I noticed on a show that has pushed ICE FUD and tried to for instance criticize Tesla pulling a market average F150 up a hill backwards that the show was suddenly defending ICE saying it would continue to be around. I'll go through some of its claims because they are telling.
It tried to say the weight and volume of batteries mean they take up too much space in vehicles. Does a Tesla look like it has more room or less room in it after all the ICE junk is yanked out. It tried to say this means batteries can't be used for bigger vehicles like a semi, again clearly not true. There are already battery powered ferries, electric full locomotives that even on lead acid run 24 hrs on a charge and have way less down time than regular locomotives- been around since 2009, and aroudn since WWI before that.
It talked about carrying around all that battery weight and volume. But think about the 5+ swimming pools of weight and volume of gasoline that has to be carted all over the world before to gasoline car over its life and all the waste that entails.
It tried to act like its just all down to consumer choice. Clearly that is not the case and even if it were the public prefers BEVs now. It tried to bring up the cheap gas gaff or in this case moderate priced gas. Noticed Ellen Wald saying well that bit of fossil fuel industry delusion has been debunked because of the Tesla share price rocketed in the face of artificially low retail gasoline. It tried to cite studies that 2 billion ICE engines would be made between now and 2040 so we might as well improve them and tried to imply that 10% gains in ICE would be reasonable over that period. And at that point it was pure paid shill stuff for Mazda in this case. It also tried to say profit was the most important unquestionable motive. Again not true.
There was no citing that electric is 7x more efficient and requires much less maintenance and will last 5x longer meaning 5x less vehicles or in addition to carting around 5 swimming pools of fuel its 4 extra cars worth of parts that don't have to be carted around and their 5x pools of gasoline each to be hauled all over the globe. And the immediate impact under self driving EV may be closer to a 10-18x reduction in cars on the road. And its all that energy we don't have to spend trying to get all that carbon back out of the air or that cancer causing pollution out of our drinking and agricultural waters.
It tried to say if you live in an apartment EV is not as convenient. That is simply not true all else considered especially in light of savings and maintenance. It also tried to say EVs had to be 48K or more to make a profit. And that EVs were 16K more expensive to make than ICE. None of that is true as Tesla proves.
The important thing now is the FUD has switched phases. We've moved out of the BEV ridicule phase to the ICE defense phase. That is a sea change. This is Sophenhauer's first they ridicule, then violently oppose, and then say it was obvious all along.
I'd also like to point out what the negative goodwill of the usual suspects creates. Let us say that the global population has suddenly switched to being vegan organic- a great climate anti war choice. Do they want to buy their produce from Phillip Morris and Oscar Meyer? Do they even trust the purveyors of chemical laced meats and tobacco? Would they want to buy their food from Merc? Would they fell comfortable if Merc had bought Hershies or Mars candies? No, they'd wonder about the accuracy of the labels and they'd be looking for strange new drug like additives in the candies. And they also think of these oldsters with a taint as if Magnavox or RCA was supposed to make a good smart phone. They also remember exploding Pintos and a big 3 that opposed seat belts and air bags and opposed lemon laws and sold disposable cars that decreased in quality over years to a total reliability crisis in the 70s and 80s and which had rivers so polluted he caught fire and which has gone bankrupt and had to be bailed out multiple times and which blames its unions for its failures but does massive layoffs in the face of stock buy backs.
But I think we can all agree hydrogen is still super stupid for transport and sourcing it from fossil fuels in a long tail pipe scam should be illegal. It is also stupid for energy unless we are talking fusion.
Also noticed Charlie Munger going through a lot of rhetoric saying Musk convinced people he could cure cancer (veiled assertion of fraud) and that he Munger would never short Tesla, which I think may be technically true but the opposite of what his group has actually done. I've long suspected its Buffet and his group behind the shorts to a large degree. I think you can lump Buffet, Gates, Charles Koch and Hillary in the same group, you can throw Biden and Burisma in that group too. But this group is expiring just in time. Maybe the unraveling tax havens will catch them up before they make it out the door linking them to Epstein, Madoff, Lay and others in the history books. Fraud Inc is on the defensive.
