{"id":329358,"date":"2024-05-17T11:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329358"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:32:30","slug":"buzz-smith-snake-oil-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329358","title":{"rendered":"Buzz Smith: Snake Oil EVangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On social media, one Buzz Smith appeared, bragging about the new EV truck he had ordered. He was getting criticism, and I chimed in. The cowboy-looking fellow has his picture and \u201cGetting ready for the electric pickups!\u201d But here is his normal Facebook picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I responded how EVs had never been competitive with this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He responded: \u201cYeah, electric technology hasn\u2019t changed a bit in the last 120 years, GeeZ!\u201d To which I replied that the situation was the same now as then: relative energy density and the weight of batteries. I also shared that the average price of an EV was $55,000 versus $35,000 for a conventional vehicle with this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then replied: \u201cThe difference is the public now knows what Exxon knew in 1977, that their product was going to change the climate\u2026.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before I knew it, I was BLOCKED from his feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is Buzz Smith? Here is his profile<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buzz Smith<\/strong> is the founder of The EVangelist<\/a>. Oddly, he started his career in oil & gas. He left that industry, after ten years, during one of the many oil \u201cbusts.\u201d In 2012, his life was changed by a car accident. His car was totaled. Gasoline was expensive, so he leased a Chevy Volt. He loved it so much, he started a blog called, \u201cMy Electric Vehicle Journey<\/a>.\u201d Less than two months later, his wife Bonnie leased a Chevy Volt too. (they re-<\/em>Volted!)A year later, his Chevrolet dealership hired him as a salesperson, focusing on plug-in vehicles. For the next 6 years, Buzz was the #1 plug-in vehicle salesperson, for the entire state of Texas, with 35% of his sales being plug-in vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But funny thing: Buzz brags about \u201cNo oil to change\u201d and \u201cNo spark plugs\u201d and \u201cno Transmission fluid\u201d and \u201cregenerative brakes\u201d but does not evangelize about the 21 problems of EVs<\/a>. He is a goofball who is selling snake oil to a public that is too wise to follow his mysticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bad vibes and buzz \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On social media, one Buzz Smith appeared, bragging about the new EV truck he had ordered. He was getting criticism, and I chimed in. 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