Let’s stop paying high gas prices and save the planet and be like the cool kids and drive electric cars!
This from westernjournal.com.
That’s what we keep hearing, right?
Who needs the laws of physics, economics, infrastructure or plain old common sense? Just electrify! Electrify! Electrify!
No need to worry about those rolling electrical blackouts in California.
Or how close the Texas electrical grid came to collapsing in bad weather.
Or federal mismanagement increasing natural gas prices.
And to help us make this quick switch, they admit they’re counting on today’s higher gas prices to prompt us to park or scrap our cars next week, dish out at least the price of a 2022 Acura MDX SUV ($46,900—about the same as the cheapest Tesla) and whisk off in our electric ride.
Except for one thing: “Electric Car Universe is not ready for prime time.”
Witness what Business Insider reporter Ben Bergman tweeted while in a long line of electric cars waiting to be charged: “The very rare time as a Tesla owner I wish I could pay $6/gallon for gas and be on my way. We need more super chargers.”
The very rare time as a Tesla owner I wish I could pay $6/gallon for gas and be on my way. We need more super chargers @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/qmxbghkycO
— Ben Bergman (@thebenbergman) March 20, 2022
One response to his tweet featured a video of a stranded roadside Tesla being rescued by—of all things—a man with a gas can!
He provided gasoline to fuel a small portable Honda generator the stranded driver had stored as a safety measure in his trunk to jumpstart the Tesla.
Note the bemused good Samaritan as his gas can is used to fuel the Honda generator: “You could’ve gotten a Honda and saved all this and you’d be done!”
Just an average day with your $TSLAQ gas guzzler… pic.twitter.com/AdtUwlIWed
— Kuppy (@hkuppy) June 10, 2021
The dream of the greenies and the Biden [regime] is just that: a dream. It might come true in the distant future, but until then, most of us will stick with our gas-powered vehicles.
Besides a lack of charging facilities and supporting infrastructure, electric cars have their own maintenance issues related to battery costs.
And then there are the environmental issues related to increased power generation and materials needed for those batteries.
There is a reason why we are able to cruise in our cars all over the countryside, sometimes as far as 500-plus miles at a time: The internal combustion engine.
Electric cars are nothing new. In the infancy of automobiles in the late 19th and early 20th century, they were one of three modes of propulsion applied to the new horseless carriages: electric, steam and gasoline.
Although battery technology has improved since that time, early electric cars had the same problem as those of today: Range.
And steam-powered cars took too long to raise steam pressure for immediate use.
But gasoline cars started immediately and had greater range.
As a result, for 100 years the automobile and its developing infrastructure of highways and fueling systems gave individuals and businesses increasing freedom of movement for expanded commercial and social opportunities.
And the internal combustion engine learned to fly, first in piston planes, then in jets.
But now we’re being told to stop immediately and change our lives entirely.
And this Def-Con News readers is a working definition of a CONUNDRUM:
How to rid the nation of an established, viable technology—gas/diesel-powered transportation—and keep the nation alive and buzzing?
Note: Electric won’t fly an airplane, with current technology electric won’t move the tons of products diesel moves, rural areas of the country will long be inappropriate for electric transportation, and electric automobiles mean limited ownership to the elites who can afford them and their upkeep.
Contrarily, however:
Governments are outlawing internal combustion cars and automakers are launching electric vehicle models to the point that Chrysler says it will be all-electric by 2028.
The auto companies are not stupid. They more than anyone have the engineering knowledge to understand the impracticality of almost immediately scrapping gasoline and diesel engines.
Something MUST return the nation to its senses. Perhaps a World War or maybe Conservatism will finally win and radical liberalism will become diminished and die off.
Whichever is the correct response to this conundrum, millions of us will long refuse to give up our cherished automobiles—just like millions of us will long refuse to allow our guns to be taken from us.
