Posted on 03/22/2024 5:26:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There's not enough power to flood the roads with electric vehicles, but DemocRATs don't and probably are counting on it.
In perfect Democratic Party form, the Biden administration has dropped another government burden on the private sector. Two days ago, the White House rolled out “the toughest-ever” automobile emissions standards. The objective, of course, is to force Americans to buy the cars that the ruling class wants them to drive. There’s a big problem here, though – the grid won’t be up to the task of keeping tens of millions of electric vehicles charged.
The headline from a Bloomberg story last week summed up the plan: “Biden Set to Crack Down on Auto Emissions to Accelerate EV Sales.”
Rules decreed by the Environmental Protection Agency are intended to “propel electric vehicle sales well beyond current levels,” says Bloomberg. “The EPA has projected that to meet proposed mandates, electric models would need to make up roughly two-thirds of car and light truck sales in 2032 — up from less than a tenth last year.”
This is no noble effort to prevent a climate catastrophe. Democrats, eco-activists and the thoroughly compromised media continually argue that we have to move to EVs to save the sky, but the federal rules and state mandates they propose and issue are part of a larger plan to drive Americans out of cars and into public transit, which is failing across the country.
There are a number of problems with the march to EV-topia. They’re not zero-emission vehicles, they’re an extravagant purchase, costly to repair, expensive to insure, hazardous to own, and they create a new class of hazmat problems.
On top of all that, charging them is a hassle, which is only going to become worse. America, in 2024, is already running out of power.
“Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid,” the Washington Post reported earlier this month.
This “power crunch imperils” utilities’ capacity to provide the massive amount of electricity “needed to charge the millions of electric cars and household appliances required to meet state and federal climate goals.”
As the grid coughs, wheezes and sputters, as construction of solar and wind farms can’t keep up with the retirements of natural gas and nuclear plants, politicians such as Joe Biden and a small mob of governors that includes Gavin Newsom, California’s one-man demolition crew, are busy outlawing automobiles that run independent of the power supply (outside of the electricity needed to run gas pumps).
But that’s OK because Americans will be buying EVs, and when they can’t be charged because the demand for power outstrips the supply, we will hop on buses, trains and subways – exactly where those politicians and planners want us. Our self-appointed superiors even admit they wish to “help get people out of their cars,” and lead a shift from “ownership to usership” of vehicles.
In their way of thinking, only the elites should have the freedom that automobiles deliver. Everyone else must be sardined into mass transit. The EV fetish is nothing but a navigation point on the left’s route to a world in which a car is a luxury item that only few will have.
I think bicycles and 15 minute cities for the 5-10% who are judged worthy is the real plan. This is just a way to get there.
Green policy is about protecting the planet the same way CoupFlu policy is about protecting public health.
Math is racist!
Putting people in cities is a great way to kill off as many as you need to in order to “right-size” the population to the world. You just cut off roads going out and go through the city in a grid-like fashion and kill all that are deemed unworthy.
Democrats are all about mandates and bans. Practically speaking, what is the difference between a “mandator” and a “dictator”?
This is Biden’s way of paying back the Chinese. The Chinese will supply the required electricity from all their new coal plants! Also the Chinese will short Americans by only suppling 5/6th of our needs…… Way to go Dems, coal power plants suppling only 5/6th electricity, Dems are evil!
Mass public transit is the big goal of the Let-them-eat-bugs mafia.
And then they will outlaw bicycles.
A percentage of eco-activist are turning against b bicycles.
They claim, possibly correctly, that a bicycle requires as much space on the road as a car, and that the cost and ecological damage of building roads for bicycles is about the same as building them for cars. Add to that the unrecyclable nature of carbon-reinforced-plastic bike frames which make disposable diapers look like a compostable material and bicycles are fairly non-eco-friendly.
They want you to walk on a dirt path.
No more fahrvergnügen.................
Against bicycles? Wow. That’s some high-grade lunacy right there...
Utilities have been warning about the inability to maintain and expand the electric power grid for decades.
The utilities are continually stymied by eco-nut lawsuits, stupid EPA mandates, and the general anti-power attitudes of leftist politicians.
Chaos and control is all they want.
The reality is most of the “enviromentalists” are either delusional or simply anti-human.
I’m keeping my Lexus, Jag convertible and Suzuki. Live near a private airport to gives me gas. These will outlast me.
When there isn’t enough electricity for everyone, which is inevitable, the electricity will be directed to those who are politically loyal.
Well by God we gotta do something! The percentage of CO2 in the earths atmosphere is 0.04% or zero point zero and if we aren’t careful it could rise as high as zero point zero.
This is some communist BS. This is why politicians shoul dbe held criminally responsible for the damage their decisions make.
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