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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Story: “Because the vehicle was plastic underneath, there was no way to tow it..” If the case, “bad design”. The story does not say what the make and model were. Or if the driver out in the middle of nowhere, was a dumb and dumber type with a brain battery lower than the car.
Electric cars will have their place, cases of short distance second car and or a need or wish for torque. I wish the Left (who are idiots!) would stop unrealistically promoting electric everywhere, and conservatives would stop reflex bashing of all electric -it hurts conservatism.
Tow trucks too, could be redesigned to accommodate plastic cars.
David:
When someone keeps hitting you with a stick, it’s hard to feel neutral toward the stick.
Virginia anti fossil fuel vehicle and pro electric vehicle legislation is tied to California’s phasing out of fossil fuel vechicles thanks to Northam and his buddy Newsome. Virginia citizens have no recourse or voice on this. Also the prices of fossil fuel vehicles will rise to equal electric vehicles, not lowered. Our only hope is that the VA Assembly Senate will have a Republican majority come November. Repealing anti-life laws is not going to happen either with a Democratic Senate.
Want electric cars? Then double or triple grid capacity and build a whole lot more nukes. Otherwise, useless worthless piece of junk godless liberal progressive feminist Democrat enviro-wacko idiocy.
BTW, the godless state of Californication has decided to make fossil vehicles illegal after 2035. But they shut down all their nukes except for Diablo Canyon, and don’t allow any fossil build, instead relying on useless worthless wind (that doesn’t work when there’s no wind) and solar ( that doesn;t work when there’s no sunlight like cloudy days, night time, etc.).
Did I say Democrats are idiots?
The best Democrat is the muzzled and emasculated Democrat. Fortunately, they are voluntarily doing the emasculated part all on their own.
California is already crying uncle about charging EVs because of electricity shortages. This took place right after proposing the elimination of new petroleum powered cars in favor of EVs. Appears that California already has the electrical equivalent of gas lines for EV cars.
Tom, I sympathize, but it’s not the stick.
LQC, I say -give CA politicians plenty of rope…. they’ll soon find out that electric cars don’t run on fairy dust and unicorn farts.
Beyond the Energy equation,…How will the existing Distribution systems serve this new Demand(?) Especially when charging will begin daily at works’ end; that’s still within Peak, not Off Peak. The Capacity isn’t there and the Network isn’t there…
Believing men can become women has rotted their brains.
Let;s sit back nbd observe how bad things get in weswt3ern Europe this Winter.
And that won’t stop them.
David WS,
100% Correct.
Ask an engineer. It DOESN”T work when rea life limitations and eventualities are factored their rigged-science analyses. And they know it.
It’s all fake science and politically connected climate profiteers raking in $$ trillions with 10% for the ‘Big Guys.’
The only way to stop it is to fire the Big Guys in November. Fat chance. They have money, TV, and the Matrix [BORG collective] believes lies.
This is what godless liberals who have the unmitigated gall to tell us to follow the science do NOT understand:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
Transportation currently consumes 37% of all energy produced in these United States, of which less than 1% is currently from the electrical distribution system. Current electricity retail sales are 35% of all energy produced.
The fact is that regardless of my promotion of nuclear energy, the overwhelming part of our energy infrastructure IS fossil fuels, period! And even if we were to convert a majority of that to nuclear, it STILL would take a half century or more. Furthermore, solar and wind CANNOT possibly supply 97.3 quadrillion BTU that the US energy infrastructure produces. CANNOT PERIOD!
The dreams of Liberals are fairy dust and unicorn farts. Dumba$$ stupid idiotic liberal progressive feminist humanist secularist socialist Democrats! The lowest form of intelligence in all the galaxy.
I am most concerned by what happens as winter comes.
We can survive a hot summer without AC if we must. It won’t be comfortable, yet so long as we drink water and stay indoors as much as possible, we’ll survive.
If we must survive a cold winter without furnaces though, ….I see bad things happening. If California needs to “borrow” energy from the Midwest during a blizzard, ….we’ll see how long it takes before people begin raiding shelter belts to feed wood stoves.
We could readily make the Texas power-out business from a few years ago look like child’s play. …Better hope those nursing homes have REALLY robust back-up battery arrays….
…And lots of blankets.
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I showed this to my husband and he had a good laugh.
In Australia- BHP, Fotescue Metals, Rio Tinto and Woodside who have all decide to ditch coal in the next few years as part of their move to “green” their portfolio of mining products (replacing coal with Hydrogen) all had plummeting – yes – plummeting Share Prices on the Australian Stock Market, last week.
