Posted on 03/15/2022 2:08:52 AM PDT by Libloather
It is billed as the largest economic development project in the history of Georgia, an electric vehicle factory that could grow to be five times as large as the Pentagon and produce as many as 400,000 emissions-free trucks a year.
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But in recent months, the project has gotten tangled in the kind of partisan politics that is pulsing through many aspects of American life. Opponents have been holding rallies, organizing online, dabbling in conspiracy theories and even threatening local officials.
And beyond the political disputes, the debate over the factory is emblematic of broader tensions bedeviling the environmental movement, with the need to build new emissions-free infrastructure colliding with the age-old impulse to preserve unspoiled lands.
“This is a story that’s playing out with solar facilities, wind farms and transmission lines for renewable energy all across the country,” said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “It’s always going to be a case-by-case question of whether the trade-off is viable, and sometimes NIMBYism is going to win out.”
Opponents cite a range of concerns. Some fear the factory will contaminate the groundwater. Others disapprove of the lucrative public incentives being offered to Rivian. Many worry the huge facility will change the area’s bucolic character, increasing light pollution, snarling traffic and spurring more development.
And now, the movement to stop the Rivian plant has spilled into the Georgia governor’s race.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
just one of the many glitches in the greenies’s electric future. don’t buy into it:
PIC: 14 March: Daily Mail: Charred wreckage is all that remains of a century-old townhouse after a fire started by a charging e-scooter - as six brave cops brave the flames to save three residents
Six police officers have been hospitalised after attending a house fire in Glebe
Occupants of the townhouse feared a fourth person was trapped on the top level
Officers were treated for smoke inhalation and have been released from hospital
By OLIVIA DAY
Photos from the scene showed blackened pieces of furniture and personal items completely destroyed by the flames...
Inspector Watson said the fire was likely sparked by an e-scooter which was found charging on the bottom level.
‘Possibly it overcharged and caused a small explosion,’ he said, while urging residents to keep a close eye on electric devices as they charge...
A crime scene has been established to confirm the cause of the house fire.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10609831/Glebe-Sydney-Six-brave-police-officers-rushed-hospital-inhaling-smoke-house-fire.html
Trucks that no one wants
Trucks that will have to compete against Ford, GM and eventually Dodge , who are making their every level trucks at half the price.
Only reason for the plant was because Amazon put in agite order which has been rescinded because the company can’t make squat. Last year they were supposed to make 1200, barley made 1000.
Kia makes over 300k with less than half the people Rivian says they’re going to hire.
Leave it to the Times and Yahoo to try and save Soros’ investment.
Subsidy Farmers. They teach this in business schools nowadays.
A friend of mine lost his house when a charging electric drill battery caught fire in the garage. I charge all of my batteries on the kitchen counter or in a shed I can afford to lose.
I almost started a fire with a Makita battery thirty years ago, and have treated them very carefully ever since.
The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation
This is the Great American Jobs Scam: a costly bait-and-switch that swindles communities in more ways than one. They lose jobs—or gain jobs so low-paying they do nothing to help the community—and they lose revenue through massive corporate tax breaks
And they all love coming to the Right To Work States to take advantage of not having to pay Union wages, importing liberals for the high paying jobs and tossing the scraps to the locals.
Their entry level trucks**
I know this area well, as I live about 20 minutes from it. While deal done in secret, that even the local commissioners kept it from their neighbors.
2000 acres of beautiful farmland and hay fields.
They 2000 acre monstrosity was going to go up in less than 2 years because of their Amazon order.
So. aside from the potential fire hazards, what about all the folks that will have their taxes go through the roof and be forced to sell be used they can’t afford to live someplace they’ve been for decades.
Ts all about coontrol of the masses, Electric cars are easier to limit travel than ICE vehicles. Cut the power and people have to make their own electricity. Much harder then Cutting off fuel, people can make diesels run on vegetable oil, or gas engines run on moonshine. And you can made an ICE vehicle out live a batttery. - its all about the NWO
Reminds me of the Foxconn disaster here in Wisconsin. It’s a very large vacant warehouse.
“It is billed as the largest economic development project in the history of Georgia, an electric vehicle factory that could grow to be five times as large as the Pentagon and produce as many as 400,000 EMISSIONS-FREE trucks a year.”
It just blows my mind how many people here trust the media to tell them the truth about Ukraine today and what led up to the war.
Democrats will die jobless and hungary before accepting a non union, non UAW industry that requires educated employees.
Yup. As shown in this satire-cum-documentary/instructional vid.. d;^D
And wonder why business moves to China a Mexico.
The only emissions-free truck is a stationary truck...
Where’s the trucks?
I have nine 5 Amp-hour Makita batteries and have become leery of them so I take them off as soon as they are charged. I have thought about just moving the whole mess of them to a fire resistant location in the metal building. I would hate to lose the shop of course.
The things are confirmed hazards. I keep wondering why you can still get insurance on our house without being asked about an electric car in the garage.
Basically $80 grand and up. Maybe 300 miles range, charge at home for 25 miles per hour, cost to charge at home about half the cost of gasoline.
11 cameras, multiple radar sensors and such. Can you imagine all the things that can go wrong that you can’t fix? I can see being stranded easily.
Pop used to say that the more gimmicks the more things to go wrong. He was right of course.
I’ll pass.
Some fear the factory will contaminate the groundwater.
aw it’s okay it’s just part of going green agenda you can’t have everything.
Would recharging them in a dry bathtub be a safe way?
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