Electric vehicles futile as a solution to ‘climate crisis’: Transitioning to a “net-zero” all-electric economy by 2050 is economically, physically, and politically impossible

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory recently released a study titled, “Assessment of Light-Duty Plug-in Electric Vehicles in the United States, 2010 – 2021,” which shows that in 2021, privately-owned plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) “saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline.”

However, that is a huge exaggeration because fossil fuels provide 61 percent of the electricity in the United States. This means we have to include the inefficiency of burning coal or natural gas to make electricity (around 45 percent), transmission losses (about 5 percent), and losses in the inverter to charge the battery (another 5 percent).

Considering those losses, less than 33 percent of that apparent savings is a real reduction in fossil fuel use, the equivalent of roughly 230 million gallons of gasoline.

The Argonne study also says that from 2010 to 2021, EVs saved 2.1 billion gallons of gas. So, using the guideline of 61 percent from above, let’s be generous and say that over 11 years, EVs have saved about a third of that, the equivalent of about 750 million gallons of gasoline.

Although 750 million gallons of gasoline sounds like a huge amount, when you put it into perspective of the larger picture of gasoline use, that savings is actually a drop in the bucket.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “In 2021, about 134.83 billion gallons (or about 3.21 billion barrels) of finished motor gasoline were consumed in the United States, an average of about 369 million gallons per day (or about 8.80 million barrels per day).”

Using simple arithmetic, dividing those 750 million gallons of gasoline saved from 2010 to 2021 according to the Argonne Lab study, by the daily U.S. consumption of gasoline, we get: 750/369 = 2.03 days.

Let that sink in. Just two days of U.S gasoline consumption can be attributed to EVs over 11 years.

Direct taxpayer subsidies for EVs have cost $10 billion to date. The U.S. government also just approved spending an additional $7.5 billion on EV charging stations.

The subsidy math shows: $10 billion + $7.5 billion = $17.5 billion. Divide that into the 750 million gallons (.750 billion gallons - BG) reportedly saved based on the Argonne Lab study and we get .750 BG/$17.5 billion = $23.3 dollars per gallon.

The verdict is: thanks to government EV subsidies, we’re spending $23 for each gallon of gasoline saved.

Who knew government could finagle such a great deal?

it depends on how you define ‘the problem’. For democrats ‘the problem’ is the supremacy of the american socio-economic model. The free market is the most powerful force for the empowerment of the individual that ever existed in history. The democrats have sold their souls to destroy it. The question of why is a whole another topic. But the solution to the democrats problem is the ‘all electric economy’. That will destroy and collapse the infrastructure for success so it can be replaced. It will be replaced by government controlled rationing of goods and services under cover of ‘climate crisis’. It’s the old joke... What did democrats use before candles? Electricity.

So for democrats, the all electric, net zero, climate crisis economy is a great success. It cannot be installed quickly enough.

“Transitioning to a “net-zero” all-electric economy by 2050 is economically, physically, and politically impossible” That doesn’t mean THEY won’t do it. Since it appears not a lot of folks WANT evs, the (b)administration is helping all the major auto companies shift to all evs making it impossible to choose a new ICE vehicle in the future. And, recently there was a piece (maybe on here) how dodge is presenting the new ev charger with a simulated exhuast system to give you the feel of an ICE vehicle. Fidiots. Just ain’t the same as a 3/4 cam ICE lopping along at idle through open headers. I believe that’s called visceral.

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