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Why should Battery Electric Vehicles be subsidized by the government? Is it just because they are not energy optimal? Or because they displace funds better used for fundamental research on decarbonated energy?

January 22, 2025

Plug in hybrids (PHEV), and strong hybrids are intrinsically better cars than fossil fuel cars.  Some European PHEV (Renault) can go more than 800 miles (1250+ kms) after filling their small gasoline tanks (they can charge while driving, or off the grid…) They also provide significant acceleration (because they are actually mostly electric vehicles, typically with two electric engines, but without the huge battery). 

In France, starting this year, more than 60 cities will block entrance to vehicles which are not highly efficient… That’s a good anti-pollution measure.

However pure electric vehicles, although good for fighting inner city pollution, are a bit of a fake ecological solution: a Tesla Model S carries around a thousand pound battery. During non-gentle braking, the energy of moving that battery is lost. Plus, of course, the grid has to provide clean energy.

The idea of subsidizing electric car makers instead of research into new decarbonated energy was an example of governmental mismanagement of the highest order. All these dozens of billions of dollars would have been better invested in hydrogen research, and fission and fusion nuclear research.   

I drive in France a very sporty AWD PHEV with 60+ mpg. It was not developed with government subsidies, and in France the government is outright hostile to PHEV, overtaxing them, while the same government outrageously subsidizes pure electric cars massively. But then the same French government of incompetents has no money to help develop new decarbonated energy sources… And also this government of incompetents tax to death startups in new decarbonated energy. 

In conclusion, pure electric should get no subsidies whatsoever, for purely ecological reasons. It would be smarter to remove subsidies for fossil fuels, and let the free market adjust!

Patrice Ayme

Anti CO2 strategies have been a complete failure, probably by design: CO2 is turning exponential. Trump has been correct to move out of BEVs and the Paris Accord.

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More detailed technicals:

There are several arguments against subsidizing Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) by the government, grouped into various categories:

1. Economic Considerations

  • Resource Allocation: Subsidies for BEVs divert funds from other critical areas, such as fundamental research in decarbonated energy or infrastructure improvements: as California pushed subsidies for BEVs connected to mansions, it cut drastically public transport such as buses..
  • Market Distortion: Government subsidies distort the market. This could result in over-investment in BEVs at the expense of other potentially more effective solutions for decarbonization. So a better way to decarbonate is to make fossil fuels subsidy-free… Thus a bit more expensive, bringing in greater efficiency.

2. Environmental Impact

  • Manufacturing Footprint: The production of BEVs, especially batteries, can have significant environmental impacts, including resource extraction and energy consumption. To hide this, fake ecologists encourage China to take charge, somewhere in th mountainous desert, far from prying eyes. This must be weighed against their long-term CO2 emissions savings.
  • Energy Source: The environmental benefits of BEVs depend heavily on the energy mix used for electricity generation. In regions where coal or other fossil fuels dominate the grid, the net carbon savings is much less than claimed by partisans. Worldwide, the energy mix is 85% fossil fuels. In Germany, after massive investments, the part of electricity from sun and wind can be as low as 4%. Germany fills in the gap with lignite, a Neanderthal fossil fuel that is the most polluting.

3. Technology Readiness

  • Dependence on Infrastructure: BEVs require extensive charging infrastructure, which is mostly inexistent in most areas. BEVs encourage the individual house for charging, and the individual house causes CO2 emissions. Instead of building a gargantuan electrical grid, investments may be better spent on enhancing existing public transport or alternative fuels. Self-charging PHEV are a good solution, because they electrify the existing fossil fuel infrastructure, free of charge (pun!)
  • Battery Life and Recycling: Concerns over battery life, disposal, and recycling also pose challenges. The environmental costs of battery waste undermines the benefits of BEVs (if any).

4. Comparison with Hybrid Vehicles

  • Efficiency: Hybrid vehicles (HEVs) and PHEVs offer better fuel efficiency and lower emissions without requiring extensive charging infrastructure. They are the optimal technology, because, even if BEVs became light and rangy, the problem of having no grid, and the cost and efficiency of the grid for them, would remain. Transitioning to fully electric systems is not just a question of the super battery of the future (which may, or may not come).
  • Broader Acceptance: Hybrid technology is superior to fossil fuels: all BMWs are now (2025) hybrid. Hybrid tech provides more range, more acceleration, and less pollution.

Voting Against The Deep Elite State Is Good Enough A Reason To Vote For Trump

November 4, 2024

WELCOME TO THE REVOLT!

The Deep State is made of all the elite structures and, or families who steer the state. For example, media owners. They all know each other, they all together-breathe (con-spire), they continually meet in forums such as the World Economic Forum (“Davos”), etc… They are strong, they are united, they enjoy their world… And thus they have had a problem punishing their own vilain canard, Vladimir Putin…. Business used to be so good in Russia…

Some sort of Deep State must organize any civilization. However what one can in theory avoid is a deep state controlled by an elite.

