Guest Post by Eric Peters
Have you ever seen a gas station in a populated area that’s bereft of customers? Maybe for a couple of minutes, during off-peak times. But if you were to sit and watch, within 30 minutes, you will always see customers coming and going.
If not, the gas station would be gone.
In fact, it probably would never have been built in the first place, as demand precedes supply – when the free market is free to operate.
Contrast this with the unfree market. The top-down economics of the Left. Its putative leader, Joe Biden, thinks supply determines demand – on the Soviet model. Behold! The EV “station” – a whole row of places to plug in the battery powered devices for which there is no natural market. But there is no one plugged in at the EV “station” adjacent to the trendy food store in my hometown of Roanoke, Virginia.
I happen to drive by this place almost every day. Every once in awhile, there’s a device or two plugged in. Not once have I ever seen more than two plugged in. Most of the time, there is no device plugged in. If you’re wondering why that is, you have probably never wasted time idling for the half-hour or longer it takes to instill the electricity equivalent of about 3-4 gallons of gas into a battery powered device.
After awhile it gets old – like wearing a Face Diaper to “stop the spread.”
It’s why devices aren’t selling. The fact that they don’t go very far having very little to do with it. Most motorcycles don’t go very far, either – because motorcycles have small tanks and so can’t carry very much gas. They typically go about 150 miles before you have to stop to get more gas. But it’s no deterrent to motorcycle ownership because the tank can be refilled in about the same time it took to read this paragraph. Motorcycles are practical. Devices are not.
Not unless you have the time to wait the minimum of 15-30 minutes it takes to recover the charge-equivalent of a motorcycle tankful of gas. Which might take a device about as far as a motorcycle can go on a full tank.
Most people who aren’t retired – or unemployed – do not have 15-30 minutes of spare time available to spend on such waits. They need to get to work or home because they are not either of those places when they are out driving around. The ultimate point of being out driving around being to get somewhere. And then get back to work or home or to wherever you were going. Spending 15-30 minutes in a parking lot just waiting while everyone else is coming and going must feel a lot like wearing a Face Diaper when almost everyone else isn’t anymore.
After awhile, it gets old.
Especially for those who aren’t unemployed who can afford a device.
One of the main reasons people spend more on a vehicle than they need to spend to get a vehicle is to have a vehicle that offers something more than other vehicles. Devices offer more downtime. How many affluent people would freely choose to fly in an electric plane cross-country – one that had to stop for a several hours’ charge after every 30 minutes of flying time – rather than fly nonstop across the country in a fuel-burning jet-powered aircraft?
Ask John Kerry about that.
Waiting for things is what the poor – and those lacking pull – are obliged to do. As at a fancy and very popular restaurant. Your table is not ready, sir. But here comes Kerry, waltzing to the front of the line. His is. People who fly first class do not wait in the same lines as those who fly coach. Is it astounding that people with the means to buy a $50,000-plus device seem to have lost interest in waiting while the guy who cuts their grass is going?
How much money has gone along with all this waiting?
How about $75,000 for a single 480 volt, 250 amp “level 3” charger? It costs that much because it’s not just the charger – the sleek-looking totem pole thing the device plugs into. There must also be the cabling, transformers and related close-by commercial-grade infrastructure necessary to conduit that kind of voltage (and amperage) into the sleek-looking totem pole.
The cost to erect a dozen totem poles will run into the millions. How many billions to erect them all over the country? Ask a Soviet. Many rubles were spent on vast-scale building projects where cost was no object – because those paying the cost could not object. Ugly, useless things were built that often just stood there, unused, as monuments to the arrogant wastefulness of those with the power to waste other people’s resources on their grand delusions. 
It’s been 35 years since the Soviet Union collapsed. And now it’s America’s turn, probably – and for essentially the same reasons.
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REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN. Thesis on substitutes for war that still maintain societal control / sacrifice and conformity from the population like when a country is on a war footing but without all the destruction. Large expensive programs like NASA or green energy are akin to ancient pyramid building in that they consume vast resources instead of improving living standards that could lead to peasants revolting should they get too comfy or well fed.
All of this dumbfuckery is a part of the deracination, deactivation and finally, depopulation agenda. These are just stop gap measures to make life as miserable and deadly as possible until they reach the numbers they require to service and maintain their lifestyles and ideology. This is a little age of death and stupidity. After the destruction has been wrought, they’ll enthusiastically trot out all that wonderful supressed and buried technology that the great humanitarian Tesla and others worked on along with upper tier military tech and other sources, for their own use – after we’re all out of the way. That’s the plan, Man.
But the rape and pillage will never end with these ultra materialists. They cannot apprehend themselves. This is why we have landfills, abandoned buildings & factories, vehicles, war machines, etcetera, etcetera, while blaming it all on us pleebs, of course. They set all the conditions for vast massive waste, especially of life, which is underway now. They’re very much alright with that and their savage methods. Watch any dystopian movie you like, especially the classic Blade Runner, and this is a quite possible outcome, if left to continue.
I don’t like waiting for my phone to charge.
I have a solution … get a land line … no charging time … no interruptions during the day — especially in the car or in other people’s spaces … works like a charm 24/7 …
Even the “land lines” are wireless these days. Verizon is phasing out copper lines all together as fast as they can. They just gotta move slow so too many Luddites don’t raise hell all at once.
What is the point of having power if you can’t make those beneath you suffer? Back in the day powerists were able to kill people, sometimes millions of them, just to make themselves feel the rush of power. Now, except, perhaps, for the Clintons, a political leader must be more circumspect in muscle flexing. The same type pleasure now has to be derived by making the little people uncomfortable in a myriad of small inconveniences. Having to flush twice or wait two hours for clean dishes are two seemingly innocuous ways our elites can make us bow and grovel. Masks, after we knew what the covid was about were a satisfying substitute for being made to touch raising one’s knuckle to your hat brim (Knuckling under) and mumbling “your lordship. Now, the EV is the big power fix. And it works on so many levels, the the most grinding of which must be the wait for those wealthy or foolish enough to buy one while recharging. But, don’t forget the frustration of having to suffer, waiting an hour plus out of every four in a Micky D’s listening to the kids whine “when are we gonna get there,” and then having to fork out $50 in food costs for the pleasure. For those of use to poor, informed, or stubborn to jump into our own ev, there is the constant drumbeat that we are sociatal miscreants for putting our selfish comforts in front of saving the planet. Next to a good execution, what more could a powerist ask for a power fix?
Waiting two hours for clean dishes? Old fashioned wash rag and dish soap solves that problem. In San Fran they just poop on the sidewalk. No flushing needed. Have a great day.
The latest joy told to me by an EV owner is how they take 45 minutes to reach 80 % charge and then when they drive away the state of charge drops immediately. With batteries any charge over 80 % is like spinning your wheels, it takes forever to work past that level. Toyota has a new engine that runs on Ammonia? I wonder how hard that is to produce and use. Yeah, it all comes down to controlling people. Just wait till they have a digital dollar and limit gasoline purchases.
The Costco I go to told me about 4 years ago that it pumps at least 30,000 gallons per DAY … 7 days a week …
Not sure what type of motorcycle Eric rides or is familiar with, but my last BMW had a 7.4 gallon tank and got about 54 mpg … hardly the 150 miles he mentions …
1981 Suzuki GSX-1100E.
5 gallon tank.
52 MPG.
250 mile range.
Usually, it’s time to stop in a bar anyways…