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Friday, September 20, 2019

Apply the brakes to electric vehicles

By |  September 19th, 2019| Energy | 11 Comments
 
Probably everyone can remember owning their first car; the make, model, year, color, and a host of other trivial details. It is a special moment. It’s personal. It’s a choice.

With the exception of a sliver of this country, Americans do not want  electric cars.  Electric vehicles should remain a choice, not a government incentive or a mandate that is demanded by the Green movement.  A mass expansion of electric vehicles also brings with it numerous concerns.

Americans own or lease lots of cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles. There are an estimated 276 million such vehicles on the road in the United States.  In 2018, Americans purchased more than 17 million vehicles, among which 2 percent were electric.

Climate change activists and most left-of-center politicians want to force-feed electric vehicles on the American public. Every proposed version of the Green New Deal has electric vehicles as one of its centerpieces. The proponents imagine if there were no gasoline-powered automobiles, only electric, there would be far less need for fossil fuel extraction. Thus, the floods would recede, the planet cooled, and so on. This is fantasy........To Read More....

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