Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Marjorie Taylor Greene Launches Brutal Attack on Electric Vehicles" video.

  1.  @HaleyMary  The main difference between MTG and an amoeba is that amoeba's have a higher IQ.
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  2. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  3. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  4. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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  5. I hate to break everyone's balls on PART of this. She's actually right that America does not have the energy grid set up for shifting everyone to electric cars and that nobody has a real DETAILED plan to get there, BUT THE REASON WHY there's no plan or progress is because of people like MTG. Remember the now infamous Exxon memo that told their people the plan was to delay all action on climate change for as long as possible? That and other factors, including narcissistic liars such as MTG, are combining into a perfect storm. Here's an explanation sorry if its longish. I'm an Australian engineer who went to college in America. We have the same problem here in Australia and the same problem is in Europe and Asia. This isn't simply an electric car or environmental issue. A few years ago I became aware of how badly Australia's energy grid was being managed. After the 1990s we just stopped building major power stations. By Major I mean those greater than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt). Power plants like Diablo Canyon in California, which is 2256MW and Eraring in Australia, which is 2880MW. Diablo Canyon of 36 years old and Eraring is 40 years old. Most power stations are built for 25 years of life which they extend with rebuilds to 40 or more years. Think about how many of you have cars older than 25 years let alone 40. These are the big power stations that underpin our energy grids and keep modern society running. When I looked around its the same everywhere across the entire developed world. Except in China and a few rare cases we all stopped building new coal fired plants because of CO2 emissions. After Chernobyl and Fukushima everyone stopped building nuclear power plants. The problem has been masked by new wind and solar combined with more efficient appliances and lights, but we are starting to hit limits there. The problem is like we are running towards a cliff and people are too busy playing politics. All of our major power plants are now old and only getting older and less reliable. Here in Oz we are at the cliffs edge with old unreliable power stations. So there's not only a shortage of energy supply just to keep society going we don't have enough energy generation to change to electric cars. That's all before we ask where is all this Lithium to make the batteries coming from. Elon Musk's new mega-battery wont be able to make 3% of what's needed and that's by his estimates. So MTG's right that the infrastructure isn't there, BUT her fossil fuel friends ARE THE PROBLEM with getting it done. If there is one thing I'd fault David on is his oversimplification of the plan. Yes there is a general plan but NO there is NOT a detailed plan and the "devil is in the details." Its very frustrating to be an engineer when other people oversimplify what needs to be done. Things like where's all the lithium coming from for the batteries? And then how are we going to make that many batteries? Who's going to build all these new factories? David doesn't have to answer those questions but engineers do. Sorry for he longish comment.
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