Electric cars: not-so-green red herring

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Intro by Steve Cook

Here’s a perceptive and thought-provoking look at electric vehicles from Climate Discussion Nexus

YET ANOTHER ill-conceived and deeply flawed aspect of the hysteria generated by the climate crisis is psyop is the push to switch us all to electric cars.

The horrible truth is that along with windmills and solar panels, the dark minds behind the psyop have seen to the selection of technologies to ” save us” from non-existent impending doom that are guaranteed to fail.

This is  not an argument for the internal combustion engine particularly. It would be great if someone could come up with something affordable, cleaner, quieter and less prone the pollute the environment. But if are going to replace the ICE we sure as hell had better come up with something workable.

Electric vehicles  do not currently fit that bill on several counts INCLUDING adverse environmental impact.  The  environmental lobby should be all ove this. You dont saave the planet by introducing something worse than what we already have.

So before gormless politicians such as those in California start forcing us to abandon the ICE we had better come up with a proper alternative and not the half-baked solutions the globalist utopian tinkerers would like to ruin us with.

Must we say it again?

The latter part is as crucial as it is surprising. Though also in some sense unimportant, because deliberately wasting money in an effort to save it is folly by any standard. But given the terms of the climate debate Lomborg is right to add this point:

“The climate effect of our electric-car efforts in the 2020s will be trivial. If every country achieved its stated ambitious electric-vehicle targets by 2030, the world would save 231 million tons of CO2 emissions. Plugging these savings into the standard United Nations Climate Panel model, that comes to a reduction of 0.0002 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.”

Indeed, as we have pointed out elsewhere, if every nation achieved its stated ambitious Paris Accord goals overall, goaded by a computer model that said otherwise we’d have a climate heating breakdown crisis, it comes to a reduction of 0.1 degrees by the end of the century. So all pain, and no gain.

Indeed the calculus is even worse since, as we have noted elsewhere, the data show that lifetime GHG emissions from electric cars are frequently worse than from regular cars. Meanwhile Lomborg thinks that electric cars are sometimes a better choice, but “only sometimes and somewhat better” while “they’re often much costlier, and they aren’t necessarily all that much cleaner.” Then he does that economist thing where you look at the big picture over the long run.

For instance, there’s the issue of where the electricity comes from to charge it. Plus “Making batteries for electric cars also requires a massive amount of energy, mostly from burning coal in China.” Besides which “The vehicles themselves pollute only slightly less than a gasoline car because their massive batteries and consequent weight leads to more particulate pollution from greater wear on brakes, tires and roads” and “One recent study found that electric cars put out more of the most dangerous particulate air pollution than gasoline-powered cars in 70% of U.S. states. An American Economic Association study found that rather than lowering air pollution, on average each additional electric car in the U.S. causes additional air-pollution damage worth $1,100 over its lifetime.

Still not convinced? Well, “The minerals required for those batteries also present an ethical problem, as many are mined in areas with dismal human-rights records. Most cobalt, for instance, is dug out in Congo, where child labor is not uncommon, specifically in mining. There are security risks too, given that mineral processing is concentrated in China.” This nasty aspect of EVs isn’t exactly unknown. But given how resolutely it gets ignored, it needs to be repeated loudly and often.

Is Lomborg saying don’t buy one? Not at all. He’s saying let the price reflect the full cost and then consumers can decide. “Electric vehicles will take over the market only if innovation makes them actually better and cheaper than gasoline-powered cars. Politicians are spending hundreds of billions of dollars and keeping consumers from the cars they want for virtually no climate benefit.”

Yes, it needed to be said again. Especially with the cost of charging them skyrocketing in Europe, sending all those supposed savings right out the tailpipe.


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1 Comment on Electric cars: not-so-green red herring

  1. Very interesting article. I have a family member who is a liberal, he bought into the propaganda that EVs will save the world. The cost of his EV $60, 000.00. That would buy a lot of groceries!!

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