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August 30, 2024


Title: Are Electric Vehicles Worth the Cost?
Topic: Electric Vehicles
Discussed by Dr. Jonathan Lesser
with National Center for Energy Analytics (www.energyanalytics.org/)

Has our government overlooked the enormous physical and economic challenges of attempting to rapidly replicate the fueling convenience of today’s gasoline distribution system with an electric charging cord and plug?

New guest Dr. Jonathan Lesser is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics and the President of Continental Economics.  Dr. Lesser has over thirty-five years of experience working and consulting for regulated utilities and government.

Today, Dr. Lesser discusses his latest report: “Infrastructure Requirements for the Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles”. 

Questions/Issues Discussed:

America is a mobile society and the automobile has been a huge part of that. Has this transformation been a good or bad thing?

How many retail gas stations and gas pump nozzles are currently in the US? Dr. Lesser discusses what will need to be done to transform them to electric charging stations and the massive inconvenience this will cause for every person who owns a vehicle.

What are the mandates requiring all new vehicles sales to be electric beginning in 2035?

Do the majority of Americans want electric vehicles?

How will the EV mandate affect our homes? What is the estimated cost for each family to have a charging station in their home? Dr. Lesser explains that the majority homes (especially older homes) are not built with the capability to charge an EV and how costly it will be for millions of people to replace the current electric panel. This does not even include the outrageous costs for the electric company and home builders!

Has the government considered the extreme financial burden that mandating EVs will place on families?

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Title: The US Governments’ Obsession with Clean Energy
Topic: Affordable and Reliable Energy
Discussed by Mark Mills
with National Center for Energy Analytics (www.energyanalytics.org/)

Mark Mills is the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and a contributing editor at City Journal. Mark is a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s School of Engineering and the author of several books.  Further, Mark is an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents

Today, Mark Mills discusses the American governments’ obsession with “clean energy” and how much it will cost the average American family.

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Questions/Issues Discussed:

Modern civilization heavily relies on abundant, affordable, and reliable energy. However, have innovators created far more ways to consume energy than to produce it?

Has the government considered the costs for infrastructure upgrades nationwide for more generating capacity, transmission capacity, substations, poles, wires, and transformers for electric vehicles? Mark Mills believes that the people making new mandates and regulations are simply naïve, explaining what all this will actually cost and why it will be impossible to accomplish this goal over the next ten years.

Where will the raw materials come from for a totally clean America? Do we even have enough raw material for all that will be needed?

Is anyone in our government listening to the warnings? Mark Mills explains that our elected officials have the power to stop this nonsense, but most are putting their heads in the sand.

Many Western European countries have switched to solar and/or wind energy. What has been the result?

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