Posted on 08/27/2023 9:16:03 PM PDT by massmike
California’s electric vehicle push has increased the demand for natural gas. The global warming alarmists never mentioned that.
Most consumers still don’t want an electric vehicle. Despite heavy subsidies and mandates, just 6% of new vehicles sold last year were electric.
States such as California and Nevada are largely relying on natural gas to produce needed power in the evenings and overnight.
In other words, natural gas power plants are often supplying the electricity fueling electric vehicles.
Politicians, including Biden, describe global warming in the most apocalyptic terms imaginable to create support for an overhaul of the entire U.S. economy. But they never mention all of the problems inherent in pushing these mandates well before green technology is capable of picking up the load.
Green activists promote electric vehicles, but they don’t mention that creating a lithium-ion battery for a “zero-emissions” car produces more initial emissions than a gasoline-powered vehicle. They don’t mention that fossil fuel plants provide the electricity used to mine the minerals that make those batteries. They don’t mention how often U.S. environmental groups block projects that would produce the minerals necessary to wean the nation off fossil fuels.
And in many cases, electric vehicle crusaders have succeeded only in substituting one form of fossil fuel use for another.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
This is news Boston Herald? We all knew the joke five years ago. So did you.
All the “boutique fuels” (Solar, wind, hydro and nuclear) combined are still less than the BTUs humanity obtains from burning dried manure and firewood. Natural gas, coal and petroleum make up approximately 80% of the total BTUs produced by mankind. - “Data is beautiful, Global Energy Production by Source 1860 - 2019”
Hmmmmm.........Germany shut down all the their nuclear energy generation. Now, they are digging for coal as fast as they can. So, for the time being, many (most?) EVs in Germany will be charged from coal-fired electricity plants.
India gets about 70% of the electric power from coal. India recently announced that it is expanding its coal mining in order to provide more electricity to more people.
Coal fired electric vehicles - making liberals feel they are improving the weather
So you have to go to Taco Bell after going to the charging station?
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