The future is electric cars! Except, they aren’t.
California is looking to get rid of all diesel and gasoline-powered cars. But the state’s electrical grid can’t even handle the present load. California expects to experience blackouts or brownouts by 2025. It is a George Jetson-esque flying car fiction to add a million Ecars. This will invariably result in more and longer blackouts.
Another myth about electric cars is the fact that they are manufactured with huge quantities of raw material. This was mined using diesel-driven machinery and slave labor.
Notwithstanding the dream that E-Cars are produced in Santa’s magic workshop, they are not. All the minerals and other elements required for E-Car batteries have been stripped-mined. Liberals happily drive their E cars while scolding truck drivers, almost certainly never consider the environmental and human cost of the battery powered “clean vehicles.” Almost all of the known deposits of cobalt are found in the Congo. These raw materials are harvested by slaves/children laborers. Conditions for miners can be very harsh to almost humane.
China holds the lead in graphite, lithium. E-Car battery manufacturers will need to import most of their lithium, and all of its graphite. What is the CCP doing to get these elements from the ground? Thanks to a Uyghur slav. China has hundreds, if not thousands of workers who are forced to work in mining. Xinjiang Nonferrous Metal Industry, a mining firm that employs hundreds of Uyghur workers in its mines, is a giant. An electric car? Thanks to a slave.
The EV battery is a labor slave in the sense that it must be removed after its useful life. Slave owners disappear. With batteries, the “experts” envision a recycling process by which used EV batteries are completely recycled but we are nowhere near that stage yet. At present, the cost to recycle exceeds the cost of pulling the elements out of the ground, so the need for slave labor will continue for the foreseeable future. But good news — the most “efficient” EV battery recycler is located in China.
The next time an EV owner lectures you about your gas-guzzling car, ask them — have they thanked a slave lately?
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