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Here’s a fun fact for those who may think our future will have every driving American in an electric vehicle: It’s impossible. There is not enough lithium being produced in the world today to replace every gas-fueled vehicle with an electric engine. In fact, projections show that by 2050 we will need to produce three times more lithium than is possible WORLDWIDE just to keep vehicles running.
One might think this would put a wrench in the climate change agenda, that the powers-that-be and their minions like Joe Biden and Gavin Newsom would have to rethink their machinations. Nope. In fact, one could argue that they’re moving forward with their climate change fearmongering knowing that the only way it could possibly work is if their ultimate goals are achieved.
What are their ultimate goals? If you thought it had anything to do with the environment, think again. Their ultimate goal is to make personal vehicles obsolete. They will eventually outlaw gas-fueled cars altogether. At the same time, they will make buying electric vehicles cost-prohibitive for all but the very wealthy. For the rest of us, they expect us to move to 15-minute cities, use public transportation, and rely on electric bicycles.
And they’re already in the process of planting the seeds so they can normalize this draconian mindset. According to Scientific American [emphasis added]:
The transition to electric vehicles could lead to lithium shortages unless the United States and other countries overhaul their transportation systems and move away from private cars as the primary means of travel.
Simply converting the existing U.S. car fleet to battery-powered electric vehicles, for example, would require three times more lithium by 2050 than the world currently produces, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, and the Climate and Community Project.
A spike in lithium demand could cause other problems too, such as greater environmental damage and worsening international tension over supplies of the metal, which is primarily mined outside the United States.
The report argues that broader changes in the transportation system, combined with intensive recycling of lithium batteries, could drastically cut into lithium demand. Some suggestions include greater use of mass transit, denser urban development and micromobility solutions such as electric bikes and scooters.
On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show, I broke down what this really means and why their endgame is to get rid of all personal cars other than the ones the elites own. I highlighted how the three suggestions made in the article are all tied to The Great Reset. Greater use of mass transit is clearly a goal of the powers-that-be who can more easily control our movements by stuffing us in trains and buses like sardines.
“Denser urban development” has always been a goal of theirs. They want us in overcrowded cities so they can keep tabs on the masses. Moreover, they want these to be “15-minute cities” so the people can walk everywhere and not notice how immobile they really are.
As for electric bikes and scooters, the implication is obvious. While they prance around in their super-expensive electric vehicles free from the elements and safe from the public, the rest of us are supposed to zip around like 5th graders on crowded streets in the rain, heat, or snow.
The push for electric vehicles is completely untenable if we assume their intention is for everyone to drive them. If we adjust our thinking to match reality, we’ll realize they don’t want us driving at all.
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Come to my democrat hell hole. They are getting rid of car lanes and putting in bike lanes. No one uses the bike lanes. It is to choke down the use of cars and it’s being funded by your own tax money
Time to get rid of the Little Hitlers.
There’s another inconvenient truth regarding EVs. Any electrical or mechanical engineer will explain how, under the Second Law of Thermodynamics, electric vehicles can NEVER be practical replacements for gas or diesel engines. Electricity is not an energy-dense source, unlike petrochemicals and in fact falls well below the entropy curve. Much as they’d no doubt like to, the Musk-ovites cannot change the laws of physics and politically ignoring them will not make them go away.
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Now think of the many devious and deviant other strategems of theirs we still do not fully grasp?!
[EXAMPLE: During the Bush Administration there were two national (illegal) immigration protest marches which ostensibly accomplished nothing?!
Curious to see how and who organized such marches, I investigated and discovered they were organized by the same four or five Spanish–language radio stations —- ALL owned then by the Blackstone Group!
And each time those marches occurred, “warrantless wiretapping” was on the front news pages and each time those marches kicked them off and took center stage?! Hmmmmmm . . .]
The first flaw in the article is the implication that there isn’t enough lithium in the world. No, the article says only that CURRENT manufacturing capacity for lithium batteries is insufficient to replace all internal combustion cars. That’s true, but manufacturing capacity for lithium batteries is growing exponentially! By the time a significant number of cars are EVs, the manufacturing capacity of batteries will easily supply the demand. Secondly, the article fails to mention “self-driving EVs” and “robo-taxis”. Currently, most vehicles spend 90% of their existence parked, not driving. Self-driving cars and robo-taxis will hardly ever park and will spend 90% of their existence driving people around. “Mass transit” will be replaced with private self-driving vehicles that speed people to their destination without any need to park. People will not be crowded into old-fashioned subway trains and busses. This article is loaded with bias and misinformation. Please take a look at real sources of innovation news! Get the facts!
Don’t need lithium. See article at:
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/samsung-develops-new-long-range-battery-for-electric-vehicles-2905114/
Biden frequently shuts down mining on a whim, even for water. The next Democrat to be installed will be happy to do likewise. That would be his/her primary purpose.
Lithium is mined, NOT manufactured. There is only so much available.
The lower density of electrical energy from lithium batteries is much less important when you consider they are three times more efficient than a gas engine. Combining the cost of lower maintenance and the 13 cents for a kilowatt/hour I pay, my Tesla is less costly in the long run. Those are real world second-order derivatives I like!
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Do you work for a green energy company, John? Let’s have the facts!
Your ENTIRE prose is filled with the false assumption that we all love to live in crowded urban potholes, when most sane Americans are fleeing them.
Your “facts” are biased, flawed, and outright false when the prejudice is stripped and peeled away.
Concentrate the population into PACKED urban areas; cell phone tracking; video cameras with facial recognition; digital currency; the CCP Utopia!!
Li-Ion is fast becoming old news.
Sodium-Ion based batteries are already bring produced to replace Lithium, and there’s no shortage of Sodium!
What does that do to the OP’s theories!?