Posted on 06/05/2024 5:50:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
25 refrigerators.
That’s how much the additional electricity consumption per household would be if the average US home adopted electric vehicles (EVs).
Congressman Thomas Massie—an electrical engineer—revealed this information while discussing with Pete Buttigieg, the Secretary of Transportation, President Biden’s plan to have 50% of cars sold in the US be electric by 2030.
The current and future grid in most places will not be able to support each home running 25 refrigerators—not even close. Just look at California, where the grid is already buckling under the existing load.
Massie claims, correctly, in my view, that the notion of widespread adoption of electric vehicles anytime soon is a dangerous fantasy based on political science, not sound engineering.
Nonetheless, governments, the media, academia, large corporations, and celebrities tout an imminent “transition” to EVs as if it’s preordained from above.
It’s not.
They’re trying to manufacture your consent for a scam of almost unimaginable proportions.
But first, a necessary clarification.
You no doubt have heard of the term “fossil fuels” before.
When the average person hears “fossil fuels,” they think of a dirty technology that belongs in the 1800s. Many believe they are burning dead dinosaurs to power their cars.
They also think “fossil fuels” will destroy the planet within a decade and run out soon—despite the fact that, after water, oil is the second most abundant liquid on this planet.
None of these ridiculous notions are true, but many people believe them. Using propaganda terms like “fossil fuels” plays a large role.
Orwell was correct when he said that corrupting the language can corrupt people’s thoughts.
I suggest expunging “fossil fuels” from your vocabulary in favor of hydrocarbons—a much better and more precise word.
A hydrocarbon is a molecule made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms. These molecules are the building blocks of many different substances, including energy sources like coal, oil, and gas. These energy sources have been the backbone of the global economy for decades, providing power for industries, transportation, and homes.
Now, on to the three reasons EVs are a giant scam at best and possibly something much worse.
Reason #1: EVs Are Not Green
The central premise for EVs is they help to save the planet from carbon because they use electricity instead of gas.
It’s astounding so few think to ask, what generates the electricity that powers EVs?
Hydrocarbons generate over 60% of the electricity in the US. That means there’s an excellent chance that oil, coal, or gas is behind the electricity charging an EV.
It’s important to emphasize carbon is an essential element for life on this planet. It’s what humans exhale and what plants need to survive.
After decades of propaganda, Malthusian hysterics have created a twisted perception in many people’s minds that carbon is a dangerous substance that must be reduced to save the planet.
Let’s entertain this bogus premise momentarily and assume carbon is bad.
Even by this logic, EVs do not really reduce carbon emissions; they just rearrange them.
Further, extracting and processing the exotic materials needed to make EVs requires tremendous power in remote locations, which only hydrocarbons can provide.
Additionally, EVs require an enormous amount of rare elements and metals—like lithium and cobalt—that companies mine in conditions that couldn’t remotely be considered friendly to the environment.
Analysts estimate that each EV requires around one kilogram of rare earth elements. Extracting and processing these rare elements produces a massive amount of toxic waste. That’s why it mainly occurs in China, which doesn’t care much about environmental concerns.
In short, the notion that EVs are green is laughable.
It’s simply the thin patina of propaganda that governments need as a pretext to justify the astronomical taxpayer subsidies for EVs.
Reason #2: EVs Can’t Compete Without Government Support
For many years, governments have heavily subsidized EVs through rebates, sales tax exemptions, loans, grants, tax credits, and other means.
According to the Wall Street Journal, US taxpayers will subsidize EVs by at least $393 billion in the coming years—more than the GDP of Hong Kong.
To put that in perspective, if you earned $1 a second 24/7/365—about $31 million per year—it would take you over 12,677 YEARS to make $393 billion.
And that’s not even considering the immense subsidies and government support that have occurred in the past.
Furthermore, governments impose burdensome regulations and taxes on gasoline vehicles to make EVs seem relatively more attractive.
Even with this enormous government support, EVs can barely compete with gasoline vehicles.
According to J.D. Power, a consumer research firm, the average EV still costs at least 21% more than the average gasoline vehicle.
Without government support, it’s not hard to see how the market for EVs would evaporate as they would become unaffordable for the vast majority of people.
In other words, the EV market is a giant mirage artificially propped up by extensive government intervention.
It begs the question, why are governments going all out to push an obviously uneconomic scam?
While they are undoubtedly corrupt thieves and simply stupid, something more nefarious could also be at play.
Reason #3: EVs Are About Controlling You
EVs are spying machines.
They collect an unimaginable amount of data on you, which governments can access easily.
Analysts estimate that cars generate about 25 gigabytes of data every hour.
Seeing how governments could integrate EVs into a larger high-tech control grid doesn’t take much imagination. The potential for busybodies—or worse—to abuse such a system is obvious.
Consider this.
