Electric vehicles are being mandated in California, but Governor Newsom is oblivious to the fact that it’s just another product that cannot exist without oil, as all the thousands of parts and components of EVs, from tires, insulation, and computers, are made from the oil derivatives manufactured out of crude oil.
Newsom’s efforts to “transition away from fossil fuels” have yet to comprehend that humanity is not addicted to fossil fuels, but they are addicted to the products and transportation fuels made from those fossil fuels to meet the materialistic demands of humanity and the economy. Despite the demand for the products and transportation fuels that so-called renewables cannot make, only wealthy economies, like that in California, have “green” movements and are pursuing them with mandates and costly subsidies.
The recently released documentary “Electric Vehicles: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” isn’t just another documentary that lazily cheerleads the industry, though there is a fair amount of marveling at the technology and underscoring its benefits and potential. It’s an enlightening, educational, and entertaining 90-minute documentary that is a MUST viewing by everyone to enhance their Energy Literacy and help them decide for themselves if EVs are good, bad, or ugly. The documentary is available for purchase at $12.99, or you can rent it for a 72-hour lease for $9.99.
It’s appalling that the policymakers, just in wealthy countries, are setting “green” policies that continue to support humanity’s atrocities and environmental degradation in poorer developing countries that are mining for the exotic minerals and metals to go “green.”
The documentary demonstrates the environmental degradation and humanity’s atrocities to people with yellow, brown, and black skin in those poorer developing countries as unethical and immoral, just for materials to make EV batteries. The documentary is narrated by Larry Elder, a talk radio host, author, politician, lawyer, and former candidate for governor of California.
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Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book "Clean Energy Exploitations."
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