Posted on 03/28/2023 5:40:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
No, a government ban is just as disruptive as a government mandate.
Let the market decide who wants an electric vehicle, and who wants to build an electric vehicle.
We will achieve fusion power before then.
That’s great! We’ll need that energy to power all those EVs!.....................
The Government hates anything they do not control................
If the auto makers started making 1950 and 60 models they way they were built then people would buy them. Forget all the electronic crap.
The good news is that by 2035 the Energiewende to “renewables” will guarantee that there will be no reliable source of electrical power. And what about trips over 200 miles? Forget it. Take the bus. Unless you going to the Vineyard. Then you fly private.
Both Ford & GM deserve it. Maybe they can build solar panels? Or windmills?
Reminds me when the gov’t did NOT ban incandescent light bulbs. They simply wrote efficiency standards that were so strict that the laws of physics meant an incandescent bulb could never meet the standard. So we had to put up with the execrable ice-cream-cone fluorescents. The LED lights are finally providing a somewhat acceptable substitute, but I still have my hoard of incandescent light bulbs to use in my reading lamp.
That’s why it imperative that conservatives keep the House, regain the Senate and the Presidency. Otherwise, we are screwed..
Some days I just imagine and marvel at how great this country could’ve without the leftist forces that drag us down. Its really something to behold.
I don't believe that..
If Soros invested 1 billion in electric cars, you can bet your rubber duck somewhere he's shorting them by ten times that much..!
I don't thing George Soros invests on the positive side of anything. Especially in America, it's against his nature..
These are the same idiots who said that Tesla’s business plan could never work. The reality:
Energy is going green IN SPITE of regulation, not because of it. It didn’t go green in the last 80 years, because the technology isn’t there. Now that the technology comes from non-government sources after a century of statist meddling, the statists are desperate to say, “we did that!”
When you read that a car costs $220,000 but sells for $80,000, what they really mean is that all of the expenditure to bring the car to market divided by the number of cars ALREADY sold is $220,000. If you’re trying to see whether Ford should continue to make electrical cars, you need to ask what the cost of the NEXT car is. That won’t tell you whether overall it was a good investment by Ford, whether if you could go back in time, you should tell Ford to skip it. But it does say that GIVEN THE ALREADY SUNK COSTS, Ford should continue.
But Tesla suggests that HOLY COW! you can make huge profit margins to pay off those sunk costs quickly.
The Ban is coming 2030 or 35 is what lots of insane countries have already said
They will simply tax gas up the wazzoo, and force gas station owners to comply. Many will stop providing gas, so with fewer gas stations, lines will be impossibly long. Then insurance companies will raise rates on ICE vehicles. So basically they will squeeze people into getting EVs.
We’ll soon see Occasional Cortex tout a picture of a Suberban with a propeller stand on its solar celled roof - and telling us that the car runs on the wind and sun. And the faster it goes, the more the wind will turn the propellor, thereby generating electricity. Not even close to kidding. She and her leftist ilk are THAT stupid.
The only way to create demand for electric cars is through government mandates....
Remember the auto company bailouts?
Here is the payback.
DC now makes decisions on how auto companies are to be run.
Picture the vehicles running around Havana. That is what is coming here.
While concentrating on this electric frenzy, the back up on parts for repairs on ICE has exploded to the point where you are lucky if it does not take months to get the needed parts. My buddy needed a few parts for the trans on a 2019 mustang. While under warrantee, he had to go to five dealerships to find one that would accept the car. Shuffled off to a holding pen, he told me the number of vehicles in it was outrageous. So much so, no loaner offered but the dealer is paying for a rental.
It will only get worse with the dummies running our country these days. Add to that the woke dummies running our companies and catastrophe is around the corner.
There is no portion of functional normal society that government isn’t ready and willing to destroy just for the sake of change and self gratification.
That is fascism........ 😳
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