Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Share the pain of a deep green activist politician who desperately wants to attend a climate change rally, but misses out because of her useless electric vehicle.
SLO climate change activist Heidi Harmon’s electric car calamity
January 24, 2022
By KAREN VELIE
Former San Luis Obispo mayor and climate change activist Heidi Harmon attempted to “do the right thing,” and travel to a rally in San Francisco in an electric car. After multiple attempts to find a working charging station in San Jose, Harmon realized charging the car would take up to seven hours and there was no way she could make the rally.
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Read more: https://calcoastnews.com/2022/01/slo-climate-change-activist-heidi-harmons-electric-car-calamity/
The video (h/t Cal Coast News):
I love this story, because it offers a microcosm of why green try to waste so much of your money.
“We need some transition support squads”.
If Harmon wasn’t such a deep green, it might have dawned on her that her experience is unequivocal evidence that EVs are useless.
But the green belief system does not seem to permit such thoughts.
Greens start from the assumption that their vision is inevitable. Then they try to work backwards, to figure out how much of your money they need to throw into the bottomless pit, to fund all the “transition support squads” and other useless green props they hope will help advance society towards their vision of a green nirvana.
Even if their green vision is an economic and engineering impossibility, they don’t hesitate to spend your money, because their belief system does not allow them to accept such negativity. So they just keep spending and spending, until someone cancels their ability to plunder your future financial security.
Much of this dysfunctional and liberty-destroying thinking is facilitated by the idea that government can create money out of thin air.
Some people are naïve because they are inexperienced.
Some are so stupid they are not capable of learning even from their own experience.
…and yet she thinks she’s should have the authority to tell others what to do?
Dialing Dunning-Kruger up to 11.
Where I live the local council is installing EV charging points in the town. There are two of them at one end of the main road, they are at what I would call the quieter end of town. There are over 100 parking spaces in total the main road is about half mile long so anyone wanting to charge there virtue signaler and go shopping have a half mile walk to get it and another half mile walk carrying it back.
Me I’ll keep my 25 year old diesel van and park right by the shops. Also when I go on holiday I’ll pull into a filling station fill up pay and be back on the road within 15 minutes rather than hanging about for however many hours while my car charges provided the charge point isn’t occupied and then travel a shorter distance before having to go through the whole thing again. EV’s are OK for local driving (Anthony had one for such use) but long distance no thanks. Citroen I think it was had an advert trumpeting the range of one of their cars as 250 odd miles my van will do 400 odd before refueling.
James Bull
Ms. Harmon is also mixed up about her accessorizing….
Or, maybe she isn’t mixed up. Maybe, she wanted to fix the flowers in place before she left (okay, because her husband has no idea about that kind of thing) and then, planned to take off the ring when she arrived. YUCK.
All the above is speculation (how ironic).
However, NOT speculation:
— Her posting her quavering, teary, babytalk voice = attempt to manipulate,
i.e., “I am a victim. A victim of the climate denier-persecutors. RESCUE ME! Waaaaa!”
Disgusting.
One interesting consequence of E vehicle use with their range problem is that it becomes harder to conceal if your actual route – and activities en route – are not the same as those claimed for the journey.
Climate alarmist site Skeptical Science (John Cook) is crowing about all the investment that has been apparently withdrawn or denied to fossil fuel extraction industry, due to alarmist politicking:
https://skepticalscience.com/dollars-institutions-divestment.html
They claim it amounts to 39 trillion.
Well now that energy prices are making the first actually realistic hockey-stick, rising sharply and threatening energy poverty and mass cold deaths, energy divestment is being seen even by mainstream alarmism-supporting opinion as excessive, premature and irresponsible. There’s nothing to replace that fossil fuel and people need energy to live.
The culprits responsible for this misanthropic sabotage of energy infrastructure are not even trying to hide or deny it. They are boasting of their achievement, like some inebriated Treblinka camp guard. “Look at all these folks we’ve killed – all for the climate.”
“Back to the Future”
All she needed to do was replace her car’s antenna with a big copper pipe wired directly into her EV’s Faux Capacitor and become a storm chaser in hopes that she’ll hit a power lime during a lightening strike to wake up her Mr. Fusion!
It can only be hoped after that doesn’t work she’ll finally wake up from being “woke”.
(Reality doesn’t seem to done it yet.)
points for the Back to the future reference. points taken away for mixing up the sequence of events. The lightning chasing happened before the Mr Fusion was installed and was never used to “wake up” the Mr Fusion.
I can’t help but assume this woman bought an EV based on the aura of virtue surrounding it and with no objective understanding of what the pros and cons are for these rolling batteries of frustration. This is the result of learning to make decisions with your emotions rather than critical thinking. It explains so much.
Hey, if you want to drive an EV then knock yer lights out. I drive an old beater F250 and will race you from Dallas to Big Bend National Park and back any time you feel spunky. I can be in Panther Junction in 9 hours, then have a nap and head back. Oh, no charging stations in the NP, by the way. Have nice day.
how sad but no loss
Not even sad. I’m laughing at the predicament of her own making. too funny.
in uk putting 40kWH into an electric car takes 15 to 20minutes (required every 180miles) just enough time for coffee and pee. It is sad that usa has such a pathetic charge network
Using a 7kW home charger overnight charging will enable 100+ miles per day commute.
A 3kw charger (granny charger) charges at approx 9miles added per hour
AAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA …. “Whoa”,
Now THAT was super funny. Made my day.
My last comment not editing right.
Between the “ha ha ha’s” I added ” Inhales deeply” and “wipes tear from eye”
I guess it looses impact if I have to explain. But I can only work within the confines of the editing system. 🙂