Ch 8.4 - Transportation
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.” – E. B. White
Narrative: The internal combustion engine is outdated, inefficient, and contributes heavily to climate change. We need electric vehicles to protect our environment because they don’t pollute.
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a. EV’s
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”Nothing says I like to be banged by gay men while watching straight men bang my wife, than wearing a Vision Pro while driving a Cybertruck.” - Unknown
"EVs are the transgender of vehicles, they say it's a car but it really isn't. They are trying to make a battery powered system do something that it just can't do, be as good as an ICE." - Unknown
"Q: What do a person with diarrhea and an electric car owner have in common?
A: They both hope they will make it home" - Unknown
"The best part of EVs is when they break down on a busy street. Don't even think you and 6 friends can put that ship anchor in neutral and push the byatch to the side of the road." - Unknown
"Pontiac Aztec: I am the ugliest thing ever designed with 4 wheels.
Tesla Cybertruck: Hold my beer." - Unknown
"Of all the possible configurations for an Electric Vehicle, 'Full Sized Pickup Truck' has got to be the stupidest." - Unknown
"When I want to drive an EV, I play a round of golf." - Unknown
"Along with 15-minute cities, carbon credits, CBDCs, digital IDs, phasing out hydrocarbons and meat, vaccine passports, an ESG social credit system, and the war on farmers, EVs are likely an integral part of the Great Reset—the dystopian future the global elite has envisioned for mankind." - Unknown
"The EV propagandists love to spout the benefits of EVs. The costs... not so much. One of the features of Cost/Benefit Analysis is that the researcher gets to choose which benefits to consider and the costs to ignore. They tend to conveniently ignore the costs of mining the input materials such as fossil fuels used for motorized equipment, miners earning $5 a day, child labor, plundering the land, and pollution. They ignore the costs of recycling wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries from huge battery farms required for backup when the wind does not grow and the sun does not shine, the costs of restoring the abandoned land for some other use, and of course the cost of recyling the EV batteries. Few appear to seriously consider what it will cost to upgrade the power grid so it will be able to support the increased demand without blackouts. These are all inconvenient truths for virtue signaling policy makers. While a quest for a cleaner planet certainly has merit, the story we are being told about the Green Dream is a pack of lies." - Unknown
”An ICE vehicle is nearly 100% recyclable. An EV is a toxic waste dump when it's service life is over. But green bro” - Unknown
"How electric cars save the planet:
- With a gasoline or diesel engine car, the fossil fuel is burned under the hood, emitting greenhouse gases from the tailpipe
- With an electric car, the fossil fuels are burned far away where you can't see them, emitting greenhouse gases where you can't detect them, to power a battery that poisons the children who make them, so you can impress your friends" - Unknown
”We must all do our part for the planet. The other day unplugged a row of electric cars nobody was using.” - Unknown
"Lithium and copper are produced mostly outside the US and then refined in China. An electric car battery weighs 1,000 pounds. You have to mine 500,000 pounds of rock to produce 1 car battery. The total CO2 emissions to produce that battery range from 10-15 tons to 35 tons of CO2 to make the car. When the car shows up in your driveway it's already emitted 10-15 tons of CO2. For context over the life of an internal combustion vehicle burns 20 tons of CO2. Then you have to figure out how you plan to charge the vehicle. It could be all hydro or it could be all coal." - Mark Mills
"Dig up 500k lbs of material to make 1000 lb battery
100 to 300 barrels of oil for a battery that can hold 1 barrel of oil
Just making the battery creates 10-40 tons of CO2
400-4000% increase in demand for lithium cobalt and zinc. Not enough mining in the world to support that." - Unknown
"Global ore grades have been declining for centuries. That means the amount of material mined is going up and the amount of material processed is going up. In the future the energy burden to get a pound of copper or a pound of lithium will be higher, not lower than today. We can calculate that. Most analysts aren't doing that calculation (not yesterday's number, but tomorrow's number)." - Mark Mills
"Keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.” – Evan Spiegel
"Step 1) Lose money
Step 2) Another Government Bailout
Step 3) Massive C-Suite Bonuses
Step 4) Profit?
Step 5) Repeat from Step 1)" - Unknown, on the failure of electric vehicles to achieve profitability for GM
“We’re in the Colorado Springs market. If this [electric car] is your sole mode of transportation, and you’re in a market in extremes of elevation and temperature, the actual range is very limited. It makes it extremely impractical.” - Mickey Anderson, president of Baxter Auto Group, which owns dealerships in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado.
