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 ...
“It’s the first time I’m hearing the joke.”
I really doubt that.
“The worst part of this is that those of us that are too smart to choose EV’s, while there still is a freedom to choose, will receive larger and larger electricity bills because the demand will soar while supply declines!!!”
You just posted why smart people buy EV”s!
Those are the facts. Idealized production numbers on engineered tracks do not transfer over to our potfilled roads and bald tires.
Let’s build more coal plants here in the States then.
Yet you bothered to read it and replied to it so mission accomplished.
“Yet you bothered to read it and replied to it so mission accomplished.”
Glad to make your day.
“Cbeck the facts: The world’s first purpose-built gas station was constructed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905 at 420 South Theresa Avenue. The second gas station was constructed in 1907 by Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) in Seattle, Washington, at what is now Pier 32.”
The facts!!!
“In 1905, a Shell subsidiary opened a filling station in St. Louis, Missouri, but it required attendants to fill a five gallon can behind the store, then haul this to the customer’s vehicle for dispensing…A similar filling station was constructed by Socal gasoline in Seattle, Washington, opening in 1907,” Ernst explained in his The Modern Gas Station celebrates its 100th Birthday.”
“The Model-T was in production for four years before the first gas station opened.”
Where did you get that crap? Gas stations opened in 1905 and the Model T in 1908.
Would you stop calling everybody names? Not everyone who disagrees with you is a troll, and you are name calling people who have been around this site decades.
Electric cars are a joke.
“Electric cars are a joke.”
Why?
I worked as a pipefitter welder on plant 2 back in 1980-81. Stayed at the man camp that Bechtel had constructed for the workers.
What money my friends and I didn’t send home to our families we blew on cheap beer and whiskey at Mr. Lucky’s. 21 year old free American male.
Gas plants I’m hearing.
You are onto something. A criminal's doing that. I'd better call a mindfulness trained sensitive social worker, fast.
If we remain in perpetual shutdown mode, nobody’s going anywhere anyway.
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