I’m waiting for all the electric ambulances, fire trucks, snow plows, and police cars to be immobilized because of dead batteries and no more coal or gas fired power plants.
You forgot School Buses. That will be an especially egregious (and ruinously expensive) iteration. Maybe that’s the point.
“Leftists believe in replacing what works, with what sounds good”
Thomas Sowell
I think this is a profoundly tragic example of his axiom in action. I recall hearing about some idiot bantering back and forth about this. Facts, logic, and reason aren’t enough. Keep in mind illiteracy is bad enough - but the inability to perform simple Arithmetic is also a huge problem (never mind Math).
After being patiently informed about the utter unworkability of the schemes envisioned, he just said something like “Well, fossil fuel is 100 year old technology. Isn’t it time to move on?”
This is the mentality we’re dealing with. Get rid of something before there is a viable replacement. That icky old stuff, it just ain’t stylish enough you know. They have no idea of the actual technical aspects, they don’t understand energy density, and they don’t have to pay for anything.
That’s how modern America gets a “transportation secretary” who declares that buying an electric car means “you won’t have to worry about gasoline prices ever again”. That is Weapons Grade Stupidity right there. He might not be that stupid himself, but his intended audience, and the newsreaders, and supposed academics most certainly are.
Yup. And we’ll all end up burning wood to stay warm. I do that anyway.
That’s the problem with these ecoenergy nuts. They think solar and wind power can charge all the EV batteries, run all the lights and A/C for their homes, heat their homes and still save the economy. This isn’t Star Trek and the Federation of the future. What they actually are future practicing Luddites because that’s the world they’re attempting to create inadvertently.
... to say nothing of electric tanks, fighters, bombers, attack helicopters, and, of course, missiles.
Well…we need all those coal and gas plants to charge the vehicles, silly. 🙃
I have met people who were convinced that “renewables” would solve the energy problems of the future. They were all very logical thinkers, they could see that the sun shines on half the Earth at all times and the wind blows somewhere for twenty four hours of every day so there must be plenty of “renewable” energy to be had. You cannot argue with that kind of thinking so it is best just to smile and go on.