Posted on 01/28/2021 4:19:38 PM PST by PROCON
h/t Breitbart; Libertarians rejoice! Thanks to President Biden’s latest climate brainstorm, in the future the US Federal Government will only function within 200 miles of the nearest operational EV charging station, and only when a fully charged EV is available in the car pool.
From the Biden White House;
Leverage the Federal Government’s Footprint and Buying Power to Lead by Example
Consistent with the goals of the President’s Build Back Better jobs and economic recovery plan, of which his clean energy jobs plan is a central pillar, the order directs the federal agencies to procure carbon pollution-free electricity and clean, zero-emission vehicles to create good-paying, union jobs and stimulate clean energy industries.
In addition, the order requires those purchases be Made in America, following President Biden’s Buy American executive order. The order also directs agencies to apply and strictly enforce the prevailing wage and benefit guidelines of the Davis Bacon and other acts and encourage Project Labor Agreements. These actions reaffirm that agencies should work to ensure that any jobs created with funds to address the climate crisis are good jobs with a choice to join a union.
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This does NOTHING for the “climate”. In fact, it makes it worse if you look at the total energy picture. These people are morons.
Great! When the FIB or others are chasing evil conservatives, they will run out of power while we zoom away on our forbidden gas powered engines getting 20+ miles to the gallon....
This works for me, makes it harder for the govt workers to get around.
As long as the FBI and DOJ are compelled to use them.
Does that include tanks and personnel carriers? How about line ships.
I think carriers and subs are already, technically, electric in that the nuke plant makes steam and turns turbines with power motors, but not sure about that.
Icebreakers, at least the ones I was on, had gas turbines going to reduction gears for multiyear ice, and diesel-electric motors for cruising and light ice.
Does that include tanks and personnel carriers? How about line ships.
I think carriers and subs are already, technically, electric in that the nuke plant makes steam and turns turbines with power motors, but not sure about that.
Icebreakers, at least the ones I was on, had gas turbines going to reduction gears for multiyear ice, and diesel-electric motors for cruising and light ice.
But...but...it looks GOOD.
Does that include the Beast? If EVs are better, why not?
List of unintended consequences to follow!
Meanwhile....Chicoms are moving into Africa and South America for rare earth.
Afghanistan apparently has huge lithium reserves.
They make up these EOs without even thinking about it ,LOL
And just where does all this “Electricity” to charge these vehicles come from?
All the world’s problems are easy to solve when you are an idiot.
“ This works for me, makes it harder for the govt workers to get around.”
Makes it easier to control them.
Have no idea where electricity comes from and think those batteries last forever...
Curious how they’ll make the F16 run electric.
And the M1A1.
Post 4
Bingo
Government bought thousands of CNG vehicles in the 90’s.
You could snap them up at GSA auctions for a song, most
with 20k miles on the odometer.
I worked on the Army’s Crusader, one of the most powerful, autoloaded guns ever. I can’t remember the weight, but the army was insisting that we needed to design an electric version. I discussed it with the designers at GD and they confirmed the idea was idiotic. Yet, I helped make Power Point slides showing artist’s renderings. The idea was beyond crazy. The army kept lowering the weight so that the design could eventually be battery driven. The instruction was to strip out, as I recall, half the weight. I asked our structural guy what the result would be and he said, it might survive a few firings, but at some point the gun will tear itself apart. Fortunately, it got cancelled. It was later revived as the first Future Combat System’s vehicle, even though it had NOTHING in common with the FCS design. That’s how hard it is to kill a bad design. To the best of my knowledge, it died when that program failed.
In my experience, companies will not tell the customer that the customer’s concept will not work. That’s because sometimes the companies make a lot more money off failures than off successes. And, they don’t have to build anything that works. It’s all about the bonuses, baby.
Outrunning the FIB is going to become good sport...
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