{"id":274270,"date":"2023-08-18T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274270"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:31:35","slug":"time-to-ban-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274270","title":{"rendered":"Time to Ban\u00a0EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fremantle Highway cargo ship burns uncontrollably in the Netherlands\u2019 waters after a major fire erupted onboard. The vessel carried about 3,000 vehicles, including 25 EVs, from Bremerhaven (Germany) to Port Said (Egypt). The ship has been abandoned and is expected to sink. July 26, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Moore makes the case in his BPR article\u00a0Is it time to ban electric vehicles?.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Fire Department recently reported that\u00a0so far this year<\/strong>\u00a0there have been\u00a0108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13.<\/strong>\u00a0According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, \u201cThere is not a small amount of fire, it\u00a0(the vehicle) literally explodes.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0The resulting fire is \u201cvery difficult to extinguish and so it is particularly dangerous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only cars: Lithium bicycle batteries are responsible for 22 fires in New York, 2 deaths this year (Feb. 24, 2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last yea<\/strong>r there were more than\u00a0200 fires<\/strong>\u00a0from batteries from e-bikes, EVs and other devices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fire ignited at an e-bike shop and killed four people near midnight on the morning of June 20. Two individuals were left in critical condition. The fire commissioner has warned New Yorkers that\u00a0such devices could be very dangerous and typically explode in such a way that renders escape impossible.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FDNY also reports that in just three years,\u00a0lithium-ion battery fires have surpassed those started by cooking and smoking as the most common causes of fatal fires<\/strong>\u00a0in New York City. It\u2019s happening all over the country as these blazes have become commonplace. Cars and e-bikes are randomly blowing up in driveways and garages.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NYC going after pizza oven emissions. You\u2019d have to burn a pizza stove 849 years to equal one year of John Kerry\u2019s private jet<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now let\u2019s be honest:\u00a013 deaths in a city the size of New York<\/strong>\u00a0with some 8 million people is\u00a0hardly an epidemic.<\/strong>\u00a0Regulations should always be based on a cost versus benefit calculation, or there would be no cars at all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u00a0yet the same scaremongers on the left<\/strong>\u00a0who have zero tolerance and\u00a0want bans for small risks<\/strong>\u00a0when it comes to\u00a0everything from swimming pool diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, fireworks<\/strong>\u00a0and so on, have a surprisingly high pain threshold when it comes to people dying or suffering critical injured from \u201cgreen\u201d electric battery fires.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1960 Chevrolet Corvair<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Or consider this: In 1965,\u00a0Ralph Nader<\/strong>\u00a0almost single-handedly\u00a0helped ban the popular Chevrolet Corvair<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 famous for its engine placed in the back trunk of the car. Nader\u2019s bestselling\u00a0shock book \u201cUnsafe at Any Speed\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0declared the car was deadly. But there was no real evidence of that claim, and to this day there are no reliable statistics on how many passengers \u2014 if any \u2014 died in Corvairs from rear-end accidents.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is indisputable is that EVs will cause far more deaths than Corvairs ever did.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One other example: There have been\u00a0more fatalities in just one city in a single year<\/strong>\u00a0from lithium-ion batteries in cars\u00a0than all the people who died from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident \u2014 which was zero.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet, after the accident,\u00a0thanks to the environmentalists\u2019 fear campaign<\/strong>\u00a0(with the help of the blockbuster anti-nuke movie \u201cThe China Syndrome\u201d),\u00a0no domestic nuclear plants were built for three decades.<\/strong>\u00a0That is despite the fact that nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with EVs, the greens are pushing aside any concerns about the collateral damage of deaths and injuries.\u00a0Biden wants to mandate that nearly ALL new cars sold in the U.S. be EVs by 2032<\/strong>. If that happens, many thousands of Americans may die or will be inured from electric vehicle fires.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All this is especially hypocritical because once upon a time the\u00a0left\u2019s mantra was \u201cno trading blood for oil.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Now they are\u00a0willing to trade blood<\/strong>\u00a0in exchange for getting Americans\u00a0to stop using oil.<\/strong>\u00a0An irony of all this is that because of all the energy needed to produce windmills, solar panels and electric batteries,\u00a0new studies<\/strong>\u00a0are showing that the\u00a0reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to this \u201cnet zero\u201d transition is close to zero<\/strong>. It turns out, green energy causes some pollution, too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the record,\u00a0I\u2019m not in favor of the government banning EVs or e-bikes or just about anything<\/strong>. I just believe that we should make\u00a0policy decisions based on real and factual risk assessments, not false scares and sensationalism.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the future of EVs, maybe it\u2019s time for Ralph Nader
to write a sequel to \u201cUnsafe at Any Speed.\u201d<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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