The Tangent College
Hello Colleagues,
Ah yes, what to speak about this week,mmmmmm….. We could talk about the religion of electric vehicles. Okay let’s start there. I’ve made a decision.
In the magazine Cigar Aficionado there is a brief article about the new electric vehicle, the GV 60, from the Korean car company Genesis. I had to laugh at the following statement, ” the cabin itself is lavishly appointed using vegan leather and other recycled materials”. What is “vegan leather” other than another euphemism for nonleather or some form of plastic vinyl made to look like leather; as the very definition of leather means it comes from an animal, there is no such thing as “vegan” leather. You can strip the bark off a tree or the leathery outer layer of a rubber plant leaf but it is still not leather. We have faux leather, PU leather, vinyl leather, and now we have “vegan” leather all posing as real leather. Here is just another example of how we live in a virtual phony world created by the twisting of language.
But this religion teaches us that electric vehicles are our future and apparently they are to the very destruction of America. All the car manufacturers are now lining up to produce vehicles that no one wants – except of course the religious vegan goofballs and pompous asses that populate the universities and media. And all the self-righteous religious faithful that believe all the tripe that they are somehow actually saving the planet by driving these stupid things.
Never mind the disposal nightmare of billions of lithium batteries, and that their EV tailpipe is connected to a coal-fired power plant.
For further insight into this cult of stupidity please read Eric Peters latest article entitled “The Middle Class Will Not be Able to Buy EVs” In which he states when talking about the latest joke from Dodge Ram, a pickup called the REV,
“The 2024 REV will supposedly be able to travel as far as 500 mile on a charge but this is likely to prove as truthful as “safe and effective.” Especially if the REV is tasked with hauling (or carrying) much of anything. But even if it can, it is expected to cost at least as much as its main rival, the device Ford calls the Lightning – the battery-powered version of the F-150 pickup. Which costs more than $60k to start after four successive price increases since it came out last year.”
Or read this rather positive article by Douglas French entitled “Peak EV: Electric Vehicles Will Fade as Their True Costs Become Clear” in which he starts by saying,
““On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to announce tough new tailpipe emission standards designed to effectively force the auto industry to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars,” reports The Verge, with the provocative headline “The End Is Nigh for Gas-Powered Cars.”
Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is the newest religion, and we all know who the practitioners are. Electric vehicle (EV) owners sing “Hallelujah” when they pull out of their garages. The investor-class ESG evangelists believe the new belief is in its beginnings. Whatever the Biden EPA does, investor Harris Kupperman thinks it’s likely just the Church of What’s Happening Now.”
I can see a crisis coming, amidst all the other crises which characterize a dying Empire, in which we will no longer be permitted to buy new gas powered cars. We are destined to become like Cuba in which everyone continues to fix up their old car as America embargoes itself. This is what bad religion does, it hinders progress as it squelches liberty.
But quoting from the article above, he states a problem with lithium batteries, “what happens to battery degradation with lithium ion batteries, and the fact that the lithium ion battery is such a large component of the total cost of a car, and when you’re at year five or six [and] have to replace 30% to 40% of your car’s initial cost, people are going to realize the lifetime cost of owning an EV is astronomically high.”
This article is really an important read because it covers the religious nature, as I mentioned above, of the EV owner and the actual religion has a name called ESG which stands for “Environmental, social, and corporate governance”. Just try to ignore the small references to evolution which of course is the creation story of another humanistic religion. The point is still there however. And it is also offers positive hope that in the end reality will take over and this religion will fade into foolishness as most all do. Amen! and Amen!
– Though some take longer than others. But in the end reality always wins and God always wins over superstition and man’s religion.
I think that’s enough for this week. But of course there is always more to talk about but the “more” will have to wait until the following week in which we shall pick up Mr. “more” once again.
Until then, follow the path of righteousness, learn how to fix your own car, stay away from religious fads and stay far from the camp of the Covidites.
Bill Ward