Sometimes, you have to step back from the news, give it a long look from a good distance, and ask yourself – what am I seeing? Sometimes what you see is like re-looking an impressionistic painting, flower garden, or square of a house – completely different, more accurate.
So, here we go. We get a daily dose of “everything must go electric or we die,” including cars, buses, scooters, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, gas stoves, planes, trains, and you name it. In dozens of areas, we are told to accept fear and cede personal decision-making.
Not answered are simple questions that trouble an uncongested mind. Where does all the electricity come from? If 85 percent is from the grid, running on fossil fuel, isn’t all this hurry-up-and-convert self-defeating, costly and nonsensical?
Is it not unwise to concentrates power dependence – for everything from travel to heat – on one highly vulnerable, often overstressed, potentially collapsible power grid?
More to the point, if gas vehicles go faster and farther, why would consumers – or businesses – ever want to adopt the slower, less reliable, more costly way to get around?
If electric vehicles have big range and power limits, running out of in odd places, how will Americans – who travel thousands of miles in a go – feel about losing that right?
How will anyone reliably recharge electric batteries with few places, worse 40-50 hours needed on some chargers, two hours for plug-in hybrids – most idiosyncratic; one size does not fit all?
If American cars were all electric, everyone forced to accept delays, massive federal spending to distort the consumer market for gas cars, how would that change physics – time needed to charge, limits on power retention, thus endless vehicle lines?
If the goal is to keep the sky from falling, or the climate from changing – that is, to do for God what He apparently cannot do for Himself – how does making America’s vehicles all slower, less reliable, and harder to charge (the “pedal and putter” model) change 1.4 billion other gas cars?
Think basic economics. If America swears off gas, oil, and diesel, freeing up fossil fuels for the world, what does that do to the price of fossil fuels? Their abundance and market economics will make gas-powered cars “the thing,” cheaper everywhere in the world. China will just love it.
Now, think public safety. What happens when electric school busses, ambulances, fire engines, police cruisers, and God forbid tanks, poop out mid-mission? What happens when refrigerated trucks, carrying most of the nation’s produce and medicines, zonk, go dead? So do people.
What happens – in short – when a clutch of misguided, Henny Penny federal bureaucrats, running around like hysterical chickens, egged on by Marxist Democrats, sideline consumers? What happens – beyond no baby formula, insulin, and unanswered 911s – when China laughs?
Pivot. This is happening in hundreds of areas, but let’s talk gas stoves, which the Biden crowd want to mandate we cannot buy. Beyond being textbook Marxism, this notion is absurd, physically and politically dangerous.
Natural gas stoves are owned by half the nation, used daily because they are more practical, effective, and reliable, especially when electricity fails. With no policy argument to support them, we are told we must abort them. Why? And why is that not our decision?
Allies and adversaries see this is another fear-based, power grab – at best imagining goodness from gobbledygook, another usurpation of power from the People. Most Americans know it too.
In the end, what this federal overreach – hundreds of new regulations – translates to is a federal campaign to sell fear to concentrate power, aided by media, social media, some in Congress.
The wise citizen thinks about the coincidence of so many fear marketing campaigns, pushing people to accept unlimited federal power, environmental dictates that usurp longstanding property rights, defunding police which endangers citizens, pushing transgender policies that kill girls’ sports, equal protection and Title IX rights, biological uniqueness, privacy, and safety.
Why is this happening? Because the left wants one-party rule, to work their will, delegitimizing dissent and transferring power from the People to the State; because foreign powers see internal divisions as a zero-sum game, an opportunity for them; and because fear grows like a forest fire.
Bottom line: What we are witnessing is an attempt to normalize hysteria, fear sown by those who profit from panic, believing Americans will cede their rights – at home and abroad – in the face of threats and cajoling, speech chilled, delf-doubt instilled, become controllable, fearful.
Is that us? Is that who we are? Is that what Americans do, lose their nerve and liberties when told to be fearful? Do we allow domestic or foreign influences to scream “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” – and join or follow Chicken Little? Do we concede, surrender, and hide?
Answer: Never. That is not our M.O., not our history, not the DNA of any liberty-loving people. We are kept free by retaining our own decisions, the right to be wrong and learn from it. Giving in to fear on any level, for any reason is not us – and one more thing: Hysteria is never normal.