Conversely, by having an elite control the state, as this is unjust and human beings hate injustice ethologically speaking (“instinctively”), the elite can stay in power only by exponentiating its evil means: PLUTO-KRATIA. 

In the European Middle Ages, the Deep State had a worthy institutional part, a multitude of more or less large or tiny states, traditional ways and means (such as guilds and the educational systems) and the underlying Roman law. And then there was another part of the Deep State, the perverse Feudal Order, and its accomplice in mass murdering crime, the Catholic church. 

The DEEP ELITE STATE, DES, is the part of the Deep State where a (typically hereditary) elite controls the Deep State. China, India, and imperial Rome starting with Augustus are most tyrannical examples of DES. 

Europe, a polycracy, overall, was less so, hence its relative success.

When a Deep Elite State grows in control, the civilization subjugated by it becomes sclerotic, at best. Sclerosis in the present circumstances, is a disaster for all concerned, the biosphere, humanity, species, biological homeostasis, etc.

For more than a century, the Elite Deep State, in Europe or in the USA has been in charge, and not just of Europe and the USA, but also of the entire planet. And that  did a terrible job, preferring all along conflict to conflict resolution. The obvious perversity was the support US plutocracy gave to fascist regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan, helping to usher world wars that the US Deep State would later profit from (if the USA had helped France and Britain in a timely manner it would not have been as profitable to the US Deep State…by a very long shot…) 

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An example of the Deep State at work was the election of John Kennedy as president. It seems that Nixon actually won, but the Mafia rigged the vote. (I am giving that as an example. Although the election of JFK was probably illegal, I much prefer him to Nixon; JFK pushed for civil rights which were finalized in votes under LBJ; I approve of that and even more of the Moon program… It is pretty obvious Nixon would not have done either; actually Nixon killed the Moon landings… And any furthering of the Saturn program…)

LBJ took care of rigging the votes in Texas. In Illinois the situation became catastrophic for Kennedy as the night progressed. 93 counties out of 102 in Illinois were going to Nixon. At 2 am, EDT, Kennedy called Mayor Daley of Chicago. Daley reassured JFK:”With a bit of luck and the help of some close friends, you will win Illinois”.Daley held off the counting of Cook County, until the Mafia boys knew exactly how many votes were needed. Finally by 5am the fix was in: Kennedy won Illinois by 8858 votes, out of a total vote of 4,657,394 …thus JFK was ahead by 0,19 %… And won the presidency… Illinois had 27 electoral votes. No doubt Nixon knew all of this, and how JFK was assassinated for crossing the Mafia over Cuba…(That may explain why he tried to play bandit all by himself at Watergate…)

A more recent example is some of the exploit of the Deep State, “Democratic” sauce: While the figurehead of the Deep State, Clinton, was amusing himself with the anatomy of student bimbos, the question of nuclear weapons, worldwide, was left unaddressed, except for removing from Ukraine 5,000 nuclear weapons… Clinton was just a greedy child with limited understanding of civilization… But the collective intelligence of the US Deep State was engaged: nuclear war is the ultimate peril, and, when it could be treated, the US Deep State, guided by luminaries such as Joe Biden, obsessed with invading Iraq.. 

So was Obama, playing ignorant buffoon, who, in the end, encouraged his friend “Vladimir” [Putin] to keep on invading countries, while giving up to 150 billion dollars to Iran, in exchange for nebulous nuclear reassurances, and while officially making healthcare more expensive for 95% of US citizens (I kid you not, this was the official aim of “Obamacare”). Those 150 billion in cash made it possible for Iran to purchase for itself a nuclear weapon program.  

These three (scandalous) facts were the most important of Obama’s 8 years presidency. Thanks to Deep State propaganda this disastrous outcome is presented as a success of rationality for the ages… simply because Obama turned any question into irrelevant questions with an aura of smart gravitas… He was well trained in that monkey trick..

The fact remains that, when the US Deep State could have pushed for deep nuclear disarmament, not only it didn’t even try, but the idea didn’t even surface as a possibility (thousands of warhead, including Soviet warheads, were converted into nuclear fuel, and that was good, because there were 50,000 or so around, but I am talking about near complete eradication of nukes (one needs to keep a few to destroy or push away a celestial bolide….) .

