Electric cars not the answer

I live in gas country and think shuting down pipe lines and going all electric is a fairytale. There are already 2 states that outlaw gasoline cars by 2035. I feel that it should be choice of whether to buy electric or fossil fueld car. We can,t keep up with the electric demand now so how we going to generate enough electric without fossil? There was an artecale in my local paper that going all electric cars will eliminate 100,000 thousand auto workers jobs. electic cars do not need engines, transmissions, drive shafts differentials catalytic converters and all the computer electronics that keep them from poluting the air. There are a lot of other jobs that get eliminated that serve the fossil fuel. Steel mills that make the pipe, iron foundrys that make the castings for the equipment needed and the list goes on and on. Gm said in that artical that they will be buying many of the parts and wireing harness which has a lot of heavy cables and other components from off shore supplyers. When all houses are electric and cars and everything is electric powered there are going to be a lot of cold toes and stranded cars.
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The facts are, oil is a finite resource. Both Shell and BP have stated the believe we are past "Peak Oil". Oil reserves will continue to be lower each year in theory from here on out. Most of the easy oil reserves are know and future oil reserves will require more to harvest or process.
We need to look at alternative energies...
I saw some trucks in Houston at a gas station with a genset filling up. We should tell them that they can use the genset to charge the electric cars... Stop it
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Just as Texas is going to study their issue with the ice storm, California has started to understand the huge problems/costs of dealing with really bad forest management. This started about 50 years back and may take that long to correct if there is not more money to fix the problems. With C19, it just has been a year of doing very little. The maintenance not done in Texas will probably be C19 related also.
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And what Austin Texas demonstrates about prepping (posted 2/17/2021):
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2021/02/17/what-austin-texas-demonstrates-about-prepping/
I have a family member who lives in Austin, Texas. This is a video he sent me (he didn’t take it, but is near where this video was taken). This video is a couple of days old. This line was about a mile long as guessed by the videographer. There are no more lines like that because the grocery stores are out of food.
The trucks haven’t been able to run, so the shelves are bare. Worse, the water system is torn apart by freezing temperatures, and water is off to most of the city. There is no potable water, there is no more food. There is now a run on gasoline, and the stations are quickly running out their tanks.
Power is off throughout vast portions of Austin and in fact throughout much of Texas. It would be easy to write an essay about the power situation, but denials that the rush to natural gas and windmills is at least partially responsible are wrong.
The windmills are frozen, and the CTs (Combustion Turbines) sit above ground. They are frozen solid and cannot operate. Solar panels are covered with snow and ice, and besides, wouldn’t be capable of supplying the industrial base with enough power even if they could operate.
While there is a lot of research in next generation nuclear (like Molten Salt reactors) occurring at ORNL and ANL, and that’s nice, it wouldn’t have been necessary to wait on that. PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) and BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) technology is mature and safe.
The problem is that no CEO wants to invest money in nuclear power because the tax incentives are so significant for solar panels. But the only source of cheap, clean, mature energy that can supply an industrial base with power is nuclear. Unless, of course, they intend to move the industrial base to China (which is in fact investing huge sums of money in nuclear) and then beg for scraps that fall from the master’s table.
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The US Military is quietly doing what France did with small Nuke plants. You should see what I saw at Vandenberg. And it is not aliens from Roswell....My brother in law would kill me.....
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