Posted on 01/20/2019 5:42:04 AM PST by Libloather
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To answer that question, I used the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s most recent long-term forecasts for the number of new electric vehicles through 2050, estimated how much electricity they’d use, and then figured out how much pollution that electricity would generate, looking at three key pollutants regulated under the U.S. Clean Air Act—sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOX), and particulates—as well as CO2 emissions. I compared them to the emissions of new gasoline-powered vehicles, using the EIA’s “real world” miles-per-gallon forecast, rather than the higher CAFE standard values.
What I found is that widespread adoption of electric vehicles nationwide will likely increase air pollution compared with new internal combustion vehicles. You read that right: more electric cars and trucks will mean more pollution.
That might sound counterintuitive: After all, won’t replacing a 30-year old, smoke-belching Oldsmobile with a new electric vehicle reduce air pollution? Yes, of course. But that’s also where many electric vehicle proponents’ arguments run off the road: they fail to consider just how clean and efficient new internal combustion vehicles are.
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In parts of New England, electricity is more expensive than the national average. Believe it or not, on Cape Cod, I'm paying 25 cents per kwh, even after getting the "best" deal on resold aggregated electricity, which only saves 2 or 3 cents per kwh.
And, to add insult to injury (although this isn't specifically Tesla related), the off-shore wind to electricity farms that have been proposed are up in the 35 cent per kwh range, with sweetheart take or pay deals.
As someone who was a college student in the late 1960’s it took me a few years to recognize that the left does not have good intentions. It is all about power and a belief in writings of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Fidel and so for an so with NO critical thinking.
she may be nuts
but the schools are cloning thousands like her every year.
Ending capitalism has been the core goal of the environmental movement all along.
Yep. In the upper States it’s about 21 cents average. That would knock electric car MPG down to about 20 MPG in cost compared to gas.
I’m a bit younger, but was very fortunate to be placed right in the heart of Leftism during college at ESU. From there, it was just a matter of reading what they were handing out and going to a couple of their ‘teach-ins’, where they discussed the ‘revolution’, and THEY WERE NOT JOKING.
What amazes me is how Rush figured out the same, considering that I doubt his exposure came close to matching mine.
Electricity comes out of the outlet in the wall, right? That’s all there is to it, right?
Sarcasm
I went last year to a solar-show in Munich, and watched a number of demonstrations and talked to one smart engineer. In the current design, with around 16 panels and a battery rack in the basement, I could supply all the power I needed for the house (freezer and refrigerator included) and easily charge up the car, but timing came into play.
Based on the averages of sunshine per day...this would only cover about 280 days a year (central Germany location). So I’d have to continue to be tied to the grid. The other issue was that you’d typically charge the electrical car....after 6 PM, and this would eat up the charge on your solar potential collected and stored in the stupid batteries. With sun out till 10 PM in the summer....it would work out. The other six months of the year, no such luck.
So I brought up the wind business, and they had several ‘quiet’ wind collectors and this could figure into this. I’ve seen some Icelandic engineers who seem to have a hot project in the future for wind collection. But it just means an awful lot of infrastructure and you having to continually monitor your entire system for maintenance issues.
Yes, as I recall Rush did not graduate with a BA degree and probably avoided many left wing professor.
I went to a couple such meeting as well. The Trotskyites were very active and recruiting students. There was one very attractive young woman who was a member of that group. I had a crush on her-if she had been interested in me who knows what would have happened.
I had several left of center professors but we had civilized debates and discussions. Two of them wrote me excellent letters of recommendation and one supported my participation in the Washington Semester Program at American University.
And when they’re flip the switch in their living room, the lights will come on. Always have, always will.
Wow, good experience too! But the country was different then...no more debating with profs for conservatives - should they ever want a recommendation!
Not commonly recognized is that EVs use regenerative braking. When you slow down, the motors switch to ‘generate’ mode to recharge a little.
This does not activate the brake lights, with predictable results. We’ll see how this plays out in finding fault in rear-enders.
Shouldn’t matter. It’s always ‘following too close.’
And that Tesla stopped for no apparent reason? Say, on the freeway?
They are just now asking this question? We’ve been saying yes for years.
The Left will acknowledge the environmental impact of electric cars just as soon as we are all in them. Then they will push us out of cars entirely. Just look at what they did with diesel in Europe.
When you look at the super high levels of EMF exposure to your cells, and especially in the back seats where you put your kids.....anyone worried about cellular EMF exposure, should be super duper worried about electric cars and hybrids. Maybe that’s why liberals push these. Perhaps a form of popluation control: increase risk of cancer to the living?? And increase risk of taterogenic exposure to the womb or or spermatic, or oogenic defect.
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