Why are those pushing EVs not being honest about EVs? It says something about EVs – and about those who are pushing them, does it not?
For instance, if there really is a “climate crisis” – in italics to emphasis what the word is generally taken to mean, that being an imminent disaster – then why is it that high-performance and luxurious EVs are being pushed? Can we afford to indulge such . . . luxuries, if there is a “crisis”?
Wouldn’t prudence dictate minimalist EVs that use the least amount of energy possible? So as to reduce the amount of “carbon” – their new term for what was previously (and less alarmingly, etymologically) “C02” or “carbon dioxide” – that is produced in the process?
It is a fact that every EV on the market is gratuitously wasteful of energy.
All of them use more more energy than is necessary to make a basic vehicle and to provide basic transportation – as opposed to luxurious vehicles and “ludicrous” acceleration. EV trucks tout Herculean towing capacity – however briefly – and the ability power high-draw tools all day, all of which burns up a lot of electricity and results in the “emitting”of a lot of excess “carbon.”
Speaking of that latter.
It is interesting – it speaks to motive – that the terminology used to define the debate shifts in this way, as well as the prior way. The intent is obvious. When most people hear the word carbon, what do they reflexively think of?
Why, something dirty.
Like the graphite – the carbon – in a pencil that stains your white shirt. The intended association is to link carbon with pollution – as in “dirty” skies, a fouled environment. Which they have already done via use of the word emission in the context of carbon dioxide, a non-reactive gas that does not cause pollution – by conflating it with the memory of the compounds that did cause it.
So as to get those who hear it to accept the necessity of regulating “carbon.”
That necessity rendered more so – urgently! – by characterizing what had been a “changing” climate (much too etymologically gradual to foster the necessary urgency) into one that is in”crisis.”
One so urgent – so dire! – that it is not necessary to reduce the production of “carbon” “emissions” to the bare minimum. Instead, almost obscenely wasteful EVs are heralded as the way to salve this “crisis.”
And it’s true, in a way.
Just not in the way most people have been led to believe it is.
The actual “crisis” is one of generalized affluence – too many ordinary people driving too many cars, wherever they like. It diminishes the prestige of owning a very expensive car – for those who’d prefer we walk.
And it winnows the power of those who want us to walk.
The way to salve this “crisis” is by using EVs to make it so expensive to drive that most of them – by which they mean us – can no longer afford to. So they tell us that our cars – the non-electric ones we can afford – are causing a “crisis” and that the way to salve it is by getting rid of them in favor of electric cars, knowing that most of us cannot afford to buy them and also that most of us soon won’t be able to afford to charge them, either.
You may have read about that.
Then again, probably not – because most of the same “media” outlets sounding the alarm about the “crisis” aren’t saying anything about a real one – the alarming increase in the cost of electricity, caused in part by those pushing EVs, which increases demand for electricity at the same time that the supply of it is not being increased to match.
In Britain, it now costs more to charge an EV than it does to fill up the tank of a non-EV. And in Britain, gas costs about $6 per gallon.
You get the idea.
And why aren’t people being told the truth about such facts as these:
“Fast” charging is hard on EV batteries and likely to shorten their useful service life. This is clearly stated in the manuals that come with new EVs, such as the Ford F-150 Lightning this writer test drove a few months ago (more about that, here). This means you can save time – or lose money (again) when the battery has to be replaced sooner rather than later.
You cannot fully “fast” charge an EV.
A limit – 80 percent of capacity – is built in, to (once again) avoid harming the battery and to reduce the risk of a fire. Put another way, you resume your drive with 20 percent less range than the advertised fully charged range. And since most EVs don’t start out with much range – even when fully charged – you leave the “fast” charger with the non-EV equivalent of about half a tank of gas.
This means you will be visiting the “fast” charger again, sooner. And that your waits will be longer – because you will be waiting more often.
Why don’t they tell you what it costs to charge an EV at home? What it costs to modify your home so as to be able to charge an EV at home in less time than all day long? Or that once you have modified it, you still won’t be able to “fast” charge it at home? 
Why is it that the government – the primary pusher of EVs – is so persnickety about the miles-per-gallon figures touted by manufacturers of non-electric vehicles – and recalls them when they’re off by single digits – so indifferent to range-per-charge being routinely off by double digits?
Just as it is now – finally, at last – conceded that the gene therapy drugs sold as “vaccines” did not prevent people from getting sick or spreading sickness to others, so also it is now acknowledged that EV range goes down – considerably – when it is cold. When power-drawing accessories are used. When the EV is driven uphill – and at real-world highway speeds.
These are important facts – and they are being purposefully, systematically obscured.
Why?
Well, for essentially the same reason that it was kept from people that the MRNA gene therapy drugs they were tricked (and pressured) into taking did not “stop the spread,” as they were explicitly told they would.
When you realize you’re being serially lied to, what is the proper conclusion to be drawn?
The question ought to answer itself.
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With all the hoopla over carbon (dioxide) “emissions”, you’d think that maybe one would stop and consider the possibility of mankind’s efforts to cleanse the earth being futile. Oh, but nooooo! Apparently, we must continue to act on nature’s behalf to the bitter end!
Over in the UK, Big Wind is blackmailing the UK, threatening to abandon them unless its government gives their companies a huge increase in subsidies…..
https://www.technocracy.news/wind-industry-blackmails-u-k-demands-huge-increase-in-subsidies/
Carnival Cruise Ship Emits More Toxic Fumes Than All Of Europe’s Cars, Study Finds
Lawmakers went after cars first in their ‘greenification’ crusade. Why not cruise ships?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/carnival-cruise-ship-emits-more-toxic-fumes-all-europes-cars-study-finds
With respect to the idea of blocking out the sun to stop global warming:
The Left’s gaggle of greens and eco justice warriors have conceded a major point: that the sun is the main driver of climate—NOT CO2.
