Do you buy a product when the people selling it are lying about it? Probably not. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Why are those pushing EVs not being honest about EVs? It says something about EVs – and about those who are pushing them, does it not?
For instance, if there really is a “climate crisis” – in italics to emphasis what the word is generally taken to mean, that being an imminent disaster – then why is it that high-performance and luxurious EVs are being pushed? Can we afford to indulge such . . . luxuries, if there is a “crisis”?
Wouldn’t prudence dictate minimalist EVs that use the least amount of energy possible? So as to reduce the amount of “carbon” – their new term for what was previously (and less alarmingly, etymologically) “C02” or “carbon dioxide” – that is produced in the process?
It is a fact that every EV on the market is gratuitously wasteful of energy.
All of them use more more energy than is necessary to make a basic vehicle and to provide basic transportation – as opposed to luxurious vehicles and “ludicrous” acceleration. EV trucks tout Herculean towing capacity – however briefly – and the ability power high-draw tools all day, all of which burns up a lot of electricity and results in the “emitting”of a lot of excess “carbon.”
Speaking of that latter.
It is interesting – it speaks to motive – that the terminology used to define the debate shifts in this way, as well as the prior way. The intent is obvious. When most people hear the word carbon, what do they reflexively think of?
