A crash test study conducted by researchers at the University of Nebraska has alarming news for the electric vehicle industry and policy makers focused on pushing cars onto consumers.of canadian press report This study reveals something that anyone who can reason critically has known for years. That means U.S. highway guardrails aren't strong enough to withstand the forces of EVs weighing 1,000 to 4,000 pounds. Better than their gas-powered counterparts.

oh. That's a problem, isn't it?

Yes, that's true, and if Biden's plan to mandate a complete conversion to EVs is ultimately successful, it will cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars to strengthen or rebuild highway guardrails over the next few years. The problem is that it will cost billions of dollars. Either we build new rails that can save the lives of these heavy EV passengers, or we keep the existing guardrails just to make us feel better, like current airport security. is.

Now, consider this. Once road designers start putting serious pressure on policy makers about the fact that the roads themselves are not designed to withstand the pressure of these heavier EVs and are being torn apart and left as they are needed. , what will happen? Will the repair or resurfacing be completed years earlier than expected?

Although some honest researchers have raised this issue in recent years, there has been little support from politicians at all levels of government. After all, addressing this very real issue would hinder their opportunity to signal their virtues, which would be very helpful in their re-election campaign.

Consider how this absolute reality will cost our society trillions of dollars in the coming decades. But we shouldn't talk about it now because politicians think it's very inconvenient.

But wait, things get even worse.

Are you aware of all the multi-storey parking garages that have been built across our society in recent decades? There are hundreds of thousands of them in the United States alone. How many concrete multi-storey parking garages do you think were built with a 6,000 pound EV in mind rather than a 3,000 pound gas car? I doubt that number would ever approach zero. mosquito?

Now, think about how it will cost our society trillions of dollars to strengthen and replace all these substandard parking lots in the name of “doing something” about climate change. .

We haven't even talked about the hundreds of thousands of bridges across the country. They all also need to be strengthened or completely rebuilt.

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Now, when you add all that up, you have to double the generation capacity of the grid, triple Doubling it would cost trillions of dollars. Other globalist elites of the past five years. (Related: David Blackmon: ExxonMobil ignites climate alarm lobby again)

Where will that money come from? All these countries that have enacted these obligations are already heavily in debt. In the United States, the federal debt already exceeds annual GDP and is increasing by tens of billions of dollars every day.

Well, that money certainly won't come from the EV industry or its drivers. Gasoline car drivers have to pay state and federal gas taxes, but EV drivers pay much less, even though their cars put far more wear and tear on roads and bridges. It is free to pass, even though gas taxes are paid for maintenance and repairs.

So how much will this subsidized energy transition actually cost in the end? One study recently put a figure of $275 trillion, but considering all the factors mentioned above, It was not done. So what is the actual number – $400 trillion? $500 trillion? Will inflation and currency devaluation mean we'll need to be talking quadrillions soon? Don't laugh – it'll come sooner than you think, too.

The globalist policymakers driving this subsidized, centrally planned transition love to talk about sustainability. But it is painfully clear that no aspect of this effort to force a transition to EVs is truly sustainable in any practical sense. It is a plan doomed to fail, and the costs will be enormous.

David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent his 40 years in the oil and gas business, specializing in public policy and communications.

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