From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Biden's Electric Car Fiasco Is Already Causing An Economic
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 22:22:01 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Libtard Rehabilitation Program
On 2024-12-28, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote:
> pothead wrote:
>
>> I don't have a problem with EVs but rather with mandates attacking fossil fuels and ICE cars forcing
>> people at some point into EVs. Like CA is doing for example.
>> I also am against government rebates for buying an EV.
>
> If they had mandated an NG pump at every gas station the air
> quality in all our most crowded cities would already be
> improved, and our "CO2" emissions would be lower.
>
> People want to do the right thing. People care. But EVs are
> not a replacement for gasoline powered cars.
Nor is renewable green energy a replacement for fossil fuels and nuclear.
Ask EU about that one.
> On one tank of gas we could go from Boston to Fort Lee NJ,
> down to Hoboken and then back to Boston (in heavy traffic)
> with a stop off the highway in Connecticut for a steamed
> cheeseburger.
>
> Yeah. They're weird in Connecticut. Steamed burgers are a
> thing there...
Yep. CT is a strange state.
I call it "the construction state" because it seems road construction goes on
for years and never ends.
Hate that place.
Hoboken is kind of cool.
Has a West village (NYC) feel about it.
> It was an over 400 mile round trip.
Yep.
> We did this on Thursday: A 13 hour, three state tour,
> though we took the subway into Manhattan for a few hours
> while the car sat in Hoboken..
Best way.
Park the car in NJ and take the Path train into Manhattan.
> Still. Try that with any EV.
No can do unless you want to spend a good amount of time
sitting at charging stations wasting money on junk food trying to
pass the time away.
> Lithium is also a mind altering element. It's used to
> treat some pretty hefty disorders, like schizoaffective
> disorder, and ALREADY areas with naturally elevated
> traces of lithium in their water show a change to the
> human population -- they're more docile. Violent crimes
> and suicides drop. And it sounds like a good thing but
> it's making normal people more docile, too. Now image
> all the lithium they're mining, concentrating and driving
> all over the country...
Highly toxic.
When I was studying to become and engineer we used to
toss little chunks of Lithium or even better sodium into a beaker
of water and watch the reaction.
> It's water soluble, impossible to keep out of the water
> supply.
Correct.
> There's vastly tighter controls on mercury and it's already
> a problem.
Highly toxic.
The greeniacs don't speak of the kids and indigenous people being
exploited to mine this crap.
--
pothead
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