Posted on 05/05/2023 5:20:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Today, you’re not allowed to say a bad word about electric cars. They’re planet savers, after all. Environmentalists tell us so. But there will come a day — in the not-too-distant future — when the climate change fanatics will decide that EVs are planet killers, too.
We’ve seen this bait-and-switch tactic before.
Back in 2007, energy producers pumped money into environmental groups to promote natural gas. The Sierra Club used the funds to mount a “Beyond Coal” campaign touting the benefits of gas. Joe Romm, a climate advocate at the Center for American Progress, declared that natural gas “may be the single biggest game changer for climate action in the next two decades.”
Then came the fracking revolution, and the resulting abundance of natural gas caused power plants across the country to switch to gas from coal. Then environmentalists decided natural gas wasn’t so good after all. By 2015, they were at war with it. The motto for the Sierra Club’s new “Beyond Natural Gas” was “Dirty, Dangerous, and Run Amok.”
Environmentalists tried to stop fracking, opposed new pipeline development, and then started pushing for bans on gas-fueled appliances.
More than 70 cities in California alone have voted to ban natural gas hookups in new homes. New York became the first to impose a statewide ban. Sarah Fox, an associate law professor at Northern Illinois University School of Law, gleefully told CNN that this ban “is becoming a mainstream policy.”
Soon it will be the auto industry’s turn.
Just as natural gas producers before them, they are bear-hugging green groups and working arm-in-arm with government while promising to bring forth a magical electric car future.
GM says it will be all-electric by 2035. (In the first quarter of this year, EVs accounted for a grand total of 3.4% of GM sales.) Ford aims to have electric vehicles make up half of its sales by 2030. Toyota says it will be “carbon neutral” by 2050.
States are getting into the act, with California announcing a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars starting in 2035. Other states have followed suit. The Biden administration plans to impose emissions regulations so strict that they would force two-thirds of all cars sold to be electric by 2032.
I don’t think I would like the leftist utopia.
Bkmk
Yeah no. It’s happened already. California power outages and you can’t charge your ‘lectric cars.
I think this is already beginning. I’ve caught my 15-year-old noting that electric cars are not a solution, so they’re picking it up in school. Sadly, his solution is no cars, use public transportation. But he has no answer when I ask him then how he wants to go out into the desert to collect rocks, fossils, etc.
right after the gas car ban
they promise the jetsons
you get the flintstones
“We’re Taking Bets: How Long Before Environmentalists Start Attacking EVs?”
Once all of the necessary laws are in place requiring EVs, along with Democrat judges. And we can do our part to help them!! by making sure to sit out November Elections, so as to let the Democrats win due to crappy Republican candidates (you know, to ‘teach the Republicans a lesson’).
Well you could Mention going on horseback...but then there will be a conversation about methane. Can’t win with the leftist radicals.
While we’re on the subject of environmental fascism, how about getting rid of the “emissions testing” that takes $20 from us every two years — since they plan to eliminate all gas-powered cars, then there is no need to test them for “emissions.”
Once the statists start a government program, they never want to let go of it.
Cheap affordable energy is what drives the engine of America...therefore get rid of it no matter what form it takes.
I am SO stealing that! Just so you know.
Just stop Pelosi and her private jets. That should save the planet all by itself.
Attacks on EVs will start right after the Greenie Weenies figure out that recycling doesn’t work. Just like all that plastic shipped to China for recycling is recycled by dumping it the ocean.
Then again, without Lithium, Cobalt, Copper, Aluminum, etc. mines, there will be no batteries BECAUSE we all know that Mining is Bad for the environment.
This will be just like the group pushing for windmills being fought by those complaining windmills kill birds of prey which are protected species.
The timeline is probably detailed in East Anglia emails.
I don't think even the run of the mill leftist would like their utopia. But stupid people only learn the hard way. 70 years of misery in the case of the Soviet Union.
What if the Millenials woke up from their collective government, school, chemical and social media induced trance all at once and realized why they are unhappy.
Their rainbow environmental, communitarian-marxist, over sexualized, trans-everything dream is run and orchestrated by corrupt, dishonest, greedy, psychopathic, amoral, inept, creepy, monsters that make Nero’s Rome seem like Camelot.
It felt like this in ‘84 when we saw the seas change direction. But how to snap them out if it. (Truth, Guts, God and ?)
It’s that they are anti-combustion engine, not that they are the planet savers. They too, will get attacked soon.
Not so long ago, the Greenies were crying about the rainforests.
Now, the same people cheer the destruction of endangered species flora and fauna to build EV batteries for Chy-nah to profit from
There was a similar story with asbestos.
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