The Other (Heavy) Shoe Drops. Will We Be Crushed By Lies and Censored Truth?
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 8 months ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"We are told that replacing the cars and trucks we have with battery-powered devices that cost more and weigh a lot more and that entail using up more natural resources is a necessary transition.
In fact, it is “necessary” . . . to set the stage for the next transition.
That being the elimination of personal transportation. They didn’t tell us this at the beginning of this transition, of course – for all the obvious reasons. Just as they did not tell us that a “case” does not mean someone’s sick, that “masks” don’t work and that “vaccines” won’t stop the spread.
Now they are telling us what will become “necessary” – once the transition to battery powered devices becomes a fait accompli.
“Heavier EVs are Causing Safety and Pollution Problems,” reads the banner headline in today’s Automotive News. “The progress automakers made taking weight off vehicles over the past decade is quickly being erased by EVs, jeopardizing safety and causing pollution.”
This is all true, of course.
...
All of that weight bears down on the EV’s tires, which must be larger to bear all of that weight and which wear out faster – resulting in (here it comes!) emissions of particulates, which actually are pollutants in that particulates do foul the environment, unlike carbon dioxide.
Which the manufacturing of EVs – in particular, those massive EV batteries – also causes more of, thereby obviating the putative justification for this “essential” transition.
More, in other words, will inevitably lead to less.
Just not quite yet. Not until the trap has been sprung. Once there is no longer an alternative to battery powered devices, problems will be found with battery powered devices.
Like the other problem attending all of this gratuitous weight.
The faithfully Leftist (and so, faithfully anti-car) journal Nature tells us all about in a study quoted by Axios: “The authors — while warning this is a back-of-the-envelope tally — say the cost of extra lives lost by adding 1,500 pounds to a truck ‘rivals the climate benefits’ of avoided emissions.”
In other words, EVs aren’t safe.
This is also true. It is physics. If your 3,300 pound non-electric car is T-boned by a 9,063 pound (yes, really) Hummer EV you will find out all about it.
In the next world."
"We are told that replacing the cars and trucks we have with battery-powered devices that cost more and weigh a lot more and that entail using up more natural resources is a necessary transition.
In fact, it is “necessary” . . . to set the stage for the next transition.
That being the elimination of personal transportation. They didn’t tell us this at the beginning of this transition, of course – for all the obvious reasons. Just as they did not tell us that a “case” does not mean someone’s sick, that “masks” don’t work and that “vaccines” won’t stop the spread.
Now they are telling us what will become “necessary” – once the transition to battery powered devices becomes a fait accompli.
“Heavier EVs are Causing Safety and Pollution Problems,” reads the banner headline in today’s Automotive News. “The progress automakers made taking weight off vehicles over the past decade is quickly being erased by EVs, jeopardizing safety and causing pollution.”
This is all true, of course.
...
All of that weight bears down on the EV’s tires, which must be larger to bear all of that weight and which wear out faster – resulting in (here it comes!) emissions of particulates, which actually are pollutants in that particulates do foul the environment, unlike carbon dioxide.
Which the manufacturing of EVs – in particular, those massive EV batteries – also causes more of, thereby obviating the putative justification for this “essential” transition.
More, in other words, will inevitably lead to less.
Just not quite yet. Not until the trap has been sprung. Once there is no longer an alternative to battery powered devices, problems will be found with battery powered devices.
Like the other problem attending all of this gratuitous weight.
The faithfully Leftist (and so, faithfully anti-car) journal Nature tells us all about in a study quoted by Axios: “The authors — while warning this is a back-of-the-envelope tally — say the cost of extra lives lost by adding 1,500 pounds to a truck ‘rivals the climate benefits’ of avoided emissions.”
In other words, EVs aren’t safe.
This is also true. It is physics. If your 3,300 pound non-electric car is T-boned by a 9,063 pound (yes, really) Hummer EV you will find out all about it.
In the next world."
a wind turbine would have to have the blades feathered and would still have been damaged by debris blowing around
solar would have been out for days