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, former Reagan and Bush 41 White House staffer, attorney, and naval intelligence officer (USNR). He wrote “Narcotics and Terrorism” (2003), “Eagles and Evergreens” (2018), and is National Spokesman for AMAC.
Government is always at the root of anything mismanaged, especially energy. Requiring an all electric nation without sufficient electrical grid is typical of government’s ignorance on how things work. Government is really good at mandates but are totally inept at cutting environmental red tape to inable companies to invest.
Here in California democrats are pushing electric cars and then telling people not to charge them. Companies cannot/will not build a single power plant because those same environmental hacks that want green energy won’t allow new plants to be built. Instead the new energy policy is cut back your usage or they’ll do it for you. Increasing electricity use without adding new electric infrastructure will turn off the lights in this democrat utopia.
I shared this article on FB. It was flagged as hate speech. Now I ask you, as my privacy settings are set as friends only how do these creeps even see my posts
You English grammar is absolutely atrocious. It is actually painful to read some of your articles, and I cannot endure reading entire articles. Please hire people who actually know the English language to write your articles correctly, instead of subjecting readers to this abominable illiteracy.
One cannot apply logic to illogical situations…
Your article is excellent, except for two glaring errors. Electric cars are not slower and less reliable than ICE cars. They are faster and way more reliable. We definitely need to move more slowly in the elimination of fossil fuels. But we do not need erroneous articles, that will only give ammunition to the other side.
If the anti-carbon crowd had been around in the early 20th century, we would be knee deep in horse poop now.
This kind of insanity to convert to everything electric is why we never should ever let democrats be in charge again. Period. They can easily screw up anything they touch! They play in their “sand box”, conjuring up stupid ideas that go nowhere. The only thing that I can reason why the liberal left wants this to happen, no electricity, is to push the lame brain idea of the “New Green Deal”, total insanity. If allowed to continue, America will be no more, taken over by morons that haven’t got a clue!
Good article. The TRUTH. Kyle L.
NO Nuclear=No electric
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Robert thank you for this article. You point out all the correct points as to why this so called “green deal” will not work. Not in a short time. You cannot cut off fossil fuel and turn on the switch to electric when the grid is insufficient to handle all this.
We out west have no power loading stations and they don’t make extension cords long enough yet to go for a 1000 miles. I am being facetious but I am just trying to point out that this whole “green deal” is not workable in the short term. We are not even a quarter of the way to switch off fossil fuels.
And all these so called e cars with their rare metals batteries, is creating more pollution than extracting oil. The democrats are putting the cart before the horse. And they really are not for saving the environment they want to have control power over the people as decreed by the WEF and Klaus Schwab.
These Marxists try to portray all-electric as some kind of magic potion. They never want people to ask “Where does the electricity come from?” “Where do the parts for electric batteries and windmills come from?” You will leave a bigger carbon footprint using EVs than you do with your gas or diesel car once you know the answers to the above questions!
Few places to recharge batteries and no place to put them when they die. Landfills I guess. Scary.
We need Nuclear energy plants. But it’s easier for many corrupt politicians to line their pockets off of Solar Panels and Wind Farms.
Does anyone else wonder how much of our electric system is owned by the Chinese…just saying
You should send this article to all the Republican candidates to quote from at their election rallies. This is great!
Robert I agree with you, who will help us, we are being invaded to boot. We know what is wrong. We can’t win an election, we can’t even defend ourselves unless the bad guy is already in our house, we are white, Anglo and every thing we believe in is racist. After we completely surrender to these nincompoops who will take care of us? Answer: nobody! We can still fight, but no leaders, “who will bell the cat?”
Why isn’t our President transported in electric vehiciles ? Why don’t those who want us to drive electric vehicles “lead by example” ?
It’s simple! biden “thinks” he’s smart and you see his arrogance on tv. Truth be told he is PITUS but a STUPID one at that. If he’s
Not a puppet he sure has No qualms about sinking America.Obviously Trump is our saving grace so the democrats do all they can to destroy him. I don’t see it since we have no leadership but we need a full blown Revolution just like the Colonists against King George. If we had a leader I’d sure be in to save this Country and its constitution. Communism isn’t my cup of tea. God help us.
I will NEVER buy an electric car…and Biden can kiss my butt. I do have electric stove but that is my choice not his. The old man needs to be in a home for the dementia patients. Jill Biden should be ashamed of herself for even pushing him.
