Posted on 07/15/2023 7:40:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Soon after a World Economic Forum partner was caught calling for an “end” to private car ownership, a climate expert is warning that the push to cancel gas-powered cars is just a ploy to end private transport. The climate crisis is a hoax, but it’s such a darn useful hoax for authoritarian globalists.
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano went on Fox Business Thursday and discussed how the Democrat and globalist push to replace gas cars with electric vehicles (EVs) isn’t about helping the environment but restricting Americans’ freedom of movement. “This really isn’t about them driving an electric car,” Morano said, highlighting how this is a top-down decision not based on popular demand. “This literally is — the banning of gas-powered cars — is being done just like a COVID lockdown without a vote,” he added. From California to the Biden Environmental Protection Agency to Australia, leftists are trying to force ordinary citizens into a corner with their gas car restrictions.
Indeed, Pew Research Center published the results of its new survey on June 28, which found that “Less than half of the [U.S.] public (40%) favors phasing out the production of gas-powered cars and trucks.” It’s also significant that EV batteries actually generate lots of toxic waste, so they’re not better for the environment.
“The intent is not to necessarily force people into an electric vehicle,” Morano went on. “The intent is to collapse our plentiful freedom of movement and force us to use mass transit. They want us on the subway.” It’s a global collusion. “They want us on buses. That is what this is about,” Morano insisted.
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Fair. I wouldn’t say solar can never work, but it doesn’t work for most in the US.
This EV central planning push cannot work without a crash plan to build nuclear plants and grid upgrades. Which isn’t happening. They want people dependent on mass transit in urban hives.
BINGO!~!~! It’s ALL ABOUT CONTROLLING US!!!
My wife had a Miata convertible for eight years — made me nervous, but I had a small roadster in my 20s and probably should have died from some of the stunts I pulled.
Solar works best in the south for people who own their own homes. Ironically, those tend to be conservatives. There's a small but growing number of conservatives in the south who install solar for the reasons I did. And very few of us extend that free power onto the road by getting an EV.
Us conservatives who get an EV are married and need 2 cars anyway and, thus, have an ICE car for the few times an EV won't do the job. We see it as not having to be entirely wed to one or the other (the choice of EV or ICE is not a mutually exclusive decision to us). We can have the best of both worlds since we need two cars anyway.
When a robotic vacuum cleaner has a fault, it just bangs itself into a corner until it runs out of power.
When an autonomous vehicle has a fault, it kills a family in the opposite lane - or cross street.
No thank you. People don't want to own a vehicle, that's their choice. Take a train or call a cab, but these autonomous machines have no place on a roadway with the rest of us.
It is a bit different here…
LOTS of motorcycles. Like, a vast majority of vehicles on the road.
So actually a tiny car, is vastly safer… but just in case anyone reads this from somewhere designing these …
INCLUDE AIR/CON !!!
It gets really, really hot here. Very hot. Thanks 😎
The free market is the answer. For one, the free market would mean not replacing all ICE cars, just the ones of people who'd willingly choose an EV. For another, the free market would allow mining of rare earths here in the U.S. (i.e. cobalt, nickel, and copper in Minnesota). For that matter, we need more free market in extracting oil and refining it, and extracting natural gas and coal.
The free market would make everything more accessible and cheaper and allow more people to get what they want.
The risk of 'bursting into flames' is a bit of a drawback, especially if the car is parked in an attached garage.
Yes the risk is small but if it happens with your car, the effect is large.
“The risk of ‘bursting into flames’ is a bit of a drawback, especially if the car is parked in an attached garage.
Yes the risk is small but if it happens with your car, the effect is large.”
Bottom line.... if you think insurances costs are skyrocketing now.... just wait until most drivers are forced into EVs. That, as well as purchasing EVs, will also be made “unaffordable” to most Americans....
as intended and as designed. The elitists win, we lose.
It’s a global collusion
Rome had to recheck the blue prints after it burned down too.
"Made in China" should be considered a warning label.
Have your seen how many multiple lane roads are being converted to single-lane with bicycle paths? All to prepare for when they whittle down private ownership of cars. You'll be forced to use a bicycle to get to work and back home. Plus they'll be eliminating single-family homes so you'll have to live in a high-rise tower near your job. You will be forced to be happy with the new arrangement.
Rare earth minerals are not rare; they're everywhere on Earth. What makes them "rare" is the difficulty of refining them from ore. Having said that, ICE cars will be around as long as EV's, until the government makes it more difficult to have any private ownership of a vehicle.
Look in my old posts and you’ll see I made this same claim repeatedly. There are no certain-to-be-rivate electronic communications so the only way to have a private conversation with someone is face-to-face.
But if the two of you lack the means to meet somewhere, there can be no face-to-face. We’re having battery-only EVs pushed on us because (for either the flaws inherent in the species or government meddling in the supporting systems) the government knows the change-over will curtail our mobility. Plus, electronic vehicles announce their location to the world at every opportunity, so they offer no privacy in travel.
I’ve also noted before that one element that was decisive in the Women’s Suffrage Movement occurring when it did was the advent of the “safety bicycle.” Because before widespread availability of the telephone, before women were allowed to drive motor cars, and because few women had a horse (and stable), the surest way for women to congregate for political organizing was by riding a safety bicycle, which was cheap, used no fuel, and was far faster than walking.
El Rushbo said it many times, gasoline is the fuel of democracy.
What flavor was the Kool-Aid?
SOOOOOOOOo—You call UBER when you need an ambulance???
Farmer John needs parts for his tractor-—He is in the middle of harvesting his fields-——
HE HAS TO CALL UBER?????????
I paid $3500 for my 1979 Buick station wagon in August 1981
I paid $4000 for my 1976 1 ton 4 speed dually Chevy truck in April 1986.
I CAN AFFORD for them to sit until I need them.
There are TOO many people in the USA who think it is OK to change vehicles every 2-3 years.
THE power to run them IS NOT there.
AND WILL NOT BE
Ambulances-—Tow Trucks-—Fire Trucks-—
NOT going to work as all EV.
We’re hardly operating in a free market; ridiculous subsidies for anything considered, “green”, which EV’s most certainly are not, and intense government pressure on auto makers to do away with all ICE vehicles, including through tailpipe/vehicle emissions standards.
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