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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

Perhaps the WEF and their minions plan to reduce the population by at least 90%, thus making EVs viable for those who remain...of course finding enough people to do all of the myriad tasks to mine the materials and produce the vehicles is another matter.

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Aug 11, 2022·edited Aug 11, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

Ah bullocks.... you can't fill up petrol/gas at home so those 2000 cars will have already charged at home and won't need the station anywhere near as often as petrol cars do, therefore the area required is not as this article suggests. But keep going with the tunnel vision it's great and very helpful to society,

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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

A young company called Neo Battery is working on new tech that will shorten charge times from hours to minutes. There are several others working on cleaner, lighter, longer lasting batteries. Still, the tech is likely a few years away. Mister Market will solve the problem when the economics are right. Meanwhile, we continue to make our politicians and China richer with fat government subsidies and a gross misallocation of resources.

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Aug 14, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

Great piece of writing here. He failed to mention Patrick Moore who founded Greenpeace and has walked away because of the radical takeover of the program and has written and talked vociferously about the delusion of EV. His work is a wealth of info for all thinking people arming them with solid facts enabling them to dissuade people from falling into this trap....especially when confronting Gov't agencies and [on the take] politicians and bureaucrats. It is up to us to fight this scam!

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What SHOULD BE MANDATED is this:

EV's can only be charged using GREEN Energy - Wind & Solar...want "Green" then do it Green....otherwise Piss off

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Aug 11, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

And how will the hundreds of EV's trapped on winter roads covered with show and ice, with their batteries empty, be moved?

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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

How much of the energy used to power the car goes towards moving the battery versus how much gas it takes to move the gas tank.?

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Aug 10, 2022Liked by Dave Messler

Japan's first bullet train was in 1964

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Gosh I would love to have the discussion on one the articles I've written that we've had on this EV post. Hint, hint. Cheers

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Can you provide a link to the original article by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris? Please let me know. Thanks, Jack

paljoey_9@hotmail.com

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Sep 14, 2022·edited Sep 14, 2022

Many current governments are corrupt, and electric cars are just to get oil companies to pony up more campaign contributions. Electricity is not free on infinite. Batteries are made from minerals more rare than oil and getting those minerals causes pollution. When you compute the recharging issue needed for batteries you lose the case for electric vehicles. Recharging stations are LIMITED, so you limit where you can drive and when you can drive. Electricity for cars steals electricity for homes, businesses and weakens the power grid supply. So, you must have always have limited amount of electric cars unless you want everything else blacked out. So, we have corrupt and stupid politicians trying to foist a stupid idea on the public, meanwhile, certain groups/individuals get rich as long as the scam last.

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An expert years ago told me that we would see EVs that go 1000 miles on a charge and charge in 15 minutes. I've seen EVs gradually improve since then. Motors will last a million miles. There is already an EV Tesla is making with very little cobalt. There are plentiful materials they can use.

EVs are coming. The question of electricity production is a big one. But the government should stay out of it. Private business solves problems. One possibility is that solar panels produce more. Mine only produce 16% of the energy that is there. If that improves, they could become very economical. At any rate, hard working people with freedom tend to solve problems.

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Dave, where are the rare earth minerals mined that go into an E-Car and who owns the mines? Not what country the mines are located in but mine ownership. What is the projected mine ownership trend and what is the projected need of these rare earth minerals in, say, 2045-2050, as more and more car batteries need to be replaced AND coinciding with CA's push to be 100% green AND China's 100 year plan? Or, is there nothing to see here?

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