Only The Rich Will Be Able To Afford An Electric Vehicle - CEO of Dodge, Jeep, Ram
Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 1 month ago to Government
Excerpt:
"“The middle class will not be able to buy EVs,” said Tavares, bluntly. “Very simply put.” Of course. The typical middle class person doesn’t even earn $60k in a year. Much less net that sum. Federal and state taxes gyp that down to around $48,000 – leaving him about $4,000 on hand to pay his rent/mortgage – which likely cuts that sum in half, or close to it. He still hasn’t paid the utility bill or his phone bill – much less his food bill. If he is frugal, he might have $1,000 left – after he pays his fixed expenses – to pay for a car.
As it happens, the monthly cost – on the low end – to finance the purchase of a $60k car is currently just about every cent he has left. It leaves him nothing to pay for the insurance he’d have to buy in order to get (and maintain) the loan, which would require him to come up with another couple hundred bucks each month he hasn’t got.
Not to mention the cost of fueling the ride he can’t afford – whether electricity or gas.
Voila!
Bear in in mind that if the middle class will not be able to buy EVs, then the working class will be even less able to. That leaves only one class that will be able to. The wealthy. "
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Yet the evil fascist government is forcing all vehicle makers to stop making internal combustion vehicles that most can afford.
The result is transportation and travel will be completely controlled by whoever controls mass transit.
No more freedom to associate.
No more freedom to speak against government tyranny.
No more freedom to take a better job outside your local allowed travel area.
Sounds like Soviet Union communist tyranny has come to America.
DC. NIFO.
"“The middle class will not be able to buy EVs,” said Tavares, bluntly. “Very simply put.” Of course. The typical middle class person doesn’t even earn $60k in a year. Much less net that sum. Federal and state taxes gyp that down to around $48,000 – leaving him about $4,000 on hand to pay his rent/mortgage – which likely cuts that sum in half, or close to it. He still hasn’t paid the utility bill or his phone bill – much less his food bill. If he is frugal, he might have $1,000 left – after he pays his fixed expenses – to pay for a car.
As it happens, the monthly cost – on the low end – to finance the purchase of a $60k car is currently just about every cent he has left. It leaves him nothing to pay for the insurance he’d have to buy in order to get (and maintain) the loan, which would require him to come up with another couple hundred bucks each month he hasn’t got.
Not to mention the cost of fueling the ride he can’t afford – whether electricity or gas.
Voila!
Bear in in mind that if the middle class will not be able to buy EVs, then the working class will be even less able to. That leaves only one class that will be able to. The wealthy. "
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Yet the evil fascist government is forcing all vehicle makers to stop making internal combustion vehicles that most can afford.
The result is transportation and travel will be completely controlled by whoever controls mass transit.
No more freedom to associate.
No more freedom to speak against government tyranny.
No more freedom to take a better job outside your local allowed travel area.
Sounds like Soviet Union communist tyranny has come to America.
DC. NIFO.
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Despite my daughter starting University at 14 (on a full-ride scholarship), I made her get a job!
[We have a love/hate relationship... She loves me NOW, but hated me then! LOL!]
It was the best thing I ever did (oh, and not letting her have social media). So, she worked, and went to school. She learned to pay for her own stuff. I provided the car, but she bought her gas. (This was far better treatment than I got growing up, but she's also a girl, and I'd prefer she didn't figure out she could sleep her way to resource acquisition, like I would have done if I was female growing up, LOL).
Anyways, She parlayed herself through 5-6 jobs. Got her friends jobs, built her confidence, and learned that people will take advantage of you, if you let them. And to avoid those people.
She also developed good time management and decent values. Living at home was NEVER going to be fun for her. She was welcome to, but she left within 6 months of graduating, and moved out of state! [Not because we forced her, because she wanted her freedom more than she wanted an easy life] Mission Accomplished.
We raised a Young Adult.
Many people are raising Children. At 18, 20, 24, and 32... They are STILL CHILDREN.
We see more 4yr olds who do not know the ABCs, and can't count past 10... But they can watch YouTube!
He faced strong headwinds while driving. Luckily he was paying attention.
It cost him many hours and an extra full charge to travel from one town to another.
He also said that you have to pay attention to your weight! If you are carrying a heavy load, you get much worse performance.
I don't have any plans to buy an electric vehicle in the foreseable future.
