Road Trip Cost Comparisons
leahy.substack.com
For American readers:
A new analysis from American consumer insights company JD Power finds that EVs are cheaper to own over five years in nearly all U.S. states, saving drivers more than $3,000 on average or upwards of $8,000 in some states.
https://substack.com/@jacksondamian/p-148002958 Selected quotes from this excellent essay.
"This phoney promotion of an EV revolution is the technological poster-child for ‘net-zero by 2050’, the strategy, also set in 2015, supposed to prevent us exceeding a 1.5°C (above pre-industrial) global temperature rise by 2100.
The industry forecaster ‘Future Market Insights’ predicts further massive growth in these numbers, including, crucially for the fossil-fuel VIO, the used car, repairs and parts sectors (virtually all ICEs), due to double again by 2033."
Plus of course, there are the several trillion dollars the oil industry makes from fuelling ICEs and at least another trillion in the auto insurance and finance sectors and more still in infrastructure, auto-racing, advertising and embedded auto-journalism.
More than a hundred million work more or less directly in the auto sector and many millions more livelihoods depend on these people,
Even most of those paying attention are enmeshed, practically and psychologically, in the delusional narrative of a techno-future powered by ‘renewables’.
"the fantasy of a ‘transition’ to EVs sustains nothing except the auto industry. It’s not the only human activity we need to drastically reduce, but it is a significant one; doing so would represent our species taking this threat seriously at last."