They’ve also conceded that human activity doesn’t have the kinds of effects on climate as the scientific community widely thinks.
And another thing: The last time Nature took care of blocking out the sun thanks to some pretty heavy volcanic eruptions, as well as solar cycles, some not very pleasant things happened. Among them were the Plagues of Egypt, the fall of the Roman Empire and the subsequent Dark Ages, the Black Plague, and the Irish Potato Famine. On a micro scale, the colder 1970s was not a very prosperous time.
Conversely, the last time there was global warming, some very pleasant things happened. Among them were the flourishing of Greek, Roman, and Judaic literature, art, music, and culture, the Italian Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. And on a micro scale, the warmer 1980s and 1990s were quite prosperous.
Blocking out the sun may not decrease global warming. But it WILL increase global hunger. And when people get hungry, they get angry. And when people get angry, they start revolutions—which TPTB won’t like at all.
Bryce,
The psychopaths may implement lockdowns against the masses in order to prevent massive protests and claim it’s necessary to fight climate change. They claimed lockdowns were necessary in 2020 to “Flatten the curve of COVID ‘cases'”, but all that did was flatten the economy and RUIN countless lives in the process.
And they won’t even give out stimulus money to boot!
Spot on comment. To save us Bill Gates wants to block the sun which will starve us to death.
“We breath out CO2. They’re going to tax us just for living.”
Do we have a MAJOR PROBLEM with EV depreciation? Case Studies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfrwsQHjym0
Could the Biden Thing eventually call for climate lockdowns in the U.S.? Considering that they’re all in with Bill Gates’ insane idea to block the sun in the name of “Fighting climate change”, climate lockdowns might be the next insane idea they push…
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/climate-change-lockdowns-are-coming/
Would it be a cake-walk for the Power Elite to do a climate change lockdown?
I’m beginning to think it would.
https://forum.ericpetersautos.com/forums/topic/is-it-worldwide-or-are-just-americans-pre-programed-to-reject-truth/
Good morning, John –
I think that it is certain they will attempt “climate lockdowns.” They have given every indication they will. A few of them have actually said they may be “necessary.” It became inevitable, in my view, when the principle of “locking down” neighborhoods – and then schools – was accepted and so became the precedent for broader “lock downs,” which were in better times performed only within prisons.
Eric,
If the Biden Thing does attempt to foist climate lockdowns on the masses, will they stand up & say “NO!”? After seeing that COVID lockdowns did NOTHING other than flatten the economy and RUIN or even END countless lives, hopefully this time people won’t be fooled again. However, people who comply this time will be a shining example of “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
prisons and public schools…
Same thing, institutions where you are forced to conform.
July 4th was great!
You can drink and not feel guilty. You’re free! You’re free to think, don’t forget that.
Bought a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka, my choice. If the Russians can drink vodka, well, then, so can I. You are free to choose the booze of your desire. Made Caesars like the Canadians do, Lea and Perrins, the Canada one, Frank’s hot sauce, celery salt, Clamato, the Canadian Clamato, some ice, lime, pickle juice, olives, can’t miss there. You have to guzzy it up some.
A very refreshing drink on any occasion. After two or three, a Screwdriver will help a lot.
Vive la France! Time to roll out the guillotines!
Off with their heads!
Make Canada Great Again!
You can cripple any government just by driving trucks to the capital, like Ottawa in Canada.
It can be done. It will be traumatizing.
Not just trucks, but every clunker in existence, drive one to Warshington, Den of Creeps, and leave the clunker of any kind right there, have a ride out of town.
It’ll be a peaceful protest by using a useless vehicle, abandoned on a street corner, to demonstrate how useless the useless eaters are, useful idiots one and all.
It’ll be a clear message to the lunatics in charge of the asylums.
Depose Trudeau! Get rid of the bum. It’s Canada’s only hope.
It’ll be a car invasion!
Car Wars!
I am reminded of a headline I saw recently, something like,
‘Americans are drinking more now, than at any time since The Civil War’.
Hi Helot,
The Russians – in the old Soviet Union – drank heavily, too. Understandably.
So did poor old Boris Yeltsin. Once, when returning home from North America, his plane made a wee-hours refueling stop at Shannon, Ireland. A band comprised of local students was assembled to serenade Yeltsin on the tarmac. But Boris was too direly drunk to stumble out the door to greet them. He might have tumbled down the gangway stairs like Biden or something. 🙁
their goal is to restrict all movement of the proles
plan proceeding as scheduled
Was listening to a podcast about “green aviation fuel”. Message was clear: flying will become a lot less common and a lot more expensive
‘Why are those pushing EVs not being honest about EVs?’ — eric
Because they have an ideological ax to grind. Here, the com-symp Public Interest Research Group catapults the propaganda:
‘Arizona governments could save almost $283 million over the next 10 years if roughly 20,000 gasoline-powered light-duty vehicles in their fleets, due to be retired, were replaced with electric vehicles, according a 38-page report by the Public Interest Research Group.
‘Diane Brown, the executive director of Arizona PIRG Education Fund said the report “takes a very conservative view in regards to its findings. It did not make assumptions on the cost of the EVs decreasing, which we know is the trend. Nor did it factor in potential increases in gas prices which we know have been escalating.”
‘About two-thirds of the expected savings would come through lower fuel costs, with the rest coming from reduced maintenance typically required of electric vehicles. The report, Electric Vehicles Save Money for Government Fleets, does not factor in the cost of additional infrastructure, like EV charging points.’
https://tinyurl.com/7y6uvvxe
That’s right, folks — all that costly charging infrastructure is freeeeeeee: paid for with keystroke currency, created from thin air.
