The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles
American Thinker,
by
Jerry Korth
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
2/8/2022 8:44:49 AM
America may be headed for a new type of energy crisis. While fracking technology still gives us relative energy independence, there is a distinct possibility that an electricity energy crisis awaits us. What if the demand for electricity significantly exceeds the supply over the next decade? We’d have soaring prices and rolling brownouts. That crisis could easily be triggered by the electric vehicles (EVs) Biden’s administration is pushing.
By his Executive Order and an associated Action Plan, Biden’s administration calls for 50% of all new vehicles sold in America by 2030 to be EVs.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 2/8/2022 8:49:33 AM (No. 1065312)
I say again - if it runs, hang on to it.
24 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/8/2022 9:03:30 AM (No. 1065329)
Biden can issue an executive order calling for 50% of new vehicles manufactured be electric by 2030, but he can't make people buy them. You'd better buy a good internal combustion powered vehicle and maintain it well even though Biden's order will go into the waste can. When the power goes off, a lot of people will be freezing.
19 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 2/8/2022 9:04:33 AM (No. 1065332)
Well, no duh, the grid has been grinding under for years. Even without a single electric car we will soon overload it exactly as described in the article.
Fix the grid.
19 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Phantomll 2/8/2022 9:18:45 AM (No. 1065339)
I wonder how all the people who have :EVs are faring with the winter storms power outages.
16 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/8/2022 9:20:31 AM (No. 1065341)
How many households and business / office buildings can a nuclear power plant support? That's how many nuclear power plants we're going to need. There's no way air and solar can compete with nuclear. By the way, oil isn't going anywhere. Oil is used for more things than it is for fuel. Take a look around at all the stuff made of plastic. Then there's fabrics like nylon. Drive on any asphalt roads? Have synthetic tires on your car?
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
qr4j 2/8/2022 9:27:43 AM (No. 1065344)
Sometimes I think politicians and their cronies really believe that, if they want something, they can "magic" it into being. At least that is what their actions often suggest. The push to get rid of fossil fuels before there are viable replacements as sources of energy is a case in point.
I question the need to get rid of fossil fuels in the first place. But, for the sake of argument, let's say you need to and do just that. Where is the energy going to come from? Can the average person afford it? And that takes me back to my question: Do we really need to get rid of fossil fuels in the first place?
It is hard for me not to think "climate change" is more about control than anything else. The elites will still have their seawalls around their multi-million dollar mansions in Hawaii and Martha's Vineyard (Obama). They will still be able to profit off Communist China (Biden and family). They will still be able to push for war (Bush and Biden). They will still get to have their foundations and babes-on-call (Hillary and Bill). And they will get to control US!
12 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 2/8/2022 9:28:13 AM (No. 1065346)
Congress needs to act to put an end to this dictatorship over transportation and energy. Everything that Brandon is doing can be traced back directly to the dereliction of duty by Congress. They put in mush-mouth legal mumbo-jumbo, then give the executive branch the power to make the “regulations” - a fancy legal term for laws - to enact the legislation. That is why so-called Bills are over two thousand pages, and the Federal Register numbers into the hundreds of thousands of pages with fine print making up the vast majority of it.
We are trapped in a tyranny of Bureaucrats whose sole job is to perpetuate themselves. We need a Congress willing to put an end to it; but, they won’t.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/8/2022 9:39:46 AM (No. 1065361)
Here's another inconvenient truth about Electric vehicles: cold weather can cut your range in half. And since staying warm in subzero temperatures requires battery power, you are in deep trouble if you are stuck in traffic or behind an accident as many liberals have discovered this winter. Begging for shelter from big rigs or other drivers in gasoline powered cars should make them think twice about the safety of their eco-friendly ride.
22 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/8/2022 10:11:19 AM (No. 1065400)
"There isn’t nearly enough electrical power available or in the pipeline to fuel 50 million new EVs by 2030. That would require an additional 150 billion kWh’s per year of deliverable electricity. Even the largest power plants only deliver about 8 billion kWh’s per year."
