Increased labor costs are potentially insurmountable and uncontrollable challenges facing the automobile industry for the government mandates in wealthy countries for lower emission EV’s. The UAW strike that began September 15th by 146,000 UAW union members seeking a 46 percent pay raise, and a 32-hour week with 40 hours of […]
Without a Replacement, Abandoning Fossil Fuels, Supports China
Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently, are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components. Renewables offer NO energy independence, as America has never imported electricity from foreign countries. Wind and solar just generate intermittent electricity. Further, the raw materials that are essential […]
Unsold Electric Cars May be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
Endless government subsidies to encourage EV sales seem unable to sway the logical thinking and the numerous concerns of the average citizens to buy into EV’s. With new EV inventories beginning to increase on dealer lots, the auto industry has many challenges such as locating the buyers that may have […]
An Easy Guide to Rational Energy Policies
Originally published at CFact.org The elephant in the room is a supply chain backup plan for products now supporting humanity that is required before we electrify the world. There are extensive technical and lengthy discussions and proposed solutions, both pros and cons, about climate change, rising oceans, extreme weather […]
Is the automobile industry being mandated toward a Death Spiral?
The passion for electric vehicles to help achieve lower emissions in wealthy countries seems to be oblivious to the potentially insurmountable and uncontrollable challenges facing the automobile industry. The few healthy and wealthy countries of the United States of America, Germany, the UK, and Australia representing 6 percent of the […]
Inflation Reduction Act Will Hinder EV Growth
Dependence on lithium mining in America to qualify for subsidies, will further negatively impact the lithium supply chain for batteries and stagnate the mandated transition to EV’s. After his mandate to transition to EV’s, President Joe Biden then signed The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that requires EVs to contain a battery […]
Is it Ethical to Purchase an EV Lithium Battery Powered Vehicle?
Is it ethical to purchase an EV lithium battery powered vehicle? With most of the exotic minerals and metals to build EV batteries being mined in developing countries, is it ethical to support the environmental degradation and humanity atrocities occurring in developing countries? With numerous State Governor’s having issued executive […]