down in the street there is violence

 And a lots of work to be done

No place to hang out our washing
And I can't blame all on the sun, oh no (Eddy Grant)

a massive inflation bill will be headed to the POTUS desk this week....it includes a govt rebate for electric vehicles.... let's look at the economics and then the social problems with electric vehicles.

a recent study showed it takes approximately 7 1/2 years to break even on an electric car...that is the $$ you save by not buying gas, verse the higher cost of the vehicle....problem is this does not factor in the cost of using electricity to charge your vehicle....spoiler alert...electricity is NOT free......so the Govt is pushing to have charging stations installed everywhere....but again they will not be giving away the electricity, they will be selling it to consumer....another very serious problem with this is our current electric grid and it's capabilities......everytime the temps hit 90, CON ED and other utilities are talking about rolling brownouts and how people should avoid running appliances in the mid day because of the high demand that Air Conditioners put on the system....(in Spain it is now against the Law to run an AC below 80degrees..talk about progress) so can you imagine adding a few hundred thousand or 5 or 6 million electric vehicles into the equation ? 

but let's move on.....so in make believe land , where electricity is free, it still takes 7 1/2 years to break even.....now you start to pocket all that gas $$......the lifeline of an electric vehicle battery is currently 10 years......so in 2 1/2 years it's time for a new electric vehicle....here comes the social hypocrisy part.....what becomes of the old car / battery ?  landfills? these batteries can not be recycled or used again, so what do we do with 100, 200, 300 million huge dead batteries every year or so as Americans turn over to new electric vehicles?  crickets from the left.

now the silly part....60% of our current electricity comes from FOSSIL FUELS (20% fm Nuclear and 20% from renewables)..........so in reality, while that new electric car is zipping around NY, San Francisco or LA and not smoggin up the streets...and everyone is patting themselves on the back .....somewhere in the suburbs a huge power plant is burning coal to generate that precious electricity ......so under the one earth policy, this is a net zero benefit.....cleaner air temporarily in the cities, same expense to the planet....but just like the homeless problems....the demonrats say, out of sight out of mind.

Phil Mushnick raised a good point yesterday.....with USC and UCLA now added to the BIG 10 , and annual flights to California for all of Rutgers sports teams to play conf games...where is the outrage from the student body climate police?

We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher