Edit: The fear of rejection is preventing potential friendships

Edit: I got my answer pretty much. It seems she’ll avoid me throughout the day now and it’s pretty apparent she never had an interest in me. Somehow she thought I was or something. I really didn’t want to have this happen again, I don’t even try to.. but now I gotta find a way to move on…

The last woman I was interested in ended in a bad way. Feeling rejected I told myself to never get involved with anyone ever again, especially a co worker, hence my previous post was centered around a co worker who seemed to have the hots for me.

Well soon after I wrote that post I became interested. Its unclear if she is still interested or even ever was, it could have been me subconsciously trying to make it seem like she was, but maybe it’s just me interested and she’s probably just wondering why I don’t really talk like what most of the other men do there.

The biggest hurdle for me right now is the fear of being rejected again. I didn’t take it too well the last time and it’s really not fun to have to deal with it with having to see the person at work after they rejected you. So now history is repeating itself and now I have been stupid enough to get too involved where I should have been more firm with my rule, don’t date a co worker. That includes talking to them possibly sparking an infatuation with them.

I don’t know this woman’s name but I find her attractive which doesn’t help and I have been avoiding the idea of sparking a social encounter but every morning I work, I’ve been saying hi and smiling to her hoping that she’ll make the first move. It probably won’t work causing her to move on and possibly making things way too awkward and I’ll end up spiraling down even further by never getting involved with a woman.

But at the same time she seems like the type to want kids or already has one and that’s another problem, I don’t want kids. Mainly I don’t want to bring someone into this world because of all the hate, corruption, greed and high cost of living. I’m ok with adopting when I’m financially well. The fact im barely holding it together financially trying to get a new car, a 2019 or 2020 Dodge Challenger and I’ll most likely end up with the V6 3.6L version. Which is fine because I don’t need the Hemi V8 or the 800hp Dodge Demon until I’m retired anyway.

Back to this woman I’m just not sure if it’s a good idea to get involved mainly due to kids. Of course I haven’t even really talked to her because I’m too mentally unstable to deal with another rejection case. It would actually be worse if I started talking to her because I would be more likely to have an emotional bond with her and if things go south, I’ll end up with a worse psyche than I already got and with women, I’m already fractured to the point of no return. So while I’m flirting with this danger I think that if she is one of those women who will approach me it’ll be less painful, but if she forces me to try which i am trying little by little it’s already leading to problems. Other then the morning I have had no luck in trying to bump into her making it seem like this isn’t going to work.

And believe me for the most part i haven’t cared. It was until she started saying morning is when I started getting interested but anywhere else I seen her it was always stupid glances or stares. So while every morning we can say our hello, that’s about as far as I’m willing to take it unless something happens or she decides to approach me it’s unlikely we’ll even be work friends. I’m at least interested in that but if I do too much work to try to talk to her it’ll never work out because I would get too obsessed over her and right now I’m just sort of rattled but if she left today I’d be able to move on easy but most likely avoid any other interaction with other women. If she can’t help me no one else will be capable of handling the task because I’ll be putting my foot down declaring I won’t ever get involved with any woman, even if she makes very signal in the world to get me involved.

I’m just in terrible shape and getting rattled over her without even knowing her shows how bad my mental state is with women really is. I’m not ready for a relationship or dating and I’m not sure if I’m capable of a female work friend yet. Hopefully she understands it’s going to take time for me to work through this and all I can do is take it one step at a time, try to deal with day to day, not the future. If it doesn’t work out it’s more of a reason for me not to get involved with someone. We’ll see but I’m not getting my hopes up with this woman. I am not ready to go through another rejection and already it seems like she may have started to give up but for now the mornings are working well.

The best part is im working in the nearby plant so I can at least focus on trying to make myself more comfortable around her and she may feel comfortable enough to have a brief conversation if she’s really that interested. Doesn’t help that there are other women that the guys have been trying to get me to talk to awhile back but since i won’t be there for several days it might be easier to interact with her throughout the day later on.. but it’ll be difficult because these other two women are constantly around one of them keeps staring in my general location and that just is way uncomfortable and I’m trying to focus on the one i lije who looks more my age. I’m 39 and these other woman must be in their 20s. Either way I don’t have any interest in them even if the one i like doesn’t work out.