Gas is gonna go up, while kind-hearted monopolies keep electricity cheeeeeeap.
Oh, and we will all do 30 hours work for 40 hours pay! 🙂
EV fire almost 100 EV’s go up in smoke…..lol
Scenes From Hell As Massive Fire In Delhi EV Parking Space Guts Nearly 100 Vehicles
What happens when 2200 Ev’s (a new complex in planning stage will have 2200 parking spaces)….imagine 2200 lithium fire bomb EV’s parked), are parked in underground parking at an apartment block or office tower and they catch fire? You can’t take propane into underground parking, but you can take a fire bomb lithium battery car underground.
https://www.drivespark.com/off-beat/delhi-electric-vehicle-parking-fire-destroys-nearly-100-vehicles-036152.html
Great article as always. My “solution” is not to do a damn thing. OT – random awesome Simpsons clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfS2eQXMDrM&ab_channel=CadeKamS.
Free Market Capitalism means the consumer is inundated with CHOICE – and can make that choice WITHOUT GOVERNMENT LEGISLATED COERCION.
For example, if Electric Vehicles (EVs) really do represent value for money, there will be NO NEED FOR:
1) Government imposed mandates that specify a certain % of cars need to be EVs by a certain date
2) Government SUBSIDIES of many thousands (of taxpayers money) to entice people to buy one of these overpriced death traps that are prone to self-combust.
If one corporation does not provide a value for money product or service, you just vote with your feet. You can seek greener pastures elsewhere and patronize another business.
In this manner, all businesses are constantly on their toes and profit margins are wafer thin – because competition is fierce.
Those businesses that don’t consistently satisfy consumer wants and needs are SOON CULLED BY THE MARKET. (i.e: by the collective actions of people like you and me).
Only when government interferes, and prevents new entrants into the marketplace, when the smaller players are crushed by a maze of government imposed regulatory burdens, do we have situations where the fat/lazy established oligarchs can maintain their entrenched monopolistic market shares that enable them to offer their substandard and overpriced products and services.
That’s called crony corporatism. (Some mistakenly call it crony capitalism but there is precious little capitalism involved, so not correct to use that word).
i.e: where government bestows favors on their crony business pals by way of legislation, mandates, quotas, tariffs, import duties etc.
That’s what exists in the U.S.A. (and many other places) today and it most assuredly is NOT Free Market Capitalism.
Anarchy’s wrote: That’s called crony corporatism. (Some mistakenly call it crony capitalism but there is precious little capitalism involved, so not correct to use that word).
i.e: where government bestows favors on their crony business pals by way of legislation, mandates, quotas, tariffs, import duties etc.“
I disagree. We do not have crony capitalism. If we did we would all be driving big gas guzzling cars with minimal pollution/safety add ons. It is not the companies giving orders to the government it’s the other way around. We have “managerialism” where government bureaucracies dictate to the companies what they will do, even if it bankrupts the company.
Managerialism’s not driven by profit but by power and a desire to impose their version of life on everyone else.
If we had crony capitalism then Big Oil would be burying the “alternative energy” people, and giants corps like GM would be deciding what types of cars we will drive.
We used to have crony capitalism which I prefer because at least the profit motive is rational unlike managerialism which is more like a new age religion.
I never heard of Managerialism, which seems to be a new, polite word for Rule by Government “Experts”, but I prefer the more accurate old school description: Fascism.
It’s not Fascism, though very similar. Fascism however is strongly nationalistic and derives it’s authority from a loyalty to its people. Managerialism is outward looking, global, ignoring its own people in a quest to make the world better.
The global aspect is why it’s embraced by so many rich people, they’re not nazis, they’ve globalists. With the same agenda.
RE: “It is not the companies giving orders to the government it’s the other way around.”
‘Who Captures Whom? The Case of Regulation’
“In the shorter term, the interest groups use the state against the public. In the longer term, the state and its bureaucrats rule the roost. In the end, the government bureaucracies expand. Paperwork and soft jobs rule the industry, innovation and competition are eclipsed, and the public suffers from poor product quality and high prices.” …
https://mises.org/library/who-captures-whom-case-regulation
Also, this is deeply B.S.: “Fascism however is strongly nationalistic and derives it’s authority from a loyalty to its people.”
‘Mises and Fascism’
“The great danger threatening domestic policy from the side of Fascism lies in its complete faith in the decisive power of violence. In order to assure success, one must be imbued with the will to victory and always proceed violently. This is its highest principle. What happens, however, when one’s opponent, similarly animated by the will to be victorious, acts just as violently? The result must be a battle, a civil war.” …
https://mises.org/library/mises-and-fascism
Good work on helping Cashy with a course correction, helot. Sometimes education can be an uncomfortable process.
You’re both using 50 year old ideas to describe current situations. Yes Mises was a great thinker but he could not foresee the world today. People are different then they were in the 1920’s. While some ideas are timeless not all of human nature is. For example he could not possibly foresee the suicidal bent of modern society, nothing like that has ever happened before.
And Mister Liberty stop insinuating idiots like you are educating anybody. You are only making the world dumber with your out of date ideas and your childish insults.
Ideas do not get out of date. Just as people take millennia to undertake real change of any kind. The only change in the last century is the ability of the Psychopaths In Charge to lie to so many so often, and to kill ever more people ever more often. Take radio, television, the internet, the machine gun and aircraft for example. The principals remain.
Cashy, how about if you give it a rest with the ad hominem responses. Don’t be a loser.
