[Ancesthntr]

“Oh, that’s OK. We don’t produce enough electricity ro run all those EVs anyway.”

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I’d just like the general public to be informed as to:

1) how much diesel fuel has to be used to mine the lithium carbonate and transport it to a refining facility;

2) how much carbon is produced by the refining process;

3) how much diesel is used to transport the refined lithium to a fabrication plant;

4) how much carbon is produced by the fabrication process;

5) how much diesel is used to transport the fabricated lithium to the battery manufacturing plant(s);

6) how much diesel is used to transport the manufacturned batteries to auto manufacturing/assembly plants; and

7) what the environmental impact is of mining and refining the lithium carbonate.

Only when people have a good sense of these factors can we have a chance of making rational decisions about moving whole hog into EVs.

And, of course, what’s the environment cost of producing more electrical power plants and what’s going to be used to power them.

[rktman]

LOL! Yup! The end product is the only thing they can see. No thought given to what is required to reach the end product. Deliberate? Maybe. Just plain ignorant? Highly likely. Simply deniers. Yup. Same with patagonia and columbia and rei and all those other self serving eco wokenistas.

[packagingguy]

You are trying to apply logic to this situation. No logic is needed; electric vehicles are what the politicians and bureaucrats want. It’s that simple.