Elon Musk ignores California mandate and forces Tesla employees to come into work

Gas cars are expected to drop in price and electric vehicles will be nearly completely ignored when people get money to buy a new vehicle.

Tesla defies California’s coronavirus ‘shelter-in-place’ order, keeps factory open

So this guy is a moron. Keeping his plant open so he can continue production. It’s one thing if he was legally having the plant open but it’s another to make employees come into work while defying a closure. This type of attitude shows that this isnt a very good company. Another company Bed, Bath and Beyond is staying open despite the fact the workers dont feel safe working with the Coronavirus around.

Their solution is either come into work or get fired. This Coronavirus is no joke. Its dangerous and highly contagious with permanent damage to your lungs. If someone cares about their health they should be allowed to stay at home and be able to. Ome back to a job when its over.

Elon Musk is a problem. He tries to get these electric cars out then the environmentalists get the government to put up mandates to ban gasoline vehicles because electric cars it’s just not right. Even with all the mandates its highly unlikely it’ll go through. With the Coronavirus killing the economy and tanking the oil market gas is now low as $1 a gallon. So despite all that with less people buying cars when the economy picks back up again more than likely the new electric cars from GM, Ford and VW will be ignored. Prices for new gasoline vehicles are predicted to drop. Lower gas prices and the economy struggling to pick up its most likely the automakers will force dealers to slash prices. It may even be less expensive to build gasoline vehicles due to the fact oil prices are currently down. Auto companies would be smart to slash prices by buying more fuel than what they normally use so their trucks or what uses oil and gas will cost them less dropping the price of new vehicles.

The gas prices should stay down for awhile and hopefully stay this way when people have money to buy a new vehicle they will buy a gas powered one. Not an electric. This will hopefully stave off the electric car revolution until a more realistic solution to zero carbon emissions such as converting gas vehicles to run on hydrogen.

This has been mentioned in previous posts but there are too many reasons why electric vehicles are not good enough to replace gas.

1. Low range
2. Up to 50% loss of charge in winter
3. Takes too long to recharge
4. Not every home has an outlet to charge and most are 110v and takes over 10 hours to charge
5. Batteries only last 3-7 years (one Tesla owner had to replace his battery 3 times in 4 years every 200k)
6. Towing greatly reduces range. 400 mile range would be 120 miles. Batteries are not efficient
7. Battery replacements are over $10k, around $5k for hybrids
8. They are too expensive, the batteries alone cost a fortune
9. Accesories like radio, air conditioning, wipers, ect all drain the battery so a 300 mile range vehicle is more like 200 miles not getting thr range advertised
10. Quick charging degrades the batteries faster, those so called 30 minute chargers ruin the batteries life which only gives you 1-2 years or under 140,000 miles and again is too expensive to replace
11. Children mine cobalt (in hazardous conditions) needed to make lithium ion batteries for the EVs which is over 33lbs of cobalt. These children die just so electric cars can be built
12. The electric grid cant handle a bunch of EVs plugged in at the same time or at peak times. Plugging in an EV is like running your air conditioner continuously using fossil fuels

Dont kid yourself thinking EVs are great. They are terrible replacements for gasoline and your not saving the planet any. Its just moving the pollution elsewhere. Don’t listen or argue with EV enthusiasts because these people want to sell a product and destabilize the economy. Buying a gasoline vehicle will help spur up the economy with auto part replacement, mechanics and the oil industry would continue to thrive until hydrogen can replace gasoline. In effect it’s pointless to buy electric because they just want to make everyone pay more and it doesnt save the environment. It also kills kids mining for the material. Sure cellphones, computers and even gas uses cobalt however its minimal compared to the amount that is required just for one EV battery.

So in conclusion with Musk trying to make a profit and even destabilize the auto industry, his company policy is not a very good one and he should have gone bankrupt years ago.

How the Coronavirus epidemic is showing how people are not ready when SHTF

Yes, it needs to be said but people are not prepared for when the shit hits the fan and if we’re at near zombie apocalypse “The Walking Dead” levels no amount of hoarding supplies will do anyone any good when or if the government falls, including police and the army. What would you do if the system collapses? How would we survive and if stocking up toilet paper is the best society can come up with most people wouldn’t survive. If whatever virus or war doesnt kill us it’s the lack of knowledge of what to do if we had no access to food or water. One of the biggest problems in the world today is how we access our necessities. We have to go to the store in order to buy food and water (unless your like me and use filtered tap water) this is actually a very poor way to get what we need when the system collapses. Collecting rain water and growing/making food from scratch isnt an easy task but the next step is to prepare for the worst.

