.drivingdotca’s David Booth: “The problems with climate change, electric vehicles and incentivization, solved in just 1,200 words”:
“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.” — Joseph Joubert, French moralist and author of Pensées
So, in the interest of clarity — which you should read as, “If I am going to be accused of offence, at least let the crime be real rather than imagined” — for all those who come to my columns for their daily exercise of intolerance, here, in bold, above-the-fold type, is Motor Mouth’s take on climate change, the future of the automobile and how to alter our behaviour.
The question, then, is how much and how fast must our carbon reductions be. Therein, my friends, lies the rub. You see, while scientists are extremely precise in their analysis of current situations — hence the environmentalists’ “you can’t ignore the science” refrain — they are remarkably poor at predicting its consequences. For instance, scientists equally capable as today’s once trumpeted a “peak oil” shortage of cataclysmic proportions.
The part of this equation I don’t understand — what’s plainly offensive — is why EV advocates so vociferously insist battery-power, à la Tesla, is the only possible solution. BEVs obviously have their use. They are an ideal choice as second cars in a family, for those whose driving seldom takes them beyond a certain distance, and for all those vehicles — taxis, buses, delivery trucks, etc. — that seldom venture beyond city limits.
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