Essay by Eric Worrall
Sydney radio station 2GB has reported a hilarious request from an Electric Vehicle owners group for neighbours to ration their use of electricity, so their EVs can charge.
I’m guessing the EV owners invested in fast chargers, only to discover the local grid is already maxed out, leading to a shortage of spare electricity for their expensive virtue signalling props.
From the text it doesn’t look like anyone other than EV owners got invited to the meeting which produced this communique. Perhaps they see themselves as the green moral executive of their street.
I leave it to readers to suggest an appropriate response to such a letter. Please ration your use of swearwords.
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Well I got kicked off reddit for saying EV owners are wankers. That letter just reaffirms that.
Hope this will past the thought police. But be sure there is no ambiguity, EV cars are a wankers car.
4 EV users wanting the rest of the street to ration electricity. That’s my take.
Go f@ck yourself.
How about, “plug off?”
Go Frack Yourselves?
Put your charger where the sun doesn’t shine and activate. Even 120 V will work there. No fast charging required.
Sydney (Australia) uses 230 V 🙂
Well they could use a step down transformer.🙃……….😉
step up transformer?
“Dear neighbour. You bought your car without checking if there was a reliable electricity supply to charge it? That’s your affair but I won’t be sacrificing my supply to cover up your mistakes. If you feel you need more electricity than is available then might I suggest you invest in a fossil fuel generator? Please don’t bother me with your problems again.”
“Dear Neighbors,
My mother-in-law needs a ride to physical therapy at 10 am Mon, Wed, & Fri. She does a little shopping and will need a ride back at 1 pm. If need be, and you don’t have the time to parcel out the scheduling, I can schedule the trips for each of you individually.
The therapy sessions will run through January, if all goes well. After that, I believe she will just need a ride to the stores for shopping/library on a weekend day.
Our efforts, if coordinated willingly together, will allow our seniors to better live a full & meaningful life, and will create a culture that shows them that they are not a burden.
Let me know if I should do the scheduling for you, or if the 4 of you want to manage it for yourselves,
Thanks,
DonM”
If I were still a mischief-making teenager that is exactly the kind of pamphlet I’d troll my street with.
If that is what it is, I take my hat off. Well played kiddo(s)!
This is so laughable and off-the-planet that it must be a spoof. If not then God help Australia.
I think its plausible that someone sent this for real. We have more than our fair share of d*ckheads.
We call them moonbats here in Massachusetts
I thought they were called Massholes.
Massholes is typically referencing Mass drivers, or the general attitude that people there have towards outsiders. Moonbats is the lunatic left , which would include the green fanatics
So, to put it into the form of a logical argument:
All natives of Massachusetts are Massholes.
Some Massholes are not Moonbats.
Gotcha. They’re called ‘frightbats’.
In the UK, Moonbat is reserved for the Guardian writer George Monbiot who is a fully signed up apologist, obfuscator, and cheerleader for fake (climate) science manipulators and watermelons. Actually, this is the sort of rationing agenda he would be pushing – after all, you can’t push an EV.
I owe Moonbat thanks; it was he referring to climate change sceptics as “like Holocaust deniers…” that made me think – this is not science, rather an irrational belief system. Research and reading confirmed that to be the true.
My understanding is that Moonbat is an apologist, obfuscator and cheerleader for any leftwing scheme.
We call the UK’s leading Green Prat, George Monbiot, “Moonbat”…
KIndly provided by the evil colonialists….!
They should have just waited a while before buying an EV. I just read that NASA has developed a solid state battery and charging system that will allow recharging an EV in 5 minutes. So a 100 kwh EV battery would be charged at a rate of 1.2 megawatts! That’s 1200 amps at 1000 volts. So the charging hardware would obviously be quite impressive. But I’m not sure my wife could handle hooking up a cable that is as big as your wrist and weighs 50-75 kg. At least it would be easy to spot the charging stations – they’d be the ones connected directly to a substation.
Nothing that a 13amp fuse won’t handle …..
Yes; the irony is that the more improvements are made to EV batteries in terms of faster charge times, the more catastrophic it will be for the grid.
At the gas pump, I can add 300 miles of range to my Ford Fusion sedan in about two minutes of actual “fill” time.