Prepping basics

(This link has what you need to prepare and try to think outside the box, be creative and if you can make it easier then do it.)

Now I don’t have everything for a world doomsday event but at the most i think a couple weeks worth of food and water is good enough. At the most you’ll need enough supplies to last a month. Families need to have additional supplies (the more the better) but the whole idea is to have these things on hand when things are not at zombie apocalypse levels.

We do not need to empty the shelves of toilet paper because there will always be people who are just unable to prepare whether by funds or they just dont have access to it. Really this is about educating people that they dont need to wait until an epidemic happens. If you rush out to buy stuff when you could have had supplies ready to go it just creates mayhem all over.

If you cant because its not in the budget then it needs to be somehow. If you’re poor I understand. Most of the panic shoppers already had the money and really I hope that people learn a lesson in this that it’s best to have essential supplies at all times.

The Coronavirus quarantine is supposed to keep people at home, not in stores. With everything closing instead of rushing out and buying toilet paper or hand sanitizer you should already have these supplies on hand. Enough for the entire month. If more people focused on having essential supplies for the entire month they wouldn’t need to go out to buy canned food because they needed tuna for dinner but forgot it in their shopping list or a store was out or something. You already got 20 cans of tuna sitting in a pantry. No need to waste time and gas to get it. Of course that may not always work, if you forgot milk because milk for an example has a limited shelf life.

Our essential needs has to change in order to be able to survive indefinitely if we’re to weather the worst of an apocalypse. Because eventually the only ones that will survive is the tin foil hat doomsday preppers..

Because in the end, the smart ones who prepare will survive. Not so crazy now.

Presidential candidates want to ban gasoline/diesel vehicles by 2030

After my latest post unfortunately things will get worse for the children in Congo as they’ll have to mine more cobalt so more people can drive a battery electric vehicle. Presidential candidates such as Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want to ban gasoline/diesel vehicles by 2030. This doesnt sound promising and Mike Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang want to do the same but at a later time. This is unacceptable. It would take over 10 years to get hydrogen on the way and even longer to convert gas stations to hydrogen but the presidential candidates want to force battery electric vehicles onto everyone because they’re “zero emission”.

So there will be chaos within the next 10-15 years if any of these people end up as president. All I can say is if these bans are put into place the children who have to mine cobalt for lithium ion batteries for the electric vehicles, the automotive industry and even the economy may collapse. All because of the fear mongering that we’re responsible for climate change. As a ban is placed there will be a lot of hate towards people who drive electric cars, especially in America. What started off by blocking Tesla charging stations will end up as road rage takes a new form.

Itll be chaos, unfortunately. Some people have already made threats to do pit maneuvers with their diesel trucks onto Teslas and other EVs. So while these are threats, it really will be a catastrophe on the road over the next few decades.

Child mining still a major problem for cobalt and electric vehicles

This may be an old article…

Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car

The fact is, though it takes 33lbs or more to produce an electric vehicle battery. Lithium ion batteries already require larger amounts of cobalt which accounts to over 60%. Only 40% is being used for other things and less than 10%  being used by gasoline refining. 10 grams may not seem like a lot for cellphone batteries but it adds up. This was already a concern when lithium ion batteries took shape besides the volatile nature of lithium ion batteries. Yet we’re still using it in everyday devices and now the UK wants to ban combustion engine vehicles for lithium ion powered vehicles. That 60% will jump to 70+%. As the battery density starts to rise so does the need for cobalt which the primary use for it in lithium ion batteries is to keep the batteries cool. Since more technology advances so does the battery cooling methods. And lithium ion batteries in EVs consume a ton. 33lbs for one car. Imagine how much cobalt is needed to run the upcoming Hummer EV. Rivian has an electric truck that uses over 7k batteries which is twice the amount of a Tesla battery so you’re looking at 66lbs or more for a light duty truck. I dont even want to think about how much cobalt is required to run that Tesla semi.

