RANT: EVs make no sense

Monday, September 9, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/the_cold_hard_kamala_repelling_truth_about_electric_vehicles.html

americanthinker.com
The Cold, Hard, Kamala-Repelling Truth about Electric Vehicles
By Warren Beatty

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Bottom line: over the entire life cycle of an E.V., from raw materials to final disposal, driving an E.V. or plug-in E.V. produces more pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions than a comparable hybrid E.V. We truly live in a Bizarro World, where Kamala’s ideology overrides reality.

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Over and above the practicality of EVs (i.e., limited range, recharge time, battery fires, accident damage), the “costs” of mining cobalt, and other “rare earth” minerals, in terms of the “dirt” and the human working conditions is inhumane.  Anyone else seen the pictures of children mining cobalt to subsist?  As a fat old white guy retired injineer, I’m not adverse to “progress”.  I am adverse to stupidity and responding to a politically induced “global warming global cooling climate change” “the sky is falling” “let’s give the Gooferment more money to solve a problem” panic.  (If the seas are “rising”, then why are all the rich people buying waterfront property?  Are they stupid? Or do they just know the truth?). In any event, why isn’t the Gooferment allowing diesel and tiny foreign cars and truck into the country?  We know that the politicians and bureaucrats are being bribed by all the Big Industries.  If we can just have a free market, the the Gooferment could shrink to just being a referee.  Argh!  

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