Comments by "S Andersson" (@sandersson2813) on "If Gas Cars Are Banned, Can The Grid Handle Electric Cars?" video.

@themeach011 I'm not against EV's in principle, but they are a sticking plaster on a shotgun wound. The biggest contributors to climate change is not cars or air travel, yet the green lobby treat it as if its the biggest factor and seemingly is the only thing they are interested in protesting. I get why they do it because the pollution is visible from the exhaust, but there's a long list of factors which contribute more to climate change. I'll have an EV when I can get a comparable car to my own one, for the same price, which charges as quick as I can fill it with petrol and which goes the same distance. I don't want to be forced to live somewhere where I require a driveway or garage and be forced to charge over night. Without the same convenience as I have now, why would I bother?
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@Ganiscol I'm well aware that there are thousands of oil related products that we need oil for, not least for tyres and plastics as well as medicines, cosmetics and various other compounds. None of us would last five minutes without oil and gas. The point I am making is that EV's are not especially green, and the focus on electrifying cars whilst ignoring far more damaging aspects and causes of climate change is folly. Of course we have an energy transition, but by the very nature of infrastructure and electricity production, it simply cannot happen quickly and nowhere near as quick as doomsday environmental cults like XR want. Make your childish digs at "oil lobby" if you like, but the energy transition will be slow. As for fuel cells, hydrogen is simply too difficult to produce and too expensive using current technology. I'm just being realistic, so there's no need to throw barbs at me. The environmentalist line of "use renewables" is the equivalent of the Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake" Switching to renewables simply isn't practical for billions of people, and would put them back into poverty if you cut off fossil fuel. The whole environmental movement is pretty much virtue signalling, largely by Europe as long as China, Russia, India, Brazil and America continue to be the polluters that they are. Nothing we do in Europe will make the slightest difference.
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It's generally regarded that the gird has the capability to hold enough energy for the demand, but doesn't currently have the capability to generate it.
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@themeach011 $150 a year? 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 That's nothing. On every litre in the UK about $2 Canadian is tax.
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Have you never heard of rehearsing your lines or editing?
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@Brian-om2hh You can put it on electricity without adding it to other users. Do you see seriously think the technology doesn't exist to show what appliance is using the energy? Have you never heard of smart meters? This would be a lot simpler than putting up road toll stations
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@sudeeptaghosh Why what?
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@davidfrankel9267 It could have been his 500th take. Just saying that repeating a script is not an amazing thing. People seem to have a very low bar these days.
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@leftcoaster67 In what way? The grid has the capacity and headroom to handle more power, but not the facilities to generate enough electricity for the energy transition at present.
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