To match that time (range added per unit of time) with an average EV would require a 4 megawatt charger!!
One would probably have to wear special safety gear for arc protection if such a charger were even feasible to build.
I can’t imagine how big the cooler would have to be in order to prevent the battery from instantly igniting from the internal heat.
As someone who lives in Australia… never underestimate the utter stupidity that can emerge. Particularly from the suburban Greens (watermelons). These people are totally disconnected from the reality of the world. They will soon enough have to face the consequences of ignoring reality though. Unfortunately, the rest of us will likely have to face them too.
At which point they’ll blame everybody except themselves.
A pamphlet like this makes the proles hot under the collar . Maybe we skeptics should troll our neighbours with similar idiot requests ostensibly from the green Woke-istas with a view to fomenting revolution against green tyranny. It would be straight out of the Saul Alinsky / Naomi Oreskes playbook.
Ouch! If a Saul Alinsky / Naomi Oreskes playbook existed you would see it being read to children during the school “Drag Queen Hour”, and then placed in the Library next to (swearword rationed) books.
“Rules for Radicals” written by Saul Alinsky.
Complete with an over the shoulder acknowledgement to Lucifer himself.
Not joking. I had to look it up myself because it was so audacious, yet there it was.
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Dear neighbors can you please refrain from charging your EV car so that I can cook my evening meal, have a hot shower and do my washing. Yours sincerely ???
Great reply. I would add –
Dear neighbors can you please refrain from charging your EV car so that I can cook my evening meal, have a hot shower and do my washing. Air conditioning my home is more important than how many miles you can drive on your battery. Get a real car.
NO dear neighbours go and buy an ICE car because you and your tokenism and virtue signalling are the problem not us.
Should have included a request to turn off telephone chargers, computers, televisions, kidney dialysis and other life-saving medical equipment because you know, saving the planet man.
Is “Get Stuffed” sufficiently restrained? Other options available.
My husband and I are in Australia, he is a heart failure patient and requires a cpap machine as he forgets to breathe when he sleeps and then his de-fibrulator fires off. He also has a monitor that downloads his pacemaker every night and sends a message to the heart hospital so they can monitor his condition. When he had covid a couple of months ago the monitor transmitted every four hours or so, flashes and clicks so we know it is transmitting, somebody at the heart hospital must have been following him very closely. So EV users get lost.
Dear Lyn
I am very sorry to hear of your husband’s health problems and wish you both well.
This was exactly the sort of issue I was thinking of in my comment. Actions have consequences and lying about a climate crisis to forward a wholly political and catastrophically destructive agenda which is already and in future will harm billions of innocent people is a crime – pure and simple.
I hope one day those in the media and others profiteering from this false crisis will realise the enormity of their lies.
Maybe also suggest they get a stationary bike generator, or a big hamster wheel to charge their cars with.
I live in virtue signaling Canberra, capital city of Australia. Our local government, with its delusions of grandeur, is aiming to ban the sale of non-EVs from 2035. I feel quite certain we will have EV users in our street well before then.
You have no idea how much I am looking forward to receiving a missive like that from those neighbours. Indeed, I am planning my response now. It’s not going to be pretty!
Is that a ban on selling all non-EVs or just new car sales. If it is just for new cars then I predict the good people of Canberra will be able to buy VERY low mileage USED 2035 non-EVs for only a little above the original msrp.
It’s called “doing a Havana”!
They’re only promoting it as a ban on sales of new cars. But don’t look now, I’m sure they’re planning to ban sales of petrol & diesel fuels real soon.
I live in virtue signaling Canberra
To paraphrase Tim Blair, “the best way to view Canberra is via the rear view mirror of a speeding vehicle”
So, Canberra?
I am sorry, so very very sorry.
Thank you for your sympathy. What we really need is explosives.
Dear EV owners,
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Bob B.
It’s worse than we thought!
It can’t be real, surely?! I assume it’s a Sydney suburb, being 2GB, but not necessarily. The game we need to play is —guess the suburb. Its gotta be the elites, so I think there is short odds on an Eastern Suburbs locality…Lets have a stab at Neutral Bay…lol!!!
