I cannot understand the Electric Vehicle idiocy.
First, that was a great and informative post. Second, regarding your very first line, I actually can understand it. It is based on ignorance fueled by a lazy, incompetent, biased and ignorant MSM.
When I started racing 1/12 scale cars back in the mid-70’s, I was one of the first to leave the gas powered cars and go to electric. It was awesome. No oil and messes, clean and strong torque, no maintenance, etc. I wondered why we didn’t have electric cars and they would be a great idea.
But then I looked into it and realized there may be some negatives to electrics. Imagining a “T” chart, I found that though there were some positives on the “good” side, the “bad” side started filling up really quickly. I lost interest in it until the Teslas started coming out and I spent 45 minutes talking to a Tesla salesman in the South Lake Union store (in Seattle and the heart of the Amazon complex). It seemed to have some advantages that I’d not thought of, and the government kickback was one of them.
So then I researched in ernest. I found that the negative side of the T chart exploded.
But the average TV watcher was really hearing none of that. They only got the positives. That is finally changing and more and more people are questioning the practicality of EV’s. Frankly, part of it is that more people actually own them or know someone that owns one. That can put you right off them.
BTW, my ace in the hole on information is that I dumped TV in 1997. I’m pretty much immune to the brainwashing simply because I’m not on their radar. That’s why I’m contrarian on a lot of subjects, I suspect.
"...BTW, my ace in the hole on information is that I dumped TV in 1997. I’m pretty much immune to the brainwashing simply because I’m not on their radar. That’s why I’m contrarian on a lot of subjects, I suspect..." We are similar in that respect. I stopped watching television around 1998, and very likely for the exact same reasons you did.
And I do much the same on issues I find important.
For example, it was important to me to understand the injustice done to General Michael Flynn, and there was so much disconnected information swirling around, that I decided to gather all the information out there I could find and put it together in a chronological and understandable format, listing the date, event, people involved, links, and a summary of each one as in the example of the first few rows shown below (Here is a link to the full PDF document I created: LINK: Timeline of the Governmental Abuse of LT. General Michael Flynn)
Boy. When I put it together like that, what dropped out was plain to see. Not unclear or confusing any more.
I had to do it that way, because I felt that it was a milestone event...and it was. And when I put it together ike