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• I miss Trump as President .

  • We all do even the dumb Biden voters.

• MAGA! President Trump had America on the RIGHT track with PRO-America, America FIRST policies during his four years. That is why the left had to cheat in 2020. Let's see the what the left has up its collective sleeves in 2024.

• So where was Trump during the four years of constant CAFE standard increases forcing prices of new vehicles to become unaffordable for the average American?

  • Trying to straighten out the mess Obama created

  • He did get energy prices down, especially gas.

• As usual, Trump is 100% correct.

• Good is evil and evil is good...as predicted in the Bible!

• Aaahhh, electric vehicles. Here, in Texas, we are teetering on brown outs. I can only speculate, but if 10% of the road traffic were electric, our A/C would have ended a few weeks ago. I would not be surprised if EVs were attacked, to keep them off the roads. Certainly not the right thing to do, but days without AC may reduce civility.

  My other question, how well are the EVs doing in this heat? If people don't use the A/C while driving, I'm sure their range would improve, but no one wants to drive with their windows down.

• Ford, GM, Chrysler, are dumping Billions of dollars into Electric cars and trucks.
  Consumer's don't want this. The auto industry will go bankrupt if they continue to pursue this. Economic results could be deviating.

• Fake presidents who were installed illegally through FRAUD don't get to issue legitimate mandates or executive orders! Everything the clown does is null and void. DO NOT COMPLY with ANYTHING !

• I worked for an auto-manufacturer for nearly 5 years (1 year as a contractor then almost 4 as a regular employee). I got laid off recently among thousands of others and I'm convinced the billions of dollars being lost on EVs is to blame. How they can continue to justify throwing good money after bad down a money pit that isn't projected to turn a profit for at least another 7 years is completely beyond me. I don't understand where the disconnect from the consumer went. Aside from acceleration which is a novel experience for the wealthy, EVs are inferior to ICE vehicles in almost every way given the physical limitations of existing technology and I just read a study by The Manhattan Institute claiming that claims of EVs lowering emissions are dubious at best because there isn't a lot of transparency in the global supply chain and emissions are greatly impacted by the amount of mining needed to get the minerals to produce the battery and aluminum bodies of EVs as well as the chemical processes to refine these materials and the state of the grid local to both mining and refining operations and that it is possible EVs might even increase emissions. This isn't about emissions but control. They want to restrict mobility by pricing average people out of car ownership. If it was about emissions they'd be better off focusing on hybrids and making ICE vehicles more fuel efficient. Apparently it is actually easier to lower emissions by making conventional vehicles more fuel efficient than cranking out EVs (The mining operations to support which have a huge negative environmental impact)

  • If CO2 was actually a problem industry could've simply developed filtration systems just like they have done for everything else. No, this is all about CONTRO and the destruction of our WEALTH. These idiot carmakers don't realize their industry will be destroyed by autonomous vehicles that are controlled by THE GOVERNMENT and the people controlling these puppets.

    But Climate Hoax will; exposed soon enough and we'll be able to take these fuqqers to COURT and present this information to the entire world as the biggest LIE/FRAUD ever attempted.

    • Hear Hear! Also Carbon Dioxide makes up just 0.4% of the world's atmosphere and yet they want us to believe it is such a problem when if it was reduced to 0.2% or below plants would start dying off. The control these globalists want is part genocidal as isn't it odd they are targetting one gas that makes such a tiny percentage of the atmosphere but if it gets cut too much then you start screwing with food production? How convenient for them.

• So we can save the environment and get rid of fossil fuels by driving electric cars, right?

  Read this.
  SUBJECT: BATTERIES

  Tesla said it best when they called it an Energy Storage System.
  That's important.They do not make electricity– they store
  electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural
  gas-powered plants, diesel-fueled generators or minerals. So, to say
  an Electric Vehicle (EV) is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all
  valid.

  Also, since twenty percent of the electricity generated in the
  U.S. is from coal-fire plants, it follows that forty percent of the
  EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see? If not, read on.

  Einstein's formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of
  energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a
  mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what
  produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery;
  the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.

  There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use.
  The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and
  lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium,
  silver oxide, or zinc. Rechargeable batteries only differ in their
  internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and
  nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two
  battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in
  landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries
  be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash,
  here is what happens to them.

  All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in
  use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a
  flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs
  down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead;
  well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity.

  As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the
  battery's metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left
  inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic,
  and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a
  landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes
  rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.

  In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones
  used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about
  those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do
  not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly.

  But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about
  electric cars and the green revolution look at batteries and also
  windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we
  call environmentally destructive embedded costs.

  Everything manufactured has two costs associated with it, embedded
  costs and operating costs. I will explain embedded costs using a can
  of baked beans as my subject. In this scenario, baked beans are on
  sale, so you jump in your car and head for the grocery store. Sure
  enough, there they are on the shelf for $1.75 a can. As you head to
  the checkout, you begin to think about the embedded costs in the can
  of beans.

  The first cost is the diesel fuel the farmer used to plow the
  field, till the ground, harvest the beans, and transport them to the
  food processor. Not only is his diesel fuel an embedded cost, so are
  the costs to build the tractors, combines, and trucks. In addition,
  the farmer might use a nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas.

  Next is the energy costs of cooking the beans, heating the
  building, transporting the workers, and paying for the vast amounts
  of electricity used to run the plant. The steel can holding the
  beansis also an embedded cost. Making the steel can requires mining
  taconite, shipping it by boat, extracting the iron, placing it in a
  coal-fired blast furnace, and adding carbon. Then it's back on
  another truck to take the beans to the grocery store. Finally, add in
  the cost of the gasoline for your car.

  A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of
  a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty
  pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200
  pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic.
  Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.

  It should concern you that all those toxic components come from
  mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must
  process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of
  orefor the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000
  pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the
  earth's crust for just one battery."

  Sixty-eight percent of the world's cobalt, a significant
  part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no
  pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling
  this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part
  of the cost of driving an electric car?" And the Chinese just
  bought most of these mines!

  California is building the largest battery in the world near San
  Francisco, and they intendto power it from solar panels and
  windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being 'green,' but it
  is not! This construction project is creating an environmental
  disaster.

  The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to
  process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure
  enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid,
  sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and
  acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide,
  copper-indium-gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also
  are highly toxic. Silicone dust is a hazard to the workers, and the
  panels cannot be recycled.

  Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental
  destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and
  contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron,
  24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths
  neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000
  pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be
  replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. Sadly, both solar arrays and
  windmills kill birds, bats, sea life, and migratory insects.

  There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look
  beyond the myth of zero emissions. I predict EVs and windmills will
  be abandoned once the embedded environmental costs of making and
  replacing them become apparent. "Going Green" may sound
  like the Utopian ideal and are easily espoused, catchy buzzwords, but
  when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an
  open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the
  Earth's environment than meets the eye, for sure.