Joe Biden during his first flurry of executive orders announced that all federal vehicles will be going electric. Before I digress too far let me just mention that our esteemed Speaker of the Horses**t Pelosi’s husband actually bought stock in Tesla the week before Biden announced this new order. Can you say insider trading!! Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading.
Anyway the government is going electric. I don’t know the specifics and I don’t care, what I do know from some research will follow. Do you know what goes into making a battery for an electric car? Did you know you have to mine for them? You know actually dig a hole in the ground like you would for oil or coal? Tesla is worried that there soon will be some upcoming global shortages of minerals used to make batteries for electric cars, like nickel, copper, and lithium.
What do you need to mine for nickel, copper and lithium, heavy duty equipment, you know the kind that run on diesel fuel, oh the horror! We yet have the technology to mine for rare earth minerals with electric heavy duty equipment. So your electric car that will save the environment is built with the help of fossil fuels! Oh hell no, write your Congressman or woman, this is unacceptable! At the end there will be a huge hole in the ground that will kill the environment in the area. Wait before you go on a hunger strike why don’t you ask the folks of Alaska about the pipeline that runs from the North Slope to Valdez about the environmental impact. I will give you a hint, there is none!!
Here is my take. As of 2011 there were 254,059 vehicles owned or leased by the federal government. Now the obvious reaction would be there would be more vehicles now, ten years later. These vehicles cost tax money! Let’s say half of these vehicles are owned by the government. Let’s say they go with the electric Prius, that cost would be, 3 billion, 115 million, 386 thousand, 225 hundred dollars. How is that for your tax dollars at work! Expect tax hikes for your environmentally friendly vehicles. Before I go, don’t forget the upcoming shortage of elements for your battery operated vehicle, which will undoubtedly drive up the cost of your electric vehicle. How will you afford your electric vehicle if it costs a gas guzzling $40,000 or more, the government will, at your expense.