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Exposing California’s Great Electric Vehicle Con Job

by Rich Trzupek
November 16, 2022, 3:01 PM
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electric car chargingThe next time you hear about a proposed measure that promises to lower greenhouse gas emissions by millions of tons per year, consider the following response: “so what?”

Many of us grow up thinking that “millions” represents a massive amount of whatever it is we’re counting.

The tyranny of millions is a powerful tool when placed in the hands of the PR professionals who push climate change and other environmentally driven agendas. [emphasis, links added]

Replacing incandescent lightbulbs in the United States with LEDs and other technologies that were more energy efficient was supposed to fight climate change by reducing electrical consumption and thus reducing the amount of fossil-fuel electricity generated and thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil-fuel combustion.

I doubt the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions associated with this program was in the millions on a net basis since incandescent bulbs generated measurable and useful heat that LEDs do not.

But it really doesn’t matter, because when you’re dealing with emissions in the Billions of tons per year, a million tons here or there is hardly a blip on the radar.

We’re at the same point with the latest panacea: electric vehicles. Like LED light bulbs, electrics will save the planet, at least according to dopey reporters and politicians.

It’s a toss-up whether electric vehicles are a net environmental benefit, however one feels about the “climate change” issue. You have to draw some pretty small boxes in order to make the case.

One box must encompass the electric vehicle alone, specifically its lack of a tailpipe. Without a tailpipe, environmentalists can congratulate themselves for not directly introducing any air pollutants into the environment whilst cruising about town.

The fact that the ultimate source of the energy involves a lot of fossil fuel combustion seems not to matter, or at least not nearly so much as it mattered during the Great Light Bulb Reformation.

Nor does the tiny box consider all of the other environmental consequences associated with going electric.

This includes items such as the cost of mining and refining the metals needed to make high-capacity batteries, the amount of energy needed to do so, and the difficulty of disposing of the batteries when they reach the end of their useful life.

Embracing electric vehicles also necessitates a fanatical belief that unilateral action by America can significantly influence the percentage of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We cannot.

Moving to electric vehicles, as it appears we are determined to do, will have no measurable effect on global greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve reduced so much that further reductions hardly matter.

The future use of fossil fuels and the effect of their use on the environment is a discussion that involves China and India alone. Everyone else is merely a bystander.

For example, the once-sane state of California recently passed a law that will ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles within its borders starting in 2035.

The California Air Resources Board praised the measure, saying “the proposal will substantially reduce air pollutants that threaten public health and cause climate change.”

What exactly constitutes “substantial” reductions? After poking about the Energy Information Administration (EIA) a bit, it appears that making California all electric is pretty inconsequential from an environmental point of view, even if it can be done, which is very doubtful.

The law does not outlaw driving gasoline-powered vehicles in the state, it merely bans their sales within the state.

Like most draconian measures it’s unlikely that the ban will do much to change the mix of vehicles on the road, it will merely shift where people who chose to drive gasoline-powered vehicles purchase them.

Automobile dealerships in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona ought to send thank-you notes to Sacramento.

While recognizing the implausibility of eliminating the use of the internal combustion engine in California, it’s interesting to examine what would happen if such a thing were possible.

First of all, California would need to come up with more power – a lot more power. According to EIA data, the state consumes about 2,625 trillion Btu of energy annually producing electricity.

Motor vehicles consume an additional 1,465 trillion Btu of energy from gasoline. If one is not using gasoline, the energy has to come from somewhere.

The 1,465 trillion Btu represents around 21,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity that would have to be added to the grid. That’s about as much energy as a mid-sized state like Illinois requires on a typical summer day.

Currently, wind and solar power represent about 20 percent of California’s energy portfolio, generating about 7,000 megawatts on average.

If all the additional electrical demand is to be met by wind and solar, they would have to quadruple that portion of their portfolio. Possible? Maybe. Expensive? More and more eyesores? More and more bird strikes? More and more rolling blackouts? You bet.

Would the woke “sustainable” fantasy save planet Earth? Ignoring the fact that building and operating all those windmills and solar farms involves the use of fossil fuels, and also ignoring the fact that you’d have to have fossil-fired backup power because neither wind nor sunlight is a reliable energy source, you get a theoretical carbon dioxide emissions reduction of about 24 million tons per year.

Sure, 24 million tons sounds like a big number, but it’s really not. That’s about as much China emits every 12 hours.

Or to look at it another way, given that global carbon dioxide emissions are about 36 Billion tons per year, California’s fantasy would reduce that number by about 0.03 percent.

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  1. David Lewis says:
    3 years ago

    The average American family can not afford an electric car. Yet, people like Biden and Newsom are pushing to make them the only cars available. I’m sure that the president and governor are stupid enough to be unaware that most can not afford these cars. However, not every one is. In 1970 while college I encountered the movement that wants to end private car ownership. That agenda is a perfect hitch hiker for the climate change movement. By mandating that the only cars that can be sold are those that the typical family can not afford, the goal to end private car ownership is mostly achieved.

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  2. Peter Farrell says:
    3 years ago

    The use of renewables has no discernible impact on climate as data & evidence from polymath climatologists at both MIT (Dick Lindzen) & Princeton (Will Happer), among others, demonstrate that the impact of anthropogenic carbon dioxide is so minuscule as to be undetectable. In short, the basis for anthropogenic climate change is complete scientific waffle. Peter

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  3. Alan Stewart says:
    3 years ago

    Ah yes, the emotional Green virtue signaling. It’s all peer driven tribal pressure with science being no part of it. The mid-terms were a small victory and 2 more years to renew the fight to simple common sense.

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