It's just a big power play

Beware: electric vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be.

There’s a well-known quote that goes like this: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In this famous quip, Lord Acton is referring to 'absolute power' in a strictly political sense. But as we witness the denouement of a century of expansive, civilization-changing growth thanks to oil and gas — a staggering miracle by any measure — we see Lord Acton’s astute political observation has been, quite literally, expanded to the physical power grid that fuels our lives.

The tip of the spear in this effort? Electric vehicles.

The highly misguided push by politicians to coerce people into electric cars is not, and has never been, about saving the environment. How could it be? There aren’t enough resources on the planet to build sufficient quantities of electric vehicles to supplant traditionally powered cars at the level we know and use them at present. And that’s to say nothing of the staggering efforts to extract, process, and ship the minerals required for batteries, the massive charging infrastructure that needs to be built, the almost non-existent recycling facilities for batteries, and the general fantasy that by covering the earth with wind turbines and solar panels we’ll generate enough power to maintain our current living standards, let alone power the vehicles. 

But in their full delusion, eco-warriors still try and refute (spuriously or otherwise) arguments like these while virtue signaling that the future of this planet is somehow at stake without a full transition. Setting the debate aside for a moment, the true argument against "electric-vehicles-for-all" comes down to one word: freedom.

The clear and present danger is an agenda to control everything about your life. This plugs nicely into the fact that governments want you to own nothing — including the power stored IN your batteries — and be happy about it. If this seems like the ramblings of redneck, gun-toting simpleton, be our guest and continue blissfully ignoring the contents proposed in California Senate Bill 233 as we march towards an Orwellian hellscape. As California goes, so does much of America.

Bill 233 is a gateway to infinite exploitation by government using “bidirectional capability.” Basically, that means the government is seeking to enshrine its legal power to drain the power in your electric vehicle battery.

In a recent Mises Institute article, Thomas Buckley lays out a succinct critique of Bill 233. He says:

Because the state has decided to essentially go all electric without having the ability to actually provide enough electricity, the climate warriors have gotten a bit creative and now see the millions of electric vehicles (EVs) in the state as tiny batteries to make up for their incompetence.

While this approach allows solons and nabobs to tout their green-a-fides, set even more absurd future goals by assuming things will work eventually, increase state spending to fund such projects, and create an excuse to not actually do anything practical—like build natural gas generators—to shore up the state’s extremely wobbly grid, it does nothing to address California’s self-imposed “energy insecurity.”

Things are well underway. All it takes is some rudimentary internet sleuthing and you’ll discover what independent Tesla fans have already revealed: Model 3s have been stealthily equipped with vehicle-to-grid technology for several years now, even though the grid infrastructure is not quite in place yet. But if that technology is being underhandedly added unbeknownst to all but the geekiest Musk-eteers, what else is being put into place and planned for the transition to electric vehicles? And if it’s such a good thing, why aren’t we all discussing it openly and transparently?

Financial writer and contrarian investor, Nick Giambruno, had some thoughts on the sinister underpinnings of the push towards electric vehicle adoption. Writing over at International Man, he said:

EVs are spying machines.

They collect an unimaginable amount of data on you, which governments can access easily. Analysts estimate that cars generate about 25 gigabytes of data every hour.

Seeing how governments could integrate EVs into a larger high-tech control grid doesn’t take much imagination. The potential for busybodies—or worse—to abuse such a system is obvious.

He adds a real world example to back up his point:

The last thing any government wants is an incident like what happened with the Canadian truckers rebelling against vaccine mandates.

Had the Canadian truckers’ vehicles been EVs, the government would have been able to stamp out the resistance much easier.

The people really in charge do not want the average person to have genuine freedom of movement or access to independent power sources.

They want to know everything, keep you dependent, and have the ability to control everything, just like how a farmer would with his cattle. They think of you in similar terms.

Speaking of farmers, what if it were possible to shut down combines and harvesters to reduce food outputs, or electric transport trucks moving food to market — the results of which might cause food prices to spike, or give governments leverage to control a rioting or uncooperative populace by starving resisters? The possibilities for control over every facet of life and virtually every element of society are possible with the ongoing rollout of a pervasive control grid — electric vehicles sit at the very heart of it. This bleak eventuality is not far off, either. Giambruno summarizes it quite nicely, actually:

Along with 15-minute cities, carbon credits, CBDCs [Central Bank Digital Currencies], digital IDs, phasing out hydrocarbons and meat, vaccine passports, an ESG social credit system, and the war on farmers, EVs are likely an integral part of the Great Reset—the dystopian future the global elite has envisioned for mankind.

A sobering thought, to be sure. Lord Acton warned us about absolute power, and it would behoove us to heed those warnings on all fronts. For now, avoid being seduced by marketing hype and the promise of saving the planet by spending your hard-earned money on your own electric enslavement jail cell, made to look like a car. And, if you want to contribute to reducing your carbon footprint without compromising your personal data and freedom, make smart choices like keeping your car in tip-top mechanical shape, combining errands, resisting the temptation to be a lead foot, and carpooling or ride-sharing whenever you can.

If we can stave off the forced adoption of electric vehicles, we’ll all enjoy our freedom just a little bit longer.