The Roll Out of the New Electric Chevy Volt – an Inconvenient Reality

Talk about an inconvenient truth! We will start out with the excitement of the roll out of the new Chevy Volt. Ah, I don’t want to give the surprise ending away….just wait for it.

I will tell the tale of how we are being played. Rolling through some clips and I’ll give the unvarnished truth of what the real cost is to far off countries. Especially the people who work the mines.

We must add a field trip in a EV.

And a post would not be complete without adding the ultimate insult. Our President and his family making out like bandits. Hold on….here we go:

Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow bragged that she passed “every” gas station in her new electric vehicle and it “didn’t matter how high [gas] was,” during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the budget on 6/7/2022.

Does anyone really believe she drove the car this distance herself?

Apparently, in this woman’s mind, electricity magically appears out of the ether. A modern day Marie Antoinette. A true champion of the little people.

Another experience:

The following is a first-person account of a WSJ writer’s nightmarish road trip with an electric vehicle:

I thought it would be fun.

That’s what I told my friend Mack when I asked her to drive with me from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car.

Over four days, we spent $175 on charging. We estimated the equivalent cost for gas in a Kia Forte would have been $275, based on the AAA average national gas price for May 19. That $100 savings cost us many hours in waiting time.

But that’s not the whole story. Read the full story to get entire experience in case you are thinking of getting one. I pulled out a few paragraphs:

The woman charging next to us describes a harrowing recent trip in her Volkswagen ID.4. Deborah Carrico, 65, had to be towed twice while driving between her Louisville, Ky., apartment and Boulder, Colo., where her daughter was getting married.

“My daughter was like, ‘You’ve lost it mom; just fly,’ ” the retired hairdresser says. She says she felt safer in a car during the pandemic—but also vulnerable when waiting at remote charging stations alone late at night.

“But if someone is going to get me, they’re going to have to really fight me,” she says, wielding her key between her fingers like a weapon.

While she loves embracing the future, she says, her family has been giving her so much pushback that she is considering trading the car in and going back to gas.

Smiling At Gas Prices

‘Charge, Urgently!’

Back on the road, we can’t even make it 200 miles on a full charge en route to Miner, Mo. Clearly, tornado warnings and electric cars don’t mix. The car’s highway range actually seems worse than its range in cities.

Indeed, highway driving doesn’t benefit as much from the car’s regenerative-braking technology—which uses energy generated in slowing down to help a car recharge its battery—Kia spokesman James Bell tells me later.

He suspects our car is the less-expensive EV6 model with a range not of 310 miles, as listed on Turo, but 250. He says he can’t be sure what model we were driving without physically inspecting the car.

“As we have all learned over many years of experience with internal combustion engine vehicles, factors such as average highway speed, altitude changes, and total cargo weight can all impact range, whether derived from a tank of gasoline or a fully charged battery,” he says.

To save power, we turn off the car’s cooling system and the radio, unplug our phones and lower the windshield wipers to the lowest possible setting while still being able to see. Three miles away from the station, we have one mile of the estimated range.

“Charge, Urgently!” the dashboard urges. “We know!” we respond.

Read the full story at Climate Change Dispatch

Let’s look at the basics of this whole thing….

Making China richer.

Credits the lady says? Credits? And you wonder about the price of gas?

Prices for the credits jumped to a record high of almost $2 in June from only 10 cents at the start of 2020, the resolution said. They are now the second-largest expense for refiners like PBF, after crude oil. The document noted that 800 million fewer credits were issued last year than were needed to meet the 2020 standard.

The burden of the credits is worsened, the independent refiners say, by the fact that they buy them from larger competitors who have the technical ability to blend biofuels, and so earn the credits that they can then sell to the smaller companies. That amounts to the smaller companies effectively subsidizing their competitors, they say.

From a previous post: Biden Mandates Increased Ethanol in Gas – Raises Corn Prices by 30 Percent

Finally the post would not be complete without a few words of wisdom from our Press Secretary.

Karine Jean-Pierre says economy is ‘better than it has been historically’

The best of the swamp today.