South Africa lithium mine
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.
How about child labor in Africa strip mining the land under the Chinamen’s eyes?
Child labor in 3rd world countries digging up the materials to build EV’s , you should be proud.
Look at post #41 FYI.
South Africa lithium mine
Look at post #44 FYI.
“Child labor in 3rd world countries digging up the materials to build EV’s , you should be proud.”.
Wacko environmental groups feed that BS to the gullible.
Is that still whitey’s fault?
Cobalt comes from Africa, mostly mined by children.
That’s not even looking at what it takes to get this battery technology out there. I’m willing to bet that it is zero gallons, or near that when you add it all up.
Cobalt Mine in Africa:
Wait till they realize there is only enough lithium to power 10B leaf cars. I think tesla uses larger batteries, so fewer cars.
“Cobalt comes from Africa, mostly mined by children.”
4x more cobalt goes into laptops and cellphones than EV’s.
Tesla is producing cobalt-free batteries.
“Wait till they realize there is only enough lithium to power 10B leaf cars.”
That is 7x the total number of cars.
“after all, we learned how to make nuclear safe after three mile island.”
More people day everyday from falling in the tub than ever died from three mile island.
Cobalt Mine in Africa:
only a maroon would think this photo speaks highly of the children's working conditions
“Cobalt comes from Africa, mostly mined by children.”
Fake wacko environmental propaganda. The only sites you can cite source their articles to these radical sites. Why do you promote them.
We can definitely agree on this subject. TMI was basically a non-issue, the plant operators handled the issue just fine with no risk to the public. The “crisis” was brought on by rabid anti-nuke fringe groups doing everything that they could to kill the nuke power industry.
“only a maroon would think this photo speaks highly of the children’s working conditions”
Only a moron would regurgitate fake radical environmental propaganda.
“the plant operators handled the issue just fine “
Actually, the operators misunderstood the situation and took the wrong actions.
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