Bwaahahaha… Climate change activist suffers electric car calamity

Well, never mind she the charging units not working. Isn’t it about taking 7 hours to charge to get where she needed to go?

Get a patent on the idea, it's going to be pure gold for somebody

Where are the metals going to come from? Mining output and investment has been in decline for decades, and metal mining is an EXTREMELY energy intensive activity. Using VAST amounts of diesel in trucks bigger than the grandest McMansion. Have you taken a gander at the oil supply / demand problem moving forward? Have you seen that OPEC+ isn't fulfilling their production quotas? Where's the energy and metal going to come from to build out this electric utopia? I won't even get into generation and transmission capacity. If "go green / electrify America" was a serious initiative, it would have started decades ago, and the investments would have taken place to enable it. Those investments aren't there. Neither is the energy (hydrocarbons / liquid fuels) available to build it out. The "electric" push will fail spectacularly (as it is - see Germany, etc.) and the people who don't care about money have known since its inception. The idea is to be able to say "well, we tried but it just didn't work". In the hopes that people will buy that story, and be peacefully complacent in their reduction in energy (liquid hydrocarbons) consumption. That axiomatically leads to a lower standard of living, and shorter lifespan. The availability of cheap readily available energy is ending for the average citizen. Can't print energy. Electrons will NEVER replace liquid fuels (hydrocarbons). At least not in terms of convenience, affordability, portability, reliability, etc. It's not even close.

Former San Luis Obispo mayor and climate change activist Heidi Harmon attempted to “do the right thing,” and travel to a rally in San Francisco in an electric car. After multiple attempts to find a working charging station in San Jose, Harmon realized charging the car would take up to seven hours and there was no way she could make the rally. Harmon posted multiple videos about her difficulties in traveling in an all-electric vehicle. She discusses calling the police or asking someone to send a helicopter to rescue her.

Where are the metals going to come from? Mining output and investment has been in decline for decades, and metal mining is an EXTREMELY energy intensive activity. Using VAST amounts of diesel in trucks bigger than the grandest McMansion. Have you taken a gander at the oil supply / demand problem moving forward? Have you seen that OPEC+ isn't fulfilling their production quotas? Where's the energy and metal going to come from to build out this electric utopia? I won't even get into generation and transmission capacity. If "go green / electrify America" was a serious initiative, it would have started decades ago, and the investments would have taken place to enable it. Those investments aren't there. Neither is the energy (hydrocarbons / liquid fuels) available to build it out. The "electric" push will fail spectacularly (as it is - see Germany, etc.) and the people who don't care about money have known since its inception. The idea is to be able to say "well, we tried but it just didn't work". In the hopes that people will buy that story, and be peacefully complacent in their reduction in energy (liquid hydrocarbons) consumption. That axiomatically leads to a lower standard of living, and shorter lifespan. The availability of cheap readily available energy is ending for the average citizen. Can't print energy. Electrons will NEVER replace liquid fuels (hydrocarbons). At least not in terms of convenience, affordability, portability, reliability, etc. It's not even close.

What part of "transition" do folks not understand..

Even gas stations were few and far between in the beginning of the auto age. If she had used a "route planner" (there are many)...It would have adjusted her route to hit appropriate& available DC fast charger charging stations to complete her trip: but early electrics are not for idiots. You need to think about your trip. But don't think this is not improving every single day going forward.

"Transition" is the right word to describe what's going on, but not the "transition" most people think is happening. The average citizen is being "transition"ed to consuming less energy in the form of liquid fuels (hydrocarbons). The meat isn't scarce. The lumber isn't scarce. The liquid fuel to run the farms and the trucks is. Well...liquid fuel isn't "scarce" per se. It has become too expensive to extract and bring to market for most people to afford. In a capitalistic monetary based economy built and run on liquid fuels, that just doesn't work.

So the idea is that the "liquid fuel" club needs to get smaller and smaller, so only people who can afford to pay will get the "stuff". The meat. The lumber. The transportation. The healthcare. The technology. All the energy intensive services and activities we've become accustomed to are about to become a luxury only the super wealthy have access to.

It has to do with energy. Primarily the cost (energy and monetary) of extraction. The oil based civilization is winding down. Rich folks want that lumber for their kids to be able to buy. So they're increasing the price of lumber (and anything else of value) to ensure their kids can have the fossil fuel lifestyle. But in order to do that, they have to price a segment of the population out of the market. So the product remains, it's just too expensive for most people to afford.

It costs more to find, extract, and bring to market fossil fuel than they can ask people to pay without wrecking the economy. If you find the graph (there are a few good ones) of the price energy companies can afford to pay to extract the product, and the price the consumer can afford to pay for it, those lines have now crossed.

The energy companies need more money to stay in business than the average person can afford to pay for their product. Rich folks have seen this coming for years, and it looks like they've finally decided it's time to tighten up what is available (affordable) to who.

Personal transport, and air travel are on their way out for the average person. The electric initiative will fail, and they know it. There is nothing that comes close to the energy density and convenience hydrocarbons provide. All the hype about "electrify America" is just so they can say they tried, and hopefully people will not get too riled up when they realize they no longer belong to the "single mode transport" club. Mass transit, bike, or walk for middle class very soon.

Absent a solution that I haven't seen, the "winding down" will continue. Technology is not energy. Technology REQUIRES energy. The problem is geological, and the elites know that the clock is ticking.

I've watched this coming for over 15yrs. The "shale miracle" bought us about 2 yrs. Now we're sitting back where we were around 08-09. With a lot of bankrupt shale companies and angry/broke investors. Getting back to "normal" isn't going to look at all like what people think. What we've been doing the last 150yrs or so isn't "normal". What's normal is what we are moving toward, and most people have no idea what's involved.

Maybe the mentally ill bitch should have carried a gasoline generator in her "frunk" instead of a bag of rainbow colored dildos. FACT.

With temperatures at all time highs in South Africa and Australia, you need a greenhouse gas engine to make it through summer with AC on without draining your battery

Well, never mind she the charging units not working. Isn’t it about taking 7 hours to charge to get where she needed to go?

And think about this. No new power plants are being built to meet the demand of all these EV's. They should be building DOZENS of them NOW if we were all REALLY switching to EV's.

What is really happening is that we are all being set up to have all of our personal belongings & wealth stripped from us as part of the Great Reset. You are being set up to have your right to personal transportation being stripped from you. because (remember), by 2030 you will own nothing but you'll still be happy (or else).

She ventured out of her Silicon Valley bubble.

:carey:

SLO is not close to Silicon Valley.

I generally won't wait in any line ,like a drive through. Basically , 3 cars maxx.I can't imagine a cross country drive in an electric. I'm in a remote red state location and we have a single charging station,been here a couple of years. It's clearly visible from the highway and I have NEVER seen a vehicle using it. I live in a cold zone, 2 deg. earlier this month.There might be a couple of electrics here from Kali refugees that don't know better.

What part of "transition" do folks not understand..

Even gas stations were few and far between in the beginning of the auto age. If she had used a "route planner" (there are many)...It would have adjusted her route to hit appropriate& available DC fast charger charging stations to complete her trip: but early electrics are not for idiots. You need to think about your trip. But don't think this is not improving every single day going forward.

LOVE it!

She actually resigned as SLO mayor last year over some type of financial corruption.