Your Green New Deal future: fantastically expensive electric cars the middle class can't afford, subsidized by taxes the middle class is forced to pay - but even rich people can't use them all the time because the junk "green power grid" can't handle charging them.
https://twitter.com/iSassafras/status/1408417128248713217
I absolutely guarantee you this ends with confused six-figure-income folks standing next to inert electric cars that cost five times as much as Honda Civics used to, while their political overlords cruise by in reliable gas-powered vehicles that are now forbidden to the masses.
Electric cars just never made sense as anything but an expensive indulgence for virtue-signalers with loads of disposable income - and even then, they survive only by looting taxpayers for huge subsidies. It's just logistically impossible for them to "replace" gas cars.
Maybe someday all the technologies involved will advance to the point where electric cars are truly feasible, but we're verging on science fiction: postulating batteries with astounding capacity, service life, and charging speed, coupled with a far more powerful electric grid.
Instead, our power grid is getting weaker by indulging crackpot green energy schemes from politically-connected corporations and the radical greens who stuff taxpayer loot into their pockets. We're already seeing the first evidence the grid can't handle mass electric vehicle use.
Even if we dump solar and wind junk for reliable nuclear power - and that's just about politically impossible - the infrastructure for mass EV charging doesn't exist. With current tech, you'll never see a charging experience comparable to filling up at the corner gas station.
EVs kinda-sorta work as a niche indulgence for people with loads of money to burn, and even then only when taxpayers are robbed blind to subsidize them, but as soon as they're anything but an expensive hobby, the price of electricity soars and power shortages ensue.
What you're really being prepared for, Americans, is a future where only a wealthy few have long-range personal transportation, and only the socialist elite have reliable gas-powered ground and air travel at their disposal. The rest of you will STOP MOVING so much.
The people who want to plan and control your lives are very distressed that you can easily move around to escape them. They would rather you clump into cities where you can be monitored, and use mass long-range transportation that runs when and where they say it does.
Not enough of you would willingly buy electric cars, even with obscene subsidies, so you'll be forced to. And then you'll discover you can't use them, because you can't afford to charge or maintain them. The cost per mile of personal transportation will skyrocket.
Notice how electric vehicles are no longer sold with dimwitted ads talking about how you don't have to pay for gas so driving them is almost "free." Now it's all about green guilt - portraying gas cars as irresponsible and electric vehicles as a civic duty - plus futurism.
It's all about making EVs look super cool, the wave of the future, the chariots of a brave new world - but the reality is increasingly clear: they're expensive baubles you can't afford to use, including the opportunity cost of the time it takes to charge them. /end
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