OPINION:
I respectfully decline to buy an electric vehicle as my primary car. Doing so would be going down a road of diminishing returns.
How much carbon dioxide — which accounts for four-tenths of 1% of Earth’s atmosphere — to today’s cars really contribute? The EV push is a feel-good scam.
Imagine what forest fires contribute, or even the factories making solar panels and batteries. Why not put camera grids or satellite surveillance blanketing our forests that would shorten fire-mitigation times and save the exponential amount of carbon dioxide emitted by regular or hybrid cars?
We should also do much better forest management and reduce the leading culprit of emissions contributions — home heating and cooling, which we can slash by investing in geothermal.
The bottom line is that a few are getting filthy rich by promoting a single industry. In this case, what they’re promoting are EVs. But these cars must be manufactured and charged regularly for much longer than it takes to fill up a gas tank.
They also have a limited range with no remedial action possible if you get stranded. This raises the question of what to do if the grid goes down or chips inside the vehicle surrender their control to Big Brother or a third party. It would amount to chaos.
Artificial intelligence, please give us sanity and save us from extinction.
FRED STEWART
Grand Junction, Colorado
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