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Note: Event not posted to Facebook -- Gave up Beer and Facebook for Lent! 😎
I have not done rigorous due diligence on the true value of this electric vehicle issue. If basic physics is correctly recalled, whenever energy is converted from one form to another form high-efficiency losses happen... this process of transduction is inefficient basically due to friction (in heat losses). Just an old retired guy with another rant -- can't personally do anything to resolve the issue anyway. Got to admit I do wonder about the electric vehicle solution. What is the truth in the entire "energy efficiency cycle" as applied to the gas/oil/propane-powered vehicles vs electric vehicles question? Where does the electricity come from used to charge batteries and do the future recharges? Those sparks come from thin air I guess. Who does these total electric justification calculations anyway – is this authority an independent body (non-political)? Seems a significant percent of power grid electricity production comes from burning fossil fuels, and certainly a substantial majority percentage of electricity production is fossil related when nuclear is included. How is transduction inefficiency factored into electricity production/delivery estimates of the true cost of electric vehicles? Additional demands on the national power grid are a certainty with a growing number of electric vehicles – no genius here, it's simply common sense. The power grid is already there, so there is no cost for the increased electrical demand associated with necessary and frequent electric vehicle battery recharge. Is it correct that increased national electrical grid expenses are not passed on to the electric vehicle owner who is directly responsible for the aggregate national electrical demand increase? And who among electric vehicle owners will pay for the upkeep of American roads and highways currently funded by taxes on petroleum fuel products?
And too, the entire issue of what is done with the occasional non-functional new batteries or older non-functional batteries, or those older battery replacements that are past their mean-time-between-failure? Old batteries are toxic waste. Are battery manufacturers being held accountable and responsible NOW for the eventual disposal of old or non-functioning batteries? Probably a small portion of old batteries can be recycled (but at what cost?) -- is that unknown cost reasonably estimated and factored into the true cost of charging electric vehicles? Sure hope the battery manufacturers and those who use them are planning to dig a giant hole somewhere (hopefully in China) to bury these old battery toxins. Are those disposal funds now being set aside in an untouchable lockbox somewhere to cover these future non-functional battery disposal costs? Planning for the future is required now -- and setting requirements aside to cover predictable future costs is necessary now. Oh well, we will all be dust in a few years -- why be concerned? Or is it the future general population's tax-base responsibility for toxic waste disposal -- no doubt paid by federal grants authorized by the public-sector Politically Correct clean energy enablers -- spending now our descendant's future dollars?
Granted, at some point, it may make sense to buy a small electric vehicle to make short runs to the shop, for entertainment, etc. But when that 400+ mile trip is in the cards, travelers might need good old petroleum-fired vehicles to reach that final destination. The same related questions exist on the worth of those rides equipped with both electric & gas capability. Just what are the true electric vehicle savings and associated impact on future environmental costs?
Why am I not surprised? Google, you are an American company! NO mention is found this morning citing the day's significance on Google's opening home page... instead Google chooses to celebrate the lunar new year. Today in United States of America history, February 1st is National Freedom Day – an anniversary remembrance and celebration signed into existence by President Harry Truman. Give 'em Hell Harry! On February 1, 1865, Republican President Abe Lincoln signed the resolution that permitted what would become the Thirteenth Amendment to our United States Constitution.
Let me refresh Google management's memory and what seems to be the memory of a majority of American citizens. Remember this now:
Amendment XIII “Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
President Lincoln's action on this 1865 day forever codified and ended slavery in the United States as long as we have a U.S. Constitution... an immensely significant day in American history. WE THE PEOPLE of the United States... should each be thankful for the many freedoms we are afforded as citizens of our very fine country! Forget this freedom, or how freedom was won, and our freedom will continue to melt away.
“Knockin' On Heaven's Door”
Written and performed by Bob Dylan,
featured in the 1973 movie
“Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid.”
Also a 1990 single release by Dylan.
(No CAPO)
G D Am7 / C (alternate) | x4
G D Am7
Mama take this badge off of me
G D C
I can't use it any-more
G D Am7
It's getting dark, too dark to see
G D C
Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
G D Am7
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
G D C
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
G D Am7
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door,
G D C
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door.
G D Am7
Mama put my guns in the ground
G D C
I can't shoot them any-more
G D Am7
That long black cloud is comin' down
G D C
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
G D Am7
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
G D C
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door
G D Am7
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door,
G D C
Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door.
Oh-Ohh, yeah-yeah
G D Am7 / C (alternate) | x2
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