Posted on 09/05/2023 5:43:12 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).
(Article cross-posted from International Man.)
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.
Below are three reasons why something sinister is going on with the big push for EVs. 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.
That’s precisely why I just released an urgent report on where this is all headed and what you can do about it… including three strategies everyone needs today. Click here to download the PDF now.
https://internationalman.com/special-report/the-most-dangerous-economic-crisis-in-100-years-the-top-3-strategies-you-need-right-now/
Not to mention, there will be a financial cutoff at some point where some classes of people will NOT be able to afford to purchase or operate an EV. These people will be forced to rely on public transportation or potential ride-sharing. They may be forced to walk, ride bicycles, mopeds or scooters. In some cities, this will mean gravitating from the suburbs to city, for living and working.
It's all about the control.
“Consistent with EPA’s traditional approach to establishing pollution standards for power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the proposed standards are based on technologies such as
carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS)
low-GHG hydrogen co-firing”
“Base load affected facilities that follow the CCS pathway must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2, using CCS, by 2035”
“Baseload affected facilities that follow the low-GHG hydrogen pathway must meet a second phase standard based on co-firing 30% low-GHG hydrogen by volume by 2032 and a third phase standard based on cofiring 96% by volume low-GHG hydrogen by 2038”
In plain English, electricity is going to get far more expensive.
“there will be a financial cutoff at some point where some classes of people will NOT be able to afford to purchase or operate an EV.”
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Sinister= evil. CAFE has to go too.
Windmills, Solar Panels, Ocean Waves and Microwave Satellites.........and a lot of Unicorns with IBS................
They were never planning to
replace billions of ICE vehicles...
they are planning on
eliminating billions of ICE drivers.
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This artificial 2030 ‘deadline’ will be pushed back and back and back until it becomes the literal joke that it is.............
A wise man once said, “The only way to defeat a Liberal is to give them everything they want.”...................
Aside from outright market manipulation and subsidies benefiting the EV manufacturers and the component supply companies, one thinks to those pictures from Castro's Cuba, wherein "old" cars were kept running by very creative mechanics in the face of "market" shortages and such.
We've two older vehicles which we intend to keep running with regular maintenance by our local garage, although we are fortunate enough to buy with cash new "EV" models. Won't happen. Don't need them. The Cummins diesel Dodge hums along brilliantly.
As to Biden's (and Obama's) strategy:
US EV market struggles with price cuts and rising inventoriesAll the Buttigieg Marxists in the world -- as proven by those wacky Castro Marxists for decades -- isn't going to change things.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/slow-selling-evs-are-auto-industrys-new-headache-2023-07-11/EV's becoming less popular for car buyers, survey shows. Here's why.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/07/27/ev-concerns-ease-fewer-people-want-to-own/70469087007/
But they'll keep trying. And they'll keep failing. Cuba has already shown the 'future' -- and they did it 'yesterday'.
The ultimate endgame:
1> Smaller Earth population, by 75%+.
2> What population is left will be stationary for the vast majority.
3> The population that is left will be reigned over by an iron-fist in a velvet glove, wielded by the elite and their progeny, less than 10% of the population.
4> The entire world will be divided into 10 socio-economic provinces that are controlled by a Central World Government.................
There will still be multitudes of ICE Vehicles around in 2030, but there will be little or no fuels available to run them. Gas stations will be few and far between.
And what fuels are available will be so costly that no average American can buy them...............
I can't see the same future you foretell. Long before that happens, an awakening -- perhaps multiple awakenings -- will intervene.
I agree that there is an "average American," and that average American is currently 1) going from paycheck to paycheck, 2) in debt and, 3) in numbers approaching 60 % of the population, earning less than about $60K a year. For these constraints, "buy an EV or else" simply cannot "fly."
Additionally all the energy producers and distributors will act in defense of their investments.
Many small rebellions are brewing, as the small lessons of Bud Lite, Disney and more show from the consumer side of things. From the simple economics of it all, Solyndra (past) is now Proterra (present tense) the same "California" collapse, as government "investment" is proving fatal to all but the few and well-connected. Rebellions are brewing.
The largest of them weighs in currently at almost $33 trillion, with the "odometer" showing full speed ahead -- into collapse. Out the other side, those energy companies will still want to produce and sell, because there is ultimately no other choice.
Obviously we see things through different lenses, but I think we agree the clear answer is to topple the Democrats as a first order of business. Best wishes.
I agree 100% with the premise of the article that the government shouldn't be pushing everybody to EV's and get rid of natural gas. I hate it for multiple reasons. But I respectfully disagree with your assessment of the micro details on what it means to an individual home. If conservatives like us want to argue against government totalitarianism, we ought to do so with real world data so we don't look bad.
I have a 200 amp service and two years ago I converted my two natural gas appliances to electric (replaced nat gas furnace and A/C with a variable speed heat pump, and replaced nat gas water heater with hybrid water heater). And 15 months ago, since it was time to replace my wife's ICE crossover we replaced it with an EV crossover. I didn't do it to save the world from cow fart warmageddon or anything like that. I did it to make us more self-reliant with energy by also adding lots of solar. (If I could produce my own natural gas or oil and refine it to gasoline I would, but I can't. However solar allows me to provide 82% of all the power we consume. So being all-electric is attractive to me from a self-reliance standpoint.) I also did other more conventional energy saving steps we probably all should do more of like caulk sealing cracks around windows, replacing old gaskets around doors, and adding insulation.
My electrical panel has to provide power to the all-electric home, including charging the EV (roughly 22K miles per year charged at home) regardless of if the power is coming from solar and/or the battery stack and/or the grid. There are nights in the winter that all of my power is coming from the grid. (Most of the 18% of the power I pull from the grid throughout the year is in the winter months.) My two inverters pull power from those 3 sources (solar/batteries/grid) and supply the electrical panel with AC power. The electrical panel functions like it always has without caring if the power is coming from the grid or somewhere else.
Admittedly, this is in Alabama and is a 2,300 sq ft home. Maybe up north an electric furnace in the winter would have to draw way more power than mine does (I'm sure it would run more often than mine does). But, and this is anecdotal, last December we had lows in the single digits and highs in the teens for a couple days in a row. So my home heater was on a lot all day and keeping my home warm while not overloading my electrical panel. (And since it was near the Christmas holidays and not snowing, we were driving and charging the EV a lot too. Yet my electrical panel kept up.)
Nationalization....For 'National Security'........Stroke of the pen, law of the land........
All you have to do is walk away from EVs by NOT purchasing them.
Buying an EV contributes to the loss of freedom in the USA.
That warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you by an EV is your house burning down..........................
Consider what a green utopia will look like. For the peons it will mean a standard of living on par with 100 years ago. Get used to hanging your washing out to dry on a clothesline, electricity is rationed so a few lights a fridge and a single TV is all you will get most days. Your $40,000 EV will only get a charge on certain days and times…think of gas rationing during WW-II. Blackouts will be common particularly during hot weather and cold winters. Expect to be swelter on hot days and freezing during the winter as indoor climate control will be mandated out of existence. Of course your travel will be restricted as you charging ration of of electricity will likely be tied to your social credit score. Any public criticism of the uni party will mean you will be walking or waiting for government run mass transit. Get used to eating synthetic foods as meat will be banned as well as hunting. Local farms that used to offer fresh produce will be regulated out of existence…only your government approved foods will be allowed.
Of course the ruling class and liberal elites will continue to enjoy the good life, fly in private jets to where ever they want, be driven in limousines and enjoy fine foods, air conditioning, warm homes and every other good thing we used to take for granted and are now denied.
1984 leads to 1789......................
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