Authored by Mark Tapscott via PJMedia.com,
There are a host of reasons why the Left is absolutely determined to force Americans out of their privately owned, gasoline-powered cars and trucks and into unreliable public transportation and costly Electric Vehicles (EVs), none of which have to do with “saving the environment.”
The central reason the Left loves EVs is that the process of forcing Americans to convert to electric-powered transportation will destroy forever the incredible freedom and prosperity associated with privately owned gas-powered vehicles.
The future will instead be centrally controlled by rich elitists and their corrupt politicians, power-hungry bureaucrats, and ideologically driven “experts.”
When Ransom Olds in 1901 and Henry Ford in 1908 sold America’s first mass-produced automobiles (the Curved Dash Olds and the Model T, respectively), they launched America toward becoming the world’s first open road society.
It took a couple of decades, but by the 1930s car ownership was virtually a middle-class staple and that meant, for millions of Americans, the freedom to go wherever they wanted to go when they chose to do so, without getting prior permission from government.
It is no exaggeration to say one of the chief factors in America growing out of the Depression was the ability of millions of Americans to buy new and used cars and trucks. The St. Louis Federal Reserve put it this way in September 1935 in the middle of the Great Depression:
“During the first 6 months of 1935, companies and individuals purchased from motor-vehicle dealers 1,461,940 new passenger cars and 254,063 trucks, paying for these vehicles a sum estimated at approximately $1,460,000,000. The first half year registrations were 44 percent greater in 1935 than during the corresponding period of last year, while the increase over the same 6 months of 1933 was 121 percent.”
The rise of the privately owned, gas-powered automobile also generated booming industries that to this day provide millions of good jobs, financial stability, and personal income growth that are foundational to the American economy.
Just think of all the dealerships, repair shops, parts stores, road construction, energy production, distribution and retailing, insurance, and law enforcement jobs that exist because there are hundreds of millions of cars and trucks in this country.
But those good things will be lost if California’s plan to ban the sale of all gas-powered vehicles by 2035 becomes national policy. There is so much that is so incredibly wrong-headed, if not either outright dishonest or stupid, with the drive to force Americans into EVs.
For example, as the experts at powerthefuture.com point out, here are 10 facts about EVs the Left doesn’t want Americans to know:
1. EVs are powered by fossil fuels. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), fossil fuel-based power plants — coal, oil, or natural gas — create about 60% of the nation’s electrical grid, while nuclear power accounts for nearly 20%.
2. The batteries of EVs rely on cobalt. An estimated 70% of the global supply of cobalt emanates from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country with deplorable working conditions, especially for children.
3. A study released earlier this year by an environmental group showed that nearly one-third of San Francisco’s electric charging stations were non-functioning. The population of San Francisco represents roughly two percent of California.
4. Supporters of the California law admit there will be a 40% increase in demand for electricity, adding further strain to the grid and requiring increased costs for power and infrastructure.
5. According to one researcher, the strain of adding an EV is similar to adding “1 or 2 air conditioners” to your home, except an EV requires power year-round.
6. Today, 20 million American families, or one in six, have fallen behind on their electric bills, the highest amount ever.
7. Utility companies will need to add $5,800 in upgrades for every new EV for the next eight years in order to compensate for the demand for power. All customers will shoulder this cost.
8. The average price for an electric vehicle is currently $66,000, up more than 13% in just the last year, costing an average of $18,000 more than the average combustible engine. Meanwhile, the median household income is $67,521. For African American families, the average is $45,870, and for Hispanic households, $55,321.
9. A 2022 study found that the majority of EV charging occurs at home, leaving those who live in multi-family dwellings (apartments) at a real disadvantage for charging.
10. The same study also noted that many drivers charge their EVs overnight when solar power is less available on the grid.
There are many more facts about EVs you will never hear spoken by the Left’s politicians, including President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and the national and state leadership of the Democratic Party.
Neither will you hear any of these facts – except when they are being misrepresented and distorted by self-appointed “fact-checkers” – in college classrooms, the mainstream media, and even representatives of the “Big Three” automakers, who fear getting on the wrong side of government.
Oh, and by the way, guess who is laughing their keisters off as America heads into the Left’s EV future, knowing they control so much of the equipment, materials, and technology necessary for batteries, thus giving them a choke-hold on the U.S. economy?
Can you spell C-H-I-N-A?
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“But those good things will be lost if California’s plan to ban the sale of all gas-powered vehicles by 2035 becomes national policy”
honestly, it won’t matter. there won’t be any vehicles, gas or electric, for sale then. if there are any vehicles at all they will be party-issued to the politburo and senior party members only.
