Did you know that the people funding the Keep It in the Ground Corps are a handful of obscenely wealthy individuals who probably haven’t a clue what it is like to live in the real world? They push electrification and (of course) electric vehicles.
I have long referred to EVs (still not green) as lawn ornaments of the rich and famous. They are a partisan niche product—impractical virtue trophies signaling the presence of right-thinking minds. And the data supports that.
My second thought, after basking in the glow of confirmation bias with receipts, was that these are likely some of the wealthiest countries in America as well.
Surprise! That’s true, too. Fifteen of the top 20 counties listed above are among the richest in the land. Those not in the top 10 include LA County, Sacramento, Fresno, Multnomah, and Honolulu—all still top-heavy, with Democrats buying cars that run on coal or natural gas.
Did you know that half of all EVs in the US are concentrated in California, Florida, and Texas? That’s probably a good idea, given how poorly they run in cold weather.
You’ll still see a few further north, but they were unaffordable even before the economy hit the shit!tter. Add to that their impracticality, and it becomes less likely that regular folks will ever even try to adopt them, which puts their political advocates in a bad spot. They want to mandate these things over the next decades.
And we’re not talking about rolling up a sleeve for an untested experimental injection. America’s cultural heritage may be in tatters, but convincing people they have to drive a car that is not just impractical but unaffordable? It should cost them the state legislatures where they’ve advanced it and keep them from taking ones where they’d like to.
The problem, of course, is messaging.
Greta was just the latest climate prophet to predict our end in 2018 when she said we’d be in a doom loop in five years if we didn’t abandon fossil fuels—another in a long line of experts who declared ice-less poles and dire consequences to follow. It’s why we are all supposed to embrace EVs or else. As far as I can tell, being wrong, especially given the real-world price we’re expected to pay to accommodate these progressive propagandist prognostications, hasn’t cost them a thing.
