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Originally Posted by TimMullen
Don't mean to be negative, but I tend to like to think things through. The future "shortages" from electric cars was from an analysis that I read - talking about what it took to build up to manufacture electrical car components in large volume. Unfortunately most of the resources that we would need are either controlled by countries not necessarily "friendly" with the US, and/or they have their own economy ramping up and needing more and more resources (China for example). There's even a limited supply of the material needed to make the magnets for the electric motors (at least if they want them to be efficient).
The siwitch to electric cars might seem like a good thing, but the reality is that we could become even more dependant on foreign imports than we are now. 
It's along the lines of "climate change". Everything now is to do what ever we need to do to keep things from changing. But not too many have actually looked at whether it would be a good thing on not. For instance, one change that a warmer climate may make is more productive farm land - a longer growing season and much more land advaialbe for farming. At the same time, "they" are predicting that, because of a growing world population, we will need to double the food production over the next 50 years. Just maybe, that "global warming" might be a good thing - people might be a couple of degrees warmer (or they move North), but they may have food in their stomachs.
Everything in this world is a system that has to meet many compromises. The compromises need to be examined for all possibilities, not just the wones that scare people with the big headlines.  |
Scare tactics are the best way to push unrealistic agendas. There are too many people in power beating the drum of whatever is popular, without thinking through the nuts and bolts of reality.
All this talk of controlling the 0.384% of CO2 in our atmosphere is ridiculous; there will be another ice age regardless of what we do. They used to grow winegrapes in the British Isles. I wonder how that was possible?