I’m sure I’m not the only one who has noticed the falling gas prices lately. Prices have been falling for the past few months. Yesterday, I paid the lowest price I’ve paid in the past 3 ½ years, the club price of $2.67/gallon, down 70 cents in the past six months. Normally, I’d be celebrating and saying how good life is, but I know this is a completely artificial, pre-election price reduction to convince people the economy really is good under the current administration, and we should vote to keep the same people in office. Yea, I’m not falling for it.
Why am I convinced this is just a political game? The US is currently involved in three proxy wars, two of them in the middle east. Normally, this would be raising the prices at the pump from the time the first bombs dropped until long after everyone has gone home. We also have an administration that is 100% hostile to the fossil fuel industry and is actively trying to shut it down. Their so-called green initiatives are pushing solar and wind as the replacement for electric grid power and trying to mandate electric cars only for the country. That’s not going to happen with low gas prices.
Personally, I have no issues with solar or wind for power or electric cars and trucks, as an OPTION. However, I do have a very strong objection to them being forced down our throats as a government mandate. I also know they are not as green or as ready for primetime as the government likes to say they are.
Electric cars have been around a lot longer than most people realize. The first electric cars were invented way back in 1830’s. Rechargeable batteries came in in the 1860’s making them a lot more practical. Innovation has come and gone over the years with cheaper cars with gas engines and cheap gas prices, then gas shortages and higher gas prices pushed the electric car from the spotlight, then pulled it back in later. Environmental concerns now dominate the argument for electrics, even if they really aren’t as green as they pretend. The so called “path to net-zero emissions by 2050” is a lie.
While we do have some truly exceptional electric cars out there right now, I still don’t believe they are ready for primetime. The current class of batteries used for power are horribly heavy, overly expensive and an environmental disaster to mine and manufacture. Battery life is an issue both in the disposal of the hazardous materials and the cost of replacements, often more expensive than the value of the electric car itself. Even the best-in-class electrics suffer from range limitations and slow refueling times when compared to gas powered cars. Cold weather performance, a real concern for those of us in the northern parts of the country, is huge problem.
The promised nationwide network of charging stations, funded by $7.5 billion in public funds from the current administration, has produced only seven stations with a total of 38 charging spots in two years. Charging stations are prone to outages and long lines for those that are in service. Inexplicably, some are powered by onsite diesel generators or connected to gas or coal generation sites, the very dirty technology the electric cars are supposed to be eliminating.
Of course, even if everyone did go out and buy a pricy new electric car right now, the United States power grid would never be able to handle it. Nothing better illustrates this than the State of Kalifornistan who in 2022 passed a new law banning the sale of gas-powered cars in the state by 2035, then just days later told people not to charge their electric cars because of anticipated stress on the California power grid from a heat wave. This in the state with the only power companies in the WORLD that can’t operate electric lines when it’s windy out and shuts them down for “safety”.
Despite the government and environmental activists push, consumers have not been going electric. Major automakers around the world have been pulling back on their electric car and truck manufacturing after losing billions and having huge inventories they can’t move.
So what does this have to do with gas prices at the pumps in the run up to the general elections? It’s purely to convince you to keep the same people with the same priorities in office for another four years.
What’s going to happen AFTER the elections? Prices at the pump are going to start going up, and up and up. It’s not so much a matter of when, it’s how fast and how much. I’m betting it will be immediately after the elections and will steadily rise back to the peak prices we’ve seen over the past 3 ½ years, and beyond.
The why is the easiest to understand. Nobody is going to willingly give up the convenience and reliability of their gas-powered car and truck if they can afford to fuel it. The only way to force people into higher priced, heavy, unreliable, range limited, slow refueling, cold weather adverse, environmentally dubious electric cars is to mandate it and make gas prices so high you have no other option.
BUT… you can’t do that if you don’t win the elections.
Between now and when you cast your ballot on Tuesday, November 5th, I recommend filling up your tanks and gas cans one last time at these nostalgic prices and consider what you want to happen on November 6th.
Vote wisely.
Bob
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