On the other hand, Companies like White Haven Coal and New Hope Coal Share Prices have gone through the roof- up by 181% in the last 12 months. China and India can’t get enough of coal. I think there will be a very rude wake up call for “green* companies when they realise Australia can’t sustain energy price increases and profits generated by the overseas demand for coal. India which is the second biggest importer of coal is expected to increase coal imports by 10% by the end of the year. India is clearly NOT going green. 😂
These companies will be back mining coal. If the lefties let them.
https://www.finder.com.au/whc-price-change-05-09-2022
So there we go…
Something else occurred to me from John Flaherty’s and Ezabelle’s comments. The United States has shutdown about a dozen nuclear reactors in the past decade or so, mostly because methane gas was temporarily cheaper and the anti-nukes a whole lot louder. Additionally, on fears of anthropogenic global warming, many coal fired power plants were shutdown (never mind that methane is a far more potent green house gas than CO2 from coal fired power plants). Of course useless worthless solar and wind can’t keep up with demand because of the changeable nature of weather. But now with the war in Ukraine, methane gas supplies are constrained world-wide. So what do you think will happen this winter as those supplies are taxed by both residential home heating and methane gas turbine electric power plants? This is EXACTLY what the methane gas supply companies wanted: knee-cap the nuclear power industry and make coal go out of business. Now prices will skyrocket. On, by the way, did I mention that Biden’s son Hunter was involved in corrupt dealing with Ukrainian methane gas supply companies? But all the main stream new media covers that up with lies.
PS, Don, you’re lucky because of all of Exelon’s nukes in Illinois. Other states like Californication have sealed their doom.
Too right LQC- it’s going to be a common pattern everywhere- of increase in energy prices and not enough supply. Until they realise they need coal. It won’t be a choice. Btw, I’m all for Australia using nuclear energy- we have one of the largest reserves of Uranium anywhere in the world and our government won’t use nuclear energy. That’s how stupid our Australian Government is.
By the way, I recall hearing a story about how Israeli coal power plants emit clean waste. I think they filter the coal emissions in the chimneys. It’s very Clever.
Europe has a lot of coal reserves. I think you’re both right (LQC and Ezabelle) … We very well might see some mothballed German coal power plants fired up in the coming months.
And you’re right too, Ezabelle, there are ways to generate power from coal cleanly (some coal sources are dirtier than others) and I have faith that human ingenuity could find new ways to improve upon them fairly quickly were it a priority. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all.
We used to have a coal power plant just east of Cincinnati. It was shut down four or five years ago and was razed. It can’t be restarted. We have one left left. That plant, in Moscow Ohio was supposed to nuclear, but to such terrible construction it wasn’t finished then it was converted to coal. It will be shut down either by the end of this year or next year. Once that is gone, there will be only one left near the Indiana / Ohio border on the Ohio River. So within 5 years, we went from 3 power plants down to one, for the whole region, greater Cincinnati, sw Ohio, SE Indiana and northern Ky.
Power plants razed? Talk about burning bridges! Maybe they can burn the Cuyahoga river for power?
“We very well might see some mothballed German coal power plants fired up in the coming months.”
I wonder if that will be possible. Germans tend to be very precise and broad-reaching in their efforts. Many “green” initiatives will have seen fit to “burn bridges” often; many former coal plants will likely have been not only closed, but mostly dismantled. Perhaps a shell of infrastructure or old, obsolete equipment will remain. Restoring a given plant or group of coal plants to use might be a race against oncoming cold to rebuild.
“Maybe they can burn the Cuyahoga river for power?”
Hydroelectric dams can take even longer to build than coal-fired plants, depending on location. Cold ground which imitates perma-frost can readily be almost as difficult to dig up and move as slabs of granite. Very costly too.
Actually, the Cuyahoga River comment was a joke. The Cuyahoga River caught fire back in 1969. I think it’s cleaner now, though 🙂
@JFK – list of power plants in Ohio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Ohio
You only got two nukes: Davis Besse, a B&W PWR (960 MWe) & Perry, a GE Mark 6 BWR (1231 MWe).
Lots of small MWe solar and wind that don’t work when there’s no sunshine, no wind (which is 70% of the time). Lots of mid-size methane (only one big methane plant, Hanging Rock run by Dynegy) and a few coal plants. Coal was the big producer, then the two nukes. But methane gas companies kneecapped both industries. You see, every wind and solar farm is a methane burner for spinning reserve the 70% of the time that useless, worthless renewables do nothing but sit there despoiling the environment. And who made corrupt financial dealings with methane gas providers in Ukraine? Can we say Hunter Biden, the son of environmentlist President Joe Biden? The irony of it all.