So why are we just now getting serious about electric cars, like it is something we just figured out how to do? Read the comments on this hub and you will see this concept has been within reach for quite some time. You know what they call the Shipyard that builds Submarines in the Groton, CT. Electric Boat. You know why they call it electric boat? Because for years they have been building electric submarines, trust me if you can make a Submarine run on battery power, you can make a car a hell of a lot easier. It never has and never will be about the ability. We have been sold this Idea like it is new or revolutionary, we seen the news hype and the pundits running in circles like little hamsters. To bad no one thought to rap a coil of wire around them and put them in a Magnetic Office, then our energy crisis would be over.

I have had the great fortune over the years to be able to go to all the National Labs and see all the wonderful things we have the ability to do. Here is the catch and the rub, all this research is paid for by private business and the Government.

What does that mean? It means, that this entire technology will only see a production floor if it can kill a shit ton of people, or inflict major damage to infrastructure. Or can be marketed for a huge profit. If it doesn’t meet that test criteria, then it sits and gathers dust until someone figures out how to make it do one of those two things, or the best is to make it do both. You get all kinds of Kudos and awards for that, but somehow you never seem to get to share in the profit.

People have a lot of government and industry programmed opinions on what I am about to say next, but, believe me as Sci-Fi as it may sound it is very close to the truth. We have as a nation for many years already accounted for all the contingencies regarding Oils eventual demise. The people I have had the privilege to work with are the best and brightest minds in the world. So here I go. The reason we have not switched from oil is because there is a lot of money left in oil. Only when, and not one minute before, the last dollar is squeezed out of the ground will we bring in other sources of energy. Sadly, this is both good and bad for the country; it is bad because all this money goes to the top, the wealthiest people in the world. It is good in the sense that our lifestyle as we know it comes from all the crumbs that spill off of the Masters table, and as long as the table is crowded there are lots of crumbs. This reality that everyone is hopping around about is just a crumb dropping existence if you think about it.

We have the ability to provide unlimited energy and have had the means for sometime. We do not and will not use it. We will use these expensive job creating methods like solar, thermal, hydro, hydrogen, all of them resource intensive and inefficient, because that will be the excuse for the high prices to the end user. Plus, this government needs the inefficiency to keep people employed to a level that will not cause riots. We live in a FascistState; our government will act in the best interest of the ruling class. That is to sell us on this Idea that if we work hard and do the right things someday will crack open a cold one and all those girls are just going to appear.

Here is the real grabber we have been sold this Idea of Electric cars, like it is a good thing like it will get us off of oil. Trust me, as an Engineer, I tell you that it will only increase the use of oil. Because, no mode of energy conversion is more efficient than about 24%, in your car you burn gas which direct drives your car. For, an electric car, the electricity is produced by burning Oil which heats a drum of water into steam, there are losses in this cycle, then the steam hits a turbine creating rotational energy, there are lot’s of losses here (Tip leakage, Windage, Friction and more). You can search the internet on the Rankin cycle for more info. Then we transmit the energy over miles of line with lots of I²R losses, and then we charge a battery with more losses (called Hysteresis losses and internal resistance losses). Then convert this stored energy which will also be subject to leakage, into rotational energy with a lot of losses again. This will more than double the amount of Oil and Coal needed to power these beast’s and it sure won’t clean up the air, you just won’t be able to see it from your window.

This bailout is a tax grab to give private business the means to use our money to make their infrastructure changes in order to sell us a car that will ultimately cost us more in the long Run, and Increase the Oil Profits as well as the Auto Industries profits and keep a lot of people employed just above the poverty level so the margins can stay nice and high. It is the same old Robber Barron’s using the same old tactics. Then, once Oil is near the end of its life, we will see a whole bunch of Nuclear Power plants crop up using this great technology that makes waste a non issue, everyone will think it is the cat’s ass, but the reality is, we have been able to do it since the 80’s. But, we keep the whole thing mucked up with a massive disinformation campaigns so people are either scared or unsure.

Yes, the collapse of the U.S. auto industry will be harmful to a lot of people; yes this bailout will have the ability to make our car companies at the top of the pile with fresh plants and updated equipment (Which also means fewer workers to operate them). Yes it will give them a huge plus on the bottom line as we the people financed this, instead of the CEO’s having to work with the Bankruptcy Judge with accountability in place, that is exactly why these CEO want a bailout, they do not want to have to answer to an independent appointed authority, they want to answer to their bought and paid for politicians. But, it will not cure our ills as we the people will not share in the increase in value this bailout will give, we will face the same woes the same corporate games, and we will get robbed again and again only each time it will be easier as we have set the precedent. There is a war going on out there, and it isn’t against terrorism, it is a class war, we the people have our blinders, on and we are taking heavy casualties.

You every wonder why you never hear the term class these days, it is all about lifestyle. They keep this façade up, that you to can have it, and all you have to do is get a good education and work hard. It is a Skinner box carrot that is less likely to produce than the lottery. But as long as the rose colored glasses are on, well then let's run for the prize. Anyway, to much soapbox, I just get worked up. My next hub is on the College lie, how we have been made slaves and how they used our children and our hopes for them. to do it.

TMG