Get the facts. The real cost of the Green New Deal:
Electric Cars?
Democrats and L*****t PROMISED higher gas prices to their counterparts (and everyone else by the way), because in their twisted logic, if gas prices are too high than EVERYONE will switch to electric vehicles and "save the planet".
But, what these "useful i***ts" have not thought out is that if everyone switched to electric vehicles the power grid would fail and we would ALL be without electricity and then they could not charge their vehicles. At that point there would be stranded vehicles on all of the roads, no trucks moving to deliver food and goods, refrigerators would be off so all of the perishable goods would be spoiling, air conditioners would not work, so cool homes and offices would be ify and the smell factor of deodorant failure would be sky-high, hospital equipment would be shutting down so people in treatments would be dying...and the list goes on and on...
Yet NOBODY ever talks about the ABSOLUTE destruction of the earth and the environment if everyone were to switch to an electric vehicle.
Let's just talk about the batteries alone for a second:
1.) Each Lithium battery - for ONE car - weighs about 1,000 pounds (that is one-half of a ton).
2.) Each Lithium battery has a maximum life of 10 years, so be careful of buying a used electric vehicle...check the life left on the battery first before buying the car because Each battery costs about $5,000.00.
3.) Each Lithium battery consists of:
25 pounds of Lithium,
60 pounds of Nickel,
44 pounds of Manganese,
30 pounds of Cobalt,
200 pounds of Copper,
400 pounds of Aluminum, Steel and Plastic,
And 200+ pounds of misc. matter.
4.) All of those components are toxic and come from Strip Mining of the Earth’s Crust.
5.) Now, for EACH battery, you must process:
25,000 pounds of Brine for the Lithium in ONE battery,
30,000 pounds of Ore for the Cobalt in ONE battery,
5,000 pounds of Ore for the Nickel in ONE battery, and
25,000 pounds of Ore for the Copper in ONE battery, and
over 85,000 pounds of dirt, rock and other misc. parts of the Earth’s Crust, and
the Destruction and Irreplaceable animal, reptilian and insect habitat AND breeding grounds.
ALL TOTALED, you dig up more than 500,000 pounds of the Earth’s Crust to manufacture Just ONE Electric Vehicle Battery!
6.) Entire Mountains are DESTROYED by Just ONE Lithium supply mine.
7.) The Cobalt that is needed to make the battery is mainly from the Congo, so the mines DESTROY the RAIN FOREST and its wildlife.
8.) Now, EACH Supply Mine typically has 35-40 HUGE 797 Caterpillar Haul Trucks along with Hundreds of other Large Equipment moving around. EACH 797 Caterpillar uses over half a million gallons of diesel fuel per year. So, with just 35 of the Haul Trucks at a mine, they are using 17.5 MILLION Gallons of Diesel per year for JUST ONE MINE, not to mention all of the diesel to move all of the other large equipment at the mine each year.
9.) Once ALL of the Mining and Environmental Destruction is complete, Your Electric Vehicle STILL runs on F****l F**ls and Nuclear power. Since the vehicle only Stores Electricity, it DOES NOT MAKE Electricity. And that electricity is produced elsewhere, and the sources for that electricity are Primarily Coal, Uranium, and Natural Gas powered plants, with occasionally wind and solar if the conditions are right.
10.) If someone says that EV's are a "Zero-Emission" vehicle, that is not true, as 80% of the electricity generated to charge the batteries is from Coal, Natural Gas and Nuclear, not to mention all of the Mining Equipment it took just to make the battery in the first place. In effect, 20% of the EV's on the road are powered by Coal, 40% by Natural Gas, and 20% by Nuclear Power.
11.) The United Nation's Children's Fund estimates that there are OVER 40,000 Children working in the Cobalt Mines in the Congo alone.
12.) The Solar Panels that are used to produce some of the electricity for the EV Battery are mostly made in China and are produced in plants that are Coal Powered and use Child and S***e-Labor to manufacture the panels.
So, next time someone spouts how "Green" they are being owning an Electric Vehicle, ask them if they have taken into account the environmental degradation and destruction, and the f****l f**ls that it took to mine the materials for the batteries, the f****l f**ls it takes to charge the batteries, and then ask them that given the Child and S***e-Labor it takes to produce the Cobalt and Solar Panels - if it is even moral to build an electric vehicle.
These facts are derived from:
Mines, Minerals, and "Green" Energy: A Reality Check
Mark P. Mills July 9, 2020
Energy & EnvironmentRegulations
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-reality-check