Posted on 07/05/2023 9:01:30 AM PDT by John Semmens
It looks like the efforts of both state and federal governments' to force electric vehicles (EVs) on consumers will be costly without providing any environmental advantages. Everyone knows that EVs are far more expensive to own than gasoline-powered vehicles. The premise that these higher costs will buy a cleaner and cooler environment is erroneous.
In an effort to make EVs seem more economical, the federal government offers a $7500 tax credit to those who buy one. Even with this added incentive for purchasers, manufacturers are still taking big losses on every vehicle sold. Ford, for example, currently losses $58,000 on every EV it sells. Since EVs weigh up to a ton more than the gasoline-fueled cars they replace, crashes become more deadly, tires wear out faster, pavements experience twice as much damage, and bridges reach the breaking point earlier.
The dismal impacts of EVs has not daunted President Biden's enthusiasm for these clunkers one bit. He has decreed that by 2030 one-half of all new vehicles sold in the US must be EVs. "I know it's expensive, but no price is too high to pay for saving the planet from climate change," he insisted. "We won't know for sure whether even this sacrifice will be sufficient to achieve our climate goals, but it is nobler to try and fail than to not have tried at all."
Former president and currently leading Republican candidate for president in the 2024 election Donald Trump observed that "noble failures is what 'Bidenomics' offers the American people. We can't afford to waste more scarce resources on impractical schemes. Gasoline-fueled cars are far less polluting than they were 50 years ago. Private industry has made great strides by increasing the fuel efficiency and lowering the emissions of the vehicles. Rather than have the government waste the people's money on unpromising options why not leave the market free to continue making things already shown to work even better? That's the sound approach I will bring back when I'm reelected."
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It’s a scam Jim
Duh
The whole “energy transition” has been birthed and nurtured by several trends of our past 30 years, which have reversed and are going away
- globalism
- US dollar global hegemony
- massive government debt in printed money
- relatively unified domestic politics in the West
- historically low interest rates
this has allowed all the woke political forces in and out of government, funded by massive debt and money printing, to fund and force these inefficient schemes.
None of it will last.
Santa Cruz Metro received more than $20 million in federal grant funding on Monday to further the organization’s efforts to convert its bus fleet to zero-emission vehicles. Metro plans to purchase 54 hydrogen fuel cell-powered buses with this money combined with funding secured in April.
They currently run buses with graphics describing
‘Clean Air Vehicle’ (propane) Why change?
Last I looked Propane is a hydrocarbon.
When burned (combusted) produces water and co2. The banner ‘Clean Air Vehicle’ was either false then or now. Every time a new fad comes along it costs a lot of $s. There are many sources of hydrogen. Many involve reacting hydrocarbons.
I erred. The present buses run on natural gas...
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