Why do staunch republicans hate electric vehicles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a Republican and while I wouldn’t get one as I like to drive a manual, they are torquey and accelerate quickly . I just don’t want them to me mandated and gas cars banned. My dad is a diehard liberal and hates electric cars and people who drive them .

2% of the cars in America are manual and it sucks to drive them in heavy traffic. Plus automatic transmissions are more efficient and put less stress on the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a republican, but EV's are super dirty. Obtaining the resources to build the batteries are dirty. The manufacturing process is dirty. the disposal process is dirty. The energy used is dirty. Shipping and sourcing components all around the world is dirty.

Solar power cell manufacturing is INCREDIBLY dirty. Wind mill turbine blades are incredibly dirty.

People not familiar with engineering are living in a fantasy land if they think any aspect of them are clean.

And internal combustion, obtaining the resources to build them and their batteries and the fuel, which is an ongoing need, the manufacturing process, the energy… those are all okay? Those aren’t dirty? We aren’t experiencing global warming?

Remember when Democrats wanted greater fuel efficiency and the GOP collectively and figuratively rolled coal?

[Anonymous]

EVs don't have to be dirty. There have been many new developments in battery technologies and other things. Lithium can cost-effectively be pulled out of seawater. Power generation does not have to be dirty.

However, there's virtually no way that fossil fuel powered cars will get much cleaner. Not to mention, fossil fuels are in limited supply.

[Anonymous]

Because they are owned by oil.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it’s something Liberals are for so they are automatically against. 95% of Conservstivism/MAGAism is just being against the Libs.

I think this. Imagine the guys with the black smoke belching trucks because they don't believe in climate change and you're on the right track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it’s something Liberals are for so they are automatically against. 95% of Conservstivism/MAGAism is just being against the Libs.

I think this. Imagine the guys with the black smoke belching trucks because they don't believe in climate change and you're on the right track.

It takes a special kind of stupid to:

a.) buy an oversized, expensive, impractical pickup truck which you don't actually need and can probably barely afford, but you want it because you think it makes you manly or something, as if masculinity is something you could just buy 😆

b.) spend additional money to illegally modify said truck to spew black smoke, which

c.) reduces your truck's efficiency and mileage (even as you btch and moan about the price of diesel)

d.) damages your engine

e.) spews oily black soot all over your own nice clean truck

f.) fills your lungs with unhealthy PM2.5 particulates from said soot

JUST BECAUSE you think it's somehow "cool" or "funny" to spew smoke at some random stranger on the road.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I'm on my second EV. Love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Some people are afraid of spiders. Not much you can do for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some people are afraid of spiders. Not much you can do for them.

This is very different from some phobia. And, it is spot on.

And, Jennifer Granholm's EV road trip problem illustrated it.
Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1187224861/electric-vehicles-evs-cars-chargers-charging-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm

[Anonymous]

I don’t believe for a minute that subsidizing and hurrying along EVs is going to be a net positive for the environment compared to just repairing and hanging onto cars longer. Better to hang on to what we have for longer than build new even if it is EVs. I do think drivers of huge trucks and SUVs should maybe pay up, probably in the form of gas taxes to offset carbon. Use less, pay less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they are owned by oil.

I skimmed through 10 pages because I thought it was fairly obvious, but it's pretty much this. Big Oil buys certain Republicans, who then set the message for their followers as to what to hate (in this case electric vehicles). Staunch Republicans hate what they're told to hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some people are afraid of spiders. Not much you can do for them.

This is very different from some phobia. And, it is spot on.

And, Jennifer Granholm's EV road trip problem illustrated it.
Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1187224861/electric-vehicles-evs-cars-chargers-charging-energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm

We don’t use the electric car for long trips but we bought one, for the second time, anyway. Why? They are quiet, efficient, convenient (charging at home is fabulous), and save a ton of money. We use the electric car 90% of the time.

[Anonymous]

Pretty simple:

Amount of environmental destruction to make one
Disposition of batteries
Electric grid insufficient at present to support wide spread use
Better alternatives that just need infrastructure development - hydrogen.