In the 1950’s, and again in the 1960’s, after a brief hiatus, a fellow named Jack Webb created and starred in a television show “Dragnet.”
It was a campy police show that
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This popular show usually involved these two cops involved with the machinations of police work, including interviews cutting to the chase with the catchphrase “Just the facts.” Those words were injected into the regular witness interviews to better abbreviate lengthy, circuitous answers to Joe and Harry.
It is now pre-midterm election time, 2022, and we are in the midst of a disastrous presidential term of Joseph Robinette Biden, one of many life-long smarmy politicians who don’t know when it is time to find the exit door.
After more than 50-years of scaring people by carping about climate change – and their brilliant plan to replace the currently used “fossil fuels” to power the world – environmentalists have finally settled on “the science” of renewable energy.
Renewable energy is one of those misnomers that beg for more details, and I’m here to help.
According to the shallow thinkers in the renewable energy realm, we, as a society, need to embrace the idea of non-polluting means by which to power our transportation, home, and industrial requirements.
It’s pretty simple, they explain. Simply use solar panels to generate electricity, or windmills to produce larger quantities, with no side effects. Problem solved.
Not quite. Components used to make both solar and wind-driven energy producers must be mined using large machinery that uses diesel fuel. Those ores and minerals are then manufactured into malleable steel and aluminum which requires smelting using coal.
Not to be deterred, the Big Three American auto manufacturers are neck-deep in the production and sale of electric vehicles (EVs). Unfortunately, EVs also use steel, along with plastics, to reduce weight, which are derived from oil, also known as: fossil fuels.
And short of using really long extension cords, the Big Three are exploiting rechargeable batteries as a way to store the electricity you transferred from your home or on-the-road recharging station. The best-known batteries currently in-use are made from lithium.
Where do the necessary supplies
of lithium lie, awaiting mining for transportation to
In any case, we now have an almost plethora of EVs ready for delivery. Almost. Almost because the electronic chips required for controlling the digital gauges, speed, charging, and maximizing battery life in the EVs are in short supply.
Be that as it may, once completely built, the fresh, new EV will be transported to dealers far and wide via rail. It’s too bad our train engines rely on diesel fuel, not unlike tractor-trailers, that are also often used to move cars and household consumables.
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Buying an EV at roughly $70,000, would help us reach that lofty goal, if only they were available, and the general population could afford them.
“What?” you’re asking yourself. “Why not simply continue using our seemingly endless supply of refined oil?” you’re now thinking.
Answer: Because President Biden, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, and the rest of the brainwashed environmental movement, thought it wise to force EVs upon every – EVERY – American by intentionally driving the price of oil through the roof.
In their best compassionate moments, the above-mentioned Three Stooges’ solution to high oil prices is: Drum roll, please: Just buy an electric car. Their logic is that if you can’t afford gas at $4.99 9/10 per gallon, you should pony up $70,000 for a new car.
Still, there is bad news looming. Once these EVs are bought and on the road, those lithium batteries have a limited life requiring more frequent charging, and eventually replacing them to the tune of between $4,000 and $20,000. Nice song, eh?
Of course, President Biden’s brain – best described as a loose squirrel running around inside his otherwise empty head – believes it is better to not use inexpensive domestic oil; rather it is prudent to beg from and buy costly foreign oil from our enemies. Wink, wink.
Now that makes sense.
Sure this was a long way to get to the much-awaited punch line to the joke. But this is not a joke; it’s what Sergeant Joe Friday would say: “Just the facts.”
