Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Libertarians rejoice! Thanks to President Biden’s latest climate brainstorm, in the future the US Federal Government will only function within 200 miles of the nearest operational EV charging station, and only when a fully charged EV is available in the car pool.
From the Biden White House;
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Leverage the Federal Government’s Footprint and Buying Power to Lead by Example
- Consistent with the goals of the President’s Build Back Better jobs and economic recovery plan, of which his clean energy jobs plan is a central pillar, the order directs the federal agencies to procure carbon pollution-free electricity and clean, zero-emission vehicles to create good-paying, union jobs and stimulate clean energy industries.
- In addition, the order requires those purchases be Made in America, following President Biden’s Buy American executive order. The order also directs agencies to apply and strictly enforce the prevailing wage and benefit guidelines of the Davis Bacon and other acts and encourage Project Labor Agreements. These actions reaffirm that agencies should work to ensure that any jobs created with funds to address the climate crisis are good jobs with a choice to join a union.
- The order directs each federal agency to develop a plan to increase the resilience of its facilities and operations to the impacts of climate change and directs relevant agencies to report on ways to expand and improve climate forecast capabilities – helping facilitate public access to climate related information and assisting governments, communities, and businesses in preparing for and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
- The order directs the Secretary of the Interior to pause on entering into new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters to the extent possible, launch a rigorous review of all existing leasing and permitting practices related to fossil fuel development on public lands and waters, and identify steps that can be taken to double renewable energy production from offshore wind by 2030. The order does not restrict energy activities on lands that the United States holds in trust for Tribes. The Secretary of the Interior will continue to consult with Tribes regarding the development and management of renewable and conventional energy resources, in conformance with the U.S. government’s trust responsibilities.
- The order directs federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as consistent with applicable law and identify new opportunities to spur innovation, commercialization, and deployment of clean energy technologies and infrastructure.
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Of course, it may take some time to completely replace the government vehicle fleet, and I suspect government employees working in remote regions will try to cling on to their gasoline and diesel vehicles, so the process of Federal withdrawal from unpowered regions may take a long time.
Imagine being in an electric car when a blizzard hits.
Imagine freezing to death on a highway.
But I repeat myself…
That picture is just silly. The obvious thing to do is put a solar panel on the top of the tank, so that it makes its own electricity.
Need to put some heavy armour over the panel, though.
ROFL!!!!
What I have not seen anyone mention so far is that the USA only gets 14% of its power from renewables so the whole exercise is totally pointless and when you take all the losses in transmission ETC.an ICE vehicle is far more efficient. At least in New Zealnd we get 80% of our power from renewables and if the aluminium smelter down south closes we will be about a 100% renewable.
As for that immature prat mcswell I wish he would just go away as he is so ignorant of life he has added nothing to the conversation.
I have a friend who was quoted years ago NZ$22,000 to get his power polled in so got a windmill and solar. As initially it was only going to be a holiday home that made perfect sense but then it became permanent. The windmill is basically unused now and he has installed way more solar so that it is now actually liveable. He is so stupid he doesn’t realise the problems when solar is connected to the grid and thinks everyone should live like him but I noticed as he is out in the country when he bought another vehicle recently it was an ICE one.
I am waiting for the first solar powered aircraft carrier that will have long extension chords going to the electric supersonic aircraft.
I’m waiting to see the first battery-powered F35 involved in a dogfight with a Russian MIG!
There are a lot of puff articles on electric vehicles, to the extent I felt like most of them lacked real world facts. I then looked at car max, auto trader, car fax etc to see how the value of electric vehicles held up. The most notable observation is number of miles driven at used sale date. Looked like the average was in the 25-30 thousand mile range with the high milage outlier being 65 thousand [about 3-5 %]. These were cars 2-8 years old. I did not see any cars for sale over 8 years of age.
Leads to a question. When comparing purchase costs of an electric vehicle to a suv/pick up should not the comparison be made 30 thousand miles EV, versus 150 thousand miles suv/pickup. Electric vehicle would then be about 5 times more expensive?
Leads to another question. What happens after 8 years? The battery warrantee expires. Does the car turn into a brick. A well maintained pickup easily makes it to 16 years of use. Electric vehicle twice as expensive on that basis.
Puff pieces exist in similar fashion for KW and gas usage.
Run down to Autozone and ask them for a new battery for a Tesla!
What happens at about 6 years is the vehicle(car) sale or trade-in value plummets, enough to pay for a new battery. The much twitted lower maintainence costs for an EV disappear when the battery loses more than ~50% capacity.
I’ve had my pickup for over 26 years now and it’s still my daily driver. She and I are attached at the hip.
The Biden Build Back Better jobs and economic recovery plan looks like it simply is a new nuclear power initiative. There simply is absolutely no way to do it with solar and wind power. There simply enough energy density in either solar or wind, there aren’t enough materials to do it without huge inflation, there isn’t enough usable land/ocean area, and solar and wind are too variable to power an economy.
That is, they have to accept that any order for equipment is likely going to have a clause that “delivery will be on an as completed basis.”. The request for a delivery time table cannot be met.”
What really troubles me about this twaddle is that electric vehicles powered by wind and solar WON’T be carbon neutral. The extensive changes to the electric grid, charging stations, the manufacture of solar panels and windmills, plus destroying the gas vehicles(they can’t sell them off as the currently do) will wipe out any so called CO2 reductions.
The other fact is that a well designed hybrid vehicle has a smaller CO2 footprint than even an all electric car. The current top hybrids such as the Prius are as efficient as a diesel vehicle and that is about as efficient as an electric vehicle charged off the electric grid, by whatever power supply but nuclear. Diesels do produce more noxious pollutants than gas vehicles so not having them is a loss.
A hybrid also tackles all the goals of this plan, without the large costs involved