"I'd rather have a vehicle that can accelerate almost as fast but over and over and over and over again...oh, and that 5 minute fillup is nice too. Makes up for the extra second to 60 mph." - Unknown
"If you're at a charger for 8 hours, the 40 mph cars will pass you." - Unknown
"A gas pump doesn't know or care who you are or know where you traveled from. An EV charger knows all of this and more, it's the EV vehicle data gathering and control that matters and will be monetized. Your privacy gone, centralized control, EV immobilized by central authority. I can fill up from many suppliers of gasoline. Utilities supplying electricity on the other hand are regulated monopolies. The EV future will be the greatest threat to our American Freedom of mobility. And we are subsidizing this today whether you like it or not. FJB, destroying our country." - Unknown
"Oregon asks that electric vehicle drivers volunteer — and Utah has mandated — for trackers to be added to every electric vehicle so they can be taxed by the mile. Michigan is next..." - Unknown
"Once we get to 50% EVs, there will be blackouts and brownouts constantly. (We’d need >100 new nuclear plants devoted entirely to charging cars to provide enough power.) If we get to 75-80%, there will be severe rationing. At that point, they effectively will have ended our ability to travel at will." - Unknown
"25 refrigerators. That’s how much the additional electricity consumption per household would be if the average US home adopted electric vehicles (EVs)." - Unknown
"The environmentally sound approach would be to make vehicles that were radically lighter, less powerful, more efficient and slower, vehicles that would get the equivalent of 200 miles per gallon of fuel (or electrical charge) and last 20 years without major overhauls, battery replacements, etc." - Charles Hugh Smith
"If these pricks were genuinely concerned about emissions they'd encourage you to keep and maintain your old car, not encourage you to buy a new one every few years." - Unknown
"It would take a forklift or 4 big burly power lifters to lift an EV battery. I can lift as much energy over my head by myself with gasoline. Energy density is key." - Unknown
"All EVs are garbage because I can fit as much energy in a 5 gallon gas can that costs $25 to purchase and $20 to fill as you can in a 1500lb battery that costs tens of thousands of dollars to replace. Which EVs are probably the best? Teslas, but the king of the trash heap is still on the trash heap. Car makers should be having discussions about all of the new mining that will be done with diesel powered giant machines just to get the materials needed for EVs." - Unknown
"Consumers giving a big middle finger to EV's. What's an environmental Nazi to do? Drive the price of gasoline to $7, $10, $15/g... That's the plan folks... 'Can't afford gas? Buy an electric car'...you'll be hearing that more and more..." - Unknown
"The electric vehicle is a bait and switch. They know not everyone can have an electric car. What about people with only street parking? It's more about reducing the number of cars. The average suburban home around me has two to three cars in the driveway, you can only charge one. The electric car is a way to get you to accept them taking away cars, thinking everything will be the same , only battery powered. The end result of this is that only a few people will have cars at all." - Unknown
"In the mind of a Democrat...failure of this magnitude means we need to invest more. For them it's the best kind of program. One they can tunnel money through indefinitely without any chance of success, and therefore no limit on the money they gain." - Unknown
”A $7,500 annual tax credit or even $7,500 cash to take your bike to work would have been far more effective than subsidizing the EV idiocy, and a lot cheaper. After all of the waste and destruction these idiots have caused since Obama, it should be legal to kick every Democrat I see in the nuts, especially the women.” - Unknown
”My personal motto is ‘nothing newer than '95.’ That way, you avoid all the unnecessary invasive tech and rampant planned obsolescence, which now barely lasts the warranty and leaves plenty of cash in your pocket to fuel, repower, repaint, and generally modify these older vehicles in any way you wish. Spare parts are also local and abundant, something that will be an important factor as the wheels come off international trade and the spectre of international war looms. I'm too tired to remember the story verbatim, but there is a folk tale with a lot of truth to it that goes; For the want of a nail the war was lost- see for lack of the nail, the shoe could not be fitted on the horse, this then prevented the scout to report danger in time to his superior but unsuspecting army... theres a bunch more to it, but the guts is for want of a extremely basic component to enable a basic function, an incredible price was paid, something that many are going to fall victim to with the myriad of expensive sensors and overly complex and connected computers all newer cars need to function, as hard times accelerate. It's no accident. Something as simple as moisture in a tail light can prevent a modern car from operating, and this is just a tiny microcosm of our overly complicated systems our societies are utterly dependent on” - Unknown
b. Autonomous Driving
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"My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.” – Steven Wright
au·ton·o·mous - adjective - denoting or performed by a device capable of operating without direct human control. From Greek autonomos ‘having its own laws’ + -ous.
"Whoa, whoa. You better watch what you say about my car. She's real sensitive." - Christine (a movie about a demonically possessed car)
"They're not 'autonomous' - not by any stretch of the imagintion. They are monitored and controlled by big brother. They're 'autonomous' like Google and FaceBook are 'free'." - Unknown, on self-driving cars
"Next stop, Euthanasia Emporium. I've already filled out your organ donor card for you." - Unknown, Self-driving car GPS Navigator
c. Airlines
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"Why do you think parts are falling off airplanes? Why do you think videos of bad behavior of airline passengers get spread so widely? It's all to discourage you from wanting to fly." - Unknown
"i wouldn't fly now if it was free. between the jabbed pilots, the lack of maintenance and parts flying off, i'll take a hard pass. Because America is dying." - Unknown
"Screwdrivers/Drills now permitted on Boeing flights to allow passengers to help with maintenance." - Unknown
"Might've been built 25 years ago, but it's maintained today." - Unknown
"There was a book published in the 1990’s about the Lean Manufacturing method called 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain). Boeing was profiled in it as a leader in 5S practices. Now I wonder if 5S stands for Screw-up, Slaughter, Subvert, Sabotage, Scandal." - Unknown
"If it just aged out, you could bet your a$$ that they would mention that fact very prominently. Somebody needs to have signed off on the completed work on paper. Where's that document? Used to be - Don't assume malice where incompetence is likely, but in clown world it's always the opposite." - Unknown, on the erased airline footage from a Boeing plant where a door blew off mid-flight
"Malarkey!!!! Aircraft mechanics must sign out every nut, bolt, and tool. This is all tracked. This whole narrative and those pushing it are suspect based on this alone." - Unknown
"you can fly united but your plane won't arrive that way" - Unknown
"United it flies / Divided it falls." - Unknown
"I've been thinking the same thing about the railroads. The constant train derailments of the last three years, now all the Oboeing planes are falling apart and whistleblowers are dying..." - Unknown
"My first real career job was for an aerospace manufacturer who made parts for the DOD and every commercial aircraft in the free world including Boeing as one of our largest customers. If a part failed on an aircraft, it was traceable back to the mill that supplied the material. Every machinist stamped their personal code on the routing through every operation from the saw guy to coating along with a QA persons stamp who inspected them. Don't tell me they don't know who put that door on. They just can't show a picture of him." - Unknown
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