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[smith199]

I do find it curious that some people professing to be all about the human condition, as one of the highest priorities, have no difficulty turning a blind eye if it supports their pursuit of power. Nothing tells a more true story than actions. Yes, the ‘words’ are to seek favor from certain groups. But the actions show the priority is putting the political ideology in power and keeping it there. Nothing is more important to them.

I think EVs are appropriate for use in high density urban environments. But they may not work as well for mainstream transportation. And I think the cost of ownership is a deal killer. You pay a premium price to purchase, then 7 years later, you junk it when the battery needs replacing. An expensive disposable car!

I have a great many concerns about solar power too. Near the top is just how cheap is solar? No, I am not talking about a solar panel made in China.

I refer to a solar energy electrical generation system providing ‘primary power’ to the population of the USA. What does that cost? Mind boggling I am certain. That much money may not exist. Printing more inflation for Joe debt?

We already know it is an intermittent power source, but exactly how inefficient and expensive will solar energy actually be? And since we will need solar energy 24/7/365 what are the challenges? Will it be reliable? Affordable? Safe? Is it really where we want to invest the wealth and well-being of all? Solar supporters, I promise an open mind, so convince me if you can.

Otherwise, I detect electricity rationing in our evenings in the future after the sun sets. How will the batteries in millions of EVs get charged? Looks as if we will not only need home battery chargers for the EVs, we will need home generators for the electricity as well. Who knew? Oh, yes. The benefits of cheap solar energy.

To the progressives, that money is only tax dollars. And those trillions can be replaced with more tax increases, right? Plan A I am sure.

Except you cannot tax earnings that do not exist after the economic collapse of the country. And billionaires will only relocate to another place where electricity is from nuclear power or coal. What irony. Want to see what happens to an economy without electricity? Check out what is happening in South Africa right now.

Sadly, there is little in this report that makes anything better for anyone in this country, except progressive politicians and their acolytes. Anything else besides natural gas, nuclear, or coal as primary sources are, at this time, suspect.

Wind and solar are fine as supplements to these, but I cringe when I hear of plans to make them primary. They have yet to prove we can trust in them and there is much at risk on a gamble.

We had better drill Tau 2. And every other prospect that can be identified. That is the best way to keep energy plentiful, prices affordable, and the power on.



Mrs. Smith

[smith199]

FYI only…. From the website IssuesInsights.com:

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/03/28/evs-are-the-yugo-of-the-21st-century/

‘EVs Are The Yugo Of The 21st Century’

Way back in the mid-1980s, communist Yugoslavia exported the Yugo, a compact car that sold for around $4,000. It was so poorly made that bumping into a pole at 5 mph could total it.

Fast forward to today, and a new class of cars has a similar problem. A minor accident can cause a total loss, even if the car’s been driven only a few miles. The only difference is that these cars aren’t cheap imports from some godforsaken socialist state. These are state-of-art electric vehicles that come with an average sticker price of $55,000.

Why are insurance companies totaling low-mileage EVs that have been in a fender bender?
For the same reason you could total a new Yugo when backing out of a parking spot. The cost of repair is exorbitant.

As Reuters reported recently, “For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents,” which means the only viable option is to replace the battery, which represents about half the cost of the car.

A replacement battery for a $44,000 Tesla Model 3 can cost up to $20,000.

One expert told Reuters that Tesla’s Model Y has “zero repairability” because its battery is built into the structure of the car.

As a result, drivers are finding that even a minor accident ends up with their shiny new EVs being hauled away to the junkyard.

Reuters’ search of EV salvage sales in the U.S. and Europe found a large number of low-mileage EVs made by Tesla, Nissan, Hyundai, and others being scrapped.

“At Synetiq, the UK’s largest salvage company, head of operations Michael Hill said over the last 12 months the number of EVs in the isolation bay – where they must be checked to avoid fire risk – at the firm’s Doncaster yard has soared, from perhaps a dozen every three days to up to 20 per day,” Reuters reports.

Insuring an electric car is already 27% more expensive, on average, than a gasoline-powered one. If insurers keep totaling new EVs with minor damage, those rates will only go up.

This won’t be a problem just for EV owners. You can bet that the environmentalists pushing electric cars will soon start complaining that insurance companies are “discriminating” against EVs and demanding that they spread those costs around more widely – forcing owners of conventional cars to subsidize EVs.

EV advocates say not to worry. Car makers, they say, are designing batteries to be more modular and replaceable. They promise that repair costs will eventually come down, and all will be well.

Maybe so, but that’s why force-feeding this technology is so reckless.

In a normal market, carmakers would work out such kinks before mass producing a vehicle, much less converting their entire fleets over to a new and relatively untested technology. If they couldn’t resolve problems of affordability, reliability, and repairability to consumers’ satisfaction, automakers would scrap the effort and move onto something else.

But our elites think they know better. And they want new cars to be 100% electric within a decade. So, carmakers feel like they have little choice but to plow ahead.

Which brings up another way that today’s EVs are like the Yugos of yesteryear.

One auto critic said of the Yugo that it “had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint.”

That was probably literally true in the case of the Yugo. But it is essentially the situation with EVs today. Consumers aren’t banging on dealership doors demanding EVs. Ford reported last week that its e-car division is losing billions of dollars a year.

Car companies are pouring money into electric cars only because the government is holding a gun to their heads, saying build EVs or die.




Mrs. Smith