I’ll give it a rest when you give it a rest.
It seems there’s no reaching that person. Willful ignorance cannot be unglued with logic and reason and such.
Has to learn the hard way?
A defender of Fascism unwilling to see.
… Psft.
‘What is Fascism?’
“Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police state as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive state the unlimited master of society.” …
https://mises.org/library/what-fascism-1
“you just vote with your feet.” Or your wallet. the only two votes that cannot be defrauded.
“When you realize you’re being serially lied to, what is the proper conclusion to be drawn?” – Eric
To conflate Carbon and CO2 as one and the same takes a seriously Pakled (Star Trek) population. One so dumb it would make Pakleds look like geniuses and would be a total waste of time to try to explain it.
Batteries lose power when cold…. Two thirds of the country live where it gets extremely cold should already be aware of that when trying to start their cars when cold.
Try explaining any of this and all you get is that cold dead stare where the lights are flickering but nobody’s home.
Martin Armstrong has an article where the WEF will outlaw most ownership by 2050. Of course it will be our children (whatever’s left after the kill shots we are giving them) by then. Who cares,,, right? By then they’ll be so propagandized that they will likely burn any cars still left.
A large part of the problem is that young people (students) are not taught real “science” s part of their education.
Schools are teaching “proper pronouns” for the LGBTQXYZ crowd as well as grooming students for such mentally aberrant behavior while ignoring the hard sciences.
Basic physics and the principles of “conservation of energy” and that “energy and matter are complimentary and each can be converted into the other” with appropriate losses being evident in the energy transfer.
This could be done in third-grade.
We are sliding down a deep abyss with the half-truths taking place in the sciences. (((They))) want us to abandon the most abundant, portable energy source on the planet which is constantly being replenished (petroleum products) while being forced to embrace unproven, unreliable EV technologies.
“Basic physics and the principles of “conservation of energy” and that “energy and matter are complimentary and each can be converted into the other” with appropriate losses being evident in the energy transfer.”- anarchist
Sorry Charlie,,, that’s all considered White Supremacist and extremely racist and no longer in the curriculum. Which is why the US cannot design and build a simple hypersonic missile that Russia, China and Iran already have in production… even with all those imported PhDs.
ESPECIALLY with all those imported PHDs. Fixed it for ya.
Pretty sure (((They))) know who you are talking about.
Too bad (((They))) are just tools of the idea that cannot die, this time coming from Asia. It’s all spelled out in Mao’s Little Red Book, available on Amazon for $8.00 in softcover. There were hundreds of copies handed out during Occupy Wallstreet, and even more during the mostly peaceful riots. Then when Orange started handing out cash (just like the Socialist Demoncrats shouted about), it just reenforced bad behavior.
Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! This time for sure! 🤪🤡🌏
Just saw a news item stating Taxachusetts has the 2nd highest electricity costs in the USSA; not sure who’s number 1 but we’re probably closing in on them. Meanwhile the commies in charge here are pushing to ban natural gas (not just stoves) and have everyone install heat pumps, and of course drive EEEEVEEEs. No way in hades is there the generation or grid capacity for any of this, so the net result will be to drive (no pun) us back to the stone age.
>not sure who’s number 1
So Cal Edison residential charges:
~$0.30/kwh Tier 1 (baseline)
~$0.40/kwh Tier 2
San Diego Gas & Electric (a.k.a. San Diego Gouge & Extort) rates are higher
I do not know rates for LADWP, Anaheim, or Riverside municipal utilities.
Hi Adi,
You win! Not that you wanted to, of course. My rates at present average out to $0.25/kwh; meanwhile my sister in Florida (FPL) pays less that half that, about $0.11/kwh. We’ve considered moving there since I retired but it’s just to gotdamn hot & humid for most of the year.
When I see people discussing EV’s & kilowatt prices & quick charging (rip off) stations, I think about the battery on my cordless drill.
Why aren’t the batteries on EV’s made to be easily swappable so rather than stopping to charge a battery, a person just swaps the battery for a fully charged one & the drained battery can get shipped to a charging station (or be left at home to trickle charge) instead of having quick charging stations erected all over the nation & the grid gets overtaxed?
…Of course, ’cause that would make sense, & nothing makes sense with the current EV setup except as a vehicle for further power & control by our overlords.
Helot, i’ve thought the same thing. it really wouldn’t be that difficult to do replaceable batteries and stations that do it only because they would be heavy. hell, could even design an eject feature in case it caught fire.
But as we all know, the whole EV thing is not about the environment, etc… it’s simply about limiting mobility.
>it’s just to gotdamn hot & humid for most of the year.
Plus, you get hurricanes, alligators and drug lords at no extra charge. 🙂
I read a comment from a FL. guy living in the North. He said every now & then he had to go sit in a sauna to feel a taste of home, … ‘er something like that.
I think of that whenever I think of moving to FL. … or whenever it gets as hot & humid here in Iowa as it does in FL.
And,… wouldn’t hunting alligators be fun & tasty? Idk.
Plus,… isn’t it always breezy & cool on the beach?
It actually gets hotter in Iowa than it does in FL because of that huge heat sink called the Atlantic or the Caribbean. But it is always humid there, except on those rare days when there’s a frost or freeze. Went to the Keys 45 years ago or so, and folks didn’t even bother closing their windows when it rained.
>Meanwhile the commies in charge here are pushing to ban natural gas
I suppose the next step would be to ban shoes, since
a) shoes are made of leather
b) leather comes from cows
c) cow farts cause “global warming.”
No rubber shoes, either since rubber is made from latex, which comes from the sacred and endangered rain forest, and most of the rubber production will be needed for wall paneling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOzsPpqGvjw
Ah, what to do?