The child laboring has been an issue since the dawn of time but I can think of nothing worse than children dying just to spend weeks on end just to mine one EV battery.

The fact is however nothing is being done. I’ve written this as a Christian to implore everyone to pray for the Congo children because they dont deserve this. We dont deserve lithium ion battery technology.

We get it you need a cellphone to stay in contact with family and friends. It’s a great way to keep updated on news. It’s also a tool to bring this despicable tragedy due to the greed of “clean air zero emissions electric cars”. We also get why you want an electric vehicle. But battery electric is not the answer. And its clear that we need a lot more cobalt to manufacture more EV batteries, something that really is not a sustainable future, especially when majority of lithium ion battery cobalt is being mined by innocent children. I had almost forgotten about these poor children until I watched another video on the horrid conditions from mining cobalt for lithium ion batteries. The main reason I had always been against battery electric in the first place.. it’s not just the terrible range, long recharge times or the cold and hot weather zapps the batteries lifespan. The government wants everyone to switch to electric but how can we when the cost of human life is far worse than what we are potentially doing to the planet.

I got into an argument over a fool who thinks that it’s ok to let children mine 33lbs of cobalt for just 1 vehicle vs ounces needed to manufacture gasoline that has the potential to last decades. I dont have exact measurements on this subject or how much cobalt children are mining for gasoline refinement but EVs are the main contribution to cobalt mining. The laptop computers are secondary to all other lithium ion batteries.

Its downright evil and if climate change were to end us all I dont want the blood of children on my hands just so i don’t have any tailpipe emissions. Regardless where that cobalt comes from a large chunk will go to electric vehicles. The enormous psychological and physical damage these kids will have to endure in the future because “battery electric is the future” is downright evil and no one should be standing for it. We need to reduce our use of cobalt starting with BEVs. No one can force you to buy a battery electric vehicle, not even the government. Dont let them do it. Keep buying gasoline until hydrogen can make it’s way to the market and be a real ethical solution to our tailpipe emissions.

Again, pray for the children in Congo and support them by refusing to buy battery electric vehicles. You can also extend your cellphone or tablet batteries (any lithium ion batteries) by keeping a charge of 40-80%. Get a Goal Zero Guide 10 that uses nickel metal hydride batteries (and Eneloops) if you dont have anywhere to charge. Avoid buying anything that uses lithium ion technology and instead use Eneloops. Besides my cellphone I haven’t bought anything that uses lithium ion batteries since 2005. And I dont plan to. Anything that reduces the necessity of cobalt. You could even buy a more economical vehicle like a gas Honda or Toyota. Dont buy the hybrids that may use the lithium ion batteries. Again, pray for the children in Congo. Maybe if there is a massive strike or ban against lithium ion and cobalt in general maybe things could change but for now avoid the lithium ion technology due to the excessive use of cobalt used in these batteries.

The best way to stop the battery electric vehicle, buy a gas vehicle instead

With all the SuperBowl car ads trying very hard to kill the combustion vehicles and now the UK wants to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035 all being driven by greed and well Greta Thunberg as well.

Well the solution is stop listening to the hype and just buy a gas or diesel vehicle. The more combustion vehicles that are sold the harder it will be for politicians to try to ban them. I mean if people are refusing to buy battery electric vehicles then even if they tried to ban the combustion engine a lot of dealerships, car manufacturers, motorists and hopefully lawyers will immediately push back on these bans and even the ‘carbon tax’  laws that are trying to be pushed. It’ll take about until the 2030s before hydrogen makes it way to the market and even then you got to give some time for the market and consumers to adjust to the idea.

However we do not want BEVs to replace gasoline. We still have 80 years of fuel/oil left so that gives us way more time to switch over.

Basically though there is this evil at work trying to destabilize our economy and all you hear is “BEVs will create new jobs” all the while over a half of the automotive workforce will become unemployed. Some people who spent half of their lives nearly saving up for retirement gets booted at 50 years old because there are no more car parts to be made for combustion engine vehicles. He has nowhere to go, he’s unemployed. That’s what this shift is trying to do and there has to be something in order to prevent or protect the millions of workers for combustion vehicle production. We have to consider the ramifications for this extreme push. The very first automobile wasnt at all to detract the horse and buggy. Even through the 30 or 40 years of improving upon the internal combustion engine people still were able to use a horse and buggy and any decline, well future generations went and sold cars instead of horse and buggies. In time too the combustion engine vehicles will eventually fade away as newer technologies advances but in reality were talking around 2050 by the time alternative fuels are put into play.