You could stay in the ports, spend your money there. But you were not free to go inside these countries.
Coming soon to many countries near you!
And the RICH never had to show a passport...
And your average trip to acquire wood was now 3 days out and 3 days back.
I would hope you started to think about alternatives before your family froze.
More efficient fire places are already available.
But we are being run by middle managers who failed upwards, and NOT leaders :-)
We are consuming something that took Billions of years to create. (Willing to be proven wrong).
The easy to get at stuff is mostly consumed.
If we have consumed about 1/2... How long before we run out? (not sure).
What would be the signs we are running out? (Harder to find, more cost to get?)
And 1,000% agree. We've been lied to about Peak Oil in the past. To keep the prices higher.
We've called them fossil fuels, even though we know it's probably not fossils, just carbon. Nobody calls Diamonds Fossils, yet mostly carbon.
Need will make the transition happen. But since day 1 with Gasoline powered cars... It took how many years to get rid of horse drawn carriages? Oxens in fields? (usually about 40-50yrs to transition).
That's the reality. This too, will take 40-50yrs. The only thing that will expedite it is the lack of affordable fuel. But we use the same fuel for Electricity, so we are in trouble.
Nuclear is the ultimate goal...
But then I wonder. Do we have enough Nuclear material to make the reactors we need???
I don't know!
Meanwhile, your Ranger keeps on going with few issues for xxx,000 miles.
I'd love it if EV's could do what ICE's can (without the government controls) but they can't, yet.
I can't afford an EV battery, much less a whole car. ;^)
I like Ranger's too:
http://www.ohsorare.com/9mm147jhpwinr...
And you DO NOT mine that stuff on purpose. You target the Shiny black stuff.
Russia topped their Oil production in 2018, it's never been as high since. Saudi's just admitted they cannot do the production levels we want... While it took us 100+ yrs to get here, it will NOT disappear overnight. But we have to think in terms of half-life. It will become twice as hard to get each next 50% remaining.
Notice... We sold Uranium Resources to Russia before all of this. IMAGINE THAT.
And I 1000% agree, we should be pursuing Nuclear. 2 Plants a week should be started.
Gen IV.
The bottom line argument is this. We live in a FINITE World. Our Monetary System REQUIRES Infinite Exponential Growth (which implies exponential energy consumption)... Those two systems will flip. When they do. Growth will reverse, as energy simply will NOT be available.
Energy == GDP... Take away energy. 100% and where does the GDP go? He plots the growth of countries against their energy consumption. It's pretty clear!
I was very ready to rest that night. Usually I do about 900 a day and then take it easier the 3rd day to my destination.
Thanks to Ayn, Atlas Shrugged audio books, and chocolate covered coffee beans to keep me going.
Not a chance an EV could keep up with Ayn and me.
[curmudgeon]
Meanwhile, why isn't nuclear power providing our electrical needs? We have many millennia (at least) of available Thorium and Uranium, and we can fast breed Plutonium as well. Instead of killing massive numbers of birds with windmills or making a dangerous eyesore of solar farms where real estate costs are as low as we would hope long distance transmission losses to be.
[/curmudgeon]
Let's just stay in Texas: Houston to El Paso. And Houston isn't even on the eastern edge of the state like Port Arthur. That saves 90 miles, so it's only 736 miles to El Paso. Oops, that's a 3-charge trip.
While we're noticing how big Texas is, El Paso is closer to San Diego, California than it is to Houston. Only 724 miles, also a 3-charge trip.
I've driven a single gasoline-powered driving day (with 10-minute gas stops) of 1,200 miles. That would use up 4 full charges with long stops in an EV day.
Sex? What's that? Work? What nonsense! Nobody wants anyone else to tell them what to do! These kids do NOT want to grow up.
It's a very, very strange world that is coming along in about another 20 years. It's bad enough now, but I hope the really bad stuff waits another 20 at least, so I can say my goodbyes first.
I have no EVs, but if I bought a car now it would be a Tesla, Kia EV6GT or Mustang MachE ... or for different applications a Canoe pickup if they ever come out.
Don't want anyone else to pay for my car, and don't want to pay for anyone else's car, directly, indirectly or the market forced by regulation.
However, I would encourage people to not use the demographic of many EV advocates (progressive scum) or use of prior government force as the basis of their EV facts.
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