Am I going crazy of has the amount of anti-EV “articles” started to skyrocket. Just today, I’ve seen a “Why I’m not buying an EV” concern article, some accusing Biden of killing EVs, “The true costs of buying an EV,” and my favorite: “Study: The True Cost of Charging an EV: $17/gallon.” (That study was funded by Exxon Mobil, lol).
What’s going on? Why is all the EV hate in the media ramping up?

  • Marathon2021@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh wow, that study is amazing.

    First, the wikipedia page for the “Texas Public Policy Foundation” states (above and beyond them being funded by Chevron and ExxonMobil as you point out):

    Fueling Freedom, which seeks to “explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels” by rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change.

    Moral case? For fossil fuels?? I just can’t even wrap my head around that one. Digging up oil is more “moral” than me throwing solar panels up on my roof and collecting energy from the sun?

    In any case … yeah some real whoppers …

    "EV advocates claim that the cost of electricity for EV owners is equal to $1.21 per gallon of gasoline (Edison Electric Institute, 2021), but the cost of charging equipment and charging losses, averaged out over 10 years and 120,000 miles, is $1.38 per gallon equivalent on top of that.

    Somehow they hand-wave from $1.21/gallon to a whopping $17 a gallon … because of “charging equipment” and other things? I mean, gas stations don’t build themselves for free so they can’t be talking about public EV charging / supercharger stations right? And home charging? My wall charger was like $500 for the unit, and $500 for a licensed electrician to install. 1.2c per mile driven for us so far.

    I wonder if this is one of those ones where they say home charging stations are $10k to have installed in your home (there was some ridiculous right-wing comic floating around sometime in the last year or so that depicted that).