We have over 300 bits of content on Electric Vehicles: articles, research, graphs, sales figures, losses in an investment, and (of course) evidence that they are not just not green; they are brown. From tires to weight, construction to transportation, mining, manufacture, disposal, and how the electricity they use is generated, they are brown.
Hurricane Helene has reminded us that EVs are not friendly with seawater but not with much of anything except a sliver of elites and die-hards who take advantage of subsidies they don’t need to buy cars no one else can afford. Brown cars (regardless of the color).
To be clear, I don’t care if a company wants to build them or someone wants to buy them. My objection is to the regulatory strong-arming (EPA mileage rules) and fiscal incentives (falsely marketed as free money), all of which ordinary Americans who can’t afford an EV or would find nothing practical must pay.
EV use increases electricity demand, which drives up costs for everyone (and if you share a grid with a neighboring state run by lunatics), you get to pay for the added cost of their Environmental health issues and the actual health issues. […]
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