Electric Vehicles will be viable someday, I have zero doubt. It makes a lot of sense. We will find out someday, somehow, how to safely and inexpensively store electricity, and speed up the charging cycle. If someone said you could charge a car fully in 15 min, and have ready access to do so like you generally can when filling the tank of an ICE vehicle, and the car can go 400 miles, we simply would not be having these conversations.
We might be having conversations about how due to the dangers of spontaneous battery combustion, you shouldn’t park the car in your garage, ship them in seagoing vessels, or utilize underground parking lots, but you wouldn’t have to force them on people. People would generally buy them.
It will get there. It may be in two years. It may be in 100 years. But it will eventually be found in some way.
The concept of vehicles running on electricity is fine. The current state of technology is completely lacking.
It makes zero sense to sacrifice our economy and our freedom to accomodate this insanity.
Doubly so since the people pushing it are doing so on faulty premises-that we must do it to save the planet. That premise is absolute hogwash.
If they put the pipes into the ground to pull up oil, and there was no oil to come up, sure. I would be all for finding some other way to be able to drive a car and would be willing to accept a stunted alternative rather than no alternative at all.
But doing it because deranged Leftists scream we are all going to die as a result of climate change if we don’t makes me dig in my heels all the harder.
Yep. I like to remind people that in the early 20th century New York City leaders were sweating bullets over what they were going to do with all the horse poop over the coming decades. A capitalist solved the problem for them, and the government didn’t even have to get involved.
That’s the right way to do it. Let human ingenuity and capitalist motivation solve it.
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages” — Adam Smith