All true but we are talking about people that live in a fantasy world. They frequently “legislate” shit that can’t be done and then back off.
It’s like “mandates” that in 5 years 80% of inner city kids score at the grade norm on their tests. It never happens but they don’t care, the passing of the law was the goal, just virtue signaling.
Society would collapse if people didn’t have cars to drive to work, get food, buy Chinese junk. The cities can’t hold all the people in the suburbs and rural areas that need to drive to survive.
It’s just virtue signaling on the environment. The last thing the government wants is hungry people marching on Washington. Most of these EV rules will be suspended, altered, delayed, or cancelled.
It just remains to see how much damage they do in the mean time.
Sandy Adams takes on the city council over net zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolCH1tKGnk
I think you might be on to something here Eric. Why market the EV as a luxury vehicle at all? Why not go ahead and own the obvious deficiencies? The Prius owners didn’t buy it for the stereo, they buy ’em because they’re a bunch of cheapskates who want to save a few bucks on gas. Most of them will proudly tell you this at the cocktail party.
If this climate thing is real, why not own it? “Yes, you need to scrap your gasser and here’s your electric Lada… BTW the battery pack isn’t waterproof so don’t drive in the rain. Oh it’s not pleasant at all, but that’s ok, you’re doing your part to save the planet. Sacrifice today so your kids have a tomorrow.”
I was looking at the new model Prius. It’s a sharp looking car. If I were buying it would be on the short list. But comparing it to the other hybrids out there it just becomes another one on the list, not the “look at me, I’m hypermiling!” vibe from the old boxy Prius.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/gm-second-quarter-2023-new-vehicle-sales.html
So GM’s % of sales that were EVs?
EVs accounted for just 2.8% of the company’s total sales during the first half of the year.
How do they plan to increase EV sales?
GM has several important EV launches during the second half of this year including new versions of the Chevrolet Silverado, Blazer and Equinox. It’s also launching a new electric delivery van and a $300,000-plus bespoke Cadillac EV called the Celestiq.
Nothing says mass market sales percentage increase like $300k and the word “bespoke.”
Martin Armstrong has a post up about the WEF’s push to end private ownership of vehicles. Those psychopaths don’t even want us owning an electric vehicle, but of course THEY’LL continue to own vehicles and private jets. As we’ve seen the past few years, they’re using their puppets in various governments around the world, including the U.S., to accomplish that wet dream…..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/wef-seeks-to-end-private-car-ownership-by-2050/
Excellent info/facts Eric. I hope this gets picked up by other platforms.
Two Newark firefighters were killed last night, on a ship loaded with 5,000 EeeeeVeeeees:
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at a New Jersey port, Newark’s fire chief said Thursday.
Responding firefighters found five to seven vehicles already on fire when they reached the 10th floor of the cargo ship at Port Newark around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night. The blaze quickly extended to the 11th and 12th floors, and as firefighters were pushed back by the intense heat, two of them were lost, Fire Chief Rufus Jackson said at a news conference.
Firefighters weren’t initially able to find their colleagues and outside rescue companies from around the state were called in. They were found and removed from the structure, but unfortunately they lost their lives, Jackson said.
https://tinyurl.com/4waxjmfm
How many more lives must be sacrificed to the Climate Cult??
Where are the fedgov’s saaaaaaaaaafety rules for these EeeVee death ships?
of course they never mention that they are EV’s. I have looked far and wide and no news source mentions EV’s, just ‘cars’. I know many Newark Firefighters, checking on them now.
There must be a reckoning about these vehicles. Everything about them is bad, but the fringe will just say ‘we have to break some eggs’.
From NJ.com:
“There are no electric cars nor hazardous cargo on board,” the company [Grimaldi Deep Sea] said.
https://tinyurl.com/bdds8pwf
A source I saw early this morning referred to EeeVees. Mistake … or cover-up underway? Guess we’ll wait and see.
“There are no electric cars nor hazardous cargo on board,” the company [Grimaldi Deep Sea] said.”
Of course not, they all burned up.
Not to mention the electric bikes/scooters that routinely catch fire in NYC. I think the city is about to ban them from being stored indoors.
I am watching a live feed from local NYC news. It’s a very big deal that 2 Newark Firefighters died.
That top deck has about 80 cars on it, all scrap now, plus ship damage, +. +. +.
When are the shipping companies, insurance companies going to say no more………
It’s one thing to ship on the back of a open trailer. Risk can be mitigated.
What about parking garages, etc…. of course home garages, etc… we all know this. the public is starting to see it now.
Unfortunately, anyone buying an IC vehicle right now, particularly the overpriced trucks from the domestic companies, is an enabler for the process.
Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
Ron Paul
Great article, that I will recommend on my blog today.
There IS a climate related crisis, however, called Nut Zero, which includes forcing people into electric vehicles while simultaneously reducing electric grid reliability with wind ad solar power. Those two conflicting trends will eventually add up to an electric grid crisis (aka more blackouts). The US electric grids already have more blackouts than any other developed nation. There are grid engineers who are leftists, and must know that, but they don’t speak up, or they don’t care. They are allowing politicians to pretend to be grid engineers. that can’t end well.
