Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "How Electric Vehicles Will Change The Midwest Economy" video.

There's not enough lithium to convert the entire US car fleet into electrical vehicles, they have a limited range that would render them useless for those of us living in rural areas, they don't have enough power for big trucks and commercial rigs, etc. The executives running GM, Ford, etc, will all die as millionaires, but what about the workers who feed their families from those jobs?
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I'm from the Midwest. Clinton DELIBERATELY destroyed our economy with NAFTA, which is why his wife is still hated in this area and why we'd never vote for her for president. What were once prosperous middle-class communities are now full of impoverished meth and fentanyl addicts with no hope for tomorrow. Same people whose strong work ethic and thrift BUILT this country, dispossessed and disempowered. Go ahead, shut down what's left of our manufacturing. The rest of the country turned their backs on us thirty years ago and left us to rot. Just remember this: you're next, because the politicians don't care about you. Billions for Ukraine and not one penny for our own people.
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@rogersmith573 Hydrogen fuel cars are the future. Any country that invests wholesale in EVs is pursuing a dead-end.
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@77Treasurehunter77 Those batteries have a lifespan of a decade under optimal conditions. Maybe five to seven years if you live in a climate with very hot summers and/or very cold winters. Total global reserves of lithium are 14 million tons and we're facing a lithium shortage NOW. There's only enough lithium to produce 14 million vehicles in 2023. The mining of lithium is an environmental nightmare and the batteries can NOT be recycled.
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@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou France and California have already mandated that sale of internal combustion engines cease in the 2030s. I don't know about France, but do you see enough charging stations and power plant capacity being built in California in the next ten years to support this mandate? It's all BS.
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@davidc2838 Norway is one of the world's wealthiest countries and their electrical grid doesn't crash all the time. I lived in California and power outages happen all the time. People who've only lived in the US don't realize that's a phenomenon unique to the US and to Third World countries. No "First World" country has power outages. We are NOT ready for electric cars (and btw Norway only has 5 million people and is a petrostate, so they are an exception, not the rule).
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@bltzcstrnx You just proved my point: batteries can't power electric motors to carry heavy loads without drastically reducing the vehicle's range.
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@bltzcstrnx "Somehow" LOL That's one of hell of a plan. Maybe an asteroid composed entirely of lithium will crash into Earth! You never know! You can't fix stupid.
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@alexcarlone7967 You make such a compelling argument LOL
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