the original post is to show people who probably disagree on many things being kind to each other. It's rather unusual to see a piece of journalism that doesn't have the goal of making people angry.
I don't know the details but one of my tenants is a shareholder in Sasol and gets an unusual amount of mail connected with a shareholder lawsuit about that firm's poor performance.
I'm confident a flatbed tow truck could tow it. A tow truck with a wheel dolly could probably do it. If it were close to a coal mine, there were probably many, many vehicles that could have towed the car, but not a one of them could do it without tearing up plastic bits on the car.
I also wouldn't base my knowledge of a vehicle's towability on the words of a television reporter. Could just as easily been the case that it was easier to push the car the 25m than to wait for Joe to get his truck, find his tow strap in that black hole he calls a toolbox, find a place to hook it on the car...
The statement is not about the tech involved but about the social groups that tend to use different tech.
An EV in West Virginia would be pretty rare, as the range of EVs is inadequate for most uses and they are too expensive for most people. DC, which has considerably more wealth, and less distances to travel - there's a lot more EVs there.
So the people whose EV ran out of juice are fish out of water, but they got a nice helping hand from people who likely have very different politics.