I reiterate that BEVs are not there yet. And even then hydrogen fuel cells are on the rise. Again this is several decades away and it’ll take several more decades before they completely replace gasoline. Even then some people may still want to drive gasoline and zero emissions isnt possible. This is a fantasy because majority of the emissions is from natural occurrences. Much of the emissions is due to our extremely wasteful manufacturing processes and the shipping of them. Airplanes put out a considerably amount of emissions. Why are we concerned about gas vehicles. Because of tailpipe emissions. People think this is a primary source of the emissions we are polluting the planet with but that’s not the case.

Either way it doesnt make it right to force people off of vehicles they are already accustomed to and find it to be more beneficial/cost effective than the newer technology.

Bottom line, wanna stick with gas vehicles longer or do not want to buy or get involved with a BEV, BUY A GAS CAR! (I’m not yelling lol) So even if it’s not banned start working up a budget and see, maybe you can afford a newer vehicle. Shop around. Should be done at least once every 5 years but if you can do it earlier then do it. Only if its within your budget. You can then keep doing this and upgrading to a newer vehicle that you may like even more. Figure out if you want to lease. Maybe you want a second vehicle. I use a car for winter and another for summer. Maybe you want a fun vehicle that you want to baby in the garage and take it out for nice sunny days. If its within your budget go for it. Even if it’s not, budget for it. I liked the idea of driving the same vehicle for years on end but it would be sort of nice to have a newer vehicle every 2-5 years. It also depends on my budget but I need to do this so I dont ever have to drive a BEV because i refuse to even touch one. And it’s not that they are completely terrible it’s the fact people are trying to force them on everyone. That isnt right so I refuse to buy one. I especially wouldn’t buy a used one considering how long the batteries may last.

Bottom line is wait for hydrogen. When that makes its way to the market I can see buying one of those but I certainly hope gas vehicles will continue to thrive for at least another 25 years. And it should die out naturally so that it doesnt displace so many hard working people around the world. This economy is driven by combustion engine vehicles and a good chunk of the workforce would be unemployed making the great depression look like a slow month. Letting it gradually fade will allow companies more time to let their employees know that eventually the plant has to close. Unfortunately it moves too quickly sometimes. Either way stick to gas vehicles if you can and also if its within your budget buy a new vehicle every once in awhile. Maybe car shopping will excite your life a bit.

I thought driving this Grand Am, I wouldn’t want to buy anything new but the new Challenger is far more exciting than a Grand Am, even though the Challenger is 6 cylinders its still fun. Anyway if you think you’re in the market for a new car good luck and  check out Enterprise Car Sales, they might have the car you want cheap enough. They’ll even put in a sunroof. So despite the fact EVs are being pushed, if enough gas vehicles are being bought they can’t really ban gas vehicles. It would put automakers out of business. Because once everyone has a new vehicle just before a banned time, no one would really buy a new vehicle forcing the ban to be rescinded. This may or may not work for the UK but it’s a good start.

You are not saving the environment by driving a electric vehicle

With 5 million EVs on the road one would think that the emissions would go down from less gas burners. With oil dropping from less gasoline vehicles the emissions should drop at least slightly. Even if it was a fraction of 0.05% it wouldn’t radically go up. Like try 5% increase in carbon emissions. So it would seem that EVs is not the environmental savior one would think. Either that scientists are pulling numbers out of their butts and this is a big scam to get everyone onto cleaner energy. Now why wouldn’t we want cleaner air?

Tailpipe emissions from vehicles can smell unpleasant and don’t run one without ventilation. It can also create problems for those who have trouble breathing like asthma. So what gives? Why are EVs not cleaning up the planet? Well it may have to do with cutting down too many trees. Trees generally suck up most of our tailpipe emissions because apparently they love that stuff. It takes about 30 years for a tree to fully grow but minutes to cut one down. It seems we’re using more trees than we can replenish them. They say that trees or plants can no longer suck up any more carbon emissions but think about this, if it takes 30 years to grow a tree perhaps it may not be sucking up enough carbon because they’re not fully grown yet.

