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True or false:
The fabrication of one battery to power an electrical car produces the same amount of cow that a gas engine produces over eight years.

*auto correct alert. C02 not cow!

Also not sure of that stat but I know of another -

The amount of energy it takes to fabricate, install, and connect a wind turbine is equal to the turbines 10 year output (under ideal conditions).

There are a number of problems with the Lithium-Ion batteries in electric cars. They are incredibly expensive to produce, and the materials used to produce them come from parts of the world that are typically hostile to us. They have a limited life span. The advertised capacity and the range of the vehicle is a ruse; if they are run from 100% to 0% charge repeatedly even intermittently the batteries are quickly destroyed. If they are fast charged repeatedly, they are destroyed. And the “fast charging” which takes an hour or more typically costs 3x more than charging them at home, causing the expense to drive the vehicle approximately the same as a gasoline powered vehicle even at today's exorbitant fuel prices. And it goes on and on.

The problem with electric vehicles in more general terms is that our power grid is already being stressed by government mandates forcing utilities to switch to unreliable and intermittent “renewable energy”. We all saw what happened to Texas during 2021. When the weather changed to conditions that were not good for solar and wind their entire grid went down for over two weeks. People better get used to the idea of living without power for extended periods of time during the middle of the winter when you need it the most.

The limited lifespan of the batteries and their expense means the value of the vehicle is reduced to almost nothing by the time they are paid off or just ready to be traded in. Will you really be able to afford a new incredibly electric pickup when your old incredibly expensive pickup has basically no trade-in value after just a few years?

The transition to electric vehicles does not pencil out and the government knows it. The real goal is to reverse the current trend of people moving out of big cities and into rural areas. Government planners want most people to live in apartments in cities and relying on mass transit. They know that electric vehicles are not a good solution in the long run without huge societal changed.