What very few people know is how far the world is from 100% green energy, based on Consumption of Primary Energy by Fuel Source, in 2022:
Rather than debating the need for Nut Zero (none), it is important to know how far away the world is from that goal:
For 2022, here is the GLOBAL PRIMARY energy consumption by fuel source:
Hydrocarbon fuels 86%
Traditional biomass (mainly wood) 7%
Nuclear less than 2%
Wind less than 2%]
Solar less than 1%
The coming climate crisis is a data-free prediction that was first reported in the 1979 Charney Report. This imaginary “crisis” has been “coming” in 10 years since 1979. Not that a slightly warmer planet would be a climate crisis. Because most of the warming from greenhouse gases is at night, during the coldest months of the year, and in the coldest nations. Think of warmer winter nights in Siberia as the “global warming poster child”
On another subject: Maks
Today I read and recommended a great article on masks by Andrea Widburg, one of the best political writers at American Thinker. There are not many mask articles outside of this website because Covid shot injuries and deaths articles get almost all of the attention. Based on a visit to a Salvation Army store in a black neighborhood yesterday, to buy a few dozen used 75 cent CDs, I observed only Black women wearing masks (perhaps 25% of them), but there were no Black men and no White people wearing masks. This was during a workday, so I assume none of these people have jobs. That percentage may never change.
The anti-maskers here will LOVE this article about college “educated” leftists and their love of masks:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/a_facebook_post_about_air_travel_reveals_the_leftist_bubbles_impenetrability_.html
At the link below are charts showing trends of Global Primary Energy Consumption and Atmospheric CO2 Levels over the past few decades.
Also charts for China’s large portion of the total.
There has been virtually no change to the percentage (86% in 2022) of hydrocarbon fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) used for global primary energy (which includes the subset of secondary energy, or electricity) for a long time.
https://honestclimatescience.blogspot.com/2023/07/honest-energy-and-co2-charts-nuclear.html
I still see a lot of masks around Austin, but we haven’t been in town since the cowards at the Texas Supreme Court finally decided last week that authority about masks resided with the Governor … a year late and *after* the Legislature passed a bill designating such.
Drove my Ford truck four miles yesterday, one trip for some good water and 10 gallons of gasoline, the other two miles for beer.
Sunday to Thursday, a total of four miles.
An EV would lose charge every day. If you don’t drive it, it will still lose range, can’t be helped. If it is five percent less in five days, that’s 10 miles with a 200 mile range for the battery. If the EV is charging, costs money no matter what.
It will probably cost more to have an EV just sit there than a regular ICE vehicle.
The Ford truck has half a tank of gas right now. To drive 50 miles costs approximately 10 dollars these days.
The cables from the battery to the starter are kind of heavy duty, not bell wire there at the battery posts.
Burning gas in the Ford tractor is more fun, doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for fuel.
Chop wood, haul water, enlightenment guaranteed.
In zero degree weather in northern Minnesota in December 2022, Ford engineers found EV range reductions of from 40% to 60% when testing a variety of competitive EVs. More than they expected.
Range could also decline 2% to 4% a day just sitting parked outdoors in zero degree F. weather.
Zero degrees F. is a worst case test, but batteries obviously do not like very cold weather (or very hot weather).
Most of the premature EV battery replacement stories I’ve seen seem to originate from someplace in Florida, particularly on the Peninsula south of Gainesville, where “cold” weather is rarely below 40 degrees and the Gulf marine environment is a constant.
Ford used to have a test facility outside of Fort Myers, but I don’t know if that is still the case. Regardless, the company knows the numbers for hot/humid as well as cold.
‘Why are those pushing EVs not being honest about EVs?’ — eric
Norman Franklin mentioned this yesterday. I had to look it up:
‘Grand Canyon National Park’s aging buses will soon be replaced with a new electric and compressed natural gas fleet. Supporters say it’ll reduce pollution and improve air quality and visitor experiences at the park.
‘The grant is part of the Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects Program, which received more than $27 million in infrastructure funding for bus upgrades at the Grand Canyon. The sweeping 2021 infrastructure law was championed by Arizona Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema.’
https://tinyurl.com/4up2v9px
Unnamed Northern Arizona University students cribbed this article from a press release at senate.gov.
Journalism? It cites unidentified ‘supporters,’ but offers no rebuttal from hulking Luddites and foot-draggers like my goodself. If asked, I’d gladly have spewed a few words of vituperation.
Missing also is the unit cost of these EeeVee buses (probably double the ICE version), plus the exorbitant cost of adding charging infrastructure at the geographically remote South Rim.
Taxpayers are getting scammed. But numbers are hard; numbers make your head hurt. 🙁
‘Why are those pushing EVs not being honest about EVs?’ — eric
Leftists are not honest about any subject. Why would they change for EV’s? One HAS to be dishonest to sell socialism and rule by leftist “experts” fascism. It comes with the territory.
I publish a blog that recommends 40 conservative articles every morning, with the authors working to refute leftist lies and censorship. Leftist lies are supported by most of the mass media, and they lie faster than we conservatives and libertarians can refute the lies. From masks and Covid shots to the coming climate crisis and Nut Zero. One leftist lie after another.
At least conservative writers generally try to tell the truth. But leftist authors spin a preferred leftist narrative. Truth is not a leftist value.
I’ve got some bad news for you friend. Conservatives have conserved nothing. I don’t know about others but no way in hell I’m even perusing 40 articles a day. I no longer need convincing, we all know leftist lies and censorship is a thing… You are peaching to the back of the choir or maybe the new members. We really have no power outside our immediate circles, but your enthusiasm is duly noted and, as I like to oft repeat, my fathers house has many mansions. None of them though require masking to enter.
As Eric pointed out, they’re always changing the meaning of words to shape the debate. Its a magicians trick performed flawlessly, the characters in Orwells instruction manual would be beaming with pride. They have in effect told each other all the lies they’ve ever known. Must be hard for Alphabet/GovCo to keep it straight at this point.
You never hear about carbon sequestration. Its a natural process, completely Biome friendly where brush and other green waste is buried, creating new fertile earth for the growing of things. It all comes down to Science, and how nothing will get back to sanity until we abandon $cience.
