Posted on 08/27/2022 6:17:52 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Both Massachusetts and Washington state leaders announced on Friday that they would be adopting California’s new ban on the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2035, beginning a shift that may encompass more states in the coming months.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaglobe.com ...
Wait,
WHAT?
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For some reason I can’t help but think of Cubanos carefully preserving their 50’s era American cars after all the intervening decades.
My son drives a Peterbilt. Effective range of an EV semi is probably only 100 miles.
I drove 700 miles yesterday pulling a trailer. Almost four tanks of gas. Total fillip time was about 15 minutes.
EV is a stupid idea.
Idaho could always invade Washington and take it by force.
No, every house, apartment, building will not have charging stations. “Everyone” as in all those who have vehicles today, will NOT have a car.
As Neil Oliver astutely states:
Take the energy crisis: If you’ve felt the blood drain from your face at the prospect of bills rising from hundreds to several thousands of pounds while reading about energy companies doubling their profits overnight while being commanded to subsidize so-called renewables that are anything but Green while listening to this politician or that renew their vows to the ruinous fantasies of Net Zero and Agenda 2030 while knowing that the electricity for electric cars comes, in the main and most reliably, from fossil fuels. If you can’t make sense of it all and just know that it adds up to a future in which you might have to choose between eating and heating, then treat yourself to the gift of understanding that the powers that be fully intend that we should have less heat and less fuel and that in the planned future only the rich will have cars anyway.
The plan is not to fix it. The plan is to break it, and leave it broken.
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We still have an old barn & pastures .... horses might be coming back in the future. Unfortunately, we sold our old buggy .... only half joking here .....
> Completely childish and idiotic. <
Yep. And it’s all being done based on the word of of a fraud (Al Gore) and a little girl (Greta Thunberg).
Monkey see, monkey do.
In Massachusetts every day will be like the Blizzard of 1978—cars stranded everywhere:
https://bdc2020.o0bc.com/news/history/2018/01/29/photos-blizzard-1978/
Fortunately for the world, noted electrical engineer AOC has already solved that problem.
Kathy Hochul must be asleep.
Holding each other’s green dream hands while they commit suicide.
Which law of physics informs that statement?
We’re not just powered by oil. We have abundant natural gas and coal, plus safe nukes that can be built quickly if standardized designs can be approved, and can still use wind and solar as supplements along with water and geothermal. Plus we can and should continue to increase the efficiency of everything that consumes energy if any kind. There is NO energy shortage, except that willfully created by freedom-hating lawmakers and bureaucrats.
I would love to know what provision in the Constitution gives states the authority to do this.
We are way way closer to the last net enegery positive barrel of oil than we are to the first. The growth rate of extraction has been shrinking for decades. We will get to zero growth rate of extraction much sooner than people think. When that happens we lose most of our modern world. When people want to talk about making a transition, which will mean using less stuff and less energy, they always get demonized.
Being the same weak sisters, Oregon's and Nevada's governments will soon do the same.
Their fantasy is that circa 2040 their EVs will be running on solar and wind power, hydro, and maybe nuclear power. Burning fossil fuels will be out. When the cruel truth is that solar and wind always need base load backups for days when the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow. These backups are natural gas aka fossil fuels releasing CO2.
So really all solar and wind installations need a second parallel expenditure on fossil fuel powered power plants for back up.
https://theconversation.com/baseload-power-is-a-myth-even-intermittent-renewables-will-work-13210
The market, sans tax breaks, should be left alone. Electrics might make sense for some people, but their downsides are many. This “shift” is not logical. The ban is not accompanied by a plan to provide either the grid or the source power necessary. They know the outcome will be economic chaos, and that middle and lower income families will be hardest hit. They don’t care. So long as they can zip around in their $100K Virtue Signal GT Sport Wagon without having to mix with lessers on the highway, it’s all good. Oh, but let’s not talk about their frequent jet-based vacations. Malicious Idiotic Bastards.
The lifeblood of our modern world is oil
We have abundant natural gas and coal, plus safe nukes
If world GDP grows 3% yearly for 30 more years, we will use more energy than we have since the dawn of humanity.
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