Watch the Tesla Investor Day presentation where the Electrification of the World is described. This will lead to prosperity and abundance. The main problem with renewables is grid storage and stabilization. Solutions have been proposed that are very practical.
And how are we going to produce more electricity???? The DC Dems want to end ALL use of fossil fuel which is the best way to create more electric power. There is no way we are ready to use only solar or wind power to handle all the electricity we will need to power this country. It is shameful that this current regime is purposely destroying our country as we knew it. We are now weak and the laughing stock of the etire world. And now ashamed of the deep corruption among our presidet and his family. We need to get these evil so-called leaders OUT and start will new, younger people who love our country and will not put money above our country.
All electric vehicles should be destroyed, hybrids are okay. The crazies in CA should all be made to walk to work (that is if they even work, which most of the woke freako’s don’t)
Climate change, global warming, etc. is and always has been a money making scheme for the elitists freaks , who by lying, LYING, have been creating fear in the dope heads and other transgender nutcases, and it backed by the bottom-feeding Nazi satanist George Soros (traitor to the USA)
STOP this craziness use oil, gas, coal its pollutes less then batteries & windmills (FACT) Why do you think the Chinese and people of India are laughing their asses off at how stupid we are in destroying our country.
That’s why FOX traitor news took Tucker off the Air because they caved to the Chinese, the elitists, and the leftist Marxists, he was one of the few to tell it like it is, (the truth) especially about Jan.6th , that was an opportunity to join in by the millions and take our country back for FREEDOM!!!
Unfortunately we had to listen to the traitorous committee lie about them and let the guards beat and torture those patriots. Never in the History of this country have prisoners ever been treated so badly and still we did not rise up by the millions and stop these Marxist, leftist, demoncrats control it all. In New York alone we have a traitorous district attorney who lets murderers and rapists go free.
Every so often, and it seems observers are seeing them more in recent years. What are they? Electromatic pulses from the Sun which interfere with everything electronic depending on how strong they are. We were lucky early in March when the Sun expelled a huge one that erupted on the side of the Sun away from us that scientists say could have been bigger than the Carrington event of 1859. Last year a big burst passed on our orbital path minutes before we reached that point. So what’s the big deal? Today with the majority of everything in some way tied to electrical or electronics, a EMP hitting the Earth could/would destroy so much electrical and electronic infrastructure we would be literally back to the mid 1800s for possibly a long time before things can be repaired/replaced. City water, lights, gas pumps, checkout registers at stores, and yes, your computerized car would be fried. No AC, no cook stove – even gas ones since the gas delivery system is computer controlled. If you own a charcoal/wood grill or have a fireplace, you would still be able to cook food – until you hunt or grow some once your pantry supply runs out. I’ve been watching some videos on You Tube about cooking in the early 1800s, before wood burning cook stoves, open hearth cooking and they are interesting. Oh, no refrigerators either unless a propane one will work.
None of this garbage about EV’s has anything to do with saving energy, saving the evrironment, or benefiting Americans in any way. The demo/socialists don’t give a hoot about any of that. It is all about the globalist goal of bringing America down in every capacity and building back socialist. It’s about control. If you have a car than can’t go 200 miles from home, needs almost constant charging from chargers that don’t exist, you are more easily controlled by the coming socialist government. The people in the WEF are evil and controlled by Satan. This is the goal of Loopy Joe and the rest of the democrats in Washington.
This is a very well written article that summarizes the fear tactics being used by the far left to ruin this country. The entire Climate Change and Zero Emissions agenda is nonsensical, impractical and dangerous to this country. It is built on a false pretense that the USA all by itself can save the world from Climate Change. The goal of eliminating fossil fuels and going all electric is idiotic. It makes no sense as we do not have the technology to make electric vehicles as practical or convenient as gas powered vehicles. We are at least 25 years away from that happening. We live in a house entirely dependent on electricity and have suffered a number of electric outages over the years. It’s no fun. I have a propane grill to cook in an emergency and have looked into a backup generator which at this time is cost prohibitive.This so called Green Strategy is idiocy on steroids and fentanyl! Anything that grows the government and takes away our rights as consumers away should be discarded to the scrapheap of moronic thinking.
As difficult as this is to write, I am to a point where I think I need a GUN, with ONE BULLET.
