Posted on 03/02/2023 2:43:40 AM PST by CFW
We’ve had enough of the left’s guilt-tripping anyone who drives a gasoline-powered car. If anyone should be ashamed, it is those who are smugly plugging in their cars each night.
They are the ones responsible for raping the planet, poisoning entire communities, enriching genocidal tyrants, and creating a massive hazmat problem while doing nothing to stop “climate change.”
Does that sound harsh?
Here’s one recent bit of evidence. A Bloomberg investigation found that the aluminum Ford is using to build its “eco-friendly” EV pickup comes from Brazil.
(Excerpt) Read more at issuesinsights.com ...
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EVs Are a Green Illusion
The process to manufacture electric vehicles is so environmentally toxic between the mining and assembly that it takes years of driving before emissions are reduced. …
Even then, the American power grid used to charge the car still relies primarily on fossil fuels. In other words, the car runs on coal. …
EVs Aren’t Cheap
The average transaction price for an electric car in September was $65,291, according to Kelley Blue Book, just $1,000 shy of the average luxury car. …
EV Subsidies Are Gifts to the Rich
The dubiously named Inflation Reduction Act extended up to $7,500 in federal subsidies for the purchase of an electric car. That only brings the price down to $58,000. …
Researchers at UC-Berkeley found in 2016 that “clean” energy tax credits have historically benefitted the upper class, with 90 percent of all credits on electric vehicles enjoyed by those in the top income quintile. …
EVs Are Vulnerable to Global Supply Chains
More problems with electric vehicles pertain to problems with American mining. China holds the world hostage when it comes to mineral refinement and battery production. Beijing presides over half the global electric car battery market while the U.S. lags behind and continues to shut down major mining projects.
EVs Aren’t Reliable
… drivers will be at the mercy of state regulators to travel once residents are prohibited from buying whatever car they want.
If residents can still charge their vehicles produced by China, they had better hope their batteries last. Replacing an electric car battery can cost between $4,000 and $20,000. The weight of the batteries, meanwhile, wears out the tires 20 percent faster than gas-powered alternatives.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/94857-in-brief-five-reasons-evs-are-a-boondoggle-2023-02-10
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They are taking away our way of life, cheap cars, cheap fuel , red meat, our shared history. What is next? Collectivists hate personal freedom.
They control everything and it’s getting worse. Money,food,transportation,health care.
They want it all.
They wonder why no able bodied white boys are enlisting in their 3rd world army.
Electrically powered vehicles CAN be done right.
But NOT by using battery arrays as the storage medium for the energy needed for propulsion.
Two proposals, one of which is to make the fuel cell technology for hydrogen abundantly available. This can be done by making the production of hydrogen economically feasible, and one way to do that is to make the generation of vast amounts of electricity both cheap and abundant. For this, the use of nuclear atomic reactors is the quickest and currently most efficient way to accomplish this goal.
But not your grandfather’s uranium-fueled Light Water Reactor design, but newer, and much more sophisticated, very small nuclear reactors, which are safer, take up a lot less of a footprint for installation, and come in modular units that can be mass-produced on an assembly line, and hauled to the site on rail transport or semi-trailers. Because of its modular design, the plant can be up and running in WEEKS, not years, and because of the modular design, can be built in several different stages, as the increase of demand calls for expansion. These small reactors can run flat-out 24/7/365 for up to eight years, before the reactor module is pulled out, returned to the manufacturing facility, reloaded with a fresh charge of nuclear fuel, and put back in service.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/advanced-small-modular-reactors-smrs
A second option is to mount the very small nuclear reactor directly on the vehicle, and use its heat output to drive a Stirling cycle heat engine to drive an on-board generation system that provides the electricity to propel the vehicle.
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/stirling-engine.htm
Nuclear power is not the only source of heat energy, as it only has to be a point source of heat, be it it a wood-burning stove, a propane flame, or even a compressed natural-gas burner. These fuels would be relatively cheap, widely available, and the conversion of heat into energy is far more efficient that any internal-combustion engine.
All done without reliance on battery arrays that may require some very exotic materials and sophisticated methods of manufacture to make them environmentally safe and of a decent lifetime expectation.
Nov 8, 2022 — Fossil fuels (total) 2,508 61.0% Nuclear 778 18.9% Renewables (total) 815 19.8%
It depends on what you label as “EVIL”. To the Left, it’s white people, cis genderism, and CO2. Nothing else.
“ A Bloomberg investigation found that the aluminum Ford is using to build its “eco-friendly” EV pickup comes from Brazil. There, in the heart of the Amazon, rust-colored bauxite is being clawed from a mine that has long faced allegations of pollution and land appropriation,” it found
Take the cobalt mines in Congo, where most of that stuff is found. Siddharth Kara, a fellow in public health at Harvard, describes it as “modern-day slavery.
Ronald Stein noted that “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.”
124 words. Trying to make FR better, by the grace of God.
They will have to pry the steering wheel of my ICE car to get me out.. I don’t own one and have no plans on buying one. I am considering a Lexus at the moment as Toyota seems to be the most reasonable in the rush to this nonsense. 60k for a golf cart glorified. Worse my tax money is paying for part which really galls me.
The Amelia Concours and related auctions are here starting today. Wonderful seeing and hearing the sounds of ICES as they zoom around. The only battery cars expected are from the early 1900s fortunately except those driven by the snooty locals.
I refuse to drive a Coal Fired Car!
“Collectivists”
Yes, they are trying to and we are letting them, to some extent. The only difference I have with your comment is that we should call them by their true name: Communists. Otherwise spot-on.
I am not trying to defend Communists but IMO they are not as bad as Collectivists. Communists want to control the means of production, so at least they WANT to produce. Collectivists don’t want to produce rather they would have us living in high rise grass huts eating bugs if we let them.
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel.
The “Green” movement is just another hoax perpetrated on the gullible masses by elitists as a way for them to gain even
more power and wealth while keeping the commoners snarling at each other.
How many more elitist owned multi-million dollar seaside mega-estates and how many more Davos climate conferences
attended by hundreds of elites flying ‘round the world in their fossil fuel powered private jumbo-jests will it take before
the idiot sheeple catch on to the fact they are being milked and sheared by the Gores, Kerrys and Obamas of the world?
Since gas prices have gone way up, causing inflation and budgeting difficulties for everyone, I have been driving no faster than the posted speed limit everywhere I go. It saves me money. Although there are several EV’s on the road now, none of them ever tailgate me. The only tailgaters that get stuck behind me are people driving gas engine cars and trucks. Most of the cars are the kind that need premium gas, and pickup trucks the size of commercial vehicles, that probably burn premium gas as well. I wish cars had $/mile gauges so people could see how fast they’re going through money on the road. If you spend $100+ on a tank of gas, and you’re in a hurry to get back to the gas station to buy more... this is what I think of when someone is stuck behind me and think I’ll go faster if they get closer...
Tesla’s are built by robots not children. What’s more, Tesla’s are built by many fewer robots that American made gasoline cars.
Tesla is making a car every 40 seconds at present. By reducing prices below that of the ICE competitors just this week, Tesla disrupted the market again.
The Tesla pick up is coming. It will destroy Ford. The Tesla truck is designed from scratch and is innovative as a truck. Ford, the truck market leader is attempting to add batteries to an existing truck design
I do not own a Tesla nor intend to purchase one. I observe and present a finding.
The market will decide the issue
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