The entire time I watched the video immediately below this paragraph, which looks at the stark realities of modern energy production and storage, my granddaddy's words kept ringing in my ears. I believe that the first time he said these words to me, we were sitting in a duck blind in south Louisiana on a particularly "Blue Bird" day, when the ducks weren't flying, and there was plenty of time for him to pass along grandfatherly truisms that all fall under the universal dictum that there really is nothing new under the sun: "Son, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time!"
Looking back over the years, Granddaddy would be flabbergasted about the huge number of people who can be fooled into thinking an electric automobile creates no impact on the environment. I guess folks don't mind if one electric runabout results in a gaping hole in the Earth halfway around the world? Do the owners of these swank autos realize that child labor is employed in many of the mineral-mining operations that make those car batteries possible? Evidently, they couldn't care less, just as long as they are able to virtue-signal to their friends and neighbors that they are environmentalists and guardians of the planet.............. To Read More....
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