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‘The Impossible Dream’ Of Having An All-Electric Fleet
« on: July 13, 2023, 07:50:24 am »
WRITTEN BY JAMES FREEMAN ON JUL 12, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

‘The Impossible Dream’ Of Having An All-Electric Fleet

The Impossible Dream” is the title of a new report on electric vehicles from the Manhattan Institute’s Mark Mills. After reading the particulars one wonders whether that title is too optimistic.

One issue that probably hasn’t received enough attention is that even if politicians can manage to force all of humanity out of cars with internal combustion engines, it will still be extremely hard to meet political emissions targets unless the surviving electric vehicles are small and scarce. [emphasis, links added]


What also may not be appreciated given all the alleged innovation surrounding EVs is that the production of the minerals needed to make them may become less environmentally friendly, not more.

Not that it will be easy to get consumers to give up their gasoline-powered cars. Mr. Mills writes:

https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-impossible-dream-of-having-an-all-electric-fleet/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address