That makes sense. Penalize the people that have acquiesced to the UK’s desire to lower their global carbon emissions from 2% to 1%. It’s not like the UK outsources production of rare earths and steel to China and India so that they can do it at 10x the carbon emissions, right? That just wouldn’t make any sense!
I hate to sound like a low information wingnut, but history has taught me to be highly skeptical of any information that the government wants you to see.
You mean to tell me that our government didn’t spend $472.6m of taxpayer dollars to spread the truth? Well, I’ll be darned.
| Year | Production | YoY Growth |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 254,530 | / |
| 2019 | 365,232 | 43% |
| 2020 | 509,737 | 40% |
| 2021 | 930,422 | 83% |
| 2022 | 1,369,611 | 47% |
| 2023 | 1,845,985 | 35% |
| 2024 | 1,773,443 | -4% |
I just went back to the article in the local rag; it's the Green party pushing for this, ironically. It's something that has already begun in Paris, which is where the idea came from. As arch-conservative historian David Starkey says, "all bad ideas are French".
EV’s have major weaknesses that the public won’t overlook, no matter how hard the government tries. In time, some of these faults will be overcome, but others will remain. In most areas of the country, an electric car is still powered by fossil fuel. Range will always be less that gas or diesel and EV’s will be more expensive. EV’s might work for some people, but without government subsidies, mandates and obfuscation, the American public isn’t buying.That’s why I learned to look up stuff myself when my mother had my father sign a check for the 1963 World Book Encyclopedia set I still own today, minus the book S.
My best friend Johnny borrowed it for a book report. We still look for it in the remains of his home.
Johnny grew up to be an educator, and taught thousands of little hillbillies to look stuff up, not for the answer you want, but the truth.
Whenever I’d ask a question, my mother had me fetch the proper World Book. It never lied. It was the AI Google of 1963.
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As of the fourth quarter of 2023, there were about 3.3 million electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States. This is a significant increase from 2021, when there were 1.3 million EVs.
EV adoption by state
- California has the highest number of EVs, with over 36% of the country's EVs registered there.
- Other states with high EV adoption rates include Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, and the District of Columbia.
- States with low EV adoption rates include North Dakota, Mississippi, Wyoming, South Dakota, and West Virginia.
EV sales and trends
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- In 2023, over one million EVs were sold in the United States, a 56% increase from 2022.
- The success of Tesla has helped attract new players to the U.S. EV market.
- The National Renewable Energy Laboratory predicts that there could be 30 million to 42 million EVs on U.S. roads by 2030
When there are 30 million electric cars there will still be over 250 million gas cars on the road.
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In 2022, there were 283.4 million registered vehicles in the United States, including passenger cars, trucks, motorcycles, buses, and other vehicles. This was an increase from 282.355 million vehicles in 2021.
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Buggies and cars coexisted on the roads until finally nobody’s wife would let their husband haul her around in a *^}|* buggy!.
When the used car lots are chock full of used cars, and some operate for 4 cents a mile and no gasoline and some for 12 cents to 20 cents and need gasoline, the gas cars are going to die as dead as big block gas hog station wagons.
Mama absolutely will not pump expensive gasoline in her buggy when her neighbor drives by and waves from her electric E Ford.
Human nature has not changed since Eve ate that apple, and it never will.
My mother and father both said they’d see old bachelors driving buggies way up into the thirties until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,
Then they bought a car to use their gas ration stamps.
The change over from gas to electric will take decades.
Lord, let me own just one slow one, that will go from zero to sixty in three seconds flat.
Caterpillar put a hidden electronic kill switch on their newer model tractors that they sell with a contract that says that you will ONLY ever use their service department for all repairs and servicing, and if you decide to change a filter yourself, the computer locks up the engine with the kill switch.
"You’re crazy if you think this fool contraption you’ve been wasting your time on will ever displace the horse.” said the banker to America's first automobile manufacturer.
I'm also not comfortable setting on top of a stack of lithium bombs.
Yeh, I don't have a problem with nuclear energy. The negative is that the waste lasts forever, like herpes. But, that is why we have Missouri.
Absolutely.
WTF kinda car do you drive? Have you ever tried to get gasoline to explode? It's not easy.
I see it all the time on TV.
I know, gasoline leaking out, guy tosses cigarette onto the ground, BOOM. You can actually thump cigarette butts directly into a bucket of gas, and they all just go out. This is why we've never had someone build a gasoline bomb to take out a city block. The shit just doesn't explode. Lithium though.... that's a different story.
As someone who is admittedly low information re: EV's , I'm curious ........4 out of 5 of those states would be considered mild climates . DC maybe a little less so .
