This rant, though amusing and a good read, like l your stuff, seems to be driven more by your personal distaste for EVs, which you've written about for awhile now, than on any insurmountable risks or defects inherent in EVs. We get it, Jack: You don't like them. And, doggone it, you don't like politics intruding on your favorite personal freedoms either. Nobody does. It sucks to be a member of a democratic society sometimes, where every damn-fool idiot has a say. Mocking climate change concerns (with your clever over-strikes) does not negate what anyone who cares to look can see all around us, with catastrophic weather abounding in recent years. I've lived in the same coastal place for over 30 years and can track the changes first-hand. They exist. Science, like democracy, also sucks sometimes. But unlike democracy, it doesn't care about your feelings or your politics. It just is. The infrastructure argument also doesn't wash. We humans have shown a irrepressible capacity to develop infrastructure when necessity or market forces demand it. We electrified the US in the 30s, built the interstate highways system in the 50s, and have built a nuclear infrastructure around the world that defied similar dire warnings and, with a few rather notable exceptions-all technologies cary risk--provides lots of relatively clean power around the world. The idea that building EV charging stations is beyond our grasp ignores technological history. Like it or not, EVs are here to stay. The car makers have gone all in, not because of government regulation, but because they understand that our current level of fossil-fuel emissions are unsustainable, and that tailpipe emissions are a huge chunk of them (yes, I know electricity currently comes from fossil, among other sources, but that is also changing. That technology thing again.) If EVs were the dire threat you claim, insurers would rebel, and these vehicles, as well as the facilities that store them, would be uninsurable. That hasn't happened. If you want to know about risks, ask the experts: the guys who get paid to quantify and insure against them. Like our hosts. I personally hate EVs. They are soulless golf-carty things, and usually really ugly to boot, as if they have to advertise their virtue through weird styling. But, like colonoscopies, we're gonna have to accept them.
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