Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm …
… recently took 4-day EV caravan trip across the southeast to “draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars.”
What happened next is like a scene out of VEEP…
Steve from Rockwood – The irony is not lost that a politician is in an Armada of high-priced vehicles to make a point on Earth sustainability and a young family with children appear to be in the way.
Make way for the Energy Queen; out of the way peasants!
If they were serious about an alternative fuel they would have started to faze it in with Hybrids that use gas and electric I have a Rav 4 hybrid it uses and needs both the transmission is the electric motors two and can work to power and assist the combustion (gas) engine and also charge its battery downhill, braking coasting. I get 42Mpg that was my motivation
There is only one period in that mess of messages. Your pitiful verbiage is not understandable. Thoughts running into and after each other like Liberals running after taxpayers’ money is no way to communicate. Stop being so lazy and punctuate your stuff properly.
I am opening a Grammar Nazi themed restaurant called “Punk! Chew! Ate!”
I don’t care if battery cars are better, and I’m not saying they are, I care that I’m being forced to drive one in the future…if the grid that can’t support the coming surge (heh) of battery cars is operating, if batteries are available, if a car is available, if I can even afford the car itself, if the electricity is even affordable, if The Authoritarian-Prog Government doesn’t just say, “white men can’t drive anymore.”
I have ridden a couple horses…
The idea is; you will ride public transit, Granholm et al will have EVs.
Think about it. This solves “climate change”, reduces traffic congestion, and essentially eliminates car theft.
“Perfection” Soviet style.
Half the cost of fuel and twice the price for the vehicle, doesn’t sound economical.
Add in the headaches of wait times, charging station availability, cost of replacement batteries, and potential uninsured lithium fires it seems worse. Batteries and cold weather don’t fair well either.
Of course the “convenience of home charging” only applies to those with actual overnight parking with access to a charger.
At the end of the day, you’ve accomplished overcoming all that but have helped contribute to the strain on already fragile power grids in many places, and simply displaced your “Carbon emissions” to somewhere else to get the electricity.
If someone wants the expense and novelty of an EV go for it, just leave everyone else who doesn’t alone.
Buddy, they are garbage and always will be. The planet does not have enough crap in the ground to make the batteries that would be needed to replace all the ICE vehicles on the roads worldwide. Idiots need to be fixed before they kill us all.
If we were still using horses and buggies there would be five billion more horses in the world and the streets would be waist deep in manure. Not to mention all the horse flatulence spewing methane into the atmosphere. What a stupid thing to romanticize.
Will just have to go back stagecoach and trains trolley cars
“Clearly, we need more high-speed chargers, particularly in the South,” Granholm told me at the end of her trip.
Really, Madam Secretary? Don’t you see a tiny little problem?
What problem?
Would you be a good sport and play along with me on this matter?
Sure.
Spell cat as in catastrophic.
C-A-T.
Good.
Now spell dog as in dogmatic.
D-O-G.
Very good.
Now spell f*uck as in electricity.
There is no f*uck in electricity.
No sh*t Madam Secretary!
The NPR story is a rah rah EV propaganda piece, and it includes the, ‘people used to use horses, but then we transitioned to vehicles’ example. That’s right, but people chose gas powered vehicles because they were better and they wanted to, not because they were forced too.
Why “…better, and they wanted to…”? 1) before departing on your trip with the horse and buggy, you had to get the horse ready. Wipe it down, throw on harness and assorted trails to the wagon, 2) go to your destination…at a snails pace, even compared to the earliest cars, 3) make sure water and feed were available on route, if necessary, 4) on return home, you had to take care of the horse, unhook from the wagon, wipe him down, feed, water and return to yard, barn or carriage house for the night.
The car? 1) get in, start ‘er up (or reverse order, depending on the type of car), 2) go to your destination, (reliable fuel became available very quickly in the transition phase), 3) on return home, put it where you want it, and turn it off.
More than anything else, the car freed up time for the person who owned one, instead of a horse. You didn’t have to look after it on days you didn’t use it. E-cars do nothing to free up time for the owner. With the lack of reliable charging stations, lack of range, etc, e-cars do not provide any advantage over ICE vehicles.
‘Free time’ for the owner was the biggest advantage to early cars. When I went from full-time work to retirement, I gave myself a 1 1/2 year ‘transition’ phase of part-time work. I quickly came to the conclusion that my free time was more valuable than doing an extra 5 or 8 hour shift, and would pass on every extra call-in shift offered. I don’t regret that at all.