As for what my response would be…Well I’d just go and park my diesel work truck in one of their driveways, start it, lock the door and walk away for an hour or so…
A Teal electorate.. self-egrandizes self-centered virtue-worthy ass-wipes.
If 1200–1500 EVs plugged in at once in NYC, they could bring down the grid. And they want all vehicles to be EV. In other words, they expect to have very few vehicles in NYC when they are done.
you have the program
All you need to do is encourage some green mayor to put on an all electric car parade which will mean every car is in use at the same time, is returned home at approximately the same time and plugged in at about the same time….
They expect you not to drive anywhere. I.e. You’ll only be “allowed” to charge your car a little bit every week, just so you can get to work and back, but no where else.
The Gulag of the 21st century isn’t a place, it’s a way of life. You’ll own nothing, you’ll be happy and you’ll do as you’re told or your charging allowance will be revoked. Basically, a social credit system that will make the Chinese envious.
Its the Melbourne suburb of Brighton
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11305125/Melbourne-electric-car-owners-leave-flyer-Brighton-street-calling-locals-ration-electricity.html
Ha!..Well of course it is. I should have thought Victoria, the green/socialist capital of Australia. And Brighton of course, Zoe Daniel a teal won the seat..I work in Brighton often..Median house prices around AU$3.4million..Very wealthy bayside Melbourne suburb…Doctors, lawyers etc etc…
And they want you to pay to upgrade the electrical system to accommodate their virtue signaling.
Why at least they don’t offer s.th., like f.e. a weekly free drive to the next mall, an invitation in a good restaurant or so ?
Because it is neither selfish, nor narcissistic.
And it is most certainly a me, me, me paradigm
What a bunch of utter numpties.
Never mind net zero, this is zero self-awareness.
Could Cape York peninsula become host to a new gulag archipelago?
Numpties! There’s the word I was searching for.
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Numpties with advanced degrees, and not so much as a teaspoon of common sense or self-awareness from the lot of them.
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I’m sure some kindly neighbor down the street will come by with a clue stick** and gently beat some sense into them.
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**also known as a cricket bat
I suppose you have some equivalent to clue by fours.
Put out a pamphlet asking them not to charge their cars at night, since there is no solar at that time, and unplug anytime the wind is under 5kph
Perhaps they should install lunar panels so they can charge at night.
Or if it’s over 40km/h, or if it’s cloudy….
The solution is quite simple, each and every EV operator in this street requires a 20 kW solar system with associated controllers, inverters, distribution, monitoring, battery capacity and three phase EV charger with a switchboard upgrade,
The required technology is widely available for less than AU$50,000.00, which will enable the ‘planet saviors’ to operate their vehicle of choice and remain within the capacity of the existing power grid infrastructure at their locale.
There is a severe logic failure at play here where more than 80% of all power available in New South Wales is derived from non-renewable (classed) fossil fuels, why ever would those claiming to seek absolution from certain fire and damnation engage in the greater use of a network that directly contradicts their stated aims.
Perhaps one day the green electrons will rise up and devour those nasty black electrons and we will all live happily ever after.
Tell them to buy a diesel generator.
In the US, they would demand the “government” (i.e.: taxpayer) pay for it. Not sure about Australia.
Already expecting the local council to provide more ( faster) chargers
The taxpayer has already stumped up $5,000 for a business case.
I heard the other day that if you plug your EV into your basic house circuit, it will take about four days to fully charge the vehicle.
Many house and units installation is impossible the wiring can’t handle the load it requires a very expensive running in of new wiring.
It’s particularly problematic for home units. Each charger would need to be unique to the specified unit number. Not sure how widespread this is, insurance might be problematic. Who wants EV’s parked under their building?
In the US there is a universal charging standard. And then there’s Tesla.
How do you charge the cost of the electricity used by individual EV owners? If six unit owners out of a block of twelve units own EV’s wouldn’t each of these owners need to have their own designated charging bay? They’re not going to get in line for one. Or worse still a block of 75 units or more with half of them owning EV’s and most of them getting home at the same time.
Hopefully the restaurant’s that you’d need to eat at due to the resulting brownout are close by because you can’t take the car as it’s being charged. You also hope that the restaurant has it’s own supersized solar and battery system, otherwise it’s sandwiches.
