The Biden Administration is determined to ruin the United States of America by allowing gas prices to soar through the roof. Yes, we were getting roughly 10% of our oil from Russia, but what about the rest of the oil? Just a few months (about 14), we were energy independent but with a swipe of a signature on an Executive Order, the Idiot in Chief Biden laid the USA out on an alter of sacrifice and we are now energy dependent on countries that really don’t want us to succeed. So, why is Biden so determined not to rescind his Executive Order? Simply put, it helps push the Left’s New Green Deal of electric cars and renewable energy. Sadly, this agenda will not work.
We learned in February of 2021 that renewable energy is not reliable enough to keep people warm in ice storms and cold weather such as Texas experienced and the idea of sitting in an electric vehicle on an interstate in a snow storm seems almost idiotic. Everyone who knows much about mechanics and batteries know that the cold weather is not nice to batteries in fossil fuel powered vehicles and equipment, let alone a vehicle that is totally electric. Yet Biden and AOC along with other proponents of electric vehicles think that they can allow fuel prices to skyrocket to force people to buy electric vehicles.
This leftist thinking that people will buy electric vehicles because fossil fuel is to expensive is beyond stupid, idiotic, moronic (help me here I want more stupid than stupid, idiotic & moronic). Oh wait, how about using a better word, ILLOGICAL! People who struggle to buy fuel are the blue collar folks, like me who work hard for a living and can’t afford a new fossil fuel vehicle, let alone a $50-80 thousand dollar electric vehicle! yet we are the ones (most of us in the mid-west) who drive many miles to get to a city just to buy groceries. We are the ones who use our vehicles to jump start tractors, combines, feed cattle, move livestock and generally keep this country fed and supplied with everyday needs.
The idea of electric vehicles is suppose to be to reduce carbon dioxide getting into the atmosphere (OR that is their excuse). Where is most of the carbon being released? HMM let’s think about this…..THE FREAKING CITIES WITH SMOG! Why is more smog found in cities? ALL THE FREAKING CITY SLICKERS! Yes there is a benefit to living in the boonies, we don’t have to deal with traffic jams and city slicker ideologies that believe farmers and ranchers are stupid and ruin the land when in fact we are using technology that we have developed to improve the land and productivity. Some of the technology developed for Agriculture is used in daily lives of oblivious city slickers like Alexandrea Ocasio-Cortez who has never been to a farm or ranch on the Great Plaines but she ‘knows-it-all’.
The Great Plains gets some horrendous winter storms that rage across the plains, causing interstate closures and people being stranded. There is no way a person in an electric car could survive in situations like that. The latest report I had on an electric car was that a trip that normally took 8 hours took over 24 hours because they had to charge their vehicle TEN HOURS because it was so cold.
Another illogical idea is that the electrical grid has the ability to charge all these new cars and it doesn’t. Where does the electrical power come from? Mostly coal-powered plants, a few nuclear and oh yeah, those wind farms that are causing droughts because it changes the air currents (this is new studies from wind farms in California). Don’t forget those windmills also kill eagles and other birds of prey. The solar farms are also an issue because they are so ugly and take up so much space. They claim that it is safe to run sheep and goats under those panels but just like the powerlines, I wouldn’t want my livestock living under those things and deforming the babies.
One reality at this point is, most people can’t afford an electric car and they are stuck with gas and diesel. Let the environmentalists buy the electric cars and those of us who have to work in reality drive oil powered machinery. That way truckers can get the food and supplies to where they need to go and farmers and ranchers can run their tractors, combines and feed trucks, so we can feed the world. Remember there are a LOT less of us, less than 2% of the population. So we can reduce a lot of carbon by just letting those of us in the rural areas keep our vehicles running on carbon after all we sequester carbon all the time with our modern agriculture practices versus city slickers living stacked on top of each other.
As far as I am concerned, the city slickers on the east and west coast can have their electric vehicles as long as they leave us working in the middle of the country alone. After all, there are more people living in the cities and both coasts than us in the middle. Let us keep our fossil fuels and fresh air because there aren’t that many of us out here. Let’s clean up the smoggy, crime ridden, poop covered streets of the cities and leave the rest of us along.
Educated Cowpuncher 