Posted on 03/02/2022 10:00:53 AM PST by rktman
During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden pledged to build 500,000 electric charging stations across the country.
"We’ll create good jobs for millions of Americans, modernizing roads, airports, ports, and waterways all across America. And we’ll do it all to withstand the devastating effects of the climate crisis and promote environmental justice," Biden said. "We’ll build a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations."
On Twitter, Biden touted Ford and GM for their production of electric cars.
Tesla founder Elon Musk, who the White House has been ignoring, took notice and fact checked Biden on the numbers.
"replying to @JoeBiden
Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles & is investing more than double GM + Ford combined
[fyi to person controlling this twitter]"
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Speechwriters should have bragged about the Obama-era carbon credits, the only reason Tesla exists in the first place.
And now the taxpayer will be forced, at the end of a gun, to pay for things they don’t want. .
If the EV folks want to buy EVs, buy them without any help from the government.
If the EV folks need charging stations, build them, without any help from the government.
Nothing but government graft and corruption funneling money to a chosen few.
Battery-stored electric power is not enough to assure a viable electric-powered passenger vehicle industry can exist on its own. There has to be either a distribution system for hydrogen, to enable the powering of these electric-powered vehicles by fuel cells, or an on-board power generation system that does not rely on batteries, but provides power on a continuous if sometimes quite variable rate.
Kicking cans down the road does not solve anything.
And where is the power for those 500,000 charging stations going to come from? Unicorn farts? I don’t see anyone building the generating capacity necessary to support a major move to electric vehicles in the mid 2030’s. My wife has a Tesla Model S and loves it, but even she agrees that we need to have an IC engined car as a backup in case off brownouts that are sure to come.
They should have a nuclear power plant in the trunk of every electric vehicle.
There hasn't been a nuclear plant for 40 years. They are tearing out dams for little fishies. We can't use coal, oil or natural gas, all of which are required for wind power and solar.
Or, am I overthinking this?
The Farm will use a giant windmill, if we can ever get that lazy Horse to build it.
A little off topic but in case people haven’t heard.....that ship carrying all the high end cars and many being EVs burning in the Atlantic (and the suspicion being an EV started it) sunk yesterday.
Yeah, it's annoying and unfair and typical BS, but it's to be expected from the corrupt morons in the administration.
Unicorn farts. They're magic, don'tchaknow?
Hydrogen is not a fuel. It is a stupidly inefficient storage media.
There are no hydrogen mines, it has to be manufactured and transported - processes which consume almost as much energy as delivered in the end product.
>> Speechwriters should have bragged about the Obama-era carbon credits, the only reason Tesla exists in the first place. <<
Actually, not true. If he had to sell Roadsters for $132,000 instead of $125,000, or if he made $63,000 profit instead of $70,000 per vehicle, do you really think Tesla would have failed? Ironically, the competition from parasitical automakers is what almost did Tesla in; thanks to the carbon credits, he had much more difficulty raising capital.
There’s a reason why Tesla has effectively (if not ideologically) become a conservative.
Elon has said that the current US infrastructure will not support the number of EVs that he will be making.
And make no mistake, they want those high gas prices to force people to buy EVs.
Current Infrastructure does an amazing job of adapting to needed though. That’s only an argument if you think tech and capacity is stagnant.
I fear that Musk, whom I admire, is setting himself up for the Jack Ma treatment; being “unpersoned”, imprisioned on BS charges, or “offed”. He’s rapidly outliving his usefulness to TPTB.
The good news is that it put out the fire!
The warrantee on all the windmills will be running out soon. Thats been nothing but stagnation on increasing supply/capacity for as long as the subsidies lasted.
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