Climate Always Changes
Which Is Worse: Global Warming or Global Cooling?
The global warming crowd is in a tizzy. Arctic temperatures have enveloped nearly every square inch of the nation. And, it seems a shock to the “climate changers” Americans prefer warm weather to cold weather. But, even more than that, people really like it when their electric vehicles start dependably in sub-freezing temperatures. After all, who wants to get caught in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert in the middle of a blizzard when the nearest charging station is 300 miles away?
Worse, who likes to get caught in downtown Houston in a snowstorm when the charging time for your EV is three hours? Nobody. But that is what is happening right now in Texas and many other states. EV batteries are dying like flies. Honestly, this EV kick is just plain dumb. First, EVs have sticker prices that put them out of reach of most Americans. According to “Car and Driver,” “Electric cars tend to be more expensive to buy upfront. For instance, the electric 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 starts at $38,790 while the similarly sized, gasoline-powered Volkswagen Tiguan starts at $27,785.” That $11,000 extra in the sticker price might not be a huge deal for Al Gore or Greta Thunberg, but it makes a huge difference to most Americans.
Second, EV afficionados say, over time, you are bound to save on the cost of gasoline. But you have to get to that point, first. According to “Edmunds,” a car review website, “On average, you can expect the replacement cost of an EV battery to run from $5,000 to $15,000.” EV batteries are generally guaranteed for between eight and 10 years or 100,000 miles. At that time, it is estimated you will have to replace the battery. Who has $15,000 to invest in a car that has 100,000 miles on the odometer? Currently the cost to replace the battery in your gasoline-powered car is anywhere from $59 to $250.
Third, EVs are much heavier than gasoline-powered vehicles. That comes as a surprise to many Americans. According to CNN, “The 2023 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 weighed approximately 9,000 pounds. … The Ford F-150 Lightning EV pick-up will weigh about 1,600 pounds more than a similar gas-powered F-150 truck.” CNN adds: “That extra weight can be bad news for people who get hit by electric vehicles, as the added impact force gets transferred to the other, lighter vehicle.” One could also surmise that having millions of such hefty vehicles on the roads will shorten the lives of many of our paved arterials, inevitably costing you more in state and federal taxes for roadwork.
Fourth, it is almost impossible to do any of your own repairs on an EV. Gone will be the days when you could perform those simple repairs we can still do on our gas-powered vehicles. Unfortunately, authorized EV repair shops are still few and far between. One is almost forced to go back to the EV dealer to get any repairs done. As a friend once told me, “Auto dealership repair shops are as crooked as car salesmen.” I, for one, don’t want to find out if that is true.
Fifth, reliability—or lack thereof. As we are seeing now, EV batteries are failing faster than Joe Biden’s memory. More than one Texan interviewed by Fox News vowed he would never buy an EV again. That might be a promise that is hard to keep if all 50 states succumb to federal pressure and ban gas-powered vehicles as global warming fanatics frantically demand.
Finally, there is no need to force us all to switch to electric vehicles. This morning when I awoke to walk the dog, it was eight degrees in central Virginia. That is the lowest temperature I can remember in my more than six decades living in the Mid-Atlantic. More importantly, however, is the fact that most of the climate change/ global warming propaganda is hypedup hooey. As Paul Craig Roberts says, “The only way humans can destroy planet Earth is through nuclear war.” This is not to say we humans can’t be better stewards of our planet. But it isn’t you and I that are ruining the planet with our gas-powered cars. Far from it. In fact, the U.S. military is said to be the largest polluter on the planet. Second to the U.S. military is, of course, the uber-rich and their lavish lifestyles and high “carbon footprint,” to use their terms.
Funny, isn’t it? The very people who are demanding we proles cut our “carbon emissions” are the ones doing the most polluting. If you want the Earth to cool off, I have an idea. Keep waging wars and simply ignore the biggest threat to this planet - one which the advanced nations of Earth could work together to solve if they could just stop acting like lower beasts.
Hint: It’s not global warming but global cooling. Huh? That is correct. The greatest threat to this planet (besides mega-volcanoes) comes not from your dreaded gas-powered passenger car but from asteroids and comets which have triggered ice ages many times in the past. Currently there is a big one traveling 40,000 miles an hour toward Earth. Hold on. Don’t go running for your underground shelter. This asteroid, named Apophis, will come pretty close, cosmically speaking - 18,000 miles from Earth, but is not expected to hit us, or so scientists say. The scary thing is, these are the same scientists who insist we need to switch to electric vehicles! (See the last “News Missed” item on page 3.) If it does hit Earth, it matters not what kind of vehicle you are driving. Devastation on a global scale will be the result and, most likely, due to the “nuclear winter” effect, average temperatures in North America could plummet quickly to 40 below zero. So, instead of genociding Palestinians or shedding blood over land in Eastern Europe or an island off the coast of China, how about we stop the fighting and work together to develop better technology to vaporize these celestial killers instead of better technology to kill our fellow humans? Is that too much to ask? There I go again, hoping for the impossible.