Charging EV’s will not only add to the cost of the home unit but significantly increase the fire risk too. And will of course decrease energy security. The truth is they don’t want us to have cars at all.
Don’t most restaurants use GAS cooking ranges? Oh, of course, that’s not allowed in CA and some other states!
Yes of course. Another reason to leave California. For those restaurants that are allowed gas, I guess it would be candlelight dinners. Or maybe solar charged lanterns?
There has been wide-ranging discussion on an electrical forum I frequent regarding EV charging stations for residences here in the US. At 120VAC and 15 amps, a typical branch circuit for US homes, you can pump 14.4 kW-hr into your EV in 10 hours. On that basis, several days is a good estimate.
Since the US distribution system uses center-tapped transformers for all residential you can get 240 VAC with no difficulty, and 30-amp (or higher) circuits at that voltage are common. Since EV loads are considered continuous, you can only charge at a rate of 24 amps (0.8 of breaker rating). The charging station has the smarts to control the charge current based on the breaker it’s attached to. That would let you charge a 100 kW-hr battery from empty to full in about 17 hours, although I doubt anyone would need to do that. Let’s say 50 kW-hr, so here in the US it’s perfectly feasible to charge such a vehicle overnight.
Now, let’s talk about the $4,000 or so you’ll be spending to set up your charging point, let alone if you have only on-street parking…
In most of the US, there are two houses per transformer. Would the existing transformers be able to handle both houses charging their EVs at the same time, while both houses are also using the A/C, cooking dinner on an electric stove and heating water? (Ignoring TVs, computers, lights, etc.)
If you had to retrofit existing homes to use all electric appliances and heating, and added EV’s on top of that, the answer is probably “no”. Conversations with linemen on the above-mentioned forum suggest that the power company (POCO) installs the very minimum equipment to cover the estimated loads. Keep in mind that most homes with a 100- or 200-amp service rarely draw as much as half that, and the POCO knows this, so those transformers are sized accordingly. In fact, they are slightly undersized and allowed to run at 110-120% of rated capacity during the very highest peak periods and run very hot, because they will cool down overnight when demand is lowest. It shortens their service life, but the POCO is fine with the trade-off.
There is of course the substation equipment and distribution lines to consider as well. Cable is usually sized to carry the existing loads and future anticipated loads to the end of cable life and no further. If demand is expected to grow 3% per year (ignore compounding) and cable life is 15 years, then the cable will be sized for 145% of current load. Or a little bit less. If you add a significant step change to the demand, you run the risk of cable failure.
Whatever you do, forget the public consultation….
“Sadiq Khan remains committed to ULEZ expansion despite major backlash
It comes as around two-thirds of respondents in the consultation to expand the ULEZ across all of Greater London reportedly opposed the plan.
With claims from whistle-blowers that negative responses were being largely excluded from the results. Last weekend saw 66 per cent of participants oppose the plans and only 24 per cent in favour, resulting in the GLA Conservatives’ demand the expansion be axed. But in an interview with the Evening Standard, the Mayor shared he was not deterred by the response sharing he believed the consultation was “hijacked” by opponents.”
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/23034002.sadiq-khan-remains-committed-ulez-expansion-despite-major-backlash/
He needs money – badly.
“Ultra Low Emission Zone” – for those who, like me, had to look up that acronym. Not one of the common ones seen here.
Thanksl
I saw that Khan wanted the ULEZ to cover ALL of “Greater London”. I wonder what will happen when a couple of million car users just REFUSE to pay the fines for ACTUALLY using their vehicles? Idiot laws need to be ignored!
Buckley liked to say that “a liberal is someone who wants to reach in while you are taking a shower and adjust the temperature of the water.” It is unfettered dogooderism. It is why liberals are so attracted to the climate change fight; it is a chance to bring their understanding of the social contract to new and unprecedented heights. Electricity rationing is what Buckley’s aphorism looks like in the age of climate change.
And when I point out their hypocrisy oh boy they have lots of excuses for themselves!
The feeling of rightiousness is quite powerful and is actually addicting. Each time a wave of rightious indignation flows over their bodies, their brain releases a dose of dopamine making them feel euphoric.
A small L liberal: Everything would be better if we all just learned to get along.
Also from the same: Here is a list of everything we need you to agree on.
