Posted on 04/20/2023 1:25:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
Every time the government limits access to oil and forces us to import more, there's always some of us old enough to remember when we drilled most of our own oil in this country. So we demand the government let us do that again, and eventually elect someone like Trump who gets government out of the way and we're happy.
Not so with rare earths. Even though there's lots of lithium and cobalt deposits in the United States, there's never been a time where we mass mined and processed them (because they weren't needed that much before the EPA became a thing). Thus there aren't Americans who even think about telling our political leaders to get out of the way and let us access them like we have people demanding we have access to oil.
I think that's the main reason Dims push for EV's. The rare earth supply chain production has little political lobby to make it happen here, so mass use of EV's means more foreign dependency more than mass use of ICE cars.
RB, I don’t think this is about forcing us into EVs. I think this is about collapsing our economy and our general use of natural resources.
Hopefully the fools gushing about EV’s are beginning to see the light.
That is the primary goal. No doubt.
Don’t think TPTB that push this crap don’t recognize the reduced range of these ev’s and the inability to charge them up in remote places. They WANT this to happen because then people can’t go to those places and if the only vehicle they have is an ev, then their mobility and freedom of movement will have been reduced. Which is what they want.
I am in Washington DC for business. The power grid has gone down twice now so far. At 4:00 p.m. it went down for 45 minutes. Came back for a while and then went off again about 5 minutes ago. Good thing they have all these electric vehicles plugged in around this place.
Ding ding ding, I believe we have a winner.
THEY just supplanted communism right in the middle of a constitutional republic. And half the country don’t have a clue and probably don’t care?
Which means you have to dispose of the car when the battery goes dead.
The push for EVs, Biden claims, is necessary to cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
India has passed China as the worlds most populated countey wonder how Biden’s GGC (greenhouse gas commission) is doing there.
He doesn’t note how well China is helping with it wonder why Moe.
Many thanks for posting. The electrical infrastructure simply cannot support the EV revolution. And it never will. At least not in the next 35 years. Same as California has not built new water reservoir infrastructure since the 1970s. And what they have, lots of this cached water is flushed out to the ocean, due to snail darters and Indians tribal rights to fish salmon.
As far as these two infrastructures, we are living off the accomplishments of others from 40-50 years ago. We live off of seed corn.
ICE vehicle prices will be forced upwards by these WEF type scum. So hold onto the ones you have, and be sure to include/properly designate them in your will. Because your heirs will be fighting over them.
Mine is a 2016 Honda that I will hold forever. This gets 31 mpg in the city.
They will also require yearly registration renewal at an exorbitant rate that you cannot afford to go with the gas you can’t afford (or even find)
Yup. Oil is freedom.
This article is very long, and I don’t need to read it. If they go through with the green revolution, billions will die. That is what they are planning. Any other prediction would be wild speculation.
Barter town, but Tina Turner will be dead.
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Meanwhile the Senate Republicans are snoozing.
bkmk
Ping for later
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