Another delightful feature of horses: they eat, and, consequentially, sh*t, even when they are not working, so you have to feed them and shovel manure day in and day out. Advantage: motor vehicles.
Another idea that is so great, it will only succeed at the point of a gun.
I watch the Cottage channel. There was a documentary on something that involved EVs. The narrator claimed (opposite what all the others claim) that EVs are significantly worse for the environment because of tailings ponds, mines, manufacturing required for EV production.
It was the first time I’ve heard something like that in one of those documentaries.
I think we need to refer to EV’s as ERSV’s – Earth Raping Slave Vehicles.
I will use that, thanks.
Did they leave out the common slavery of adults and children involved in getting some of the raw materials for the manufacture?
Blood Batteries – Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t mention that when he shills for Chinese EV companies.
So they had to send non-EV vehicles along with the EV vehicles to support the EV vehicles, because the government can’t plan an effective road trip to promote their preferred vehicle solution which they plan to inflict upon the rest of us?
Road tripping being a common activity for most americans
A additional critical factor that is overlooked is that a large percentage of gasoline taxes are used to maintain our highways. EVs are heavier than internal combustion powered vehicles due to the weight of batteries and cause more wear per vehicle to the highway systems, but do not currently pay the taxes to maintain those systems. If the use of traditional vehicles is reduced, governments will have no option other than to place a high tax on EV usage to pay for highway infrastructure- which will make the costs of operating them prohibitive.
The irony is not lost that a politician is in an Armada of high-priced vehicles to make a point on Earth sustainability and a young family with children appear to be in the way.
On my way to work, I had to stop for gas and unfortunately ended up with a very slow pump – it took between 7 and 10 minutes to pump 15 gallons. It was semi-frustrating. I can’t imagine how I would feel at so-called fast charging station and waiting 20 to 60 minutes.
As if automakers don’t have enough on their plate with the EV money pit… UAW representing Ford, GM and Stellantis is set to strike on Sept.14 if demands aren’t met.
The effect of even a one week strike on the Big Three’s pocket book can’t be overstated.
Let the games begin.
What an unmitigated pile of steaming fresh horseshit. Madam secretary and her industry financed cheerleaders have absolutely no clue about the outlook for electric cars in the center of the country. And they couldn’t work up a “give a shit” if they were paid in gold. The demonrats can blindly and deafly go on their road to hell, but I won’t be taking their downhill ride. How long are you gonna take this shit?
Granholm is exactly the kind of moron that inhabits the Biden administration. “Let’s caravan around the southeast and waste energy, to show people how to save energy. If we have to inconvenience some of the little people, that’s no problem. We’re the Brain Trust from North of Richmond.”
Well, it looks like my little joke fell flat. So let me get to the point another way.
If you gave everyone a free EV and replaced every gas station with a charging station and developed batteries that would recharge in ten minutes and give you a range of 1000 km and had an infrastructure that could deliver double the present electrical load the goal of converting the country to EVs by 2035 could not be met. And why?
Because we are not generating enough electricity! And there are no plans to do so!
Now imagine Sam Kinison delivering this news that there is no f*cking electricity to Madam Secretary.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qelMhlI6f_o
Son-in-law works at a Nuclear plant. Veggie Biden administration wants to shut down electricity production from the one thing that they need to keep the country running with their EV vehicles?
He knows Terrorists are trying to Hack every e Electric grid in America, and if they ever figure it out, you better pray you have a gas-powered vehicle.
If you drive an ev … it’s best not to venture more than 15 min. from your home … or you won’t make it back home. And while you’re out to the 15 min. limit … stock up on some bugs to eat for the journey home. What a beautiful future the leftists have planned for woke Westerners.
It seems to me that the attempt to get rid of anything that is NOT electric is a deliberate plan to gain further control over the peasants. Once we’re all electric, there will not be enough electricity to go around, assuming anyone could still afford it anyway. When they can divert or turn off the flow, and everything is electric, we are ALL gonna get bent over and raped by TPTB, and we’ll have no way to oppose them. If we do, our CBDC’s will be curtailed, our health “passport” will be invalidated, and we become persona non grata and forced to live on the fringe of society. Of course their plan is for us all to be living on the fringes, so the peasants rocking the boat will be living on the fringe of the fringe, or fringe 2. Assuming they continue to allow that fringe 2 to exist. My guess there will be compelled MAiD for fringe 2 types!
“If you think that’s a tax increase then you can’t do simple math” says the ex-queen of Michigan to the plebs having to pay their winter taxes 6 months early. “I look at you and see stupidity and sloth. Now out of my way rabble!”