Because they don't cause any pollution at all.
/Sarc
Posted on 12/06/2022 5:47:22 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Lab has just released a study showing that in 2021, US privately-owned plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) “saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline.”
But that is a huge exaggeration because fossil fuels provide 61% of the electricity in the US … so only about a third of that apparent savings is a real reduction in fossil fuel use, the equivalent of maybe 130 million gallons.
The Argonne report also says that from 2010 to 2021, EVs have saved 2.1 billion gallons of gas. So let’s be generous and say that in 11 years, EVs have saved about a third of that, the equivalent of about 750 million gallons of gas.
Now that sure sounds like a lot of gasoline, three-quarters of a billion gallons.
However, as always, a sense of perspective is required. The US uses about 370 million gallons of gas per day … so that’s only about two days’ worth of gas.
I say again. Over the last eleven years, electric vehicles in the US have saved Two. Days. Worth. Of. Gasoline.
At enormous cost:
Direct taxpayer subsidies for EVs have cost you and me $10 billion dollars to date, and we’re on the hook for more. The government just extended the EV subsidy until 2032 and removed the cap on the number of vehicles eligible for the subsidy.
It gets worse. The US government also just approved spending an additional $7.5 billion of taxpayer money on EV charging stations.
So to date, we’re spending TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS for each gallon of gasoline saved … economic suicide.
And all of the world’s worst countries are laughing at us.
Electric vehicles have been around for well over a century, but they lost out to internal combustion vehicles because gas-powered cars are cheaper and better. That is still true today, regardless of how many billions of dollars governments shovel at subsidies for electric vehicles.
/Sarc
EV’s do save gas. Because of range anxiety, owners don’t travel much, staying off the road when they’d otherwise be burning gas.
And where is the analysis that shows how much energy is expended creating the batteries, wind towers and solar collectors?
Ah, if we could only harness the btu’s of burning EV batteries, we’d have this sh!t licked!
We need a perpetual energy source, a perpetual motion machine.
It seems like everytime we exert effort to distill alcohol or transmit electricity or move energy fro a to b we lose a little.
That has got to stop. sarc needed?
Because of winter and the impact of the Europe energy crisis, Switzerland (a very wealthy and high technical country) has orders at the ready to ban EV's in order to have enough electricity for homes etc
Technology isn’t here yet,
Ideal would be electric, with Hydrogen based fuel cells.
We just can’t capture all the energy the sun gives us.
If we could, it would be Jake.
It isn’t wind, and our solar cells ain’t all that great.
Need fusion power, miniature suns. Other than bombs we aren’t doing very good with fusion.
LOL! Will you still be smiling when the gooberment taxes you by the mile? But, more important, to replace the present ICE fleet would require 100+ more lithium strip mines. Think in terms of 500,000 lbs of dirt processed for enough lithium to make one large lithium battery. The tailings from these mines are quite toxic. Not to mention the cobalt mining, etc. Grid needs to be expanded ten times to charge all the crab. If course, the 190 new lithium mines and 10x expanded power grid are not going to happen. The plan is for a whole lot of us to be driving in the not too distant future, or perhaps a whole lot if us not to be around to drive.
Darn right!
Opps, that is a whole lot of us NOT to be driving.
If you want to drive an EV, knock yourself out, just let the rest of us choose what we want to drive.
Thing is NG should even be cheaper to use at power plants, as its often found in oil fields when bringing up the oil. In the psst they just burnt it off, but hell, put it in a pipeline to a bunch of power plants.
“If you want to drive an EV, knock yourself out, just let the rest of us choose what we want to drive.”
Counter to my facts? Wrong tact. I have never suggested that anyone should drive an EV.
Don’t expect us to subsidize your EV either.
“Thing is NG should even be cheaper to use at power plants, as its often found in oil fields when bringing up the oil. In the psst they just burnt it off, but hell, put it in a pipeline to a bunch of power plants.”
I wasn’t considering costs. Just efficiency.
“Don’t expect us to subsidize your EV either.”
Don’t worry. I don’t and you won’t.
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