The Hybrid and Electric Car Hoax

Gas prices are not high, the problem is that the dollar is worth about half what it was 10-15 years ago and the American citizen doesn't care as long as the government does not call it inflation or talk about it too much. This is the old "we are the center of the universe and a 'murican dollar is a dollar by gawd" syndrome. Instead of fixing the problem, we are being sold another load of crap in the form of hybrid/electric cars. Pound per pound they are horribly worse than regular gas cars. If a miracle happened and over night cars ran on no fuel at all, the dollar would still be nearly worthless, in fact all other things being equal, the surplus of dollars would make them worth even less. But back to the hybrid hype and how we'll lose tuns of money and cover the earth with burnt our battery packs.

If you like power blackouts, you are going to love electric and hybrid cars. The notion that a hybrid gets more miles per gallon is not all of the story. The most important part of the story is the cost per mile and it is being ignored and actively hidden by car makers and some green activists. The total cost of ALL the fuel burned per mile is what you will actually be paying. The miles per gallon figure on the new car windows only use "gasoline" in the mpg figure, not included is the fuel burned to charge the batteries or even the 15% by volume ethanol the get to exclude from the calculations. To a population that only cares about the car payment and has no clue what upside down means, this will be an easy scam.

The largest factors in the miles per gallon equation for electric cars is the cost of the battery and control systems and the cost and availability of the electricity. Both are very high. The battery packs cost tens of thousand of dollars in some cases and their reliability is spotty at best. The electricity it takes to charge them up is costly and will get very much higher and less available as demand increases. The power grids we have now are operating at dangerous levels in most of the country. Overloads and blackouts are already common. When people start plugging in their hybrids, we'll be setting around in the dark breathing coal smoke from the power plants running full blast sucking money out of our bank accounts trying to make up for the losses of burning something to make electricity a great deal of which is lost going through hundreds of miles of wire and dozens of transformers before heating up the wires in your house that are not big enough to carry the loads required to charge the batteries in our hybrids. So far, that delivery system is no where near as efficient per unit of power as the good old liquid fuel delivery system we have now. And gas cars don't loose their charge when they are setting still. All electrics do. Smaller, lighter, slower gas cars are a far better answer to conserving fuel than are electrics.

When everyone has their garage full of electric cars and the demand for gas goes way down, maybe I'll be filling up my trusty old truck for a nickel a gallon and making a killing hauling burnt out batteries to the land fill.