The last thing any government wants is an incident like what happened with the Canadian truckers rebelling against vaccine mandates.
Had the Canadian truckers’ vehicles been EVs, the government would have been able to stamp out the resistance much easier.
Here’s the bottom line.
The people really in charge do not want the average person to have genuine freedom of movement or access to independent power sources.
They want to know everything, keep you dependent, and have the ability to control everything, just like how a farmer would with his cattle. They think of you in similar terms.
That’s why gasoline vehicles have to go and why they are trying to herd us into EVs.
Conclusion To summarize, EVs are not green, cannot compete with gas cars without enormous government support, and are probably a crucial piece of the emerging high-tech control grid.
The solution is simple: eliminate all government subsidies and support and let EVs compete on their own merits in a totally free market.
But that’s unlikely to happen.
Instead, it’s only prudent to expect them to push EVs harder and harder.
If EVs were simply government-subsidized status symbols for wealthy liberals who want to virtue signal how they think they’re saving the planet, that would be bad enough.
But chances are, the big push for EVs represents something much worse.
Along with 15-minute cities, carbon credits, CBDCs, digital IDs, phasing out hydrocarbons and meat, vaccine passports, an ESG social credit system, and the war on farmers, EVs are likely an integral part of the Great Reset—the dystopian future the global elite has envisioned for mankind.
In reality, the so-called Great Reset is a high-tech form of feudalism.
Sadly, most of humanity has no idea what is coming.
Worse, many have become unwitting foot soldiers for this agenda because they have been gaslighted into believing they are saving the planet or acting for the greater good.
This trend is already in motion… and the coming weeks will be pivotal.
Looks like a cold beer; can’t read any label in the pic. Heh.
At least a piece of the Free Market still functions there.................
Do Americans control their government, or does their government control them?
“sinister”
White Europeans want to screw ‘brown’ people out of fair pricing for fossil fuels.
Exactly how are the people of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Venezuela supposed to get by in a 100% renewable energy world?
While agreeing with the author's rant, I had to blink at this last sentence. What's on tap in the coming weeks? The Presidential election? Another IPCC conference? Hurricane season?
Do tell.
Shovel ready jobs 2.0.
How much electricity does California import from other states currently?
It’s probably just that heir ‘newness’ has worn off.
When Teslas first came out, spotting one on the road was a unique situation.
Now that they are everywhere, I see them many times a day, and they don’t even cause a raised eyebrow..............
The power utilities don't do that to save the environment. They do it to incentives the EV owners to shift some of the power demand to a time of day that's easier for the power utilities to provide, which is at night.
I have little control of the timing of when my HVAC has to run (whenever I need the house cooler or warmer), when my stove and over run (when I'm hungry), or when my water heater runs (when I use up hot water). But charging an EV can be done at any time from the time you get home that afternoon until the time you leave the next morning (as long as you come home with enough charge to make it to the nearest fast charger in case you all of a sudden have an emergency trip to drive, or have a gas car as a backup). The power utilities have long wanted to shift some of the demand to night when most everything else is off. EV's are a new major demand on the grid, but at least most of the time for local driving it can be done any time of the day that's easier for the utilities.
Reference to the election campaigns I suppose.
Biden may have to backtrack on his “50% by 2030” program...................
Camels, elephants and coolies.....................
Neither.
Globalistas control them all....................
There's no "shifting" going on. This is just an additional power usage to their normal usage that has already existed.
The grids big weakness besides not enough generation to address the large amount of power to charge,all those EVs are the transformers? Current transformers are designed to cool off at night under low demand conditions. Users start charging EVs over night and the transformers never cool down which is a design feature to increase their lifespan. Transformers are going to be like popcorn, POP! POP! When they get destroyed from too much heat for too long…… Nice one DOE!
Yesterday in my small town in southern NH there was a 2 alarm fire. My towns volunteer fire depart and several surrounding towns responded.
The first on the scene found the garage of the home completely engulfed. It could not be saved. They just kept it from spreading.
The story was big news on the local town Facebook page. However, I have yet to hear the cause of the fire. This was an expensive house. Probably over 3500 sq ft. In one of the more expensive neighborhoods in town. They did get the fire out. Although, the garage was a total loss. SO, maybe it was NOT an EV fire.
I literally was just discussing the ability of my local fire department to put out EV fires on Sunday with several volunteers.
Last year I my town...wasn’t even charging....just sitting there:
Homeowner questions EV safety after fire destroys her Nocatee home
A Mercedes Benz loaner car caught fire Wednesday inside the garage
The real question was IF you had to pick from either the 15 year old Honda Civic OR the five year old Tesla 3 for your daughters/sons first car which one would you buy?
Anyone know if the entire fleet of government vehicles, provided to all the federal agents and others, has been replaced with EVs?
Nope......................
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