If MR. T actually escapes the grip of the bottom-feeding Nazi satanist George Soros (traitor to the USA) we might not need the bullet, But if That Idiot Old man beden is reelected in 2024 it will be time for the Revolution. Hell I would vote for Obamma at this point just to get these thieves and criminals out of DC. Obamma did not care one ounce who the VP was back in the day, because he made no room for one at the top. I doubt they ever sat down and had a cup of tea together. This administration is doing all it can in the time remaining to destroy undermine defeat and cause as much damage to the institutions we hold dear in America as they can while time lasts and no one is calling them on it. I thought Hilly was the biggest crook but this bunch has taken the trophy. What is so amazing is that so many people see nothing wrong with what beden and CO. are doing.
Just think the Indy 500 now called the biden 50 will have crews to change out batteries good job Potus!!
Another great article Mr Charles. I can’t believe I’m telling you this but here goes. For the last 5 years I lave lived off grid. My home might not be much to look at but it gets better everyday. I don’t have a TV or the power to run it , nor do I want to watch the stuff on there but I do miss my weather man. He is the greatest I’ve ever seen. I also make my own fuel for my car. It cost me about .10 cents a gallon. I live on social insecurity and I get by. Not bad for 73 years on this planet. I grow a garden, love my veggies and chicken eggs. Not exactly what I was planning for retirement. You know something I haven’t had a misstep in my electrical yet. My children used to call and check on me after a snow or ice storm. Now they call and ask me how I’m doing. I will probably never go back to the grid. Still planning on doing other things to build a better quality of life for myself and others. Life truly is great and I’m grateful for every day. May you have a blessed day.
But those who are pushing this ‘green’ agenda don’t care about any of us or our needs! I truly believe that Soros, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and environmentalists like Al Gore, etc. have invested heavily in companies that will profit nicely from this agenda and that’s the reason for their push!! It has nothing to do with the planet or the environment! When Democrats are involved, it’s always about money!!!
There’s a solution to all of this BS, and it’s called Civil disobedience. I’m not talking disobedience like the left wing Democrats where we burn down our own towns. No, I’m talking simply do not comply…continue buying gas burning stoves, continue buying dishwashers that use more than 2.5 gallons of water per load and continue buying gas combustion engines in our automobiles. When they push back, and they will…that’s when we take to the streets and yell from the roof top’s demanding our voices be heard.
Of course we should already be doing that and we’re not, so disregard everything I just said. Continue being sheep led to slaughter by a shepherd that’s enriching himself and his family by selling you to the big bad wolf.
The Left is a body of ideological lunatics who worship the “idea” but not the reality of their demented programs. Ask yourself, what will provide the necessary power to produce this abundance of electricity, is it coal, oil, nuclear, or Gas?
The batteries used in electric vehicles are limited and known to catch on fire. These limited cars are very expensive as well.
These jackals are doing this in the of “climate change”. The climate is always changing it’s dynamic, not static and it has four seasons.
The counterfeit president, dummy Joe is relaying this madness from his faceless controllers who belong in a rubber room on a remote island.
What we will have; are no air conditioners, gas stoves, washing machines, or dishwashers and Gas vehicles.
Are these Fascists going to due without ? not likely it is only for the peons.
This was a very well written article. It’s all about power and I’m not talking about electricity. It’s political power, pure socialism at it’s best coming from our supposed representatives. They keep moving us toward a “One World Government.” But they keep getting re-elected election after election. We don’t demand they listen to us but blindly let them do our thinking for us. So whose to blame? We can continue to cry on social media or take back our rights by contacting our political leaders. Let them know what we want, demand to know how they will vote on bills. Get busy people while you still have the right. Attend local, county, state and federal meetings. Get involved!
In the end, when the leftist have won and the country has turned to a third world shitehouse it will be electricity that saves us… as we will be able self-terminate with current. (sarcasm)
not just cooking, but what about gas heating? these people have not one lick of sense.
The younger generation has been fed these lies in the schools systems and colleges. The fear has been placed in their hearts and minds that the earth is on a path to a terrible end. they feel the need to sacrifice anything to “save the planet”. There is no logical debate, the globalist leaders and scientists are making millions with this green energy agenda. they must keep the fear gooing in order to keep the money rolling in. The younger people peretty much believe what they see on the internet. That is their world and that is their “reality”. It’s a shame they can’t see the truth, and it’s a waste of their money and qualtiy of life as their sacrifice.
