Posted on 08/08/2023 11:02:29 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
There's been a lot of EV news lately, and unfortunately for those looking to promote the complete switchover from ICE to pure battery power in the near future, none of it appears to be very promising. Here's an overview of some of these events along with a common sense solution that in the long run should make everyone happy.
Wishful thinking, whenever you think a Liberal idea can’t get anymore idiotic and the failed results are plain for all to see, Liberals will still always find a way to double/triple down on their lunacy.
Yup—the trans insanity is a great example—put the knife to formerly sacred women’s rights—the leftists could not care less.
The “progressives” always move “forward”—over the cliff.
So is putting an EV in your garage going to double or triple your homeowners insurance rate?
Did Volvo go 100% EV ? I think it said it would
I'm not saying I like it. I just hate conflating Chrysler's decision with Budweiser's Dylan stupidity.
My wife has a 2009 Accord in great mechanical shape with only 77k miles on it. As it spent 9 years in Phoenix its paint is shot and it is checked and faded to crap. I think I am going to spend the 3500 to get it repainted and put new Michelin tires on it.
If the regulations on ICE cars and trucks would remain the same for a decade, the costs would nosedive for 80% of what the public wants to replace.
So much of cars and truck cost is chasing the efficiency and safety standards driven by the last generation of safety standards. Let the industry built cars that weigh less than 1.7 tons and don’t have a vertical to oncoming air cross section of a barn door (for pedestrian safety, stay the f off the road kids), even the 2026 CAFE standards are not that big of deal.
“EVs have their place but there are unintended consequences with them.”
I have yet to figure out what their place is.
The “green energy transition” has only been possible as a government social-engineering scheme over the last 20+ years due to: stronger trust in government, low-zero interest rates, a strong US Dollar, world peace, globalization, lower debt, and wider availability of strategic minerals needed.
ALL of those things are reversing strongly. We have seen windmill makers raising costs quickly and losing massive amounts of money in a short period of time.
Yes, woke Fed.gov will continue to push this on Americans, but the costs will rise quickly, as will opposition.
Ya, I’m trying figure out which EV stock to sell short next.....
Not until the Last Prog Marxist Liberal Dies.
Peak Idiocy? I learned over the years it’s folly to sell idiots short.
Short Rivian. You’ll lose your shirt.
“Liberals will still always find a way to double/triple down on their lunacy.”
Which ALWAYS means more government subsidies. You simply cannot continue uneconomic investments unless the government fleeces taxpayers to pay for it.
The government is immune to any basic Supply & Demand corrective market forces. That’s why it makes horrendously bad decisions over and over and over...
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They need to get everything whipped up into a PC Campaign. Ukraine is a good example.
Actors, Hollywood types, and talking heads - with Teachers and Institutions - are trying to get the EV Campaign going to the point it’s PC peer pressure.
As soon as they get more on the road, the Mileage Tax is invoked, then they’re be a mandatory huge fee to trade-in an EV due to the costs of disposing the batteries.
Then when the grid teeters, you’ll be subject to rolling blackouts, meaning you won’t even be able to go out when they cut power to your area.
The new program costs are in a holding pattern waiting to land.
And didn't leave any evil spawn behind. See "Soros."
EV's aren't for everybody. But here's why my wife and I like our EV. This is from a free market perspective, not the forced conversion to EV's the Dims are pushing.
1. We drive 26K miles in it per year. In other words, we drive it enough for the gas and oil change savings to be substantial (worth considering increased up front costs of getting an EV when I had to replace my wife's old ICE crossover anyway).
2. We need two cars anyway and have more security with both an EV car and an ICE car (specifically an ICE pickup). In other words, we don't have all of our transportation eggs in one energy basket. If the Dims make power hard to come by or too expensive: we have an ICE car. If the Dims make gas hard to come by or too expensive (as it is), we have an EV.
3. We have lots of solar because we're trying to make our family mostly energy independent (86% of our power has been provided by our solar YTD in our all-electric home, including charging the EV). An EV is an extension of that mostly energy independence out onto the road at least for local driving and the first 250 miles of a trip. I simply can't drill and refine my own oil (or drill my own natural gas, or mine my own coal), but I can generate most of the power I need with solar. FReepers who distrust government as much as I do ought to be able to appreciate solar being attractive by the fact that it's the one energy source I don't have to beg a regulator's permission for or pay a climate indulgence tax to use.
I'm sure there are many FReepers who are in a bad climate for solar and/or EV or have other things going on that are bad for solar and/or EV (i.e. live in an apartment, live in a place you don't plan to be at for at least 10 years to recoup the energy savings of solar, etc.). But my wife and I are in a good situation for solar and an EV (live in a home we own and plan to live at the rest of our lives, have places with no shade, can charge at home, warm climate with only a few days in the year below freezing during the day to drain the EV battery, have two cars anyway so we have an ICE pickup for the times an EV won't do like a trip with few charging options, but most of our trips have good charging options, etc.). So the EV and solar and other energy improvements done to the house are working well for us in protecting our retirement investments from stupid Dim energy policies and their sky high energy inflation.
Thanks for elaborating. They have a VERY limited place, but a place for a select few nonetheless.
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