The War on Cars

Most cars and trucks are currently fueled by carbon-based gasoline in internal combustion engines. UN Agenda 21 published in 1992, called for a total replacement of carbon-based fuel use including coal and gasoline. Currently, most electricity is produced by burning coal. 

The replacement of carbon-based fuels with other sources is an expensive proposition that most countries cannot afford to do. The differences in cost are impressive. The cost of producing electricity by burning coal is 2 cents/kwh.  The cost of Wind and Solar is 14 cents/kwh and are unreliable.

The cost of operating cars and trucks fueled by gasoline has improved by increasing miles per gallon from 10 mpg to 30 to 40 mpg for most vehicles and 60 mpg for the Toyota Prius Hybrid. Replacing our current transportation methods involves costs that are unnecessary and unsustainable. Electric cars have limited application and driverless cars and trucks pose an existential threat to the “yellow vest” group.

European countries have resorted to excessive taxation of gasoline for decades to narrow the 12 cents/kwh gap to make gasoline unaffordable, but this has failed.

European governments have used their excessive tax revenue to support passenger trains and public transit and even banned cars in large cities. This raises the cost of transportation by operating public transit that cannot operate without large tax subsidies. Public transit requires very high population density to increase ridership enough to be self-supporting. Public transit employees are unionized, expensive and unreliable.

Those in Europe to continue to have to use cars and trucks to earn a living have had enough and are pushing back with protests by “yellow vest” citizens in France. Facing $7 per gallon gasoline in France should get the rest of Europe to question its policies.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader