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Expert's Eva Warning: 'One of The Biggest Energy Policy Blunders We've Ever 
Made'

Energy experts are warning about numerous potential issues for electric 
vehicles, including affordability, range, weather, infrastructure, and economic 
concerns, even as the government and car companies increasingly push them on 
Americans. [emphasis, links added]

Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer and host of the podcast "The 
Wright Report," told Fox News Digital that American society has shifted to EVs 
largely because some people are "just so hell-bent on making sure that this 
transition happens, even if that means wrecking the economy, in terms of 
electricity, its reliability, the grid, getting brownouts or blackouts or 
economic wreckage by people who otherwise can't afford these new vehicles."

"That cost is being shouldered by buyers and car companies by raising the price 
of gas-powered vehicles, [which] is basically just a direct wealth transfer, 
just paying for EV subsidies and that will grow over time, if we continue to 
keep this regime in place," Brent Bennett, a policy director for Life:Powered, 
an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told Fox News Digital.

California, Wright said, is likely a "really sad test case" for what the rest 
of the country could face, where he said it currently costs about $250 an hour 
to service an EV.

The state has made a strong push for EVs under Gov. Gavin Newsom, and 
Californians will by 2035 not be allowed to buy new gas-powered cars and light 
trucks.

"Some of those expenses are going to come down because you're going to find 
manufacturing efficiencies and you're going to be able to lower the cost of 
that product," Wright said.

"But as of this moment, with all the push, it is a wealth transfer from people 
who have their current gas vehicles to an EV. I don't know if that's going to 
be the case in 10 or 20 years, but what we see in California is because of some 
of these dirty green policies."

Bennett discussed the $7,500 federal tax credit for EVs, which he said "is one 
small part of the whole equation" when it comes to what the government is doing 
to subsidize EV production.

"We calculated that if you add on the socialized infrastructure costs, and 
then, in particular, add on California's zero-emission vehicle mandate, which 
adds cost to all of us because the automakers have to pay to produce more EVs 
in California, and they spread that cost to the whole country, the federal fuel 
economy regulations alone are subsidizing each EV by about $20,000. Add all 
this together, and each EV is getting almost $50,000 in subsidies," he said.

As a result of these policies, many Californians' utilities have gone up, which 
Wright said is only going to continue hurting the lower and middle classes the 
most.

"The burden of this revolution is it is fundamentally a tax on the working 
class and the middle class ... a lot of folks struggling in those two worlds 
and it really is unfair to a lot of the working folks in this country," he 
said.

If we continue on the current path, Wright warned of a tremendous amount of 
economic wreckage in many parts of the country, as well as the world, because 
infrastructure just cannot support these government mandates. 

"At some point, we're going to face this issue of, we don't have the charging 
infrastructure, we don't have enough electricity overnight, we're going to have 
to adjust unless we want to crash the global economy," he said.

Jason Isaac, a senior fellow with Life:Powered, said EVs have been pitched as a 
"gadget" through powerful marketing, but argued people are now rethinking their 
decisions after hearing stories about their unreliability.

The main reasons are attributable to what he calls "range anxiety," the lack of 
charging infrastructure, as well as the high cost of the EVs themselves.

Wright explained how charging and the three different levels of electricity 
available for EVs complicate the experience for EV owners. 

Level one, for example, is what you plug into your wall at home, while level 
three chargers which are the most powerful, can only be found at the equivalent 
of a gas station.

Level two chargers can be installed in a home, but they cost about $2,000 to 
$4,000 to install and don't include the cost of fuel, Wright said.

Level 3 chargers, in contrast, are expensive and require significant 
infrastructure, making them "incredibly difficult" or "impossible" to 
conveniently build throughout rural America, he said.

He also warned that people who can charge their EV with a plug-in installed in 
their home will still likely face high electricity bills.

"You're plugging it in, but you've got an electricity bill, and the cost of 
that is really going to be dependent on where in the country you are," he said. 
"You might have very cheap power with nuclear power or hydropower, or you can 
have very expensive power with solar and wind."

Also, those who charge their EVs at home tend to use them between the hours of 
10 p.m. and 6 a.m. when there simply isn't enough electricity to go around, 
which could result in the electricity grid crashing, Wright said.

Bennett said the "socialized costs of electricity" pose a problem, especially 
when an EV charging overnight consumes as much power as three to four homes.

In a neighborhood of 80 homes, where everyone has an EV and all of them are 
charging at the same time, it would be the equivalent of adding four times as 
many homes to the neighborhood, likely exceeding the neighborhood's available 
electrical load.

"Now imagine, instead of over eight hours, you're trying to charge in 30 
minutes on a fast charger," he said. "Well, now you're talking about that EV 
alone drawing as much power from the grid as a small grocery store. You put 
four of those together at a Tesla supercharging station, you're talking as much 
power as a Walmart, so you have to upgrade your electrical infrastructure, your 
transmission and distribution infrastructure to support that."

Bennett argued that there are some instances where EVs work well, like as a 
commuter car, but in a lot of ways, he said they aren't practical for the 
average American. 

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transition-that-isnt/
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