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We were promised cheaper energy. Nothing is cheaper about renewables, and the costs grow ~3% per year. To say nothing of the raw materials demand, requirement of fossil fuels to develop and use 'renewables' and the cost to replace such equipment. For example, battery replacement for EV are outside of affordability for the mass market. And of course, there is the inescapable long term problem of 250MM electric vehicles requiring charge when we're already telling people that they can't charge their EV due to grid constraints. The inconvenient truth is this; there isn't enough raw material on earth to electrify all transportation, upgrade the entire national grid (every line, every transformer, every substation) to meet the demand that an total EV conversion demands, not for 30 years and definitely not by 2030. Saying otherwise is simple wishful thinking. My apologies in advance for offending the perpetual victims in the church of climatology.


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