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Electric Cars Are An Expensive Scam
The Federalist ^ | June 29, 2023 | DAVID HARSANYI

Posted on 06/29/2023 2:01:29 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

If EVs were really an innovation, the state wouldn’t have to bribe and force companies to produce them.

The left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient but more expensive doesn’t really meet the definition of innovation.

Even the purported amenities and technological advances EV-makers like to brag about in their ads have been a regular feature of gas-powered vehicles going back generations. At best, EVs, if they fulfill their promise, are a lateral technology.

Which is why there is no real “emerging market” for EVs in the United States as much as there’s an industrial policy in place that props up EVs with government purchases, propaganda, endless state subsidies, cronyism, taxpayer-backed loans, and edicts. The green “revolution” is an elite-driven, top-down technocratic project.

And it’s increasingly clear that the only reason giant rent-seeking carmakers are so heavily invested in EV development is that government is promising to artificially limit the production of gas-powered cars.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; ev; fraud; ripoff; scam
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1 posted on 06/29/2023 2:01:29 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

It’s intentionally planned to send humanity back to shanks’ mare and bicycles living in 15 minute cities.


2 posted on 06/29/2023 2:04:42 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Electric cars lost out to ICE in the early 20th century for a reason.


3 posted on 06/29/2023 2:04:50 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ConservativeInPA

It is unfortunate that by the time the world realizes what a absurd mistake/fraud the EV is it will be too late.


4 posted on 06/29/2023 2:05:38 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ConservativeInPA

One thing RFK Jr. is unlikely to do is to reverse course on his political party’s jihad against internal combustion engine s (delivered in part by what the article mentions: Largesse labeled on EV manufacturers and “winner picking” behavior toward their lame, part-time-availability automobiles.


5 posted on 06/29/2023 2:06:22 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ConservativeInPA

Ditto~~~!!!


6 posted on 06/29/2023 2:06:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: packagingguy

+1


7 posted on 06/29/2023 2:06:48 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

“One thing RFK Jr. is unlikely to do is to reverse course on his political party’s jihad against internal combustion engine “

Reverse? He would accelerate. Nominate AOC as his GND tsar.


8 posted on 06/29/2023 2:09:10 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: one guy in new jersey

“One thing RFK Jr. is unlikely to do is to reverse course on his political party’s jihad against internal combustion engine s”

His party’s?!? RFK Jr has been at the forefront of enviromental nutjobbery since forever. He doesn’t need any pressure at all from his party.


9 posted on 06/29/2023 2:10:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ConservativeInPA

A lot of people figured out the scam just by looking at the Prius.


10 posted on 06/29/2023 2:13:25 PM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: ConservativeInPA

This is sorta like reading someone going on a religion forum and declaring that the Catholic church is not the one, true church because it teaches people to worship saints.

It’s like, “really? You think you’re adding something to the conversation by making that claim?”


11 posted on 06/29/2023 2:13:40 PM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: Boogieman

The wife, heavily invested in so-called “climate” issues, is modembly leaning on him to prevent a reversal of policy on ICEs...


12 posted on 06/29/2023 2:14:42 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ConservativeInPA

I think this is true.

Hybrid might be ok but I don’t know how long they’ll last.

A normal Camry will last 20 years for sure.

But how long will a Camry hybrid last? I’m not sure.


13 posted on 06/29/2023 2:16:58 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ConservativeInPA

EVs are a ruse to destroy private transportation

the elites are exempt of course

the unwashed masses will be on the bus


14 posted on 06/29/2023 2:17:45 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’m going say it: PLUG-IN hybrids make a lot of sense.


15 posted on 06/29/2023 2:18:03 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Boogieman

“RFK Jr has been at the forefront of enviromental nutjobbery since forever. He doesn’t need any pressure at all from his party.”

Yes. And other nut jobbery.

Oddly, I am for him being Trump’s running mate.

To break the uniparty system.


16 posted on 06/29/2023 2:18:47 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Hey, how long does Tesla warranty their batteries. Also “The average battery replacement cost for a Tesla battery not under warranty can be anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 or more, depending on the severity of the damage. Damn those accidents. I wonder how much of that the insurance companies will cover?


17 posted on 06/29/2023 2:19:58 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: ConservativeInPA

“If EVs were really an innovation, the state wouldn’t have to bribe and force companies to produce them.”

Right? It’s so obvious to everyone except the wealth sovereigns who run the government. And how would they know or care?


18 posted on 06/29/2023 2:20:19 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

It’s kinda like The Rapture. Repent or die. If earth had an ass, she would be annoyed and offended by all the morons lining up to kiss it with plunging tongues.


19 posted on 06/29/2023 2:20:29 PM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: packagingguy

“Electric cars lost out to ICE in the early 20th century for a reason.”

Com’on man. That new battery is just around the corner. The same corner Edison talked about in 1900, 1903, 1907, 1910. Then .............................................all the way to 2010.
Now that new battery is just around the corner. 2050???


20 posted on 06/29/2023 2:21:14 PM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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