The Book of Joe Biden: From the ICE-age to All About EV.

With his claim during the Democratic Presidential debates, the front runner chose to pander to his audience with a pronouncement full of foreboding that's sure to bring the punishments of Jobiden down onto the rest of us.

 The full horror of the future plans of the US government, whether run by liberals or progressives, conservatives or reactionaries, is brought front and center by Biden's promise to, "go to a full electric vehicle future by the year 2030".

Now, although it may not be within their comfort zone to contemplate such scientific data, in an article by Lloyd Alter entitled, Upfront Carbon Emissions, he makes it clear that my oft-repeated contention that adding an increased burden of CO2 via the manufacturing of automobiles, which I have detailed in the Cash for Clunkers Obama-era boondoggle, entitled Faith-based Economics, is adding insult to injury: and the insult only exacerbates the already injured party of our ersatz Climate.

The very next day after Alter's article appeared on Treehugger.com, our front-running Presidential hopeful cynically promised that were HE elected president, the US auto fleet of ICE machines, the tires on which the entire country floats to work as though buoyed by the cloud of carbon dioxide gas they emit, would be replaced by EV's in less than a decade, in a mere eight years, by 2030.

The catastrophic front-loading of CO2 into the atmosphere that this gargantuan manufacturing spree would necessitate would put an end to all of our climate fears, as the Weather, the immediate, everyday weather, would make present prognostications of the future calamities awaiting mankind seem tame by comparison.


There are, not surprisingly, more cars than people in the USA! USA!. That's more than 330 million of the billion cars currently plying the world's byway and highways. To produce a replacement fleet in the 9-year span from 2021, when Biden would take office, to 2030, when the entire fleet would be electric, would require a substantial increase in our already suicidal (for human, but GREAT economic stimulus! Yay! 😄😄😄😄😄) rate of manufacture of more than 17 million units per  year. 

In order to replace our over-sized fleet  of ICE machines with SUN (Solar-powered Utopian Nightmare) machines would necessitate the increase by 10 million units a year to 27 million newly-manufactured zoomzoom machines each year for eight years, each unit's manufacture putting more CO2 into the air than the current fleet of machines' full life-time of driving would have put there. While in the interim, those gas-powered cars, which are right now still being produced to the tune of 17 million/year, will still be putting their own carbon load into the atmosphere, with the increased burden of the cost of selling, transporting, and fueling their way into the ICE-age the rest of the world's economies will still be encased in while they go on making the other 18 million ICE machines that make the world's total of 35 million units per annum. 

As documented in my post on EV's, every ton of aluminum robofactured dumps 1.2 tons of carbon into the atmosphere. And for steel, that carbon footprint's even higher: closer to two tons of carbon for every ton of steel manufactured. And cars are composed of a lot of steel. In fact, steel is the most common material in an auto. Approximately 55% of a car's weight comes from steel, according to The World Steel Association. So to replace your average 3-ton SUV, the increase in the atmosphere's burden of CO2 is increased by more than 6 tons for the steel alone. To this must be added the cobalt, lead, aluminum, platinum, rubber, and the transportation of said matériel to where they are used, the Petrochemical plants (fed by the ethane derived from oil obtained by fracturing the earth's crust on a monumental scale) needed to produce the plastic interior, as well as the rubber that meets the road. And that burden of carbon doesn't even include the substantial number of additional power plants, fueling kiosks, and extra-gauge wiring needed to produce the power necessary and transmitted over the hundreds of loss-induced miles to the point where said vehicles will be charged. And that amount is mind-boggling. 

Far from stopping the fracturing of millions of tons of rock in the US it would accelerate it more than stomping on a Tesla gas pedal, and all the talk of Carbon sequestration and Carbon removal from the atmosphere aside, given their lunacy (since each of those processes burns carbon to remove carbon), the weather chaos in the country's heartland would increase to such an extent as to make the Trumpettes' disastrous climate policy, or lack thereof, look tame in comparison. All to mollify Biden's Progressive detractors, the mainstream ranks of the Party being filled with less revolutionary zeal.

So in that one foul promise, Biden has robbed the most most important reason for ousting Trump of its urgency. He has made, by this one fairy-tale pronouncement alone, Trump's re-election not only a certainty, but something his first election never could have been: the desired outcome. An absolute necessity if run-away climate change isn't to result. Because Trump's lack of a climate change plan, his cynical insistence that the very concept is a hoax, is preferable to what Biden has proposed. If we follow the Book of Jobiden we pay it forward: dragging into the present the increase in CO2 forcing that Trump puts off to the future ... where, in terms of disastrous consequences, it belongs. And that takes Biden's pandering to the public to a whole new level.