Electric vehicles are not nearly as popular as their advocates would have had us believe, as sales are now slumping in the face of rising interest rates and a lack of so-called fast chargers. As we begin to bump up against mined mineral constraints and international relations complications, there’s no doubt the cost of making these glorified toys will continue to rise. A recent Consumer Reports publication shows that, over the last 3 model years, electric vehicles are less reliable than normal gasoline and diesel vehicles. So, several states want to ban the sale of reliable, inexpensive gas and diesel cars and force us to buy less reliable electric cars. Note well that the superior reliability of hybrids is likely down to the fact that car makers who are better known for their reliability make more hybrids. There’s nothing inherent to a hybrid that would make it more reliable than a gasoline engine vehicle.
Even our ability to travel using air travel is under the gun. A CNN op-ed recently floated the idea of limiting air travel through the use of carbon (read: sin) passports. We will be limited to traveling based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during the flight. The author wants this applied to cruise ships as well. It’s not hard to see this applied to your car as well. Of course, such rules will not apply to the super-wealthy climate grifters. They’ll be jetting all over the globe for their very important climate conferences.
And it’s not just transportation. In September, Reuters “fact checked” a claim that US cities had agreed to limit meat consumption, finding the claim false. And yet, we are told on a nearly daily basis that eliminating beef consumption is necessary to save the planet. The sin of using coal (but not apparently to create steel) has become the sin of eating a steak. What’s next? Rice? Pork?
Beginning in 2024, the German government will empower local electricity providers to limit the flow of electricity to heat pumps and electric cars. Such limits were the stuff of alleged conspiracy theories mere months ago. Now they’re a reality. Germany’s suicidal attempt to power their grid with nothing but wind and solar, killing off their own nuclear power generation over the last 20 years, has led to energy rationing. It’s not as if this is unpredictable. The unreliability of so-called renewables is common knowledge among energy experts.
It’s sensible for those who are concerned about their ability to choose where and when they travel, what they eat, and when they turn on their heaters and air conditioners to be skeptical of every single attempt to accrue more power by state and federal governments. That skepticism should turn into activism against these power grabs. Anyone who tells you these power grabs aren’t coming is telling you not to believe your own eyes.
Delusions of Adequacy 
There’s so much hype around battery cars, many of those who have them are almost evangelists, who claim never to have charging issues, yeah right, and charge at home at night (here in England anyway) at a fraction of the daytime rate.
So far so good, petrol and Diesel fuel in England is heavily taxed, we have a fuel tax and then VAT (value added tax @ 20% is taxed on the fuel tax as well as the fuel itself), plus annual road taxes i currently pay £350 for one car and £650ish for the other.
Battery cars currenetly pay no road tax and something like 5% general tax on electricity, are they so blinkered to think this happy state of affairs will remain indefinately and our govt (as inept as yours) won’t be after them once enough have bought in?
What they can’t seem to understand is that not everyone wants one or thinks they are the best thing since Y-fronts, most of the evangelists also neglect to mention they are business users or benefitting from company car allowances in some way, so get all sorts of preferential tax breaks for doing as they are told.
For those of us who work real jobs for a living and have to buy our own cars and fuel there’s no bungs to be had, and most of us arn’t daft enough to sink a year’s salary into a car that might have a useful life of ten years at best, or if sold at 3 years will have lost 2/3rds its value.
Hybrids will score well because Toyota make most of them and have done for many years now and as usual got them right before selling them to the public, anyone who’s run and looked after their own cars for years knows full well Toyota make the most reliable vehicles you can buy.
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