Start Your Engines

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Start your engines, for now.

Why would that be, you may ask? The law. Which law? Take your pick, if you live in California, it is the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution. If you reside in New York it's Assembly Bill A4302.

These are just two examples for you, the reality is there are plenty more to see, from the federal bills staring some of the most famous names in Congress, and beyond. The White House even releasing a strategy to advance many industries and their fleets into the Green New Deal infrastructure of electricity only futures. Many seeming vague, hopeful meanderings about what could possibly take place, but the thing that hasn't been explained, as well as I would like, is how they will obtain the funding that will make this a reality. I see the Trillions it costs, yes. I see the debt-ceiling raise, then raise again, almost quarterly at this point. I see my kids look me in the eyes, knowing I had a hand in the process that will take away financial stability in every aspect of their lives by the crippling their options of choice, like the choice of using gasoline, or natural gas, or capturing the methane that is escaping from Siberia so fast it dwarfs all human interaction with our atmosphere. Sure, we may have slight interactions with the Arctic regions experiencing this outflow of 50 billion tons of harmful gases a year, but I don't understand the solutions being offered neither. The complete removal off all gasoline will have no impact on fifty billion tons of harmful gases entering our atmosphere, and surely wasn't the cause of this trend. The history of Siberia is vague as is, but to have an egotistical viewpoint that humans created the Earth's cycles is plain foolish. The freezing of Siberia wasn't caused by human migration, it's quite the opposite. No mater what the scientists in the 70's said about global cooling. And from that migration we experienced a mass culture that left their environment mainly untouched, and yet, there were climate changes recorded on every continent on Earth. Are we to believe the Mini Ice-Age was a human, or alien caused nuclear extinction event? Or is the consensus that the climate has always grown cold, and warm in trends, and we are nowhere close to where we have been in terms to the heat trapped within our atmosphere? Today's climate-change models have been noticed by many to be omitting data from all the history, to advance the cause of the narrative that we are in control here when it comes to making our Earth less habitable for life. Earth has always been inhospitable to many lifeforms, the human animal is no different than the dinosaurs we are draining from the interior of the Earth for their carbons. Actually, pound for pound, we are releasing billions of tons less of harmful gasses than they have continued to do for millions of years. The paltry assumption that we have impacted the ebb and flow of the universe so much to have changed our environment, while the dinosaurs still release 10 times the amount we do, in Siberia alone, and need to go full electric everything, is asinine.

As any good researcher worth their salt knows, you have to dig a little further under the surface of any issue to see the truth shining forth, and friends, let's start scratching at the main element used in making modern batteries, Lithium, carefully.

Ah yes, the wonderful element responsible for many a calming features, ranging from powering your chats with loved-ones, to calming them down when you mention politics. It's applications can seem range-less, although the dangers involved in its use can be significant. As with a risk and reward situation, we must evaluate the risks from the start of the process and on. And where to start with Lithium? The mines, of course. And where can we find sustainable mines? Chile, Australia, and Afghanistan mainly for now it seems, our current laws regarding the way Lithium is mined in North America are quite restrictive, and mines offering this said mineral are hard to come by. Biden has started probes into this venture domestically, but the estimates aren't even close to the projections we are being subjected with as of now. To amp production up to those standards would cause devastation to multiple ecosystems, in multiple countries. Are we ready to subject Australia to the standards the Chinese use to gain their resources buy forcing our alliance into these ventures? Will they even let us do that, and for what price to America are we ultimately going to pay them? Our other option in mining of this mineral within reason would be an act of war, and not with China, but Afghanistan, for the minerals said to exist under the surface. Are we to believe America will let the Taliban control vast resource mines ripe for the picking, with China and Russia knocking on the door? For the Biden New Deal to work, America will need Lithium, and tons of it, and where better to find it than where our military already found it once? This is shaky grounds, and we seem to be in the quicksands of the Middle East more often than not. But going to Chile for it seems even more of a fantasy, and we already owe China too many of our children's entire life savings.

The refining process is even more of a mess, which takes tons of CO2 expulsion to make lithium from the ores and brine a viable product. The process is also known to be time-consuming, the larger batteries taking years to get into a working form. The United States does not have the capabilities to get the needed product from just our allies alone, and we will have a much heavier burden upon us when having to rely on a market cornered by China and other Eastern Hemisphere nations. It would take decades for America to catch up to our current goals in refining lithium for use. Relying on the market to create a need by legislating that need into being has never proved fruitful, if it worked we would have been able to keep our doctors if we liked them.

That's just speaking of the power supply of these mandated devices, oftentimes new devices are consisting of complex, expensive components specially fitted to these devices and them alone. Very complex devices one has to be highly trained to service. In this disposable world that may not seem too bad to many, but those of us that have become accustomed to fixing broken things, we're going to be at a loss, a major one. Teaching your child to change you brakes will go extinct, when the system can electrocute them if you're not careful. Small motors having fire risks from overheating and shorts can also be covered here, ever use an electric weed-wacker, not in the rain you haven't. The shortcomings are boundless to the landscaping business' in America alone, if we then take into account the large machinery, that are practically the same as diesel generators running the charging stations powering Tesla, it's impossible. How are we to build the power supplies for those electric machines, and how are we to move them, I.C.B.M carriers? Bigger? Pipe dreams people, pipe dreams.

I, for one, would love to see Tesla's vision of a future with electric powered everything, powered with free and clean energy. Cars using electromagnetism, direct energy transfer over miles of atmosphere harmlessly and quickly, these were noble aspirations for sure. What we are seeing is not that at all, what we are seeing is the complete bumbling of concept that was deemed unworthy of fruition by the American Government decades ago. They're not going to start now.

For now, I'm going to buy some gas, rev up my whacker, and clean the carb, who knows when the parts for the gas powered engines will last with cargo containers lining our shores. This is E Rotic, reporting the exotic and erotic for the Rotic Report, and I want to hear your opinion. Write us, let us know what you think about our electric lifestyles, and always, pay attention to your surroundings, it may empower you.