In all seriousness despite the tailpipe emission and people who do have breathing problems do have solutions. EVs are not the answer but less tree cutting. Like almost no trees should be cut down. It would be difficult but doable. We got to stop buying wood and stop buying paper. Sure paper towels and toilet paper are necessary but we can also reduce that by buying more rags and using thinner toilet paper. There is also a toilet with a bum cleaner though I don’t know if they use soap in which would be ideal. It’s a bit new age and the Japanese use them it would need to be heated so you’re not getting blasted by cold water. If your at a Home Depot or other home improvement store check out the toilet aisle. I may try one since I got 2 toilets and I can replace one for one of these new ones and see whether they work or not. But I use thin toilet paper and that way I use what I need. You can fold them so you still would end up with 2 ply or 3 ply depending on your needs. It isnt soft but at the same time its basic and uses as little as possible.

Back to EVs since I’m off topic here. I mentioned in previous posts that there is too much things that are wrong with EVs and one of the more common ones is they say they save the environment. Well it certainly doesnt look that way and the fires in Australia didnt help but that also was started by arsonists. Probably so called environmentalists trying to make it seem like we got a problem with carbon emissions. In reality they didn’t accomplish anything and made things worse. Whatever that reason was its another reason its believed that this climate change hysteria is to get people to buy a new car. Sold by the idea that you should stop driving gas and go towards a battery electric vehicle is mostly pushed by the government but someone in power wants to gain profit at the expense of the environment. Nevermind the fact that maybe there isnt anything we can do except try to reduce our need for paper and wood. Because in the end its not EVs that will help the environment its leaving healthy older trees up so that way there is a way to capture carbon emissions. Supposedly we also have technology that can capture carbon emissions as a fuel source. That might be a good idea to explore further.

At this point if you dont have a desire to buy an EV you shouldn’t have to be forced into one, especially those trying to get those into an EV for the sake of the environment. It makes no sense and it really shouldn’t be forced upon especially since they are not ready for everyone. They still have a lot of work and maybe they wont be ready for decades to come. Even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles seem to be decades from being ready as well. I’d say keep driving gasoline vehicles, wait and see. At this point you wont really save much on an EV and prices wont really go down. Majority of Americans are not interested in EVs.

You’ll soon be paying more for electricity due to BEV adoption

Edit: Seen this article on how they want to use your electric vehicle battery to power the grid, Electric Vehicle Batteries Will ‘Dwarf’ The Grid’s Energy-Storage Needs

See the cons below for more details

Well its happened in Europe. EV adoption is at 1% and read in an article they increased electric costs by 500%. So depending on where you are at. Say you are paying $0.15 a kW. Well in Europe they’re paying $0.85 a kW. Doesnt sound great does it? So far there hasn’t been an increase in electric costs here but most of the BEV adoption occurs in California and well, they cant even keep their power grid on leaving EV motorists stranded. At least most gas stations have the sense to keep backup generators so that way you can still buy gas.

Back to topic, can you imagine paying $50 a month to keep your fridge running. I couldn’t. It used to cost $30 a month or so to run the older fridges but newer more energy efficient ones will run $10 a month on your electric bill, depending on the kW cost and energy needed to run your fridge monthly.  With the U.S. the way it is they may open or reopen a few coal plants just to keep costs lower. But for other countries like Europe they may be doing cleaner energy like solar or wind. Possibly nuclear. But then they would need to build more to keep up demand for the electric cars. And this could just be one area or whatever but still if you need to build more power plants because people are switching to BEVs then that’s a problem because when you need to build cost goes up. Its supply and demand.

Most likely these people are charging at night so its likely there isnt a huge demand going on but maybe enough people caused the power grid to collapse and they decided we need to upgrade the grid and increase the costs. Perhaps this cost is temporary to keep the existing grid stable or its because they realized that oh I guess even if you plug in at night you can still have issues. But your still running your fridge at night and most likely your air conditioner if it’s hot outside and if you got electric heat, running that during cold weather.

But electric grids are not set up for battery electric vehicles. In the U.S. we have to try to keep the electric consumption down so they tell us to turn the thermostat down as far as possible but still try to be comfortable and we were also told to buy more energy efficient appliances.

Now some may be doing this sort of thing for earth day but really it’s to get people to lower energy costs because the power grid can’t handle all the strain.

