Electric Vehicles Are Not the Future
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
2/24/2023 11:24:04 AM
The mania for electric vehicles is a fad that is driven 100% by government regulation. The consumer verdict on EVs has been in for a century. Some of the earliest cars were battery-powered, but they lost out to gasoline-powered cars because gasoline-powered vehicles are better.
Those who have been paying attention understand that there is zero chance that our existing motor vehicle fleet will be converted to EVs. Mark Tapscott sums up some of the reasons. I want to focus on just one of his points, the fact that the lithium batteries needed to replace our current vehicle fleet would require ridiculous amounts of mining of minerals, particularly lithium,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 2/24/2023 11:35:16 AM (No. 1410830)
The article only gives specifics re: lithium. It is even more impossible to achieve these goals when copper, magnesium, cobalt and rare-earth minerals are considered. It just isn't going to happen, but the attacks will soon come against oil refining and distribution (as they are against farmers, fertilizers, egg production, etc.)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/24/2023 11:45:21 AM (No. 1410848)
Of course, the other major item the liberals left out is that their elites, the ones making these stupid policies, will be exempt from them...while they intend to strip ordinary Americans of their ICE mobility and independence, you can bet your sweet bippie that not a single elite will sacrifice their limos, jets, etc.
Certainly not Soros, nor Gates, Obama, Joe, Buttplug, Pelosi, Schumer, etc etc etc...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 2/24/2023 11:52:38 AM (No. 1410857)
The article is spot-on...it would take 1,000 years of current mining output to produce enough rare metals to produce the batteries needed to replace just a single generation of ICE engines now on the road. It's not just difficult, it is impossible. It ain't happening.
And that's without any consideration for
- destroying our economy by quadrupling the cost to transport goods
- betting our future on giving China a stranglehold on our future by virtue of their monopoly on rare metals, or
- the vast expense of recharging infrastructure, or
- the mountainous recycling required for spent batteries, or
- the childhood exploitation and environmental damage of cobalt mining in Africa,
- etc. etc. etc.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jayjeti 2/24/2023 12:02:58 PM (No. 1410870)
It comes down to irrational minds of woke liberals who create their own ideal world and attempt to make the real world conform to it. They don't want to be confused by real facts that contradicts their imaginary world.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Calico Al 2/24/2023 12:07:47 PM (No. 1410874)
Who would put their kids in a car that has the potential to ignite a fierce fire on its own?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/24/2023 12:17:36 PM (No. 1410881)
Can't we just mine asteroids for the lithium? Why stir up all that dust?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/24/2023 12:40:08 PM (No. 1410905)
Go buy yourself a 100,000 dollar golf cart. I'll be here until they figure out how to shut the gas stations.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Noj15 2/24/2023 12:42:22 PM (No. 1410908)
Ask Ford. The F-150 Lightning (aka Hunk a Junk) is going for $90K and they don't even run. Ford will be out of business within 10 years.
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Drive through any blue collar area at night especially around apartment buildings and you will see cars and service trucks parking bumper to bumper in the hundreds . How are these people going to charge their cars at night? This is ridiculous.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
paral04 2/24/2023 1:48:12 PM (No. 1410947)
So, everything will be just dandy when we go all electric. Did you read that they have power outages in the north because of the snow storms. They can't sit in their cars with the engines running outside becasue EV's don't work in severe cold. Biden is outlawing gas heat and cooking so, what will people do? Set their homes on fire to stay warm?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/24/2023 1:52:48 PM (No. 1410951)
Once we are forced to install solar panels on our houses, try charging the ecar you were forced to buy at night in the moonlight. How stupid is this.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 2/24/2023 2:01:51 PM (No. 1410956)
Oil is the second most common liquid found on the planet. The term "fossil fuel" is an accurate description of coal, but oil is endemic and a renewable resource. Oilfields once thought depleted or even extinct can and have been revived. American proven reserves are revised upward from time to time despite the wars of the 20th century, multiple millions of cars, and a gazillion other uses for petroleum. An electric vehicle is not what you want for a driving vacation or even a longer commute. This electric car mania, driven by political correctness, woke activists, and sheer stupidity will gradually fade away. Biden and his electric tank! Can you believe this idiocy? A 140 thousand pound tank needing a portable Hoover Dam for charging. Ordinary tanks are soon to be obsolete, so Biden says battery powered tanks, and humvees, and self propelled howitzers are just what we need.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
SALady 2/24/2023 2:26:15 PM (No. 1410974)
There are tons of very logical reasons given above my post as to why EV's are a horrible and destructive idea. Sadly, none of them will matter.
We have an ever-increasing communist government in this country. Within the next 2 years, expect gas to catch up with Canada and be $10+ a gallon. With ever increasing government control, the price to purchase and maintain gas and diesel vehicles will skyrocket to the point where nobody but the super-rich will be able to afford to have one. Add ever increasing and absurd controls on gas and oil companies, most will go out of business, and the supply of gas will become almost impossible to obtain. Then, within 10 years, the communist goverment of the "Soviet Socalist Republik of Amerikkka" will make gas and diesel vehicles illegal.
I pray I am wrong. But with the Demon-Rat Party (formerly known as the Communist Party USA) mastery of election theft only getting worse, its either this or Civil War 2!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
rytwng 2/24/2023 2:33:28 PM (No. 1410982)
They are not electric, you plug in something that is electric. Battery powered.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Penney 2/24/2023 3:31:46 PM (No. 1411009)
The coal-powered e-vehicles have failed to replace the cost & efficiency of oil, ...oil of which the USA has an abundant supply for hundreds of years into the future! Lets be realistic! The lefty radicalized political pipe-dreamers are disrupting peace on Earth with their fantasies when e-vehicles just don't measure up yet. Maybe never.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/24/2023 4:02:54 PM (No. 1411027)
When the truth finally hits them in the face as rows of EVs continue to sit on the lot, GM and Ford will face another bankruptcy. The government will further anger the American people as they are bailed out with our tax dollars once again for the government's stupid mistake. Washington needs to feel the application of a huge broom.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 2/24/2023 4:45:25 PM (No. 1411051)
They are definitely not the future for so many reasons.......just a fad in my opinion. Glorified golf carts, maybe good for running to the grocery store (kind of expensive grocery getters) or around your neighborhood. All they need is a big key on top to look like a Fisher Price toy.
What's funny to me up are the people who buy these things actually thinking they are "helping the environment". Where do they think the electricity to charge them comes from? There's a 99% chance it's coming from a coal or gas fired electrical generation plant.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/24/2023 4:51:08 PM (No. 1411054)
They are the instruments of a tyrannical government. The subsidies, and perks given to EV owners is just a ruse that fits perfectly with the Global Climate WEF BS. They want to prevent a basic freedom: to travel at will. It will be accomplished with regulations and mandates.
Sound like Covid?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
walcb 2/24/2023 8:58:29 PM (No. 1411183)
What #12 said--oil is not a fossil fuel. Follow the science.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RWPollock 2/24/2023 10:18:21 PM (No. 1411230)
Lithium battery compounds cannot be recycled from my understanding. France is having a problem with lithium environment pollutants in car junk yards.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rfr46 2/25/2023 3:05:51 AM (No. 1411293)
EV's are reminiscent of curly light bulbs, except a thousand times more expensive.
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