Everyone loves idiots and clown parades, but not when they're ruining your state
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“All that’s needed for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to thnk, ‘oh, they don’t actually mean that crazy stuff they say’.” Sarah Hoyt.
“Massachusetts was the first to join [California], followed by Washington State, New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, Maine, Hawaii, Connecticut, New York, Oregon, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.”
36.4% of the electricity consumed in CT is produced from natural gas imported from other states, 56.2% from our sole nuclear power plant (presently scheduled to be closed in 2029, though that may be extended), 4.3% by biomass; windmill power is so negligible that it isn’t even counted.
Where will we get the electricity required to power all these new EV’s? “From unicorn’s buttocks,” say Hartford politicians. Others are skeptical.
“ …. Let’s stipulate one more fact: Whether cars keep burning gas or run on electricity, Toyota is poised to make and sell millions of electric vehicles. It already has the game-changing solid-state battery coming on line. It launched the Prius way back in 1997. Toyota has not only not resisted the adaptation of EVs, it has led the way. Fundamentally, Toyota does not care if cars are powered by gas or nuclear fusion engines as long as it maintains its position and sells millions of them.
“So Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda’s comments at the company’s year-end press conference deserve notice and no little amount of respect. He knows more about cars and their economic ecosystem than just about anyone else on the planet.
The Wall Street Journal was in attendance and noted the CEO’s disdain for EVs boils down to his belief they’ll ruin businesses, require massive investments, and even emit more carbon dioxide than combustion-engined vehicles. “The current business model of the car industry is going to collapse,” he said. “The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets… When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?”
“[The WSJ] has mischaracterized Toyoda’s comments. It’s not “disdain for EVs” he’s expressing. It’s disdain for the failure to count the cost of what politicians are proposing. More EVs will demand more electricity.
…. “How will we generate power to meet the new level of demand? Some will claim we can do it by ramping up renewables — wind and solar — but that’s not realistic. Drive out through West Texas between Llano and San Angelo out to Midland-Odessa and you’ll see a curious sight: hundreds and hundreds of towering windmills. Those are just the ones you can see from the road. There are more of them farther from the beaten paths. That part of Texas generates more wind power than the entire state of California. Wind farms cover mile after mile after mile. But all those hundreds of windmills only generate about 15% of Texas’ electricity.
“….. Texas is just one state, but it happens to be a great one to study on this issue because it has its own power grid (no other state does) and it produces more energy than any other state within its own borders. You’d find yourself covering thousands and thousands of square miles with those windmills across West Texas just to significantly close the gap on oil and natural gas. Currently the ratio is about 4 to 1 in favor of oil and natural gas over wind and solar, and that’s just for electric power.
“…. Toyoda isn’t alone in this reality check. Elon Musk recently sounded a similar note. Note well that he also has no “disdain” for EVs. He’s building his empire on EVs, and his Teslas make EVs flashy and desirable. Yet he’s sounding a similar warning to Toyoda’s.
Connecticut is too small a state to resist this idiocy, but we could at least hope our Hartford Buffoons wouldn’t cheer on our own destruction. By the time the wheels fall off the great electric car farce, done in by lack of raw materials to build the cars, their batteries, and the electric components to power them, it will be too late: car manufacturers can’t just continue to make useable cars until New Years Eve, 2035, and then magically switch to unicorn vehicles; they’ll have to have started years before. So in 2035 when it becomes clear that EVs won’t work, we won’t have car industry capable of manufacturing cars that we can use.
Of course, by that time we’ll be flying around wearing our solar powered propeller beanies, so who’ll care?