Voodoo power can never meed the needs of the baseload.
16 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 2/8/2022 10:16:04 AM (No. 1065411)
Fix the grid? Surely you jest. Leftists are shutting down power plants everywhere they can.
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/8/2022 10:18:01 AM (No. 1065415)
Anyone else see this leading up to 'centralized' energy production? No need to keep fuel at home since everything will run on electricity. Sounds like the type of plan that totalitarians would come up with. It's for the greater good! We're saving the planet! Our 'benevolent and enlightened' government can ration energy usage if need be. What could possibly go wrong? We're going backwards folks.
11 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
john56 2/8/2022 10:41:40 AM (No. 1065457)
Shucks, we're gonna end up like Cuba. People driving old (gas powered) cars, pulling parts from junked vehicles to avoid driving around in Uncle Joe's golf carts.
Remember that old Johnny Cash song about how he built a car from parts he stole each day from the auto plant.
"Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56
'57, '58' 59' automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67
'68, '69, '70 automobile"
11 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Marzon 2/8/2022 11:08:03 AM (No. 1065494)
Might be a good time to invest in companies that build power plants...
5 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Snortleblatt 2/8/2022 11:08:24 AM (No. 1065495)
As conservatives, we can do better than the fear mongering in this article and the follow-up comments. I am a conservative and have been all of my life. Biden/Brandon is a corrupt grifter and an idiot and was even before his current dementia. His stupid EV mandate is an unconstitutional power grab that is doomed to failure and will cause untold problems before we can correct it legislatively. HOWEVER, I own a Tesla car, not because I am a greenish but because it is a great, fun car. It was an extravagant purchase, but we could afford it. We put solar panels on the roof because my accountant wife calculated that investing in them would yield an 8% return over their usable lifetime, based on current electric rates. They power our house and the car. The only impact on our utilities is that it acts as our battery storage at night. The car handles awesomely in snow, and some of those EV owners stuck in below freezing traffic figured out after their initial panic that they were safer and warmer than if they had been in gas powered vehicles. If left to market forces, EVs would do fine. Or at least, Tesla's would (probably a late part of why Brandon won't acknowledge their existence).
Besides, as an electrical engineer, I SHOULD be driving an electric car!!
6 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
AltaD 2/8/2022 11:11:34 AM (No. 1065500)
FTA: Which means 2030 will either collapse the energy grid or result in a lot of cars that won’t go.
Gee, you don't suppose that's their goal, saddling Americans with cars that can't go. It's just another method of control, of "encouraging" more people to live in cities and rely on public transportation and bicycles to get around.
10 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/8/2022 11:33:20 AM (No. 1065525)
Trapped for 24 hours on I-95 during last year's storms. Yea, electric. If any driver came to my door during that event, I would ask: 'do you have an electric car? If not, you can sleep on the couch. If yes, you can go back to your car.
7 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 2/8/2022 11:48:08 AM (No. 1065551)
Electric cars are junk. Short range, with expensive, environmentally harmful batteries that periodically burst into flames that cannot be extinguished by normal means. They are another step away from freedom towards slavery.
11 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 2/8/2022 12:14:36 PM (No. 1065593)
Silly BS, from the electrical engineer, who should know better.
10 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
franq 2/8/2022 1:27:06 PM (No. 1065695)
Someone better inform these fools that there isn't enough lithium.
6 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
NamVet70 2/8/2022 2:06:08 PM (No. 1065747)
Probably not a problem if you count golf carts, electric scooters, skate boards and electric trolling motors ( boats are also vehicles) as electric vehicles. Especially if you start giving subsidies for all of the above.
3 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Owney 2/8/2022 2:38:49 PM (No. 1065774)
Another fun fact: Toxic cobalt is used in the batteries. It's mined by children in the Congo.
4 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
paral04 2/8/2022 4:29:26 PM (No. 1065883)
These EV fanatics don't know where electricity comes from. Unfortunately, when they do, it will be too late. Glad I am old and don't have to take this nonsense much longer. Sorry for my descendants though,
2 people like this.
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