Worse, who likes to get caught in downtown Houston in a snowstorm when the charging time for your EV is three hours? Nobody. But that is what is happening right now in Texas and many other states. EV batteries are dying like flies. Honestly, this EV kick is just plain dumb. First, EVs have sticker prices that put them out of reach of most Americans. According to “Car and Driver,” “Electric cars tend to be more expensive to buy upfront. For instance, the electric 2023 Volkswagen ID.4 starts at $38,790 while the similarly sized, gasoline-powered Volkswagen Tiguan starts at $27,785.” That $11,000 extra in the sticker price might not be a huge deal for Al Gore or Greta Thunberg, but it makes a huge difference to most Americans.
Second, EV afficionados say, over time, you are bound to save on the cost of gasoline. But you have to get to that point, first. According to “Edmunds,” a car review website, “On average, you can expect the replacement cost of an EV battery to run from $5,000 to $15,000.” EV batteries are generally guaranteed for between eight and 10 years or 100,000 miles. At that time, it is estimated you will have to replace the battery. Who has $15,000 to invest in a car that has 100,000 miles on the odometer? Currently the cost to replace the battery in your gasoline-powered car is anywhere from $59 to $250.
Third, EVs are much heavier than gasoline-powered vehicles. That comes as a surprise to many Americans. According to CNN, “The 2023 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 weighed approximately 9,000 pounds. … The Ford F-150 Lightning EV pick-up will weigh about 1,600 pounds more than a similar gas-powered F-150 truck.” CNN adds: “That extra weight can be bad news for people who get hit by electric vehicles, as the added impact force gets transferred to the other, lighter vehicle.” One could also surmise that having millions of such hefty vehicles on the roads will shorten the lives of many of our paved arterials, inevitably costing you more in state and federal taxes for roadwork.
Fourth, it is almost impossible to do any of your own repairs on an EV. Gone will be the days when you could perform those simple repairs we can still do on our gas-powered vehicles. Unfortunately, authorized EV repair shops are still few and far between. One is almost forced to go back to the EV dealer to get any repairs done. As a friend once told me, “Auto dealership repair shops are as crooked as car salesmen.” I, for one, don’t want to find out if that is true.
Fifth, reliability—or lack thereof. As we are seeing now, EV batteries are failing faster than Joe Biden’s memory. More than one Texan interviewed by Fox News vowed he would never buy an EV again. That might be a promise that is hard to keep if all 50 states succumb to federal pressure and ban gas-powered vehicles as global warming fanatics frantically demand.
Finally, there is no need to force us all to switch to electric vehicles. This morning when I awoke to walk the dog, it was eight degrees in central Virginia. That is the lowest temperature I can remember in my more than six decades living in the Mid-Atlantic. More importantly, however, is the fact that most of the climate change/ global warming propaganda is hypedup hooey. As Paul Craig Roberts says, “The only way humans can destroy planet Earth is through nuclear war.” This is not to say we humans can’t be better stewards of our planet. But it isn’t you and I that are ruining the planet with our gas-powered cars. Far from it. In fact, the U.S. military is said to be the largest polluter on the planet. Second to the U.S. military is, of course, the uber-rich and their lavish lifestyles and high “carbon footprint,” to use their terms.
Funny, isn’t it? The very people who are demanding we proles cut our “carbon emissions” are the ones doing the most polluting. If you want the Earth to cool off, I have an idea. Keep waging wars and simply ignore the biggest threat to this planet - one which the advanced nations of Earth could work together to solve if they could just stop acting like lower beasts.
Hint: It’s not global warming but global cooling. Huh? That is correct. The greatest threat to this planet (besides mega-volcanoes) comes not from your dreaded gas-powered passenger car but from asteroids and comets which have triggered ice ages many times in the past. Currently there is a big one traveling 40,000 miles an hour toward Earth. Hold on. Don’t go running for your underground shelter. This asteroid, named Apophis, will come pretty close, cosmically speaking - 18,000 miles from Earth, but is not expected to hit us, or so scientists say. The scary thing is, these are the same scientists who insist we need to switch to electric vehicles! (See the last “News Missed” item on page 3.) If it does hit Earth, it matters not what kind of vehicle you are driving. Devastation on a global scale will be the result and, most likely, due to the “nuclear winter” effect, average temperatures in North America could plummet quickly to 40 below zero. So, instead of genociding Palestinians or shedding blood over land in Eastern Europe or an island off the coast of China, how about we stop the fighting and work together to develop better technology to vaporize these celestial killers instead of better technology to kill our fellow humans? Is that too much to ask? There I go again, hoping for the impossible.
By: Alison Whyte
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