Posted on 02/27/2023 5:32:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
The modern internal combustion engine is an engineering marvel. These powerplants run incredibly clean. According to the EPA, overall gasoline car tailpipe emissions are now about 98% - 99% less than for cars in the 1960s. Many current gas-powered cars get well over 35 miles per gallon and have highway ranges of over 500 miles. Refueling takes five minutes and there are 115,000 gasoline stations in the U.S.
So why the huge push by the U.S. government to convert to electric vehicles? It is curious given that EVs are actually inferior to gas vehicles for most uses. (Perhaps a case could be made for hybrid vehicles in short-range, high-density urban settings). Also, beyond vehicle performance, there are other serious negative side effects of this EV conversion. To recap, here are some of the problems with widespread conversion to EVs:
Environmental Damage -- Several studies have shown that when factoring in the production process and electricity generation needed to charge the batteries, EV conversion can be more damaging to the environment than gas vehicles.
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This coerced conversion plan is clearly a disaster if the goal is to provide the American people a better way to travel. But what if the goal is something other than converting to a “better mousetrap?” Could it be that a coalition of globalists, environmental fundamentalists, and totalitarian-leaning politicians are conspiring to limit the freedom of Americans and control their ability to move about? After all, it is a lot easier to shut down, curtail, or monitor a centrally managed electric grid than it is to close 115,000 gas stations. Americans might want to wake up and think about the risks of buying into the virtue-signaling conversion to EVs.
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Rationing of electricity and control of movement. I would not be surprised if there are already plans to tie electricity ration quotas into a social credit score system to control behavior and speech.
The reason they tell us is never the real reason.
Yes. Centralized control of the distribution of energy.
It’s a fascist thing. You vill buy one of zese nasty electric cars.
“tie electricity ration quotas into a social credit score”
Exactly. That’s why they want to ban gas appliances. That’s why I don’t let my solar system talk to the internet.
EV’s are inferior in every major category. They are machines for fools.
The reason they tell us is never the real reason.
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Just ask some ‘critical-thinking’ questions, and you start stumble on something.
Are these faux environmentalists pushing for electric cars in Africa, or China?
Are they pushing for increased capacity in the grid to support electrification?
I could go on, but when you read between the lines, one interpretation appears to be that the goal is to weaken ‘western’ nations.
“What’s behind the push for electric vehicles?”
Just like Ukraine, it’s SPECIAL INTERESTS, people who can see themselves becoming rich (almost always at the expense of others) of so and so policy is enacted.
The job of politicians is to stand up to those interests, not JOIN THEM, as the Democrats do full-scale, and enough Republicans do to allow this crap to go through.
What’s behind it?
Idiocy...............
But does it talk to Uranus?....................
Duh... money?
Yes. Limit movement.
No, but it does hold the load up quite nicely when the power goes out.
What’s behind the push? The same thing that’s behind every other push from the government: control, and socialism (yes, I know, those terms are synonymous).
Money and control.
I want no part of EVs.
Unlike FUJB......................
Don’t think of me as anti EV, I’m more ANTI child labor! Remember conflict or blood diamonds? Where’s the same concern for child mined cobalt? The Libs never discuss that one.... 🧐
The government will control the market because they will control the mining of rare metals and disposition of used batteries. You will be charged per mile driven PLUS charges at the stations.
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