I guarantee that the ones pushing all this crap, are going to continue using gas cars, stoves, their private Jets, etc. Imagine them in their electric airplane and the batteries go dead in mid air. Nice thought, lol.
Could this all be shoving this nation into submission? Reduce Americans to obedient serfs…like Cuba, China, Russia…? Anyone remember George Bush Sr’s presidential acceptance speech? “We must usher in the New World Order.” How many millions of acres of farmland have been taken out of production in the last 2 years alone? The attack on our oil along with denying permits to drill…pushing electric cars while big city grids are questionable at best? Deliberate inflation…empty shelves, skyrocketing prices…and remember before the last “election”? Gas prices about $2.00, plenty of food, products, freedom to go where you pleased, a closed border and on and on…although the “serf” thing could backfire…oh, that’s the whole attack on our Second Amendment…
What will Congress do! They will continue to have luxuries while we have nothing! The Republicans aren’t fighting for the people. Fed up!
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My biggest concern with Green deal is the large parcels of land that are turned over to wind & solar panel farms. The USA has been on top of producing food supply to make America great & more and more of the farmland is being bought & taken out of food supply chain.
The push for going all electric on the basis of eliminating oil, coal and gas is a very costly act of futility. If it turns out that oil is abiotic, which there is a lot of evidence it is, the Earth can continue to provide reasonably costing power fuel while we advance into solar and other sources of energy at a rational pace. Only fools rush into things. Just ask all of the dead birds and bats and beached marine life that has been harmed by solar and wind energy sources.
If I could give the author a huge hug, I would do it! This so succinctly tells us what’s going on, why it is wrong and wholly unAmerican, and how we have to fight back. Being fearful and going along has never helped anyone. Being fearful and standing up – doing what is right and saving our society is mandatory.
Thank you for an insightful article that tells it like it is!
If you have eyes to see, it is so obvious that the radical socialist/Marxists want to destroy everything that has made our country great and independent. Just a note about the limits of electric vehicles, a friend has an electric car that he won’t drive far in very cold weather because of charging issues. Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it. The left’s attempts at this knee jerk “calamity” reaction to go all electric would be comical if it weren’t so serious. The next time you confront a “climate change” fanatic, just ask how long it will take to turn this climate change around and you will likely get a blank look or the standard, “we have to do something” response. “You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t”……OK, that may not be true of the socialist/Marxist crowd. However, so far their plan seems to be working.
Hooray for a well written and sensible article. Now how do we get these notions across to the powers that be?
Actually, I believe it’s pretty basic, look what we’ve done to Bud Light lol. Stick together and boycott their demands and they will not have a choice.They will have to listen.
The end game is to control people’s movements. The British tough guy actor Ray Milland in his twilight years made a campy move relevant to this issue. “Panic in the Year Zero.” Straight arrow white collar executive type law abiding mild mannered citizen and family man, Mr. Milland’s character takes charge of the situation when the USA endures nuclear attack. With a ’55 Chevy Bel Air big block motored gas guzzling muscle car polluter towing a trailer packed full of guns and military survival gear he shepherds the family and associates past devastation, outrunning looters and barreling past outlaw motorcycle gangs often in askance of “the law” but eventually is deputized and aligns with a doctor.to reestablish the rule of law and civilization. The point is that his journeys and feats of derring do would not be possible in an electric vehicle in need of a recharge after a short trip, unable to crash through road blocks and too slow to out run pursuers, especially towing that trailer laden with assault rifles and such. Oh, and he used some siphoned gas to alight a fire to break through a barracade. An ev would sputter trying any of that. Get on the train or bus to the FEMA camp gun free zone after turning over your weapons. The government will save you.
I will look as an electric car when it is powered by an ON BOARD nuclear generator.
The one thing that people are almost completely forget about is that even electrical driving things need products derived from fossil fuels.
Moving parts will still need lubricants made from fossil fuels, even synthetic lubricants.
Think of all of the plastics in the products, They come from fossil fuels.
All of the wire insulation come from fossil fuels.
If the seats are not cotton, wool, or leather, they were made from fossil fuels.
As fossil fuel production is reduced, it will also cause an increase in the produces made from them.
If all fossil fuel production is stopped, what are we going to use in replacement?