It’s exhausting trying to stay up on everyday life with performing daily chores like keeping life humming along in clean clothes, bellies full of homemade yummy food, happy doodle-dog, picked-up house. And now that it’s getting warmer, I’m itching to get outside and get my fingers dirty in my gardens, with my soon to be flowers. But Ole joe has not only just inserted himself in our daily life – he’s BLOWN DOWN our door and busted up any semblance of normalcy and demanded we enter HIS demented house of horrors and mirrors.
Every season has a transition. Summer temps don’t jump from 32° on June 21 to 90° on the first day after summer solstice, June 22. There’s a gradual build. Same with winter. Someone forgot to teach that to joe and his green buddies. No matter what you think or feel about global warming, joe’s evangelists are schtumping the green pulpit and slinging spit with their red-faced sermons of apocalyptic doom. In between all the theatrics, they forgot about the fact that there’s only 1 – ONE – full-time producer in America of 100% electric vehicles, EV. (It doesn’t matter MOST Americans can’t afford that EV.) So on DAY 1 – joe shut down America’s oil/gas production through reduction of permits and regulation of new and existing permits that make it impossible to viably continue to pump and produce oil and gas in America. IF joe were smart and not obviously beholding to whomever is behind these destructive policies, he would have presented a plan to build up the electric grid that EVENTUALLY would handle the enormous load required when EV DID become mainstream. But he didn’t. To the surprise of no one.
Also – IF joe was smart – there would be an education (or indoctrination) of the masses on the virtues of the EV. However, as savvy as Americans are, that will be tough as just a tiny bit of research will show there’s only 1 country who will benefit MASSIVELY from this transition. Care to guess? Yep – China! The majority of the mined rare materials required to propel the EV are mined in China – Bauxite, boron steel, titanium, plastic, leather, silicon, carbon fiber, copper wire, cathode – 80% nickel, 15% cobalt, and 5% aluminum, anode, electrolyte – made of a lithium salt. Not only that, obviously the most important items in the EV are the batteries. Have you thought about what happens to ALL those dead batteries? Guess which country is basically the only country that recycles batteries? China! Have you checked out how much a replacement battery is in a Tesla? The average cost is $21,000. What about the cost to charge up your Tesla every night? It’s about an extra $150 a month AFTER you pay $2600.00 to install the charging station at home. Please tell me how someone who makes $50,000 a year is supposed to afford all that.
Am I obsessed with American oil? No. But if you look closely, what’s happening with American oil is a glaring symptom of a much greater problem, and if WE THE PEOPLE don’t have an intervention soon it just might be too late. We are stuck for now with a defiant, stubborn administration that WE pay through the nose with our hard-earned taxes who absolutely refuse to listen to the people they’re supposed to represent – the very definition oalf a conundrum. America is a representative republic, not an autocracy. Let’s make them represent!
Freedom Matters 
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