The Big Lie: Electric car edition

We're constantly told that electric cars, which only the uber rich can afford, will save our planet.  Ocasio-Cortez wants to eliminate all non-electric cars by 2030 for example.

Sadly aside from the fact that people need vehicles that can go more than 300 miles between an extended stop for charging and the fact that few Americans can afford cars that cost between $42K and $137K battery technology just isn't ready.

It turns out that when the temperature outside is around 20 degrees electric cars lose about 40% of their range.  If you don't mind riding in an unheated car, something most people would eschew when the temperatures are below freezing, the range goes down by only 12%.

Everyone should have realized this in advance but apparently only Rush Limbaugh actually did.  When batteries get cold they produce less power; that's why if you're out in the snow and your digital camera battery dies putting it in your armpit to warm it up will often let you keep taking pictures.

This is just one more example of the left's pseudo science on green technology.  They never tell you the downside.

Another example related to electric cars is that in some locations which use relatively highly polluting plants to generate electricity electric cars actually pollute more than modern low pollution gasoline powered cars.  That's something that you'll never hear from the modern "green" politicians.

Conservatives are all for reducing pollution, no one wants to go back to the LA air quality in the 1970s, but we need to be smart about it and we need to embrace affordable technologies that actually work.

Sadly "green" people generally object to natural gas, which significantly reduces CO2 emissions, and nuclear power, which has no CO2 emissions.  Instead the "greens" concentrate on "renewable" energy which is much more expensive, hence it hurts the poor the most, and which doesn't work most of the time requiring a massively expensive fossil fuel based infrastructure to provide power at night and when the wind isn't blowing.

The conservative approach to energy has resulted in US CO2 emissions going down under Trump while the left wing renewable approach in Europe has been accompanied by an actual increase in CO2 emissions.