Oh man, did you catch that? “At least conservative writers -> generally try <- to tell the truth."
Psft. Conservatives talk a good game, i.e. smaller goobermint & Da Constitution, however; they're all hat & no cattle.
And, they "generally" lie.
Democrats & Republicans = Two Wings of the same bird of prey.
Generally, that is.
I caught that helot.
I’m to the point now where most of the red hat blue hat stuff just floats by me, like the chum slick of spoon drift wreckage it is. More and more I can see theres no convincing the opposition of anything. We have very little common ground with them. The best we can do is sharpen each others reasoning and thought skills.
All the voices on both sides screaming at each other seem designed to make us all crazy. I just pick a handful I trust, like Eric, and a few others. Its really easy to sort out where people stand pretty quickly. Plus if I’m ever going to level up in this life, the bigger questions are the ones I should be earnestly seeking answers to.
40+ years of following or being involved in politics and not a damn thing has changed. Fractional reserve banking is still a Boa constrictor choking the life out of us. The rich and powerful do what they want without consequence. All wars are still banker wars.
My gardening skills, thats where I get the most bang for my buck. The last three years, every year has topped the one before. So….I wont be reading 40 conservative articles a day. 4 maybe 5 tops, then maybe a good old book.
Gardening is very therapeutic. It’s just you, your plants, and God. Hopefully enough rain, and hopefully no invasion of voracious insects or fungi.
I’m so fortunate with gardening. Its one of the few things I don’t have trouble learning. Its also one of the few places where its easy to commune w/God. Every year it becomes more intuitive. We have it on a automated drip system, which makes watering simple.
Top dressing w/compost 3-4 times a season is so easy. Get the timing right and everything else seems to fall into place. We got a bonus this year. We inherited my moms Maine Coon cat and he’s decided he loathes grasshoppers. Kills the things by the handful everyday. Just took awhile to get him to understand we aren’t impressed by him bringing them inside.
From the article:
>The Grand Canyon is one of the country’s most visited national parks with nearly 6 million people making the trip there each year.
For comparison, population of a few western states, in millions
AZ 7.3
CO 5.8
ID 1.9
NM 2.1
NV 3.1
UT 3.3
and counties:
Clark Co, NV 2.3
Maricopa Co, AZ 4.5
Riverside Co, CA 2.4 Grand Canyon National Park (NP), Arizona, world-renowned for its breathtakingly iconic views, is affected by air pollution from coal-fired power plants from nearby states, mining, oil and gas sources, transportation, and urban and industrial pollutants from Mexico and California.
Conclusions:
1. Using the cleanest propulsion method for buses operating within the park is an excellent idea, but is likely a very small component of the air pollution problem @ Grand Canyon, which is, unfortunately, very real.
2. Source of the electric power to power battery-electric vehicles will be crucial to assessment of any possible net reduction of local air pollution.
So who supplies electrical power to the South Rim? Why, Arizona Public Service, of course, via high voltage lines from Williams, AZ.
According to Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Arizona
>The corresponding electrical energy generation mix in 2022 was 41.6% natural gas, 29.4% nuclear, 12.4% coal, 5.1% hydroelectric, 9.9% solar, 1.5% wind, and 0.2% biomass.
https://www.aps.com/en/About/Our-Company/Clean-Energy
>Palo Verde [Nuclear] Generating Station has been the nation’s largest power producer of any kind for more than 25 years
>In the near term, APS will use existing power sources such as coal and natural gas to maintain reliable service,
Such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_Generating_Station#:~:text=In%20January%202020%2C%20Arizona%20Public,scheduled%20closure%20date%20of%202038.
>The Four Corners Generating Station is a 1,540 megawatt coal-fired power plant located near Fruitland, New Mexico,
APS is planning a new 41 megawatt substation @ GCNP to deal with the anticipated increase in power consumption due to EVs, including buses.
https://www.williamsnews.com/news/2023/jan/03/electric-vehicles-expected-use-40-percent-grand-ca/
>APS and NPS staff are projecting that up to nearly 16 megawatts load capacity will be needed during peak times for the planned EV infrastructure in the park,” Parrish said. “The majority of which will be for charging the Battery-Electric buses at the planned bus maintenance facility.
Which gives new meaning to the phrase “geographically remote,” which does in fact describe large areas of rural Coconino County, some of which are not served by APS, or any other public utility.
Pretty excellent and in depth info Adi, much of which I was unaware of. The only nit I have is ‘Air pollution in the Canyon.’ I go there a few times a year and the only time there is ever an issue is Fires. Its always smoke, either from forrest fires or the Navajo generating plant. This idea of pollution from Phx, Vegas, or LA is IMO nonsense. Maybe I misunderstood you, if so, I’m a dumbass, but I don’t think ‘air pollution inside the park’ really has much to do with their narrative.
Hi, Norman,
>forest fires or the Navajo generating plant.
http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/Improve/measurement-of-haze-and-visual-effects-mohave/
MPP is now shut down, as is NGS, with Four Corners to follow within the decade.
Interesting stuff Adi,
I read the executive summary and even though scientifically way above my pay grade, it seems well reasoned, well documented. In other words the way Science used to be/is supposed to be. I don’t get the difference though between MPP/MOPP? If it is what I think, then its the hydroelectric plant at Davis Dam. Is that also where the sensors are?
I don’t doubt there is air pollution in GCNP from Vegas, especially during times of extreme thermal inversion haze. That whole area between Vegas and GCNP is a state sized dust bowl as well. Lots of NG fired plants around but I never thought they had any significant emissions.
