We have over 300 bits of content on Electric Vehicles: articles, research, graphs, sales figures, losses in an investment, and (of course) evidence that they are not just not green; they are brown. From tires to weight, construction to transportation, mining, manufacture, disposal, and how the electricity they use is generated, they are brown.
Hurricane Helene has reminded us that EVs are not friendly with seawater but not with much of anything except a sliver of elites and die-hards who take advantage of subsidies they don’t need to buy cars no one else can afford. Brown cars (regardless of the color).
To be clear, I don’t care if a company wants to build them or someone wants to buy them. My objection is to the regulatory strong-arming (EPA mileage rules) and fiscal incentives (falsely marketed as free money), all of which ordinary Americans who can’t afford an EV or would find nothing practical must pay.
ICYMI – The Emissionary Position – If You Really Want to Lower “Global Emissions,” …
EV use increases electricity demand, which drives up costs for everyone (and if you share a grid with a neighboring state run by lunatics), you get to pay for the added cost of their Environmental health issues and the actual health issues.
EVs burn. Increasingly. The number of fires rises to meet the funding available encouraging virtue-signalers to buy these rolling time bombs. When they burn, they burn hot and long and can’t be put out. We are fortunate if they can be contained. The fumes from a car fire are not friendly to the local environment, but EV car fires are like chemical firebombs. A car with glass, polymers, plastics, glass, fabrics, and electronics, plus the lithium battery pack and all the additional copper and rare earth metals – and the lithium.
Giant smokey fingers of toxic fumes that reach up into the atmosphere.
How many so-called green things must one create (at least as an exercise of faith) to atone for the emissions of just one electric vehicle fire? Do the Greens have an equivalent of rosary beads to keep track? Is there a pilgrimage one can take to ask forgiveness? To one of Al Gore’s homes or some suitable sacrifice on the altar at the Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media at the University of Pennsylvania (Michael Mann’s Mecca).
So far it appears the pennace appears to be another trillion on the nation debt, your money, not theirs- sorry, it’s not even yours, it belongs to your grandkids. Or perhaps you just sell a few more EVs because that’s the sort of sense this all makes.
And they say religious people are disconnected from reality.
