Posted on 12/21/2020 4:15:45 PM PST by george76
Toyota makes a lot of cars, so many that it’s the world’s largest or second-largest auto manufacturer every year.
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So Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda’s comments at the company’s year-end press conference deserve notice and no little amount of respect. He knows more about cars and their economic ecosystem than just about anyone else on the planet.
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“The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets… When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?”
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failure to count the cost of what politicians are proposing. More EVs will demand more electricity.
Toyoda is getting at two things. One, EVs are not powered by magical unicorn emissions, they are powered by the means we use to generate electricity. In the Japan, the United States, and everywhere else
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Wind is not economically competitive yet, so it’s subsidized by the government. Neither wind nor solar are cheap or reliable enough yet to displace oil and especially natural gas in our grid. The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. Oil and natural gas always burn.
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The second issue Toyoda is getting at is that petroleum isn’t just a fuel, it’s the foundation of thousands upon thousands of products we rely on every day. Cars alone have plastic and other petroleum-based parts throughout their systems and interiors. There is as of yet no reliable or economical replacement for the petroleum used to manufacture those parts
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Perhaps two of the world’s leading car experts should be listened to before Tokyo, Washington, or any other capital follows California’s lead and bans gas cars without considering the ripple effects.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Plug it into an environmentally ill rumpus ...
It will be no problem when they kill off 90% of the world’s population.
China is working on fixing that problem by building 100s of coal fired power plants.
saw a blurb on twitter that Apple is talking about getting into the electric car market
Take all the gas you aren’t using in cars and use it to power generators. Problem solved.
They don’t run on rainbows and smiles?
Come on, man. AOC knows way more about cars and energy than Toyota or Elon Musk.
Darn, we’ll just have to keep using internal combustion...forever.
The question is do we have enought rope to hang all of the traitorous Demonicrats?!?
Project Titan.
Likely built by Magna Corp.
The Model-T was in production for four years before the first gas station opened.
Toyota wants business-as-usual
they will say anything
I guess some will have to bear the burden of being more equal than others.
One day (sooner than we think, I bet) they’ll outlaw the internal cumbustion engine and the proles will be forced to use mass-transit. If they’re allowed to transit anywhere.
And yet: there will be a certain caste who WILL be permitted to own and operate internal-combustion vehicles because they need to get around...”freely.” Not because they’re “special.” Oh, no. No one can be “special.” But because they are “essential.” It’s a necessary evil. A great responsibility they must bear. To get around. Freely.
We don’t have the grid to do it either. I did a calculation on how much electricity it would take to replace the JetA used at LAX - it was four diablo canyon nuclear power plant’s worth. And that’s no cars, and only one airport.
IOW,the same stuff I experienced a few years ago in rural Kenya...electricity available 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening.
We’ve got so much natural gas that it’s become a pain in byproduct of producing oil right now. Not making much money off it. We can spin allot of turbines pretty cheap right now.
Internal combustion won’t be outlawed.
Fuels will increase in price via taxation to make them economically impossible for the masses
Someone in an interview said a hotel or motel with 80-100 rooms or more will need 80-100 or more high power car recharging sockets and cables running outside and down the street with electricity. Same with 110 and 250 unit apartment complexes. By the hundreds of thousands.
Interesting that Calif is not allowing any more nat gas homes and buildings to be built. I suspect that’s the plan for the whole US.
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