Oh, that’s OK. We don’t produce enough electricity ro run all those EVs anyway.
LOL! That has nothing to do with it. Apparently. SMDH!
“Oh, that’s OK. We don’t produce enough electricity ro run all those EVs anyway.”
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.
Except for the gentle guiding hand of government and army of bureaucrats deciding on everything right down to how much water a toilet uses per flush or what light-bulb you get to buy.
Collectivist ideology has become main stream and adopted by both parties trying to buy voters. Big corporations have realized the real way to become rich is with a form of corporate-government collusion (example: big pharma, agriculture, etc.).
The only difference between he parties is who gets the kickbacks and what the priorities are. For the Democrats it's some sort of social justice and the environment. For the Republicans it's national security and if given a chance they will bring their morals into legislation.
Both parties are completely fine with having other people pay for their ideology/theories, robbing people of their privacy, controlling what should be free markets, robbing people of their basic rights (free speech, movement, right to redress...), creating pseudo private government monopolies. Look at Covid as an example where it was mostly pushed by the left, or the Patriot Act on the right. No one thinks in terms of what is "constitutional," not even those government bureaucracies that are sworn in to protect it!
The American experiment is dead/history. We are a Euro style social democracy with a highly centralized federal government, government run economy, a nanny state providing from cradle to grave.