Yes little boys.. YOU can roster your power usage amongst yourselves…..
Nothing to do with us. !
What a complete bunch of cults they must be….
Sorry, I think you might have misspelled ’Cults’
Bravo sir! I got a real laugh of of that one.
oh lordy, four of them and they will decide a roster..
I would LOVE to read the actual REAL neighbours responses to this gem,
I wont even begin to write what I would , were I there and received this in my letterbox!
I would immediately install a number of outside, high powered spotlights “for security don’t you know”, and they would be on every evening/night forthwith.
Would this be an argument against any more EVs?
Most EVs come with pedals so, use them.
Tesla’s high-tech solution to California’s grid overload!
Bugger off!
(Sorry, they are the first and only words that come to mind).
John… Blunt!
But fair
1. Send them a map locating the high speed charging stations near their home.
2. Tell them to install solar panels so they can charge their cars during the day with green electricity.
-suggest they get a job working nights
-alt suggest, buy 50kw battery storage to charge car at night
– suggest they buy a second EV so one could be charged while the other is driven
– suggest they car pool to work so they could leave their cars home to charge when they are riders.
3. suggest they get a job that allows them to charge at work. Google has this but best get in really early.
Practical workable suggestions.
Sound advice, but Green Monsters prefer freeloading off of others before
running & ruining their lives, too!
-suggest they fuddle-off
Excellent – and reasonable – suggestions.
4 – invest in good sturdy shoes, and a (canvas) backpack to bring home their groceries from the “organic” market.
Whooda thunk!
How about a letter from the neighborhood gas generator owners group offering the use of the generators when they need a charge and it’s not time for their roster, and the air cons is staying on.
With a caveat I would demand if my neighbor used my gas generator to kindly refill my tank.
I’ll gladly trade my “roster ration” in return for them giving me 20 gallons of diesel for my electricity generator.
Mr. Garner and Mr. Cook: Clearly, you fellows are not getting into the spirit of this. Your neighbors are trying to save the planet, and you want to burn oil??!! An appropriate response is to thank these folks for being better than you, and promise to try harder to follow their virtuous lead.
Then, at night, you TP their EV!!
In deference to the Premier of Western Australia’s desire to have all communications translated into Aboriginal speak(one) could we see this written in a pamphlet so all residents can understand it.
The response will no doubt be the same, Frack Off! one.
Did the Australian Aboriginals all speak the same language. In the Americas, there are countless languages the indigenous peoples spoke.
No. There are hundreds and hundreds of languages. The Premier of Western Australia has NFI.
Not only that, but modern English is full of words that could have absolutely zero meaning or equivalent in any aboriginal language.
There were originally 350 different tribes in Australia, so it’s always funny when people suggest that we should all learn to speak the Aboriginal language. It’s like saying that everyone should learn to speak European. They didn’t have numeracy either, so if they make reference to your ‘mob’ it could mean any number of people.
Absurdly, the school my son goes to (along with every school and government building) flies the Australian Flag, Aboriginal Flag and for some reason the Torres Straight Island flag. We are in Victoria, close to 3500km from the Torres Straight Islands and we have absolutely nothing to do with them. It’s just virtue signaling. They are teaching children a fairy tale about aboriginal culture too. The reality is, many times, far to brutal for children to be exposed to. But all they are taught is that aboriginals were good and White men were bad.
People are exposed to didgeridoo’s, which originated in Northern Queensland I believe, and standard boomerangs, songs and dance that may not be relevant to the part of Australia it’s being played out in, all in the name of Aboriginal culture. Different tribes had different variations of what is seen as Australian culture. But traditional Aboriginal law could only be seen by modern day people as brutal. And sadly it’s still happening in remote parts of Australia and though women and children suffer the most, the women are just as brutal. They used to talk about “secret men’s business”, but there’s plenty of things hidden about women too.
Did you know that the government wants an Aboriginal ‘take’ on all school subjects including math? Numeracy was unknown to them so how’s that going to work? Of course we all know the direction History will take.
According to Megs, there are 350 different tribes, so shouldn’t there be 350 tribal flags? By what right do these white men create a flag and insist that all aboriginal tribes adopt it?
My response would be “no problem, however there will be a small fee for my inconvenience”.