The report seems centered around the 90s and at that time the four corners coal fired plants ran on full tilt. Even with all the haze in So Cal I just cant see how much of that ever reaches over the mountains to the GC. If it did how come when I drive down the hill into the LA basin I see it (un)clear as day and not before? IDK just my pea brain trying to logic it out.
Hi, Norman,
Here’s the poop on Mojave Power Station:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohave_Power_Station
It was a coal fired plant which was built by Bechtel in Laughlin, NV, and opened in 1971. One interesting thing, which I did not know until I read the Wikipedia article, is that the coal was supplied as coal slurry via pipeline from the Black Mesa Mine in Kayenta, AZ.
RE: temperature inversions
As most intelligent people know, the inversion layer, if it exists at all, can vary greatly as to altitude, strength of the inversion (temp profile), etc.
>Even with all the haze in So Cal I just can’t see how much of that ever reaches over the mountains to the GC.
I expect you are right about that in the case where the inversion layer exists, which is a significant amount of the time. Besides that, contaminants will diffuse laterally and vertically, perpendicular to the wind direction (so-called Gaussian diffusion model)
https://tinyurl.com/495d8s3z
as they travel, meaning they are progressively diluted the farther they get from the source.
From where I live in Corona, looking north towards the San Gabriel Mountains, the highest peak is Mt. San Antonio (one of the “three saints”) at 10,064 ft., and the inversion layer is generally below that, when it exists. Not always, however, and in the winter, after a rainstorm, the air is pristine, with no inversion layer, and the snow on the San Gabriels is lovely. In those cases, the prevailing westerly winds would tend to carry whatever is in the atmosphere to points east. Whether very much of what is there gets as far as Grand Canyon, I would regard as somewhat unlikely, but I have not studied the matter, neither first hand nor by reading other peoples work, so, honestly, I do not know.
>drive down the hill into the LA basin
You mean, down Cajon Pass into the brown cloud, right? 🙁
BTDT. 🙁
> Lots of NG fired plants around but I never thought they had any significant emissions.
NG is certainly the cleanest of hydrocarbon fuels, and has long been the standard in SoCal and other places where emissions are a major concern. But, these days, there are some very vocal crazies around, who seem to be opposed to modern industrial civilization, from what I can see.
For example,
https://www.corvus-rising.net/blog/posts/racist-elements/
There is just no hope for such people. Let them freeze in the dark, as the old saying goes, and leave the rest of us, sane humans, to live our lives in peace.
Just sayin’…
Hi Adi,
I never knew MPP was a coal fired plant. Learn something new everyday. I also learned that Davis dam is the only earthen dam from Glenn Canyon down. I don’t know how I ever missed that, spending so many hours boating on both sides of it.
Both ways into So Cal from the I10 or the I15 always seem ugly once you crest the hill and start descending into So Cal. Not sure which is worse. I haven’t driven from Vegas in a long time. It used to be great, We would leave for Long Beach/San Diego on Friday, the road almost always empty going south, Miles and miles of bumper to bumper parking lot going North to Vegas. Retuning, it was always the opposite, no traffic going home, all of it leaving LV. At least once you get within a few miles of the coast you guys have clean air.
This thing with the NG is disturbing. NG is, IMO the cleanest, cheapest, most readily available fuel across the continent. Anyone against it should be made to freeze in the dark. Problem being those types have hearts so dark they want us all to be forced into their Apocalyptic fever dream.
Thank you, Adi, for sussing out the details:
‘A new 41 MW power substation at Grand Canyon South Rim Village is anticipated to be operational in early 2024.
‘The project is estimated to cost $16.8 million and includes removal and construction of 2 miles of high voltage overhead lines.’ — Williams AZ News
So, although other new loads besides electric buses (16 MW peak demand) will be served, basically $27 million of EeeVee buses necessitated a $17 million new substation to charge them.
As Senator Kelly would say, the more we pay, the more we save! 🙂
https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/airquality.htm
How many autos?
How many local transit buses?
How many shuttle buses from BNSF Williams Junction?
How many forest fires?
Can you say, “fart in a windstorm?”
“if there really is a “climate crisis” – in italics to emphasis what the word is generally taken to mean, that being an imminent disaster”, then why in hell are private aircraft and stretch limousines not outlawed? Or even commercial air travel for that matter, if there really is a “crisis”.
The climate crisis is coming in ten years along with fusion power and better EV batteries. They have all been predicted since the 1970s. Humans are really bad at predicting the future. Leftists are really good at using scary predictions to create fear, which allows them to increase government power.
‘the terminology used to define the debate shifts’ — eric
Orwell noticed the weaponization of language 75 years ago. Here’s how it plays out today, for a journalist tangentially associated with the designated non-person Julian Assange:
‘The Department of Justice and FBI are pressuring multiple British journalists to cooperate with the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, using vague threats and pressure tactics in the process. My lawyer explained that he had been given a surprising “fact” by the police at the end of a conversation:
“We thought your client should know that we know ‘James Ball’ doesn’t exist. I’m sure there are all sorts of possible legitimate reasons an investigative journalist would use an assumed identity, but it might be helpful for him to be aware we know this.”
I burst out laughing in shock. My name is my actual birth name, has never changed, and (having checked records to make sure) there was no secret adoption or similar of which I had been unaware.’
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-doj-pressuring-journalists-help-131033498.html
Such are the sinister head games played by the bent DOJ/Cheka of Merrick Beria ‘Garland’ [not his real name] as it pursues the liquidation of Assange: maybe your whole life is a lie; maybe your ‘daddy’ was a state-appointed crisis actor; maybe you’re losing your mind.
We are governed by depraved jackals.