Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "PragerU" channel.

  1. +Tony Boudreau Try asking for some. For starters, this video has no links to their findings what so ever. Unless you find the Union of Concerned Scientists a bunch of tie wasting tossers, Tony, you'll find that they've done an extensive analysis on this report. On lifetime efficiency, and efficiency depending on US state (which can vary from hydro to imported oil). The big incorrect figure is the 25,000lbs of CO2 from the factory. That's insane! That's over 11,000kg. A regular only takes 6 tonnes of CO2 to produce, and a car with a 24kWh battery (as tested by the UCS), only produces one tonne extra of CO2. Where I am in Ireland, the average car (rated unrealistically by the NEDC) gets 120g/km. Over 17,000km in a year emits 2,000kg of CO2. Over the lifetime of an electric car, the USC says an EV can save 53% in emissions, this includes recycling with is a negligible percentage. That's on current US grid, lets remember. Which has a more polluting grid. Car fleet too, but in reality, your average 24mpg isn't very far from out from the real, average economy of 30 - 40mpg here when units are converted. Even over here when we forget what the sun looks like, the like of a 2-panel array can provide up to 30,000kWh per year. That's more than 1500 charges. Just 2,000kWh more than 2 years of a regular household consumption. And in 2013, 39% of owners owned solar panels, and 17% were planning to. To say that plug-ins and panels can't go hand in hand to avoid creating pollution is daft, in case anyone was going to submit it in the first place.
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  2. +Croo ookie I think that figure (dated as hell) comes from the pricing of CO2 per 1000kg. But that's directed at powerplants, refineries, etc... that pump out to the tune of hundreds of millions without any motive to improve efficiency.
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  3. +TRorHemingway There may not be anything tell-tale that's "right leaning", but man, this video is full of engineered tripe, and everyone's eating it up like flies! This video doesn't have factual evidence. It relies on this Bjorn fella with a sketchy history with science, and a background that just spouts any numbers and any image. That Lithium mining slide, for example. Brine evaporation does not look like that.
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  4. Maybe this guy was the reason why the Copenhagen meeting in 2009 failed. This is utter, BS. Totally misleading, and everyone eats it up. PeerView and the Union of Concerned Scientists have already evaluated and ended this conversation. This biggest nonsense is the Lithium bit. Very misleading with nothing backing it up. Lithium salts come from brine evaporation, but this says something much worse, let a lone false. Then there's the start from the manufacturing. The Nissan LEAF only creates 1000kg of CO2 extra for its production. That's a figure that can be saved in less than a year of driving. The Union of Concerned Scientists quotes that electric cars save 53% on emissions in their total lifespan, and only using the US average national grid. Guys, be careful what you are given. Especially when it's a new or unfamiliar topic for you. Stuff like this is deliberately misleading, and sloppy too. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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  5. +TRorHemingway Then why is it trying to portray itself as as something scientific? There should be no political bias in something based on fact and research. Then Prager U should not be excused for manipulating information and feeding rubbish. I really don't go near politics when it comes to science, apart from the barrier outside of it. Such as the communication, or manipulation of science to everyone else who does not have the time to study a single report. That's what these guys are doing. People are going to watch and walk with complete and utter re-written lies. A big smack-in-the-face to Science. Your last paragraph was the biggest failure of global discussions on climate change for almost 2 decades. "But what about him or her, China or the US, they did far more than me". I'm in goddamn Ireland, California most likely mammoths what we produce. Regardless, the only way we could make an international understanding and agreement (which is the first of the flight of stairs) is to all pitch in. That argument is pretty much toxic, irrelevant and offers no progress of discussion. Small countries bickering about the US being the largest emitter in total in history, or China, Brazil or Russia bitching about their economies being strangled. Maybe, the problem is that we put too much value into economies dependent on producing CO2. Thanks goodness we made a basic agreement on COP21, since we currently have the capability of improving all of our sources in energy (the most significant contributor).
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  6. +DesignatedOperator This whole Prager U channel is nothing but a political scam. And so many are eating it up, thinking they're pushing against some tide for some unknown good. Glad I turned on my AdBlock to see the pathetic pattern in their other videos.
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  7. +Croo ookie I know!!! Could they even have the decency to put their findings in the description? They should really look at Health Care Triage. That's the proper way to do it.
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  8. platitudes, bp sun
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  9. +Timmy Tight Pants They won't. That would be going against their own interests. It's like Hillary saying that criminal banking and speculation should not go unpunished.
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  10. Huh... all of those ''classic liberals'' and cuckophiles or alt-fascists or whatever don't really seem to want to point out flagrant propaganda and falsehoods when it agrees with their ideologies.
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  11. +Tom Leonard Of the buyer's own money paid in taxes. It's called a tax credit. Not a hand out.
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  12. Opps, it somehow aged even worse!
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  13. Or maybe it's stealing land from natives, and stealing slaves to work on said land for wealth by growing valued commodities like wool, meat, cotton, sugar, &tc? There may be something else you should be boycotting.
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