"Fattening Frogs To Feed Snakes"! I like that! Somehow, it makes it all seem 'sinister', which all of this IS! Worst of all, this planet and it's surviving populace 25 years down the road won't even be recognizable to any sane person living in The US today. The US has become so environmentally 'clean' today (as compared to 60 years ago) that it would have been hard to imagine back then. And as clean as we have become here, you must remember that we US folks are but a TINY percentage of the worldwide polluters. As 'clean & friendly' as the US has become now-a-days, we could become a full 100% 'clean' and non-polluting, and the planet as a whole is still screwed!
When you have big, gi-hugic "C" places and "I" places (only a couple of examples) that still don't give a rat's *** about what they pollute, and that many of their promised and negotiated "clean-up" programs don't begin until about 2050, us measly 330M folks here in the US going completely clean STILL can't begin to clean-up the earth, and NOW y'all wanna begin this EV thing in earnest?
Jeez....there must be three or four other folks out there that can do this relatively simple math. I surely ain't the 'brainiest' one thinking about this. So, there MUST be some other reason that the "environmentalists" keep pushing this lunacy. I mean folks ....we're talking TRILLION$ upon trillions of dollars worth of new economy starting-out here on the ground floor. Simply start following even SOME of that money. There are obviously a lot of folks in high places that can be easily remunerated/persuaded to skew things in a certain direction. Many of you have heard me ranting more than once about big business and their infatuation with the 'hereafter'. You can't EVER lose sight of the fact that it is ONLY our money that they are HERE AFTER.
Another thing to consider, especially now that it has become clear that Elon plans to build plants in India & China where I'm pretty sure he hopes (plans) to sell gazillions of electric cars. Both countries have a combined total of roughly 2.7BILLION people. Lots of potential car sales there...AND re-charging of batteries. And where the false environmental impact comes in is that BOTH countries have extremely high-emission power grids that are highly dependent on coal. It IS gonna pollute significantly to charge all of those lithium battery packs, day after day, after day, and on and on! There are NO FREE lunches. But SOMEONE(s) is makin' some dough, yeah baby!
I still have a hard time trying to imagine how that great big, beautiful state way over there by the Pacific Ocean is going to manage to re-charge all those millions and millions of ADDITIONAL batteries every evening, when even today WITHOUT that extra load, you can't be sure that there will even be electricity available at all to power your refrigerators and TV sets at any given moment.
Today, the majority of lithium is extracted via ore mining or salt deserts. Australia, Argentina, China & Chile hold the largest reserves of lithium worldwide. Rant over! DD
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