Posted on 11/02/2022 10:39:59 AM PDT by rktman
Electric cars sales are up 66% this year.
President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, "The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified" and, "There's no turning back."
To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left-leaning states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning them by 2035. Oregon, Massachusetts and New York copied California. Washington state's politicians said they'd make it happen even faster, by 2030.
Thirty countries also say they'll phase out gas-powered cars.
But this is just dumb. It will not happen. It's magical thinking.
In my new video, I point out some "inconvenient" facts about electric cars, simple truths that politicians and green activists just don't seem to understand.
"Electric cars are amazing," says physicist Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute. "But they won't change the future in any significant way (as far as) oil use or carbon dioxide emissions."
Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won't reduce oil use very much.
"The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now," says Mills. "If we (somehow) get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil consumption by about 10%. That's not nothing, but it doesn't end the use of oil."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I just posted this on your other thread. The presenter blows the lid off of the nonsense.
This video explores the required materials needed to complete the transition from fossil fuels to the “green economy”. It’s basically an engineering feasibility study. It’s reasonably thorough.
The quantity of metal required to make just one generation of renewable tech units to replace fossil fuels, is much larger than first thought. Current mining production of these metals is not even close to meeting demand. Current reported mineral reserves are also not enough in size. Most concerning is copper as one of the flagged shortfalls. Exploration for more at required volumes will be difficult, with this seminar addressing these issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVmnKuBocc
Wife and I lived in the city of Atlanta and each drove 20-25 miles a day back and forth to work and not much more on weekends.
We worked for different employers and worked different hours. It would have been nice to have two EVs for in-town use, and a gasoline powered vehicle for road trips. Unfortunately, that arrangement was not realistic financially. I don’t have anything against EVs, it’s just that I don’t think they’re the magical, do everything unicorns the libs make them out to be.
“It’s magical thinking.”
The return to magical thinking seems to be the hallmark of our era. It’s everywhere. Climate change, COVID, electric vehicles, stopping world problems by changing your social media profile pic, thinking you can ease inflation by handing out government checks; this is the social disease of our time.
The only reason I consider getting one is because my employer has charging stations and pays for the charging.
And they do this for completely altruistic reasons- they sell the charging stations, installation, maintenance, and billing to our customers.
I punched in “inconvenient facts” and search joined the two words with no results. 😂👍
The goal is not to force most people to drive EVs. Even the far left knows that the power grid could never take it, especially as they shut down coal and gas power plants and try to power the grid with wind, sunshine, rainbows and unicorn farts.
The goal is to force most sheeple to live in high density apartments in democrat controlled cities and ride mass transit. Then the rich liberal elite can ride around in $100K EVs without having to wait in traffic.
Yup! One room one bath high rise. 400sq ft. Sounds great.
During the local news break it was announced that the state of Illinois is offering tax rebates on the purchase of EVs. To qualify, one must be a resident of Illinois and one must purchase the EV from an Illinois car dealer. Does Tesla have any dealerships? Is this a case of ‘Tesla purchasers need not apply’?
With a bus stop on every corner!
Yup. That is the driving force behind all this hysteria to switch from ICE to EV transport. The powers-that-be want to end private ownership of cars by the masses, and force them into high-rise towers and use mass transit. EV's are not the solution, just a way to have people give up on ICE vehicles. Then they'll force people to abandon EV's and switch to ride-sharing public transit.
"Leaders" want to reduce land use by private vehicles, reclaiming parking lots, garages and roadways, while replacing single-family homes with high-density apartment towers. The goal is to have people live near their jobs, and have them walk to stores or use public transit. It is not about just switching to electric cars. It is about controlling the masses.
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Inconvenient Facts (About Electric Vehicles)
11/02/2022 7:58:08 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
Townhall ^ | 11/02/2022 | John Stossel
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4105570/posts
Thanks for the update. 😎👍
To: rktman
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4105570/posts
2 posted on 11/2/2022, 10:42:08 AM by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren’t things.)
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I punched in “inconvenient facts” and search joined the two words with no results. 😂👍
7 posted on 11/2/2022, 11:24:22 AM by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Don’t buy an electric vehicle, you will be sorry, 2/3 of EV owners DO NOT BUY A SECOND EV, they buy gas engine vehicle!
Well, I did read Toyota is sticking with hybrids so.... Not going full up EV like the rest of the circus.
“Leaders” want to reduce land use by private vehicles, reclaiming parking lots, garages and roadways, while replacing single-family homes with high-density apartment towers. The goal is to have people live near their jobs, and have them walk to stores or use public transit. It is not about just switching to electric cars. It is about controlling the masses.
California, no parking garages or lots for new apartment buildings.
I live in South SF in San Mateo County. The gov and his buddies changed zoning laws throughout California that override local cities and county laws. Namely, that high-density housing be built near public transportation areas. Since we have BART subway lines going through the county, many neighborhoods have been rezoned from single-family one or two-story residences, to high-density multi-story towers. Just in the last couple years, local one-story businesses have been forced to move, and their buildings torn down and replaced by 6-story towers along the main corridor adjacent to the BART line.
Residents complained in weekly meetings with city and county officials, but were told that their hands were tied by state laws. These 6-story towers do not have adequate parking, as state "officials" want the new residents to use public transit. The result is massive traffic jams, inadequate parking for old-time residents as the tower residents grab local street parking around 1-story single family homes. It's a mess. Now they are building a 10-story tower near us that will make the situation worse; the builders had wanted to build up to 14 stories but backed down to 8 to 10 stories. Thankfully, I live a few blocks west of the BART line and neighborhoods to the west retained their single-family zoning; those to the east were rezoned. The situation is worse a couple miles to the east that border Hwy-101; many dozens of high-rise towers were built in the last few years while old two-story structures were demolished; made the area unrecognizable.
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