2021 Clip Shows LA Charging Station Rendered Basically Useless Because It’s Buried in Garbage
Can you imagine pulling up to charge your car, and you can’t even find the “station” because there’s so much garbage from a camp of homeless people living on the sidewalk? And even if you could find the charger, would you feel safe hanging out in a lawless homeless camp for half an hour while you charge your 60K car? Probably not, and I wouldn’t blame you. But that’s the reality for many people in California.
https://naijaonpoint.com.ng/video-2021-clip-shows-la-charging-station-rendered-basically-useless-because-its-buried-in-garbage/
“would you feel safe hanging out in a lawless homeless camp for half an hour while you charge your 60K car?”
tremendous point. suddenly needing to drive and not being able to do so is going to result in many deaths and injuries. that, of course, the “news” media will never tell you about.
Little known fact: the EMF from an electric car will fry your gonads.
Oh no look at the money you’ll save on childcare! Like the libs who buy these have kids or even bang the opposite sex
I know it doesn’t really fit here, but I’ve just watched the majority of this dismal documentary about Detroit and if that doesn’t make you want to go find a decent MOPAR pre-1980 and get your motor running, nothing will.
I saw all the empty charging stations along the way to Oklahoma. Ridiculous.
Conversely, you could be among the dozens of Tesla owners waiting for a chance to recharge along the 101 in San Luis Obispo.
The shit people will do to make themselves look relevant!
With my puny gasoline engine I can charge your Tesla while taking BOTH of us to our destination!
A single gallon of gasoline equals 40 man hour of work!
Take your “change”and shove it!
I believe it equals more than that. I have a test to find out. Put one gallon of gasoline in your car and drive it until it runs out. Then get out of your car and push it back home.
Let me know how long that takes.
Good one!….,
Hey, that is a new business idea!!!
Get a flat-bed tow truck, and bill people for both the mileage and the charging of their tesla! Take ’em where they need to go and charge their cars while on the way.
Kind of a concierge taxi for crappy EV’s.
I bet you could make bank in the metro areas of CA, or on the East Coast.
These are the end times, nothing makes sense to the government unless it causes harm to its’ subjects (not citizens).
Hunger is around the corner as resources are being stifled for the watermelon agenda (green on the outside, red in the middle). Farming requires fuel and fertilizer, lots of it, consumption only requires an appetite. I was scrawny as a child, didn’t have the carbohydrates in excess like they have now. When the hunger hits the electric cars will be added to the ash heap of history.
“nothing makes sense to the government unless it causes harm to its’ subjects (not citizens).”
That is actually a deep truth. Positions of power attract people with an addiction to power, and the ones most likely to rise to the very top are the psychopaths with such an addiction. They will — literally! — do anything to gain power and never miss a night’s sleep over anything they do, no matter how brutal. They love all expressions of power. If you are in power, there is no satisfaction in telling someone to do something which actually is of benefit to them. The only TRUE expression of power is when you can FORCE someone to do something which they would not choose to do if they had any alternative. Because our leaders are conscienceless power addicts they continue to ratchet up the level of stupidity, harm, and humiliation.
Wear a mask.
Do not leave your home.
Jab yourself.
Jab your children.
Let your aged wife die alone.
Do not attend your mother’s funeral.
Give up your car.
Give up your weapons.
No heat.
No air conditioning.
Eat bugs.
They are now at the level of genocide. We have a right and a duty to refuse their orders and to defend ourselves by any means necessary.
LOL!!!
“Eat Bugs!”
We’ve come full-circle to the sand box bullies!
WEF calls bugs ‘micro livestock’………..
Just take the bus lol
Putin,
Cities were planned ( 30s-70s)specifically to avoid mass transportation possibilities. This was done through the influence of the big Detroit automakers to increase auto sales.
To rebuild cities to accommodate mass transportation is prohibitively expensive and like I inferred from your post…way too dangerous for most people.
11. EV GloboHomo promos are fucking gay.
The amount of fossil fuels that go into making an EV are enormous. The mining of the raw materials and fabrication of parts is all on the back of these “horrible” fossil fuels. So, it’s not like renewable energy is building these vehicles.
Then, recycling the relatively short life of the battery packs and recycling them is both difficult and extraordinarily expensive.
While they make sense for short hops in the city, they can’t compete on many levels.
To recharge them is also very expensive. When factoring in all the charging costs, EVs get less than 6 miles per gallon of gas, comparatively.
More lunacy emanating from Calif.
Winters will be fun too… especially in the more northern parts. Wonder just how long that battery charge will last when they are running a heater too… and will it go the distance if they have to sit and wait on the freeway because of an accident or some other blockage event like a dead EV. Towing company owners are going to be the next billionaires…
I was thinking about all of those Teslas in the picture above waiting on a charge and you know every one of them had the A/C running in the CA heat.