Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "The War On Cars | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. Thanks, that was good for a laugh.
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  2. Selecting facts that agree with you, selecting studies that agree with you. These kinds of distortions do not help the cause of Prager U.
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  3. Ok, so I guess I have to rebut this nonsense. First, PragerU decided to lump CAFE and electric cars all together with public transport and a borderline black helicopter theory about the government wanting to take everyone's car because it gives you freedom. I'm from LA, I grew up with polluted air, so I back CAFE, and cars generate much less pollution today. That's a good thing. PragerU has an axe to grind for electric cars. The had a previous video ("are electric cars really green"). It was also loaded with distortions of fact. 1. 4 hours to charge. Anti-electric car types love to trot this out because it scares people who know nothing about electric cars. Most EVs can be charged in 30 minutes while on the road. 4 hours or more is the slower rate on a home charger. Notice that you can't have a gas station at your house, so this is comparing apples to oranges. 30 minutes is certainly slower than the 5 minutes it takes to get gas, but it is not 4 hours. And 4 hours is the worst case. You rarely arrive with your battery empty, and so 1-2 hours is a more common case. Further, because you CAN charge your car at home, the correct answer of "how long does it take to charge your car" is 0 hours 0 minutes. As in, you didn't sit around waiting for your car to charge at all. You parked it, it charged overnight. It was ready to go in the morning. This is something you cannot do at all with a gas car. 2. less than 100 miles range. No, there are several cars that have way more range than that, Tesla (for years now), Bolt, and several new cars coming out. 3. Cost $20,000 over time to run an electric car. Complete made up nonsense. 4. Generates more pollution. These kinds of statistics are found by taking the dirtiest power generating states, coal driven, as the power source for charging. Its a standard way to bash electric cars. 5. Rare earth mineral mining is destroying the planet. This is cherry picking articles and statistics that agree with you. Virtually all of these are widely debated.
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