Another Deep State exploit was the work mostly of Joe Biden and GW Bush: the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, with no plausible long term effect that could be anticipated, but for the disfigurement of these countries… Many members of the US plutocracy profited immensely of those wars, which were conducted not so much as to win, but rather to enrich weapon firms and the fossil fuel industry. Examples of double perpetrators were the Cheneys… who were among the top warmongers in these wars and direct profiters of the rise in the price of oil… Now they are among the main opponents to Trump… who opposed the invasion of Iraq in 2003…

Kamala Harris went on SNL, Saturday Night Live, two days before the election, in complete violation of electoral rules.  That Saturday’s episode also featured Tim Kaine, a senator for Virginia who was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate, performing in a skit where a contestant could not recall who Kaine was. The musical guest, Chappell Roan, announced in September that she is voting for Harris… nevermind that Harris supports Israel, defined as a nation of “colonizers” by the tiny Tik Tok mind of Roan.

NBC makes SNL. NBC is owned by Comcast. Comcast’s largest and controlling shareholder is Brian L. Roberts, who serves as Comcast’s chairman and CEO. Roberts inherited the company from his father, Ralph Roberts. Mutual funds and retirement funds are massive shareholders, but they follow the lead of the controlling plutocrat.

A US government communications regulator has claimed that Vice-President Kamala Harris’s surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live violates “equal time” rules that govern political programming.

Brendan Carr, a commissioner with the federal communications commission (FCC), claimed on X that Harris’s appearance on the show “is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule”. Carr made the claim in response to an Associated Press alert to Harris being on the show that night.

The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns,” said Carr, who was nominated by both Trump and Biden and confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times.

FCC guidelines state: “Equal opportunities generally means providing comparable time and placement to opposing candidates….”

Mr. Roberts is an example of an element of the US Deep State. A few thousands like him is all it takes…

During the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, one pillar of the Democratic Party was Harriman, the son of Harriman (the railroad monopolist). Harriman was decorated by both Hitler and Stalin. He set up the Baku offshore oil. Some called him the real Czar in Moscow. A telling picture has Averell Harriman seated in the center, with much older Churchill and Stalin surrounding him… That was the US Deep State, a century ago.  

Most of the powers that are pulling the strings in the major “democracies” constitute the Deep State, and what they hate in Trump is simply that they do not control him, and they fear that the more Trump is around, the greater the probability it will be revealed everything, namely that the biggest conspiracy theory of it all is not even in the public space.

The symbolism of breaking the law deliberately, for all to see, with blatant media bias, is ominous.  This is the paradox of the Democratic Party: by defining itself as the holder of civilization. Biden said “it is time to put Trump in the bulls-eye”… 4 days before he got shot…Then Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” and now: “These are the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the ass”

Why all the anger? Twentieth Century plutocrats set up a worldwide system they called “globalization”, or “free trade”, “world economic forum”… It was pretty much the exact analogue to the system set up by the Roman plutocracy around the Mediterranean, two millennia ago. World reach enabled the plutocrats and their servants to exploit countries around the world, by making local deals with local potentates, while mitigating their own taxes, and becoming such influencers that the official elected leaders are generally little more than figureheads… That Trump risk destroying that system renders them mad. Worse: the fool wants to make nations great again by reducing the global plutocratic activity and striking it with taxes.

Europe pushed the absurdity to the point of financing the establsihment of European companies on the other side of the planet, thanks to taxpayer money. Now not only will those taxpayers’ children have no jobs, except for servicing Chinese tourists, but the taxpayers themselves are “early retired”….

What Romans plutocrats used, 20 centuries ago, is that a jobless Roman can’t even make a revolution… 25 centuries ago, the Plebs, asking for new rights, went on strike. The Patricians then had to submit and agree with those new rights. When the fascist plutocratic empire got launched for good, the Plebs was powerless. The scheme is repeated nowadays. Countries such as France have more than 7/11 of their industrial GDP produced (mostly in) Asia… (How did I get “7/11”? By looking at the CO2 emissions…)

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Now I am a leftist and Kamala, whom I recommended to vote for in the distant past, speaks like me, proposing many of the reforms I proposed, very long ago… And which she seems to have adopted.. Why would I then not vote for her? Because I helped Obama get elected and was rewarded by the exact opposite of the policies I hoped for. The short of it is that I don’t believe Kamala, and I know who is pulling some of her strings (the widow of Steve Jobs of Apple is an example…) She would then reinforce the tech monopolies, and I have public and personal reasons to oppose that.

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By “putting America First”, by raising all sorts of barriers, Trump threatens directly the global plutocratization. The effort was apparently so successful that Biden profited from it, and was (mostly) unable to reverse Trump’s policies. Europe got left in the dust… Making European plutocrats and Eurocrats doubly angry…

Will the US People have the courage to prevent the Deep Elite State from establishing itself further? In any case this revolt is just starting. What we need is real, direct democracy, and not a corrupt machinery of puppet “representatives” who represent only the plutocrats who have animated them. 

Not all republics are democracies. But we have been evoking here a more basic problem. Res Publica and Deep Elite State are incompatible. The republic belongs to the public, not to an elite.

Patrice Ayme

It may be red, but there is still hope… (Gigaro Beach.)


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