EPA Is Ignoring the Glaring Problem with very Dirty Electric Vehicles

Western government efforts to ban fossil fuel powered vehicles and force electric vehicles are the worst kind of socialist central planning! The Soviet Union died, but the socialist Western countries live on! There is no justification for this massive government intervention!

The Global Warming hoax and the Climate Change religion is the greatest scam/scandal perpetrated in our lifetime!

"... The EPA justifies its proposed rule on the grounds of what it refers to as a climate change “threat.” Under the explicit assumptions and estimated effects asserted by the EPA in the proposed rule, the temperature effect of the rule in 2100 would be about 0.023°C. This is calculated applying the EPA’s own climate model under assumptions that exaggerate the future effects of reduced emissions of greenhouse gases. ...

As a crude generalization, EV batteries weigh a half ton or more. Each contains roughly 30 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of cobalt, 130 pounds of nickel, 190 pounds of graphite, 90 pounds of copper and about 400 pounds of steel, aluminum and plastics. ...
the amount of mining needed to produce these quantities for a single EV battery. By ... estimate, each battery requires the extraction of 20,000 pounds of lithium brines, 60,000 pounds of cobalt ore, 10,000 pounds of nickel ore, 2,000 pounds of graphite ore and 12,000 pounds of copper ore. ...
“The variables and uncertainties in emissions from energy-intensive mining and processing of minerals used to make EV batteries are a big wild card in the emissions calculus,” ..."

EPA Is Ignoring the Glaring Problem with Dirty Electric Vehicles | American Enterprise Institute - AEI The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) has launched a new regulatory effort to force a massive transportation shift to electric vehicles (EVs) with its proposed “multi-pollutant emissions standards” for light- and medium-duty vehicles beginning with model year 2027.