Thursday, November 02, 2023
Commentary: ‘EV’s for Everyone’ Mandates are Politically Risky and Practically Disastrous
If we could imagine a time machine bringing to New York City, an American citizen from the 19th century, odds are the one thing that would seem the most amazing about our time would be the proliferation of the personal automobile. Big buildings, big cities, roads, nighttime illumination would all be imaginable, even if different looking and greater in scale. But the one thing radically different about modern daily life is the convenience and freedoms that come from a car.
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My view is that someone from the 19th century would probably be most astounded by the fact that there is even electricity in the first place. Without it, everything else pretty much comes to a halt.
ReplyDeleteAnon, you would be surprised at what electrical equipment existed in the 1800's. there were telegraphs before the civil war, telephones in late 1800's. electric companies for commercial and residential power(1879?) there were electric cars and trains late 1800's.
DeleteI'm very pro Tesla, but very against the government mandating anything because they are too easily corrupted by the money and insiders. Same with incentives, they're too stupid to understand artificially distorting the free market is bad for everyone trying to compete on a level playing field. The Ford model A didn't need mandates or subsidies to replace the horse and buggy.
ReplyDeleteIn the UK voters now have a choice between insane government and absolutely batshit crazy. The imbeciles want to impose compulsory electric cars and compulsory electric heat pumps for domestic heating on the entire population. They have no plans for upgrading the electricity supply, on the contrary, their plans are to close down anything that works and instead rely on windmills and solar panels. The gormless electorate will keep on voting for these idiots until their lights go out.
ReplyDeleteI think they would most astounded by the erosion of our rights, and the power we given the gov't
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