As petrol prices soar...
...this is as good a time as any to revisit a few of the claims surrounding EVs
Our pal el gato malo just took a swing at it, in his latest...
Yes, one could certainly make the argument that La Belle Province presents a somewhat unique situation in how much hydro power it can produce, yet that is but a piece of the entire puzzle, a complex puzzle few politicians are willing to explore.
Of course, there are also many more important issues that aren't addressed here, by either el gato or our politicians, and that is, that just as is the case with any truly sustainable and environmental choices that pertain to food (the truly and most important one being soil erosion and depletion, which being a monoculture-derived soy and quinoa-fed vegan does nothing to solve) or other consumer habits (namely, in this case, automobiles), the actual solution lies elsewhere, and is articulated around the sociological sphere.
Just as I've insisted, for a couple of decades now, that shifting our relationship with our food and our food producers is where the true solution lies (i.e., when the cupboard or the fridge are empty, what is most people's first thought? Whyyyyy, go to the supermarket, or Costco, of course! But while many people have a family doctor or dentist, a family mechanic or accountant, maybe even a family lawyer or personal trainer, why do so few of them have a family farmer?), shifting how we conceive of our relationship between where we live and where we work, and with that, a reorganization (more "organic") of how these spaces are structured, is also where the true (longer-term) solutions lie.
Alas, our high-modernist technocratic leaders have always had other things in mind :/
In the meantime though (short and medium-term solutions), I vehemently oppose the notion that the solution lies with the Elon Musks of this world...
I leave you with my favourite excerpt from el gato malo's, a symptom of the last two year's unprecedented societal/sociological shift that seems to have only accelerated the rate--and options--with which said virtue signalling is now being displayed:
EV’s are a wonderful form of virtue signaling for a certain kind of snob. it allows the flaunting of an expensive vehicle while claiming to have bought it not for flash but “because you care.”