It tried to say the weight and volume of batteries mean they take up too much space in vehicles. Does a Tesla look like it has more room or less room in it after all the ICE junk is yanked out. It tried to say this means batteries can't be used for bigger vehicles like a semi, again clearly not true. There are already battery powered ferries, electric full locomotives that even on lead acid run 24 hrs on a charge and have way less down time than regular locomotives- been around since 2009, and aroudn since WWI before that.
It talked about carrying around all that battery weight and volume. But think about the 5+ swimming pools of weight and volume of gasoline that has to be carted all over the world before to gasoline car over its life and all the waste that entails.
It tried to act like its just all down to consumer choice. Clearly that is not the case and even if it were the public prefers BEVs now. It tried to bring up the cheap gas gaff or in this case moderate priced gas. Noticed Ellen Wald saying well that bit of fossil fuel industry delusion has been debunked because of the Tesla share price rocketed in the face of artificially low retail gasoline. It tried to cite studies that 2 billion ICE engines would be made between now and 2040 so we might as well improve them and tried to imply that 10% gains in ICE would be reasonable over that period. And at that point it was pure paid shill stuff for Mazda in this case. It also tried to say profit was the most important unquestionable motive. Again not true.
There was no citing that electric is 7x more efficient and requires much less maintenance and will last 5x longer meaning 5x less vehicles or in addition to carting around 5 swimming pools of fuel its 4 extra cars worth of parts that don't have to be carted around and their 5x pools of gasoline each to be hauled all over the globe. And the immediate impact under self driving EV may be closer to a 10-18x reduction in cars on the road. And its all that energy we don't have to spend trying to get all that carbon back out of the air or that cancer causing pollution out of our drinking and agricultural waters.
It tried to say if you live in an apartment EV is not as convenient. That is simply not true all else considered especially in light of savings and maintenance. It also tried to say EVs had to be 48K or more to make a profit. And that EVs were 16K more expensive to make than ICE. None of that is true as Tesla proves.
The important thing now is the FUD has switched phases. We've moved out of the BEV ridicule phase to the ICE defense phase. That is a sea change. This is Sophenhauer's first they ridicule, then violently oppose, and then say it was obvious all along.
I'd also like to point out what the negative goodwill of the usual suspects creates. Let us say that the global population has suddenly switched to being vegan organic- a great climate anti war choice. Do they want to buy their produce from Phillip Morris and Oscar Meyer? Do they even trust the purveyors of chemical laced meats and tobacco? Would they want to buy their food from Merc? Would they fell comfortable if Merc had bought Hershies or Mars candies? No, they'd wonder about the accuracy of the labels and they'd be looking for strange new drug like additives in the candies. And they also think of these oldsters with a taint as if Magnavox or RCA was supposed to make a good smart phone. They also remember exploding Pintos and a big 3 that opposed seat belts and air bags and opposed lemon laws and sold disposable cars that decreased in quality over years to a total reliability crisis in the 70s and 80s and which had rivers so polluted he caught fire and which has gone bankrupt and had to be bailed out multiple times and which blames its unions for its failures but does massive layoffs in the face of stock buy backs.
But I think we can all agree hydrogen is still super stupid for transport and sourcing it from fossil fuels in a long tail pipe scam should be illegal. It is also stupid for energy unless we are talking fusion.
Also noticed Charlie Munger going through a lot of rhetoric saying Musk convinced people he could cure cancer (veiled assertion of fraud) and that he Munger would never short Tesla, which I think may be technically true but the opposite of what his group has actually done. I've long suspected its Buffet and his group behind the shorts to a large degree. I think you can lump Buffet, Gates, Charles Koch and Hillary in the same group, you can throw Biden and Burisma in that group too. But this group is expiring just in time. Maybe the unraveling tax havens will catch them up before they make it out the door linking them to Epstein, Madoff, Lay and others in the history books. Fraud Inc is on the defensive.
