Western Standard - Ivory tower elitists push electric vehicles

In response to increasing pressure being put upon Americans due to skyrocketing energy prices, President Joe Biden tweeted that loosening environmental regulations won't lower prices, but transforming our economy to run on electrical vehicles powered by clean energy will mean that no one will have to worry about gas prices and it means that tyrants like tyrants such as Justin Trudeau won't be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon.

00:00:00.000 got me worked up and triggered today there's always something right now we've got leaders

00:00:04.720 telling people to drive electric vehicles in response to high gas prices it's the modern

00:00:09.840 day version of saying let them eat cake it really is in response to increasing pressure being put

00:00:14.240 upon americans due to skyrocketing gas prices president joe biden or at least one of his aides

00:00:19.680 tweeted loosening environmental regulations won't lower prices but transforming our economy to run

00:00:25.360 on electrical vehicles powered by clean energy will mean that no one will have to worry about gas

00:00:30.320 prices and it means that tyrants like putin won't be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon

00:00:35.200 okay the first sentence of biden's tweets either an indication of total economic illiteracy or it's

00:00:41.200 an outright lie perhaps it's both i mean of course lessening environmental regulations with lower

00:00:47.120 prices throughout north america energy projects have been delayed and hindered for years due to

00:00:51.920 onerous environmental regulations pipelines and other energy projects take years to start due to

00:00:58.080 a huge burden of consultation permits studies and mitigation requirements thousands of permits are

00:01:04.160 sought and they're often rejected companies have spent billions cumulatively in the last decade just in

00:01:10.160 the application process for new energy projects many of these projects never even got off the ground

00:01:14.880 because the costs of application simply got too high and the likelihood of approval became too low

00:01:19.360 a grade six student having been just taught what the word economics is could look at that scenario

00:01:24.000 and understand that reducing those regulations would increase supply while reducing costs it's

00:01:30.000 just math guys but biden along with other environmental ideologues such as trudeau and his

00:01:35.680 eco extremist henchman gilbo apparently can't figure this out but you got to remember trust fund babies

00:01:41.840 like justin trudeau and career politicians like uh biden who's been a senator for what 40 years before

00:01:47.280 becoming president or something they have no clue what it really actually is like for working people

00:01:52.160 on the ground they've never had to skimp and save in order to buy a used vehicle that was only somewhat

00:01:57.440 reliable and uh but was still essential in order to get to work they've never had to try and pack a

00:02:02.480 number of children into a car in order to get them to gate get them to daycare and then go to work

00:02:07.280 and then juggle the same kids at the end of the day at the grocery store before heading home to feed

00:02:10.640 them all i guess those people could just ride a bike or take the bus or spend eighty thousand dollars

00:02:15.600 and buy an electric car right i mean biden and trudeau had nannies chefs and chauffeurs to take

00:02:20.080 care of all those things for him so i guess it could be understood why they don't understand how this 0.95

00:02:23.520 is a problem for the majority of people i don't think those fools intended to insult the vast majority

00:02:29.200 of working north americans when they dismissed the impacts of spiking energy prices these privileged 0.96

00:02:34.240 clowns really actually just don't have a clue who needs a car to go on vacation where you could just

00:02:38.640 fly to the bahamas instead right maybe hit a private island with buddies like trudeau does 0.97

00:02:43.520 electric cars are an expensive luxury and they're only good for virtue signaling at this point i mean

00:02:48.800 we've had well over a decade of pressure and massive subsidies towards electric vehicles and still in

00:02:53.760 the world they only make up one in 250 vehicles on the road in north america that goes up to two percent

00:03:00.480 that two percent are typically high-income urban living people who just want to have a virtue signaling

00:03:05.680 second cars so they can show their neighbors how green they are i mean electric vehicles are getting

00:03:10.560 better all the time but they're still worlds away from the reach of common folks they're much more

00:03:15.840 expensive than conventional vehicles they have a terrible resale value due to battery degradation

00:03:20.480 which costs a fortune to replace them and they perform terribly in cold weather and have a limited

00:03:24.880 range that might change but it's not there yet if indeed the world did truly start to shift

00:03:30.160 on mass towards electric vehicles the price of them would rise even further because of course we

00:03:34.880 would see a run on the required precious metals such as lithium and cobalt the next disconnect with

00:03:40.800 supply and demand from those pushing for electrical vehicles comes with the powering of them these and

00:03:45.680 we heard all free charging stations they abound right now but they're anything but free in reality and

00:03:50.560 they won't stay that way for long somebody pays the bill for those charging stations one way or another

00:03:55.120 and it's usually the taxpayer now think about what would happen to the electricity prices in north

00:04:00.320 america if 100 million electric vehicles suddenly entered the mix our generation capacity is nowhere

00:04:06.560 nearly strong enough to keep up with that by the way carbon-based based fuels and nuclear forms of

00:04:11.040 generation are apparently evil but they're the best we have we'd need millions of windmills and

00:04:15.840 countless square miles of solar panels just to meet this new demand and that would take more precious

00:04:20.240 metals by the way so i guess we'll have more slave labor in third world countries in order to mine that

00:04:24.960 the cost of electricity would skyrocket not only would it cost a fortune to charge an electric car

00:04:29.920 but anybody with electricity feeding their home is going to feel the pinch every business that

00:04:33.600 requires electricity which is all of them will have to raise prices and then inflation will rise even

00:04:38.240 further the costs for the increased transmission capability will be huge not to mention millions of

00:04:44.480 homeowners suddenly having to spend thousands to put charging ports in their houses charging a car

00:04:49.440 isn't like charging an iphone though prime minister trudeau probably can't tell the difference

00:04:53.520 it takes a lot of power and most homes aren't equipped to handle that again for people like

00:04:58.240 trudeau and biden this isn't a big deal i doubt they've ever even opened their own mail before

00:05:03.200 and directly paid a utility bill they've got people for that but we have to look at those

00:05:07.680 and pay those bills and experience the sticker shock north america has some of the most abundant

00:05:12.480 energy resources on earth yet we're in the midst of an energy crisis because our leaders are 0.98

00:05:17.040 ideologically driven imbeciles the world's in a crisis and energy is a huge component of it people are 0.97

00:05:22.640 suffering and we might actually be moving into another recession we have the means right in 1.00

00:05:26.880 front of us to address the problem but we need to get our green obsessed governments to get out 1.00

00:05:31.120 of the damn way and let energy companies get to work in bringing more power to market the just 0.98

00:05:36.800 transition is a myth and it's absurd to expect people to somehow simply jump over and get into an 0.99

00:05:42.000 electric vehicle let them drive electric indeed yes the modern version of let them eat cake

00:05:48.800 it's unreasonable and it's insulting and that's what's coming from our federal political leadership

00:05:53.280 right now and that's what's got me triggered today

Western Standard - March 11, 2022

Ivory tower elitists push electric vehicles

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