HeartachesNhangovers
HeartachesNhangovers's JournalI can't let this go. There is no such thing as a
zero-emission car. A pure electric car includes significant emissions involved in the manufacturing: all of the production and transportation emissions involved in making the parts, putting them together and also associated with the labor and sales force that makes, markets and sells the car. In addition, if it gets its power from a power plant, that power plant takes fossil fuel (in CA it almost always natural gas) and burns that fuel to generate electricity at an efficiency that could be as low as 30% for an older plant. In other words, you need to burn 1 cubic foot of natural gas for every 0.3 cubic foot worth of actual electricity that is generated.
Is a zero-emission car actually less polluting overall than a conventional car? I don't know; that would be a complicated analysis involving every step of production, sales and operation. But I do know that "zero-emission" is a lie that doesn't even come close to reflecting reality.
The only zero-emission car is the one that doesn't exist.
No, that's BS. If a person damages someone
else's property or hurts or kills someone else, then go ahead and use existing laws to charge them criminally or file a civil suit. But if somebody wants to waste a bunch of ammo pretending they've got a machine gun and aren't hurting anyone else, then I don't care and the government shouldn't either.
It's not like there aren't any real problems to work on: crumbling public infrastructure, environmental degradation, too many poorly-performing schools, people dropping dead of fentanyl overdoses, etc, etc, etc.
In praise of Janet Yellen.
Now that her term is concluding, I must say that I have appreciated having Ms. Yellen's hand on the tiller at the Fed the past few years (and as vice-chair back to 2010). Too often, politicians and appointees forget that their job is not to be spokespeople for their political party or partisan hacks in general, but to do a specific job to keep the country running as smoothly as possible. Ms. Yellen never seemed to lose sight of her duties and responsibilities and appears to have done a creditable job overall.
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