Posted on 12/06/2022 5:47:22 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Lab has just released a study showing that in 2021, US privately-owned plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) “saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline.”
But that is a huge exaggeration because fossil fuels provide 61% of the electricity in the US … so only about a third of that apparent savings is a real reduction in fossil fuel use, the equivalent of maybe 130 million gallons.
The Argonne report also says that from 2010 to 2021, EVs have saved 2.1 billion gallons of gas. So let’s be generous and say that in 11 years, EVs have saved about a third of that, the equivalent of about 750 million gallons of gas.
Now that sure sounds like a lot of gasoline, three-quarters of a billion gallons.
However, as always, a sense of perspective is required. The US uses about 370 million gallons of gas per day … so that’s only about two days’ worth of gas.
I say again. Over the last eleven years, electric vehicles in the US have saved Two. Days. Worth. Of. Gasoline.
At enormous cost:
Direct taxpayer subsidies for EVs have cost you and me $10 billion dollars to date, and we’re on the hook for more. The government just extended the EV subsidy until 2032 and removed the cap on the number of vehicles eligible for the subsidy.
It gets worse. The US government also just approved spending an additional $7.5 billion of taxpayer money on EV charging stations.
So to date, we’re spending TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS for each gallon of gasoline saved … economic suicide.
And all of the world’s worst countries are laughing at us.
Electric vehicles have been around for well over a century, but they lost out to internal combustion vehicles because gas-powered cars are cheaper and better. That is still true today, regardless of how many billions of dollars governments shovel at subsidies for electric vehicles.
biking and walking will also be popular “options”
i am sure they will outlaw donkey carts
but uber rickshaws will be a popular side hustle
They catch on fire, have heavy batteries which injure and kill the occupants of the vehicles they crash into, the lithium and other components come from China, and where is the electricity coming from to power these not so ecologically sound vehicles?
biking and walking will also be popular “options”
i am sure they will outlaw donkey carts
but uber rickshaws will be a popular side hustle
we joke here, but the chink-o-nese seriously imprison their people in their own homes.
biden wants us to live like this, and reliance on the power grid for everything is a big step.
I agree, and the goal is not to convert our private vehicles from gasoline/diesel to electric - it is to eliminate privately-owner vehicles.
You have to drive an EV 80,000 miles before you have a net positive against an ICE vehicle.
Sir yes shur. *buys crappy EV car with $30,000 lithium battery*
Gas-powered cars are cheaper and better.
Even Toyota as many others has built a hydrogen powered pick up EV autos are not as efficient hydrogen only one emission water.
a win win deal
I have read several articles over the years, which of course are becoming more difficult to find now. The estimates ranged between 6 an 8 times the energy inputs of an ICE. However, a quick search finds the International Energy Agency (IEA) calculates that an electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a comparable internal combustion engine vehicle (ICE).
EV batteries are very heavy and made with exotic, expensive, toxic, and flammable materials.
Without the subsidies, there wouldn’t be a fraction of the EVs currently in use.
The auto industry just didn’t suddenly decide to phase out ICE vehicles. It did so through unholy alliances with our masters in Wash DC. IOW classic fascism: industry/government partnership that serves the financial interests of industry and the societal deforming interests of the Left.
“Things have gone so far that the EU recently announced they would ban the sale of new fossil fuel cars from 2035. Meanwhile Britain has gone even further and are banning new normal cars from the year 2030. That is only 7 years away.
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>>>Now Switzerland is planning on banning people from driving their electric cars when there is an energy shortage.”<<<
‘Now they want to ban electric cars to save energy.’
https://www.sott.net/article/475011-Now-they-want-to-ban-electric-cars-to-save-energy
BS again. Does that help? I don’t need to write a paper about it...
You just cannot get around the fact that batteries weight 13 times more than liquid hydrocarbon fuels to store the same amount of energy. Research brings that 13X down maybe 0.5 to 1.0% per year, if that. But that improvement is diminishing.
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