Or, the climate cultists could simply mind their own business and stop trying to force everyone to Comply. Maybe stop using fossil fueled vehicles in their own lives
Letters to the Editor: Electric cars aren’t a climate change panacea. We need to drive less
To the editor: Electric cars shouldn’t be regarded as the silver-bullet solution to lowering automobile emissions. While they don’t run on gas, their batteries create their own set of environmental problems. (“California isn’t on pace to meet its climate targets. Here are 3 ways to cut pollution faster,” editorial, Dec. 19)
What we need is to use our cars less. We have to stop looking at cars as the only viable option to get from Point A to Point B. We can start by carpooling to work, taking the bus to run an errand and riding a bike for short trips.
A few tweaks in our driving habits can go a long way toward reducing our carbon footprint, electric or not.
What’s this “we”, Sparky? I do not see many Warmists doing this in their own lives. I haven’t met many EV owners who are doing it due to ‘climate change’. I mean, good grief, they have barely rolled out pushing for everyone to be forced to drive an EV (which most cannot afford) and now we have to get rid of them.
To the editor: There seems to be a delusion among those who formulate climate policy that if they set a pollution reduction mandate, it will surely happen.
The mandates and targets never have the supporting, well-conceived, detailed plan for how to reach the goals. Broad guidelines like “increasing the percentage of zero-emission vehicles sold” are made, but they rarely have the how-to specifics.
The populace gives lip service to climate goals while legislators avoid the draconian measures that would be required.
Let’s face it: There is no way that California will meet its legal mandate to cut emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.
Where are the concrete, specific goals from Warmists in their own lives to cut their own emissions? But, really, this person’s point is correct: most in government do not have real plans, probably because even the most hardcore realize they can’t make them happen.
Meanwhile, here are 22 of the “most anticipated” EVs (you have to look at the Canoo Lifestyle vehicle. Very silly looking). For those with pricing, the least is $34470. Most are way, way more. That’s affordable, right? And, while stocks soared in 2021, they’re expected to go way down in 2022. Because anticipation is not the same as people actually buying them. They’re toys for the upper middle class and rich.
Driving back to Kentucky from the Keystone State on December 23rd, I stopped at the WaWa store on Pennsylvania Route 61, just north of Interstate 78, and saw something I’d never seen, in person, before: the WaWa had six — I think it was six; I didn’t actually count, and should have taken a quick picture, but didn’t
— Tesla charging stations. This was at 3:45 PM EST.
What I didn’t see were any Tesla’s actually being charged there. Oh, one of the charging stations was occupied, but by a mid-1990s, gasoline-engine beater car, using the charging area as a parking space.
Meanwhile, the store’s twelve or so gasoline pump queues, two pumps per queue, were fully occupied, with additional cars lined up to get fuel, and a fuel tanker was unloading gasoline or diesel into the underground storage tanks, because those vehicles are thirsty! I really should have taken pictures, on my phone, or as Sheriff Buford T Justice told his son, “Put the evidence in the car!”
I did pick up two boxes of WaWa coffee in Kuerig-cups for my wife and older daughter for Christmas.
The letter writer, Kristen Kessler of Ventura, wrote:
I guess that she doesn’t like the Ventura Highway!
The Pyrite State has been engineered for the personal car. Carpooling? That means finding co-workers who live in your approximate area, in commuter-oriented Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. Taking the bus to run errands? That means walking to the bus stop, and walking back from the bus stop, while laden with groceries and stuff.
I’ve seen areas without cars. On Cliff Island, in Portland, Maine’s Casco Bay, people use golf carts to get from their homes to the island’s one general store, located by the ferry dock. On San Marco Island, part of Venice, delivery boats hit the docks near sunrise, unload into carts, which are then hauled to the small markets which dot the island. You only buy what you can carry!
But that not only makes getting groceries and other goods a pain in the butt, but it significantly adds to the expense of everything, with extra handling of goods, and everything being very labor intensive.
Outside of the East Coast metropoli, we Americans are addicted to the freedom and convenience of our individual autos. Youngsters in cities rely more and more on services such as Uber and Lyft, and walk and bike more than us older suburbanites and ruralites. My lawyer nephew uses person to person rental services (much less expensive than rental companies). He also takes the electric commuter train to his downtown office.
[…] Also see: William Teach: Climate Cult: Forget The Electric Vehicles You Can’t Afford. People Need To Drive Less […]
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