Posted on 09/29/2022 8:04:31 AM PDT by moovova
Overcoming the impracticality of electric vehicles (EVs) appears to be as big a marketing challenge as convincing diners that plant-based burgers are tasty. Yet, those inspired by the “green” demonization of fossil fuels continue to try. (Snip) EV adoption might follow a pattern similar to what happened with plant-based patties at Burger King. Initially, a group of enthusiastic customers chose the plant-based Whoppers over a meat version because cattle are a purported cause of climate change and eating meat is said to be “unhealthy.” Another group of customers thought it was interesting to see if a veggie burger tasted like real beef. Soon, however, demand for the plant-based version fell off drastically. McDonald’s has also experimented with a plant-based burger at some locations but recently abandoned that effort for lack of customer interest.
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Electric Vehicles are a solution for a problem we don’t have but now we find out EVs are the problem
Good metaphor.
Or metafur, as Zell Miller would have said.
Love the title. It is so true
Electricity is going to be the unobtainium of the 21st century.
Cars dead on the side of the road with billions of metric tons of cheap energy 10 meters underneath their wheels.
It stuns me, that the enviro extremists don’t see the big picture.
They say they want an electric car, so they can drive a pollution free car.
But they never consider that in many places, that car is recharged from electricity generated in “fossil fuel” power plants. And they never consider the mining of minerals needed to manufacture the batteries. And they never consider the toxic waste problems involved with disposing of old batteries.
It may seem obvious to us, but, electricity doesn’t come from an electric outlet in the wall. Electricity has to be generated somewhere. And in many places, fossil fuel power plants generate the electricity to power the electric car.
I wonder how many EV owners with buyers remorse left their cars to flood during Ian in order to collect the insurance money...
Perfect analogy. Just PERFECT.
Ok, but you can’t ride in those :P
A guy on twitter said a female alien told his father that an Age of Peace was coming.
I responded "not as long as humans are involved. Humans are aggressive, we like a good fight."
Same thing applies to EVs. If someone can develop a loud, smoke-belching behemoth that runs on electricity, it might have a chance at success. But these little whiney vehicles? No way. Even if they can outrun a Bugatti.
What did the socially conscious use to light their houses before candles? Electricity.
I notice that all ev commercials show the ev driving into the mountains or forest where charging is not available. So let’s assume we buy an EV in LA and drive it to the desert for a day of fun. We tow a trailer with our electric recreation vehicles. We drive the 100 miles to the desert and ride all day till our batteries run out. Push them back on the trailer and head home. Maybe we get there but more likely we find we have to locate a charger half way home. Now our day of fun has turned into 18 hours...6 of those charging our car or truck. We get home at 2 am so we can charge our car and commute to work starting at 6 in the morning. Sounds like fun to me...
Even the smarter ones only get one step further in the problem-solving department. They’ll say “well, that’s why we need to switch to green power generation, like wind and solar”.
But then they don’t want to address the fact that those solutions are not feasible for meeting societies’ power needs, especially if we increase them by getting rid of fossil fuels.
Only twice in all my years of arguing with leftists have I gotten any of them to admit that yes, they know wind and solar won’t be enough, and that we will probably need to build new nuclear plants to make up the difference. But if that small a percentage of them realize and will (under heavy cross examination) admit the problem, then they will never actually pursue the viable solution.
One of them actually argued that, they knew wind and solar were not enough, but they hoped that by getting rid of fossil fuels, and putting us in a position of relying on wind and solar, it would force us to innovate until wind and solar became efficient enough to meet our needs. He seriously thought this was a good plan, and he is an otherwise intelligent guy.
I’ve been posting on FR for a while now and sure enough:
A mandatory evacuation hits a gulf state or states and everybody with a battery car bugs out at approximately the same time.
Best case scenario there is the batteries were fully charged....at 300 miles out everybody is looking for a way to charge up.
If your fortunate enough to have been able to afford a tesla your gonna need at least 30 minutes to charge up IF you can find a tesla supercharger.....you and all your other tesla owner friends.
In the meantime a cat III+ hurricane is bearing down.
Since I do live on the Southeast coast, if I have to evacuate I suspect I’ll be seeing EVs scattered along the highway like so many discarded soda cans.
Not to mention it doesn’t take a full blown hurricane to knock out ELECTRICITY in a wide spread area.
I’m sure there will be no panic.
And there’s not gonna be a bunch of coal miners around to help push either.
Charging times Tesla model S
Supercharger 30 minutes
Tesla wall connector 9 hours
240 volt home 18 hours
Standard wall outlet 2-3 days
They killed a lot of whales to light lamps before electricity, which I would not be for, but there were other sources of oil before someone drilled a hole in pennsylvannia that one time, they just weren’t abundant.
I have no problem with electricity itself, of course. You just can’t power the world on it. Not now, and not even 50 years from now.
If you own a pickup ypu can carry a gasoline generator and run it while you charge and drive at the same time.
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