Posted on 07/24/2021 9:01:09 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
In less than five years you won’t be able to own an EV, they will be lease only. The market is going to move upscale as the economy regresses. Think about where the elite want the economy and world social structure to move. Your independence is one of the first things that must be eliminated. At first in small steps and as the kleptocracy grows more secure in larger and larger steps.
Please stop and think about their plan and where it is going.
Battery-powered tools aren’t EVs, and not a premonition of things to come. They’re a fad, and will disappear in time.
What’s an “Opelto”?
Good points, but bear in mind that innovation may soon provide a means of transoortation that is independent of roads and bridges, yet capable of mass usage if necessary.
I am not about to discard collective efforts as often stupid in the way of intent and results.
All this push for electric cars yet our food supply depends on diesel power. Do the anti fossil fuel fanatics understand that banning diesel fuel could mean empty grocery shelves and starvation? Converting tractors, combines and large trucks that plant harvest and haul grain to electric power has not even been attempted. Where in the middle of a farm field do you recharge your batteries? The electric pickups now being rolled out would be totally impractical for the typical tasks pickups need to perform on farms and ranches.
—”gasoline-powered transportation as we know it is going to fade. My opinion is that it should, but not out of concern for the environment. It’s just that we are endowed with creativity and resources far above what we have comprehended and employed thus far.”
On the money!
Our tools evolve!
Our lifestyle follows.
Occasionally held back by the Luddites and some progs.
innovation may soon provide a means of transoortation that is independent of roads and bridges, yet capable of mass usage if necessary.
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Sure, of course, naturally, right on, etc - right around the corner. Meanwhile, back to earth and the 5.5 trillion dollar “infrastructure” bill brings 18 century technological innovation into the present. See the California multi-billion dollar high speed train to nowhere with no demand.
Of course, you could always take up James Clerk Maxwell’s 200 quaternions in which, at least one, postulates being able to step from any one point in the Universe to any other with free energy. Maybe you’d be less appalled then Oliver Heaviside and not discard 196 of them, or at least convert four more of them to vector equations, like he did; that gave us everything we know about the electromagnetic spectrum and A. Einstein and N. Tesla ... if you are fortunate enough to find a copy of his original work.
—”Do the anti fossil fuel fanatics understand that banning diesel fuel could mean empty grocery shelves “
You don’t have to be a weatherman...
Bigger and heavier, the electric is more tractable.
Not many steam trains left?
John Deere: ‘We believe in electric tractors. 100%’
https://www.futurefarming.com/Machinery/Articles/2020/3/John-Deere-We-believe-in-electric-tractors-100-552869E/
Cat D7E Electric Drive Dozer
Expected to move 25% more material per gallon of fuel, improve productivity 10% and reduce lifetime operating costs 10% compared to D7R Series II
https://www.forconstructionpros.com/equipment/earthmoving/product/10090645/caterpillar-cat-d7e-electric-drive-tractor
And much longer transmission life!
—” totally impractical for the typical tasks pickups need to perform on farms and ranches.”
Only a mini ranch here... and my pickup almost never left the two-county area, maybe a hundred miles to pick up something; usually as a favor.
Sorry, don’t know what a Ford(ICE) is. Please enlighten me.
—”the Math that calculated the energy to drive 3 trillion miles”
Now that would be a hoot!
Very few here ao FR will accept the MATH projections for future global warming; How is that different from miles driven ten years hence?
The old cliche, figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
Internal combustion engine ICE
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”
Personal knowledge from working the numbers?
That’s why the Chinese are going strong with electric cars powered by hundreds of new coal fired power plants. They are limiting oil consumption, or perhaps diverting it to their military. They don’t give a sh*t about climate change.
Ford(ICE)
Ford Internal Combustion Engine
NOT a Ford EV.
For the California power strain they had in June, they asked people not to charge their cars between 5 and 10 PM, and that was with the low number of electric cars they have now. I’d love it if they could get them to where they can be ubiquitous, and we’re getting closer, but even without the power grid issues and the long-haul driving issues, we’re not there yet.
If our Democrat govt really believed in climate change, they would be building dozens of nuke power plants in the US and carpet bombing the hundreds of new coal plants in China.
You didn’t have insurance? Why do other drivers want everyone else to have insurance too? In case you haven’t checked, insurance is a scam. My insurance pays for your damage, yours pays for mine? But I only have minimal coverage, you have full coverage. Same as if I had none really, if you want to fix a car and provide insurance for injuries. Wait a minute, don’t you already have insurance for injuries?
Gas vs batteries. Gas wins.
1 gallon vs 139 cans (video)(battery) that represent the energy equivalent. Gas is 13x more energy dense then batteries.
Gas takes up less space then batteries. 50x less space energy equivalent. Leaf battery pack was over 600lbs while 1 gallon of gas weighs in at 6lbs that has more energy then that battery pack.
Why Gas Engines Are Far From Dead - Biggest EV Problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hatav_Rdnno
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