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| The Electric Car Con Explained- Perfect Refutation of The Green Fiasco |
| 2024-01-13 |
| [AmericanThinker] Is electricity a source of energy? Most people will answer yes, which is incorrect. Electricity carries energy but it is not itself a source of energy, which in the U.S. is supplied 60% by natural gas and coal, 18% nuclear and 22% renewables (hydro, solar and wind). The related question is whether cars are a major consumer of energy and hence a significant contributor of Co2 emissions? Again, most people believe both statements are self-evidently true, hence the importance of moving to electric cars. In fact, cars (light-duty transportation) account for less than 5% of global energy demand, with U.S. cars accounting for 19% of the global car fleet, declining to under 15% by 2050 as car demand grows faster outside the U.S. Putting these facts together, and they are indisputable facts, provides a stunning insight. The U.S. car fleet accounts for a mere 1.0% of global energy demand (5% x 19%), declining to 0.8% by 2050. So even if the U.S. shifts 100% to electric-powered cars, the maximum climate impact in 2050 is a meaningless 0.2% (22% x 0.8%) reduction in global Co2 emissions from the current electric grid, up to a maximum of 0.5% assuming solar, wind, and hydro can, implausibly, power 60% of electric demand. In other words, there is no factual basis to claim that the government mandate to switch to electric cars will have any material impact on global Co2 emissions. This is not a debatable point -- it is easily verified, it is correct under any view of climate science, and it remains true even if solar and wind magically grow sixfold over the next 25 years, which is highly unlikely given the need to build a new transmission network, estimated at more than 200,000 miles of wires crisscrossing the country, and devise totally unknown, unproven, and likely impossible to achieve large-scale, economic battery storage. Nor does the picture change materially if the entire world goes 100% electric for cars. In that case global Co2 emissions fall a mere 3.5% in 2050 versus a baseline of 24% electric adoption by 2035. But facts count for nothing in the Biden era. The EPA seeks to force conversion to electric cars through draconian limits on tailpipe emissions. American taxpayers foot the bill for billions in subsidies to electric cars. California leads the way in mandating conversion to electric cars. Perversely, the major auto companies have signed onto the electric agenda, the harbinger of future bailouts. Perhaps most galling is the continuous misleading of the public. By law every new car must affix a window sticker with the following statement: “Vehicle emissions are a significant cause of climate change and smog.“ Any private company marketing such demonstrably false claims would be subject to ruinous civil and criminal liability. Related: Electric cars: 2023-10-28 Electric vehicles are a bad bargain for everyone Electric cars: 2023-10-25 Gavin Newsom Pimps Chinese Electric Car Company BYD, the Same Company He Awarded a $1B Mask Contract Electric cars: 2023-09-28 Uzbekistan explosion felt 20 miles away hits international airport: Mushroom cloud fireball hundreds of feet high 'triggered by detonating car batteries' kills one and injures 160 |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #9 Or cages to keep the kids at home. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-13 15:42 |
| #8 Fleet of new lightning-fast ELECTRIC motorbikes that go 0-60 in 3 seconds or less are revealed from makers including Mitsubishi They let kids who are too young to get drivers licenses drive e-bikes. Dunno if these are the same as Mitsubishi's new electric motorbikes. Maybe they don't have as much power but they are, essentially, motorcycles and a drivers license should be required for them to keep the kids from killing themselves. |
| Posted by: Hupusotch Borgia4326 2024-01-13 12:28 |
| #7 ^ But organ donations will be wayyyy up |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-13 10:32 |
| #6 Fleet of new lightning-fast ELECTRIC motorbikes that go 0-60 in 3 seconds or less are revealed from makers including Mitsubishi I predict a plague of pavement smears come spring. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-13 10:24 |
| #5 It's all about limiting movement. You'll note that the state with maximum environmental commitment is currently having the vapors about taxpayers moving away. You are a revenue stream. 'We will put you in your cubbyhole and you will stay there.' |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-01-13 09:52 |
| #4 Privately owned ICE vehicles allow independence of movement, which the proles cannot be allowed to have. All about the control |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-13 07:19 |
| #3 Smith confessed to a bit of a jolt When Big Brother, suggesting a Volt, Crashed his trashy mirage Into Winston's garage... "Like a first-date Gestapo assault." |
| Posted by: Spats Barnsmell6280 2024-01-13 04:51 |
| #2 Electric cars. A good idea, which been "introduced" by politicians before it's time. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-01-13 04:13 |
| #1 Oil and gas can be stored up, used later. If you stay home for 5 days, you use nothing. Electricity must be constantly generated in order to be available. Every home must be a fueling station. If you use public transportation, slug, or walk, and do not own a car of any kind, you pay for no gas and oil subsidies at the pump. You still pay subsidies at the grocery store (delivery truck or food production fuel). Difficult to escape subsidies, more difficult to escape increased rate subsidies on your electric bill. If you have no electricity, use solar, or limit the use of the electricity you do have, you do not have to listen to media and political propaganda or "professional sports." Too simplistic a notion? Think about it for a moment. The gov't/big pharma/Deep State goal is to make everyone a user. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-01-13 01:08 |