Posted on 07/22/2024 7:44:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rather than mandating EV, they are making it almost impossible to build ICE through regulations.
Drill, baby, drill.
One of the most critical reasons to re-elect Trump is to roll back the administrative state and stop them from killing gas, oil, coal, ICE cars, diesel trucks, diesel trains, JP4 powered jet aircraft, etc. Biden & Co are trying to kill all of these.
It remains to be seen if Trump can negotiate with Canada to re-start the Keystone pipeline construction.
“The EV Mandate Push Has Flopped. What’s Plan B?”
1. Steal Election.
2. Mandate EVs.
Problem solved.
“Were”?
You mean the trend is starting to diminish?
Marxists start with suggestions, then ramped up propaganda, then outright demands with arrests if the common people don’t go along.
One way would be refusal to grant gas stations licenses to continue operations, to ban shipment of gas by truck or train, big tax burden on anyone registering a gas vehicle vs. bit tax advantages for EV buyers (as already happens).
Yep. In their idotic reasoning, mandates will simply force the technology to catch up sooner than market forces would.
If they don’t, and we crater our economy, freedoms, and national security in the process..oh well. Just the price to be paid in order to stop the climate apocolypse.
Absolutely!!!
I would suggest an Internal Combustion Engine. It has worked for over a hundred years. Oddly a hybrid car is good. Battery power for short trips and the internal gas powered engine for long trips powered by hydrocarbon fuels also known as gasoline and diesel. You get the best of both.
If you are carrying a lot of weight and long distance electrics are of no use. Energy density and weight of batteries make it a no go.
Get the government the hell out of it and the market will decide the best and cheapest car, truck or semitrailer for the consumer. The consumer is far wiser than the goverment.
hydrogen powered combustion engines are on the horizon.
tho some questions remain.
what will the fuel be?
- high pressure hydrogen tanks
- ammonia (which can produce hydrogen on demand)
- methane
Supposedly, a “cold fusion” type device will be tested in an EV in October. If it works and is practical, it will dramatically reduce the cost and improve the performance and practicality of EVs. Indeed, if true, a cold fusion device would change the world as much or more than oil did.
The Brazilians run their cars on alcohol made from sugar cane.
Where does the hydrogen come from? There aren’t any hydrogen wells or hydrogen reservoirs. So what’s left? Steam methane reforming is the most common method, but it uses hydrocarbons and releases CO2 as a byproduct. HORRORS!!! Electrolysis of water is very energy intensive. Compressing the hydrogen is very energy intensive and where does this energy come from? In the USA 60% from fossil fuel.
And what do you lubricate moving parts with?
This ain’t Brazil
Drill, baby , drill for that Black Gold!
Sounds about right. Pathological types we’re dealing with here...
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