There is a very real disconnect in the green’s “electrify everything” movement, and it is wrapped up in this one simple question: “Why is it that greens want everyone to drive electric cars but don’t want people to have electricity?”
It’s just like everything else that the Left does to the rest of us – they set up the Anvil and then swing their Deep State Hammer down, and we’re the ones crushed in the middle. And it is on purpose, by design. These perverted ideologues believe that they have the God[less] right to make us miserable and make themselves smile over it.
The Hammers.
Lightbulbs – you can only use the kind we tell you to do. Dishwashers – this next “standards” iteration will use much less water (to clean the dishes) and less electricity in doing so (making the machines run twice as long and us washing them twice) and be more expensive. Screwing around with our air conditioners, so they don’t cool as well and are more expensive to purchase.
They are throttling the kinds of cars we can have by manipulating both the MPG ratings and the fuel types (gas or electricity). Their unspoken goal is to eliminate gas cars and force us into electrics (that caught fire in your garages if the manufacturers’ notices are to be believed). However, these cars are going to get even more expensive (a “normal” car is already over $48,000) and beyond many folks’ financial reach. And I haven’t begun to talk about the supply chain of expensive minerals and metals necessary for the batteries – and that China controls them.
The Anvil
And the Greens are removing the sources of current electricity generators because “emissions.”
Greens want electric cars — but not the things required to run them
Why is it that greens want everyone to drive electric cars but don’t want people to have electricity? Or, it seems the cars.
I noted last week in these pages how the people who want everyone to have an electric car in the garage have also been pursuing policies that, per the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s latest report, are likely to result in rolling blackouts this summer.
Fossil and nuclear plants are being taken offline (bye, Indian Point!) while their replacement with “renewables” like wind and solar lags and often fails to produce power when it’s most needed.
Nothing has improved on that front. But the thing about electric cars is that they don’t just need electricity, they also need batteries to store it in. And electric motors.
That’s awkward because those cars and batteries require lots of copper and other metals, plus the extraction of “rare earth” minerals that come mostly from China and Africa, where they’re often produced by child or slave labor. (We used to mine rare earths in America, but the enviros basically got that shut down. It’s easier for companies to get the stuff out of the ground in places where there aren’t sandal-wearing scolds everywhere.)
…It sometimes seems as if the last invention these people approved of was the wet blanket.
Notice your electrical bill lately? Already forcing 50% – 125% increases because of their Green ideology religion of GAIA worship. We’ll look back at today with fondness when we get them in a year or so – IF there is any electricity running through the lines.
And while the Blogline is about electricity, they are doing the same to NatGas and propane. They are going after our gas stoves such that 94% of the market offerings will be illegal, the remainder will be more expensive, and they won’t be able to cook at a high enough heat (in some cases) to get the job done. They’ll be doing the same to gas clothes dryers soon – most likely right after they finish with the new gas furnace rules that will only allow THEIR “allowed” models onto the market, making them more expensive and unable to refit some older homes.
And they are putting more regulations into place to make getting that gas more difficult and MUCH more expensive.
I’m just waiting for the day that I’m told I can’t use my wood to keep warm during the bitter cold of a northern NH winter. And having had my propane furnace shut down and my gas stove taken away, being told that my wood campfire is verboten as well.
It’s like they just want to kill us all off.
Oh wait, that’s already been said.