Ever notice on nice days no wind all of a sudden the lights flicker or you lose power for a second but it comes back on? Well more often then not that’s the grid being overloaded. More power is being drawn than what the power plants are supplying. The demand is higher than the supply in this instance. Normally if the power resumes just fine its probably an air conditioner kicking on or someone plugged in their phone. Doesnt matter what it is. If you notice the power coming on and off and then off then its possible someone turned on something high powered or something like charging an EV. I believe when this occurs and the power keeps coming on and off usually then it shuts off completely for like 10 minutes to an hour. Either a transformer blew or maybe the power company temporarily cut power to the affected areas. Some of this is guesswork but I’m assuming that this is what goes on. I do know that if the power flickers or cuts out that’s considered a brownout. Not enough power is supplied.

Cost obviously doesnt increase normally because of a one time brownout but if it gets to be continuous then cost may perhaps go up when the power company is unable to sustain the grid effective enough. So while we may not see a major brownout occurring it may be that we’re not there yet with too many EVs trying to charge at the same time.

It wont matter whether that you charge in the day or at night, if too many plug in then it’s going to be a mess on the grid. In reality this isnt good because we all need heat and airconditoning and power to our fridges and stoves so we got food to eat. So if you are reading this and was considering an BEV. Please do not buy one. No one can force you not to if you really want one. But then you shouldn’t be convinced to buy one either. There is people out there trying very hard to convince, coerce, force or whatever, to buy a battery electric vehicle. I get it, the environment but if our grid isnt ready then we’re going to have a bad time. I dont want to buy one and really I dont want people to buy one for the fact that my electric bill could go up and someone on a fixed income could have their bill go up.

The option here may be to charge BEV owners that plug in to the grid more money to offset the costs. It’s not right that everyone has to pay because some people bought an EV and is overloading the grid. And so far that may be the best thing to do. Not only that there are way more cons to owning an EV.

Cons of battery electric vehicles

1. Too many EVs will strain the power grid causing the price of electricity to go up.
2. Charging time, 30 minutes or more. Causes a pile up of vehicles waiting to be charged at charging stations and you will be sitting for hours on end waiting for a vacant spot to open.
3. Limited range, less range means more time spent at charging stations.
4. Batteries may not last past 10 years.
5. You lose 50% range in cold weather.
6. Less gasoline or internal combustion engines sold causing a 25% job reduction.
7. The power companies want to use your electric vehicle battery to power the grid. This will reduce battery life by at least 25% causing you to buy another battery in 6 years instead of say 10 years.

So that adds up to 6 7 negative aspects to owning a battery electric vehicle. How about some pros..

1. They’re fast at 0-60 ..after that gasoline has more horsepower.
2. Less maintenance ..until you need to replace the battery.
3. Got a refueling station at home ..but your electricity bill will go up
4. I dont have to pay the evil oil company overlords …well everything you buy is pretty much manufactured by oil at some point, so you’re still paying for oil in some way or another.
5. They are better for the environment ..eh, sort of.

So even the pros are not necessarily pros. So your not saving any money by driving electric. You may be helping the environment a little, it’s hard to say but you wont be helping the cost of electricity in the future. It’s going to go up. Its supply and demand. You wont ever get out of that one because there isnt enough power to replace gasoline vehicles with battery electric ones. So I wrote this blog into hoping that people think twice before buying one. You wont save any money, you do have fewer maintenance costs but the cost to replace that battery if it fails is almost as much as a new gas vehicle. It’s really not worth switching to electric unless you really want to have one. But all the pros listed are pretty much humoring the cons of owning an EV. Honestly I don’t see one good thing about them and its mainly because they just are not good vehicles yet. They want to push these vehicles out to everyone but it’s like pushing out the first Ford model T out when there are cars that do the job better. And right now the gas cars are working fine. Dont be forced or whatever into buying a battery electric vehicle future. You’ll thank me in 20 years when Hydrogen fuel cells come out and be far better in every way. By that time jobs should be gearing towards the future better. We’re not there yet. What these people are doing, trying to convince you that battery electric vehicles are better is just evil. There is nothing to benefit from an electric vehicle other than the investors who are trying to get paid big bucks for an electric vehicle future powered by batteries.