Johnathan Pearce hits the nail on the head:
In my view, the idea of making people rely on electric vehicles (EVs) and then curbing how much power they have, is a design feature, not a bug. Those of a Big Government cast of mind (most politicians) might rather like the idea of fitting “kill switches” into EVs so that a bureaucrat can disable them. By making cars costly and annoying, it also forces people to use public transport.
To dismiss the California ban on internal combustion cars as mere incompetence misses the depth of the fascist evil on display. They want to own everybody in California, and make them submit to their will. They simply hate freedom, and that's what cars mean. It's what California used to mean.
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The bus, the bike*, and Shank's mare. Those will be your transportation "choices," "Citizen."
*Privileged proles might get ebikes if they raise their social credit scores by going Stasi on their own relatives.
If you want to unite 30M Californians on one side of an issue, and turn them into hardcore Taliban jihadis, f*ck with their cars.
That's what got Gray Davis recalled.
I give this less than a year before it's overturned by referendum, and killed in perpetuity. Or else the government will be.
I'm rooting for "B", but I'm sentimental like that.
Excellent point!
Electric cars are a small percentage of total vehicles on the road. No problem with that as we speak. Sure they don't pay the gas excise tax which was supposed to be for road construction and repair, but no big deal. BUT If you calculate the energy required to power ALL the cars in California if they became electric overnight, the electric grid could not supply it as it stands. Power is power, gasoline is an efficient way to power vehicles, if you put the burden on the electric grid, you really do have to account for the Watts. It looks like California can't even power their A/C units all the time now. Good luck when everyone plugs in at night to charge their cars.
Didn't anyone think of this when this was proposed?
Well DUH! Without a MASSIVE improvement in battery and charging technology....one that there is NO guarantee of ever occurring.... Electric Vehicles CANNOT replace ICE technology. It's a physical impossibility. The push to EV's is just part of the plan to drive a stake through the heart of ICE vehicles and the supporting infrastructure. Once dead they will stop the subsidies that make EV's APPEAR to be viable. The goal is and has always been the END of privately owned transportation...other than maybe bicycles. They want us, at least those of us who survive the coming culling of the herd, to be totally dependent on Public Transportation which THEY control. It's really tough to pose a threat to their hold on power when you can't travel more than a few miles without their permission.
There was a quote by AOC some time ago that was something like, "we'll just have to invent things that haven't been invented yet" to survive without petroleum. But it doesn't exist, yet. I did my best to do the math and I find that if everything went electric, we'd have to double to triple the power grid. Not just generation, but Every Single Power line to Every Single Transformer that would go to a charging station.
Shutting down everything now is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute believing that someone will invent something while you're falling to save you before you hit.
I haven't seen this point brought up yet. So Cali wants everyone to get an electric car. And yet, today, there are brownouts due to the electrical grid not being able to handle the current demand (see what I did there?). What do they think will happen when the population needs to recharge their electric vehicle?
Someone, or some group, did not think this through.
Dale
DTWND, the point of the quote is that The Powers That Be have thought this through. The result of people not being able to charge their cars and therefore being forced to rely on public transit (and have to leave the suburbs to high density cities) is exactly the plan. They've talked about this as a goal for decades, and so malice is a much better explanation than stupidity or incompetence.
- Borepatch
It seems Tesla has a TWO YEAR sales backlog, at least here in CA.
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