Well, this was fast
Electric vehicles won’t save us — we need to get rid of cars completely
Climate change is happening now. Wildfires are getting worse, flooding more common, hurricanes more powerful, and heat waves more deadly. Yet when world leaders met in Glasgow earlier this month, their proposals still had the world on track for 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming — far above the 1.5-degree target. Governments aren’t doing enough, but they are beginning to take action, and many are focusing on the opportunity offered by electric vehicles. (snip)
Electric vehicles are one piece of a strategy to slash transport emissions, but they tend to receive far more attention than proposals to cut car use. The electrification of transportation is essential — there is no doubt about that — but just replacing every personal vehicle with a battery-powered equivalent will produce an environmental disaster of its own. Such a strategy also denies us the opportunity to rethink a near-century of misguided auto-oriented city planning.
Or, hear me out, you Warmists can f*** off and mind your own business. Stop trying to tell everyone else what to do, especially when you won’t change your own lives.
For example, particulate matter created from tire, brake, and road wear, as well as the dust kicked up by cars on the road, does not fuel climate change, but it does create air pollution that’s harmful to human health. In the United States, these pollutants are responsible for about 53,000 premature deaths each year, and heavier electric vehicles like SUVs and trucks could actually generate more particulate matter than lighter, non-electric cars.
On that, I’ll agree, vehicles do create a lot of air pollution. Remember how clean the air was during lockdown? Doesn’t mean I want to get rid of vehicles, though
Yet while health effects are important, the biggest concern is the minerals that are required to make the batteries that power electric vehicles and the mining that has to happen to extract them. It’s a reality that seriously dirties their green image, and shows the “zero emissions” branding simply isn’t accurate.
We’ve been telling you nutters this
On top of the issues with mining and large vehicle pollution, continuing to have communities built around the assumption that everyone will drive simply isn’t sustainable. The automotive industry wants us to replace the vehicle fleet with battery-powered alternatives because they’ll make a lot of money in the process, but it’s not the best path for the environment, nor for our communities.
In other words, these Fascists want to limit your ability to move around.
We should seize this opportunity to challenge the past century of auto-oriented planning and emphasize walking, cycling, and transit use over driving. Not only would people’s quality of life improve, but if we’re serious about taking on the climate crisis, we need to significantly reduce the number of cars and SUVs on the road — regardless of what powers them.
Mind your business. Piss off.
Doesn’t Teach make his living selling gasoline autos?
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair
Anyway, look at the bigger picture. Americans have heavily subsidized the auto industry by keeping gasoline costs low, building roads, bridges and highways, and billions in direct investments to keep the companies solvent (Chrysler, GM, Tesla).
We could have made different decisions, subsidizing more and efficient mass transit, not subsidize gasoline and autos. Teach says, ‘civilly’: “you Warmists can f*** off and mind your own business”. Global warming should be everyone’s business.
I’m certain that our esteemed host would be quite happy to sell plug in electrics, if enough people wanted to buy them to keep food on his table.
I, of course, only buy Fords, because Ford was the only US automaker not to take the 2008 bailout.
As far as building roads, bridges, and highways, government at all levels has been doing what the American people want.
So Mr Dana is OK with heavy handed Big Government building roads, bridges and highways (from which he profited personally) because that’s “what the American people want”.
Regardless, it’s been a YUUUGE subsidy for the automobile industry, from which Mr Dana AND Ford Motor Co have profited.
Even Mr Dana would agree that Mr Teach has a conflict of interest in denigrating electric vehicles over gas-powered cars.
After all, to a nuCon, hypocrisy is the greatest sin for a leftist (just not for a righty – who accept SS, Medicare, Medicaid, roads, bridges and highways).
“GW should be everybody’s business”. Good , now only of you could tell us why. Speaking of that, roads and bridges are everybody’s business, too, not just the auto industry’s. “Heavily subsided..”. Not really. Gasoline taxes bring billions-Between the 18 cent federal gas tax per gallon along with state gas taxes averaging about 24 cents per gallon, about 80 to 100 billion go right back to government coffers. And in most states, those taxes are used for road and bridge building and repair
I call bull JI. If 80-100 billion $$$$ go right back into road and bridge building and repair why do the leftists still tout an “infrastructure bill”? You’re telling me 100 billion a year isn’t enough? They need another trillion$$$$? I think there are numbered accounts somewhere (think China) where all these Democrat politicians have hidden bank accounts that go cha-ching every time a dollar goes into a gas tank, bridge toll or parking meter.
They lie. Sadly some of us here are stuck on believing the lies.
I guess I can go out and get this form of transportation to make that idiot happy!
Henry Mayhew, a chronicler of English life in the Victorian Era, estimated that a horse dropped six tons of dung annually, and in 1850 there were at least a million horses in London alone. I look forward to the ammonia-rich air to come.
A friend once asked a very old timer what was different when he was young. He replied, ” Horse$hit! Everything smelled like horse$hit!”
[…] Meanwhile, the global warming lunacy continues to run free. No longer are the green shirts satisfied with replacing gasoline and diesel automobiles with electric cars, they want to get rid of cars altogether. […]
[…] Meanwhile, the global warming lunacy continues to run free. No longer are the green shirts satisfied with replacing gasoline and diesel automobiles with electric cars, they want to get rid of cars altogether. […]