Posted on 12/12/2021 5:43:31 AM PST by rktman
Alternate headline: Will the Washington Post put the Babylon Bee out of business? We have barely moved off square one in the progressive push to eliminate internal-combustion engines (ICEs), and we’re already hearing about the upcoming systemic racism in their proposed replacement. Here’s the headline, which is almost a satire in itself of the old joke about media reporting on the end of the world:
Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanics communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles Get ready for some new and woke vernacular in the EV era. Now we have to worry about “charging deserts”:
Look at any map of charging stations in the United States, and in most of the big cities, what is immediately apparent are big blank spaces coinciding with Black and Latino neighborhoods. Electric vehicle advocates call them charging deserts.
While electric vehicle use is growing rapidly in well-to-do, mostly White communities, minority neighborhoods are being left behind.
Why might charging stations be more prevalent in “well to do” neighborhoods, regardless of ethnic diversity? For one thing, it’s because EVs are more expensive. At the moment, the gap between an average EV and an average traditional car is over $19,000. The Biden administration wants to close that gap by creating more point-of-sale tax credits for EVs, but the up front costs will still be onerous for working- and middle-class Americans regardless of ethnicity.
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Lucky this administration knew enough to include tax payer supplied charging stations in the "Bash Business Bigger" packaage eh? Surely the grid can handle supplying the power to EVs that most folks (what with the BOOMING economy) can't even think about buying. And, why would you? (I know in some circumstances they work for some folks including some FReepers.) Grrrrrrr!
Yup, folks in Democrat cities (e.g., hell holes) will be able to leave their e-cars charging outside with no worries about vandalism.
This is gonna get good.
And they will not be able to leave.
Some folks will have a difficult time paying their monthly household electric.
Great comments on the original thread.
Apparently older homes (50+ years old) would need major electrical system overhauls to be able to handle home vehicle chargers.
Details, details....
Some truly have trouble, and some don’t set their priorities properly. Anecdote told to me many years ago by a friend: a family she know ran a farm. They managed to get a $60,000 agricultural loan. The first thing they did was head into Atlanta and had dinner at Bones. The second was go an an expensive three week vacation to someplace in the Caribbean. I’m doubt financing lifestyle with debt is a smart move.
Why might charging stations be more prevalent in “well to do” neighborhoods, regardless of ethnic diversity?
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Because the other neighborhood tend to jack the power?
Not to mention that a poor man today can buy a 20 year old gas engine beater to get to work and back. EVs built today will have been scrapped by then, or they will have been kept alive by stupifyingly expensive battery replacements, keeping used EV vehicle prices out of his reach.
Yep,there are always those kind of people.
Growing up winters in the N
E. were rough.
My folks never got any assistance. Even though they never made a lot of money.
My folks probably could have did a better job but they were honest and didn’t expect others to take care of them and us kids.
People like my folks still exist.
Those are the people I feel for.
Lilly-white leftists are pretty much all I see and know that have bought into the EV wave at this time.
Shoot, if I had a ton of extra cash for another car, and planned to only use it fooling around town and nearby, only; I’d consider an EV.
People who act like animals can’t have nice things.
Why would anyone put charging stations in non-White areas? They will be destroyed in 3 hours. The wires will be stolen and sold. Anything that works will be smashed into bits.
There are not very many people in non-White areas driving to work. They don’t need to. Whitey’s money is taken and given to them.
And they blame their failures on Whitey.
One Freeper posted recently about the consequences of near universal electric vehicles in a mandatory evacuation for hurricanes etc.
In all those hours of snarled traffic how many downed dead vehicles would strand people often in dangerous conditions? How would that mess ever be unpacked?
The left lives in la la land where “what could go wrong” is never factored in to their utopian frog marches. Often, as in the case of increasing taxes decreases productivity and does not generate as much extra $ for the IRS as lowering taxes (to a point), the left knows their policies will fail but imposes them because they like the control and power.
Could it be that poorer people are also less likely to throw away their $ on gimmicky undependable technology? Poverty forces pragmatism.
When I’m down in LA I see charging stations popping up here and there. I went up to one and it requires a credit card. I’ll bet these tree huggers think it’s free and electricity comes out of their ass.
Be sure & budget for a fire extinguisher to go with.
“I WOULD buy an electric car, but I guess my neighborhood doesn’t have enough charging stations. Oh well.”
People in urban areas don’t need the range rural folks do.
I have not gone more than 15 miles from my house for two years because of Covid.
At no point would I have needed a car with more than say 18 miles of range.
Those that need longer range for say a vacation could rent trunk batteries or an ICE car.
Sorta like being without power for a few weeks or more post hurricane? Been there done that. Solar power charging for such occasions? Well, if your solar panels weren’t beat to crap or blown away during the storm. LOL! Me? Nope. And, will there be a problem with charger inputs like there were with cell phones for a long time? Dang! They don’t have the plug I need and I left my adapter at home. :-}
So EVs are racist. It must be easy being a leftist reporter. You don’t have to do any investigating at all. Just blame every problem on either racism or climate change. And if you can get both racism and climate change into a single story, you might have a Pulitzer Prize in your future.
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