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Is driving an electric car immoral? Here's what they DON'T tell you 'You dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust for just one battery'
wnd.com ^ | 6/19/2022 1150 hrs edt | wnd news service

Posted on 06/20/2022 8:37:03 AM PDT by rktman

"Each mine usually consists of thirty-five to forty humongous 797 Caterpillar haul trucks along with hundreds of other large equipment," he writes. "Each 797 uses around half a million gallons of diesel a year. So, with an inventory of just thirty-five the haul trucks alone are using 17.5 million gallons of fuel a year for just one lithium site."

A typical EV battery, Stein notes, weighs 1,000 pounds, contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.

"It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining," he writes. "For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climageddon; concerntroll; concerntrolls; ecoliars; ev; evbatteries; mining; ntsa; ohjuststop; shutupthreadkaren; thisisnotfacebook; whirlednutdaily
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Disclaimer so as not to be accused of spreading mis/dis/mal-informatjon by the truth police. "I can neither confirm or deny the veracity of the article." 😊 Seems this info is the kind of thing that would lead jenny jenny to tell the mining companies to hurry up and obtain electric dump trucks. Then they wouldn't need to worry about the price of fuel. Pretty simple eh jenny? Nearsighted would be an understatement. Can't see past their collective noses.
1 posted on 06/20/2022 8:37:03 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

and 50% of the EV is made from oil


2 posted on 06/20/2022 8:38:52 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: rktman

The government forcing people to is.


3 posted on 06/20/2022 8:40:02 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: rktman

They know there are never going to be enough EVs built or enough energy produced by “renewables” so these details don’t bother them.


4 posted on 06/20/2022 8:41:07 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rktman

I don’t care about using natural resources for transportation. What is really immoral about driving an EV is the huge government subsides used to keep the price down. Nearly everything that is so-called green is done on the taxpayers back. It’s not transparent. It’s not efficient. When I see someone driving an EV I want to go up to them ask for my money back.


5 posted on 06/20/2022 8:43:07 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: ConservativeInPA

When the huge government subsides are removed LOOK OUT


6 posted on 06/20/2022 8:45:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: rktman

and 50% of electricity is lost in transmission


7 posted on 06/20/2022 8:47:03 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: rktman

From what I’ve read, the typical EV has a carbon footprint of about 80,000 miles sitting on the showroom floor.


8 posted on 06/20/2022 8:47:19 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: rktman

Progressives don’t want to do the math. But it’s worse than just that. They want to silence anyone who does do the math.


9 posted on 06/20/2022 8:48:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: rktman

The biggest known lithium deposit in this country is at Thacker Pass Nevada. People want to mine it but the environmentalist do not want that to happen. They want electric cars but not the mining necessary to get the minerals required for the batteries.


10 posted on 06/20/2022 8:49:12 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: butlerweave

If you’re all pissed about taxpayer subsidies for the cars now, just wait until they have to subsidize and price freeze electric power. We will spend trillions on crappy “renewable” electrical supply systems, and will still have massive supply shortages and blackouts. There’s no way we can come close to powering everyone’s EVs, and if the whole point of forcing EVs on everyone is to avoid fossil fuels, they will claim we need to spend trillions upon trillions for green energy supply.


11 posted on 06/20/2022 8:50:22 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Leep

The government wants electric cars, because of limited mileage, to force people living in the suburbs and country to move into urban areas where they can be controlled by the military. Either ours or the U.N.


12 posted on 06/20/2022 8:51:46 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: rktman

Earth weighs about 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds

So we’re barely making a dent.

There is new battery technology coming. I think Lithium demand is transitory.

Oh I used the t word.


13 posted on 06/20/2022 8:52:35 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rktman

Well, I balance my immoral Hybrid with a traditional Hummer H3.


14 posted on 06/20/2022 8:52:38 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: rxh4n1
They know there are never going to be enough EVs built or enough energy produced by “renewables” so these details don’t bother them.

They also fully intend to make good on their promise to murder some 7 billion people globally, so there were be plenty of EVs available to the elite and electric trains for the remainders/slave class.

15 posted on 06/20/2022 8:52:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Leaning Right
- Progressives don’t want to do the math. -

They not only don't want to, they can't, because they don't understand it.

16 posted on 06/20/2022 8:53:00 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: rktman

Mining in general leaves a nasty scar on the landscape.

Compare that to an oil well that occupies less than one acre of land for the wellhead, pumpjack, storage tanks.


17 posted on 06/20/2022 8:53:44 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: rktman

If true, the gop should be making this known to combat the insanity of the left


18 posted on 06/20/2022 8:55:32 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: butlerweave
When the huge government subsides are removed LOOK OUT

What until the power grid fails in places that normal don't have problems. Most of the country isn't filled with morons that think brownouts and blackouts are a sign of progress like California.

19 posted on 06/20/2022 8:56:33 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: joshua c
and 50% of electricity is lost in transmission

About 6% http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-much-electricity-disappears-between-a-power-plant-and-your-plug/

20 posted on 06/20/2022 8:58:52 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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