Posted on 11/18/2021 4:04:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
My friend Robert Bryce testified before a House committee yesterday on the subject of electric vehicles. and I encourage you to read his entire testimony. Here are some highlights as summarized by him:
* I’m pro-electricity, but I am adamantly opposed to the notion that we should “electrify everything” including transportation.
* EVs are cool. They are not new. The history of EVs is a century of failure tailgating failure. In 1911, the New York Times said that the electric car “has long been recognized as the ideal solution.” In 1990, the California Air Resources Board mandated 10% of car sales be zero-emission vehicles by 2003. Today, 31 years later, only about 6% of the cars in California have an electric plug.
* The average household income for EV buyers is about $140,000. That’s roughly two times the U.S. average. And yet, federal EV tax credits force low- and middle-income taxpayers to subsidize the Benz and Beemer crowd.
* Lower-income Americans are facing huge electric rate increases for grid upgrades to accommodate EVs even though they will probably never own one.
* This month, the California Energy Commission estimated the state will need 1.3 million new public EV chargers by 2030. The likely cost to ratepayers: about $13 billion.
Oil’s dominance in transportation is largely due to its high energy density. That density and improvements in internal combustion engines and hybrids assure that oil will be fueling transport for decades to come.
Powerful lobby groups want Congress to spend billions on electrification schemes that will impose regressive taxes on low-income Americans, reduce our resilience, and increase reliance on China. That’s a dubious trifecta.
Let’s amplify that last point: reliance on electric vehicles will put our future squarely in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Everyone of these points are features to DemonRATs. Their goal is to burn society down and destroy everything.
Someone once gave away the DemonRATs’ Great Plan:
Step 1 - burn it all down.
Step 2 - (undefined)
Step 3 - Utopia baby!
The Little People are slaves of the EV Crowd
compared to gasoline...
electricity costs nothing
The last bullet point… it is what they want
I’m a broken record on this subject.
I’ve posted this before and it’s something ‘lectric car lovers seem to ignore...
EV’s, a great idea for a place like Lichtenstein or Vatican City, but not such a great idea for getting lettuce from California to Maine and then lobsters on the rebound trip.
EV’s ca.1900 were getting 100 miles per charge. And now 300 miles per charge is considered great. What a quantum leap!!!!
EVs require an infrastructure map based on Level 1, 2, or 3 charging and the need for everyone to wait to charge regardless.
There was a concept of EV stations being universal battery pack replacement centers. In and out, just like a gas station. You pull in, service station drops the depleted pack and replaces it with a fully charged one and off you go.
Without that concept in play, it just doesn’t work except for local short distance travel.
Going to places where electricity is hard to get do have to bring a generator ? Oh wait not in California ,LOL
$10,000 for each ‘charging station.....everywhere.
There are many ways to power automobiles—Gasoline in but one. They haven’t used Natural Gas a lot—nor steam (Propane fueled steam would work well for long haul truckers—problem with steam—you got to wait a half hour before you an go anywhere). Other fuels could be used. Even nukes. The full range of options has not been tried.
There are many ways to power automobiles—Gasoline in but one. They haven’t used Natural Gas a lot—nor steam (Propane fueled steam would work well for long haul truckers—problem with steam—you got to wait a half hour before you an go anywhere). Other fuels could be used. Even nukes. The full range of options has not been tried.
Mr Bryce is spot on. Very good work
You must not pay your monthly electric bill
Bkmrk
I am making a WAG that there are at least 150 million privately owned person vehicles in the USA today.
Then, there are the commercial ones-—florist-—plumbers—Delis-—etc.
Then the trucks that do LARGE/LONG hauls...How many million of those are there???
REMOVE ALL fossil fuels-—and where are you going to put all those ‘scrapped’ vehicles???
You cannot ‘recycle them because neither wind or solar power will give you enough power to MELT steel for reusing.....
So every landscape will have a pile of junked cars????
MAD MAX would be soooo proud.
With the FEDS in charge/control of all zoning——they will NOT allow such a pile up anywhere...
THEN WHAT????
The problem with the battery swap idea is the cost of shuttling all the batteries around and providing enough power to these swap stations to recharge the requisite number of batteries in a timely fashion.
The challenge with battery swaps is two-fold.
1) Everybody uses their own battery geometry
2) Unlike propane tanks, it’s not easy to know how “good” the battery you’re getting really is.
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