The Problems with Electric Vehicles

Some of us have known this for a long time. It’s Time To Admit It: EVs Are EVIL

They are the ones responsible for raping the planet, poisoning entire communities, enriching genocidal tyrants, and creating a massive hazmat problem while doing nothing to stop “climate change.”

Does that sound harsh?

Here’s one recent bit of evidence. A Bloomberg investigation found that the aluminum Ford is using to build its “eco-friendly” EV pickup comes from Brazil.

“There, in the heart of the Amazon, rust-colored bauxite is being clawed from a mine that has long faced allegations of pollution and land appropriation,” it found

There is more.

Slave labor in China, Congo, Indonesia, Iran, and other countries that produce batteries or their components. EVs are not zero emissions. And then there is the environmental devastation of lithium mining, or other heavy metals, and the poisoning of communities and waterways.

Ronald Stein noted that “you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery.”

Oh, and the areas of Indonesia where the nickle comes from are especially bad.

There is more, including the problems with recycling electric batteries. (Hat tip to J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ.)