The Electric Vehicle Scam

Dave Messler

Apr 9

This is an article that intrigued me on an another forum. It contains some thinking that was new to me. Give it a read and see what you think.

The Electric Vehicle Scam

Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris | Jan 15, 2022 | Climate
Change, Feature 1, Lifestyle, Politics

The utility companies have thus far had little to say about the alarming cost projections to operate electric vehicles (EVs) or the increased rates that they will be required to charge their customers. It is not just the total amount of electricity required, but the transmission lines and fast charging capacity that must be built at existing filling stations. Neither wind nor solar can support any of it. Electric vehicles will never become the mainstream of transportation!

In part 1 of our exposé on the problems with electric vehicles (EVs), we showed that they were too expensive, too unreliable, rely on materials mined in China and other unfriendly countries, and require more electricity than the nation can afford. In this second part, we address other factors that will make any sensible reader avoid EVs like the plague.

EV Charging Insanity

In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?

ICSC-Canada board member New Zealand-based consulting engineer Bryan Leyland describes why installing electric car charging stations in a city is impractical:

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Florida teen learns hard lesson when electric vehicle quits: replacement battery costs more than car itself

Harriet Hageman passionately tells fellow patriots in Wyoming, all across America, and across the world, what we patriots are ALL feeling at this point; “WE’RE FED UP!”

Harriet Hageman is Liz Cheney’s opponent as candidate for U.S. Congress from Wyoming, tells the crowd at President Trump’s “SAVE AMERICA” rally in Casper, Wyoming on Saturday, May 28, 2022.

Liz Cheney is mailing instructions to Democrats on how to change parties and vote for her in Wyoming’s GOP primary
www.businessinsider.com/liz-cheney-reaches-out-to-democrats-ahead-of-wyoming-primary-2022-6

Thanks To Leftist Corruption, U.S. Military Recruiting Is In Total Freefall

Beware: 100% green energy could destroy the planet

The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favor).

Right now, the United States gets 70% of its energy from fossil fuels. To go to zero over the next 20 years would be economically catastrophic and cost tens of millions of jobs. With gas prices at nearly double their price back from when Trump left office and inflation up from 1.5% to 8% in just 15 months, we are already experiencing the economic damage from the green energy crusaders.

But we also have to ask whether green energy is even good for the environment. Some environmentalists are pointing to a little-noticed study by the World Bank showing that moving toward 100% solar, wind, and electric battery energy would be “just as destructive to the planet as fossil fuels.” This was precisely the conclusion of a story in Foreign Policy magazine, hardly a right-wing publication.

According to the Foreign Policy analysis, moving to a “carbon-free” energy future “requires massive amounts of energy, not to mention the extraction of minerals and metals at great environmental and social costs.”

Here are some of the numbers. Going all-in on batteries, solar, and wind would require

• Thirty-four million metric tons of copper,
• Forty million tons of lead,
• Fifty million tons of zinc,
• One hundred and sixty-two million tons of aluminum,
• Four-point-eight billion tons of iron.
• Those tens of millions of windmills, solar panels, and electric batteries for cars and trucks aren’t exactly biodegradable. So, we will have the most prominent energy graveyard with toxic pollutants that will be 100 times larger than any nuclear waste storage. And yet, the Left is worried about plastic straws!
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