Generally new techology is accepted and taken up because it’s an improvement over what’s already out there. No so with electric cars, which are being pushed, hyped, and subsidized by the government and still meeting little consumer acceptance. From Eric Peters at theburningplatform.com:
It’s not just the government that’s pushing electric cars. The media is equally complicit. Both are engaged in what has to be described as nothing less than a concerted propaganda onslaught to convince the public that the naked emperor is indeed wearing a suit of the finest materials available.
But the question – why? – remains mysterious.
What is so important – to them – about electric cars? Why the urgency to create the impression of inevitability?
The media, in particular, seems to be obsessed with this – even to the point of exaggerating the confected enthusiasm for electric cars displayed by major car manufacturers, who must at least pretend that electric cars are The Future – in order to not offend politically correct orthodoxy.
For example, this CNN “news” story. The headline reads, GM: The Future is All-Electric.
“That’s what the automaker said Monday as it unveiled plans to roll out two new electric vehicles over the next 18 months and a total of 20 over the next six years.”
Except GM – in the person of CEO Mary Barra – said no such thing.
She talked about – sigh – the need to “increase diversity” among engineers. This being a politically correct dogma right up there with the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic liturgy. Such talk at a car industry press conference is becoming as predictable as Pravda during the Brezhnev years.
GM’s head of product development – Mark Reuss – did say that “GM believes in an all-electric future.” But that is not the same thing as “The Future is All-Electric.”
Belief – vs. is.
To continue reading: Electric Car Putsch
If it can’t pull a boat or travel trailer 300 miles, it’s not worth my consideration.
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