The Big Climate Con
The left keeps yapping about how electric vehicles are the big solution to save the planet. But the cold hard truth is that EVs are causing some really bad stuff to happen to the environment and human rights.
Getting the minerals needed for EV batteries is a total mess. 70% of the world's cobalt comes from mines in the Congo. And get this - about one-third of those cobalt miners are just kids! Kids as young as 4 years old are pulling rocks out of the ground with their bare hands so your liberal neighbor can feel good about driving an EV. It's stomach-churning child exploitation.
It gets worse. 15 of the 19 major cobalt mines in the Congo are controlled by the Chinese government. Speaking of China, they also refine 80% of the raw materials used in EV batteries over there, giving them a monopoly chokehold on the supply.
And let's not forget about lithium. The dried-up Atacama Desert region of South America provides a bunch of the lithium needed for EVs. But pulling that stuff out of the ground uses over 500,000 gallons of water per ton! That's choking the water supplies of indigenous people and farmers just so wealthy eco-snobs can virtue signal about their green status symbols.
Even the nickel for EV batteries is a complete disaster. It's either mined using coal-burning furnaces that pollute the air, or extracted with huge ponds of sickening sulfuric acid that gets dumped straight into the environment when they're done.
China's Sinister Takeover Plot
Make no mistake, China is using EVs as a way to take over and bring down America's economy once and for all. By exploiting unethical labor practices and taking advantage of loosely regulated mining, their companies can build crazy cheap EVs while U.S. automakers follow the rules.
Then Beijing pays those Chinese companies to sell the EVs at rock-bottom prices in the U.S. market. Their plan is to undercut and bankrupt American automakers until they're forced to shut down factories across Detroit, Ohio, and countless other communities. Hundreds of thousands of hard-working people will lose good-paying jobs that supported their families for generations. All because liberals would rather let China dominate the EV industry than promote real energy independence here at home.
These EV computers on wheels are also a huge national security risk. In a time of conflict or rising tensions, the Chinese government could easily hack into American EVs and take control. Or even worse - automakers themselves have already patented ways to control and repossess self-driving EVs remotely! Can you imagine the chaos and blackmail potential if China got their hands on that capability to seize millions of EVs at will?
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Sickening Human Rights Abuses
As if ruining the environment and sabotaging American industry wasn't bad enough, China is also using modern-day slave labor from concentration camps to make EVs and their batteries. That's right, innocent Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities are being forced into hard labor to build out China's EV supply chain.
While America transitions to "clean" energy, we're still getting smug lectures from the same liberals who happily turn a blind eye to genocide and child labor just to virtue signal about their electric cars. Such gross hypocrisy from the so-called "human rights" crowd.
It's even been reported that Chinese military companies directly involved in the oppression of ethnic minorities are manufacturing parts and materials for EVs. So American consumers may be unknowingly funding these human rights atrocities with their money.
An Expensive, Unsafe Vanity Project
Of course, EVs don't just threaten your finances and freedoms on a massive economic and national security scale. Even on an individual level, they cost way more money over time and put your family at greater risk on the roads compared to normal gas-powered vehicles.
Those extremely heavy EV batteries make the vehicles up to an alarming 47% more likely to cause driver and passenger fatalities in a collision, according to researchers. The laws of physics make them much harder to control and more deadly on impact.
Not only are EVs more dangerous, but their operational costs will nickel and dime you year after year. Those heavy battery packs make the tires wear out up to 20% faster than a regular car, forcing you to replace them constantly.
And don't even get me started on how those costly lithium-ion battery packs themselves degrade and get weaker over just a few years of use. Many owners are shocked when they have to fork over $20,000 or more just to get a new battery installed after 5 years. So much for these virtue-signaling cars being a long-term, eco-friendly, affordable option.
The evidence is overwhelming that this whole big corporate and government EV push is really just a calculated effort to drain your wallet, kill American jobs, erode our national security, and make the United States weaker and more dependent on China. Democrats and Beijing are lying straight to your face about the true environmental costs, human rights violations, and motives behind this electric vehicle agenda.
It's time to wake up and see this "green" scam for what it really is - an economic sabotage operation carefully constructed to destroy American industrial strength from the inside out. Rejecting EVs, achieving total energy independence, reshoring manufacturing, and putting America first is the only way to protect your finances, your community's future prosperity, and democratic freedom itself from this aggressive attack. The choice is clear.
James Reagan