William Levin has an informative article today at the American Thinker entitled The Electric Car Con Explained. Levin shows that the contribution of automobiles to total emmissions are miniscule. Yet the Biden administration is pushing these on the American public. From other sources, we learn that dealers are giving up their franchises rather than attempt to sell electric cars to an unwilling public. In the face of this, one wonders why the Biden bunch keep doubling down?
Is electricity a source of energy? Most people will answer yes, which is incorrect. Electricity carries energy but it is not itself a source of energy, which in the U.S. is supplied 60% by natural gas and coal, 18% nuclear and 22% renewables (hydro, solar and wind).
The related question is whether cars are a major consumer of energy and hence a significant contributor of Co2 emissions? Again, most people believe both statements are self-evidently true, hence the importance of moving to electric cars..
In fact, cars (light-duty transportation) account for less than 5% of global energy demand, with U.S. cars accounting for 19% of the global car fleet, declining to under 15% by 2050 as car demand grows faster outside the U.S..
Putting these facts together, and they are indisputable facts, provides a stunning insight..
The U.S. car fleet accounts for a mere 1.0% of global energy demand (5% x 19%), declining to 0.8% by 2050. So even if the U.S. shifts 100% to electric-powered cars, the maximum climate impact in 2050 is a meaningless 0.2% (22% x 0.8%) reduction in global Co2 emissions from the current electric grid, up to a maximum of 0.5% assuming solar, wind, and hydro can, implausibly, power 60% of electric demand..
In other words, there is no factual basis to claim that the government mandate to switch to electric cars will have any material impact on global Co2 emissions.
Despite the facts and the indisputable conclusions quoted above, the Biden administration continues to drive the change to EVs. Levin goes through the math and shows that electric cars don't really save money. In fact, they cost more. But that isn't really that surprising when you consider that at every stage of the electric production and distribution system, energy is being lost, whereas a gasoline automobile the energy source is within feet of the work being done.
Again, I ask why the Biden administration keeps doubling down on the push for EVs, in the face of strong resistance from the general public? Between subsides for EVs and increasing the CAFE standards on gasoline powered vehicles, they seem determined that you "vil drive an EV and you vil like it, or else." They are like a mother who insists you eat your broccoli even though it tastes awful because it's good for you (not).
Missing in climate change discussions is its inhumane logic. Global emission increases through 2050 are due to population growth and rising economic activity in China, India, and the rest of the developing world (i.e., non-U.S. and Europe). GDP growth raises living standards. Falling GDP and population reduction outside the developed nations are the true, but strategically hidden, moral epicenter of the climate change agenda.
China, India, Asia, and Africa are not buying what world elites are selling as they self-righteously jet to exhilarating climate confabs. No one should. Demanding that 80% of the world, or some six billion humans, sacrifice their well-being, and their children, is an immorality never before articulated and rationalized.
The hard truth is that no set of actions can remotely meet the arbitrary IPCC requirement for a 70% reduction in global Co2 by 2050, certainly not the puny contribution from electrified cars and indeed nothing short of a horrific determination to strangle the world whole.
By all means purchase a battery-powered vehicle if it pleases you. But do not imagine for a moment that it saves money or is doing anything that matters for climate change.
We are ruled by liars, fools and demons, too often all three in one.
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