I’ll begin this post by declaring that I do believe that we should be good stewards of our natural resources.  I am for development of technology that creates clean coal, solar and wind energy.  I support recycling and developing new, environmentally friendly packaging.  I think Elon Musk is one of history’s most important inventors and that the Tesla electric car is an engineering marvel.

And I also think the electric car is dangerous.

In the 1970s, scientists were beginning to form ideas about human impact on the environment.  Despite the internet trope that Time Magazine had a cover on one of their publications that said something about “The Looming Ice Age,” they did not.  When I researched if there was an official response to this internet rumor, I found there was one that featured comments from the man that wrote the original Time Magazine article.  

But that doesn’t mean the media wasn’t hyping their own version of the “Looming Ice Age” narrative.  Here are just a few of specific articles I found supporting it:

News articles:
1970 – Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age – Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1970 – Dirt Will .Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
1971 – Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (The Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 – U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 – Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
1971 – New Ice Age Coming – It’s Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1971 – Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight (The Day, November 1, 1971)
1971 – Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)
1972 – Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)
1972 – Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)
1972 – British expert on Climate Change says Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age (Portsmouth Times, ‎September 11, 1972‎)
1972 – New Ice Age Slipping Over North (Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)
1972 – Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972)
1972 – Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, ‎September 12, 1972‎)
1972 – British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 – Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 – Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1973 – The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)

1973 – Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
1974 – New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
1974 – Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 – 2 Scientists Think ‘Little’ Ice Age Near (The Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 – Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (The Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1974 – Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
1974 – Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says (Beaver Country Times, ‎December 4, 1974‎)
1974 – Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel (The Telegraph, ‎December 5, 1974‎)
1974 – More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster (Daily Sentinel – ‎December 5, 1974‎)
1974 – Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 5, 1974)
1975 – Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 – Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
1975 – B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (The Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 – Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator – ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
1975 – New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – There’s Troublesome Weather Ahead (Tri City Herald, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 – Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age? (The Robesonian, ‎March 3, 1975‎)
1975 – The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (The Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 – The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 – Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 – In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1975 – Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal, December 11, 1975)
1976 – The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book] (Lowell Ponte, 1976)
1977 – Blizzard – What Happens if it Doesn’t Stop? [Book] (George Stone, 1977)
1977 – The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book] (The Impact Team, 1977)
1976 – Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1977 – The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 – We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
1978 – The New Ice Age [Book] (Henry Gilfond, 1978)
1978 – Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Winters Will Get Colder, ‘we’re Entering Little Ice Age’ (Ellensburg Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
1978 – Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
1978 – It’s Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, ‎January 17, 1978‎)
1978 – Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1978)
1978 – The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
1978 – An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)
1979 – A Choice of Catastrophes – The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book] (Isaac Asimov, 1979)
1979 – Get Ready to Freeze (Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)
1979 – New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)

…You get my point. Upon further review, the media had indeed whipped up Ice Age hysteria for the entire decade of the 1970s, so I’ll declare victory on this point.  

Scientists figured out that not only is the earth NOT heading toward an Ice Age, but their data showed that temperatures were increasing. So then, Climate Hysterics began sounding the ‘global warming’ alarms.  This lasted for the 1990s and the 2000s.

But once again, Mother Nature didn’t cooperate.  The earth didn’t ‘heat up’ and NONE of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” predictions come true (or even close). There was very little increase in the earth’s temperature - and even a slight decline.

Alas, the radical Left wanted no more egg on their faces, so they invented the term Climate Change, which of course means that global temperatures go up and down like they have for the 5 billion years the earth has been around…

Just like with the CDC and COVID 19, NO ONE can question the ‘science.’  It is too complicated for us mere peasants.  Although the ‘climate modeling’ for so many of these hysterical reports has been proven false or based on the wrong variables, the Climate Hysterics will point their finger at you and tell you that ‘you’re not a scientist!!!’ in hopes of bullying us into silence.  I can point to Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist and climatologist who declares in his recent article, “Why Blaming Recent Warming on Humans is Largely a Matter of Faith.” (www.drroyspencer.com).  He also has an updated chart on the latest global temperatures from 1979 to 2022 and when you look at it, you can’t see much of anything at all. The temperature has gone up slightly and down slightly.  You know, like the weather does!  

But Dr. Roy Spencer isn’t the ‘right kind of doctor’ nor the ‘right kind of scientist.’  According to the Climate Hysterics, 99% of all climatologists agree that we are in End Times unless we expand government, which of course will save not just the earth, but fix everything!  

So how does all this support my “Case Against Electric Cars”?

While indeed, I think electric cars (Tesla in particular) are an absolute engineering marvel, they are fully dependent on …electricity.  Where does our electricity come from and how is it manufactured?  Well, our electricity comes from highly regulated, incredibly powerful, quasi-governmental monopolies that are controlled by an elite few oligarchs (private citizens and politicians). Their product (electricity) is made by burning coal.  

California Governor Gavin Newsome signed an executive order N-79-20 on September 23, 2020 that bans the sale of internal combustion engines for cars and pickup trucks in California by the year 2035.  I find this to be absolutely incredible considering California cannot keep the electricity going on a normal, hot August summer day without rolling brownouts that inconvenience its citizens, let alone ban fuel burning cars for ‘green’ electric ones.  

We also must suspend the notion that electricity doesn’t rely on coal burning in order to generate electricity in the first place.  

But the final and most important argument against banning the internal combustion engine in favor or ‘green’ electric cars is this:

What happens when the government decides to selectively cripple an opposition political party (or anyone that disagrees with them), when they decide to shut down the power source for all our electric cars?   

We’ve seen a Presidential Administration politicize the IRS and target conservative taxpayers under the Obama Administration.  Had the IRS been tasked with harassing and mis-using their power against Leftist Democrats under a GOP POTUS, we would never hear the end of it.  Alas, conservatives are fair game for all seedy, Leftist attacks.  

We’ve seen a Presidential Administration leverage the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and the State Department to wage an illegal war on the Trump presidency for 5 years.  

So before you rightly scream, “Tim, you’re a conspiracy theorist!!!”, understand that at every point that I’ve railed against the corruption of Big Government, Big Business, Big Pharma, Big Tech and Big Education, I’ve been right.  

The media has complied with our Leftist governmental wackos and they’ve been lying to the American people since the beginning of time.  Our ‘educators’ have been pushing the Climate Hysteria Agenda and today, our young people suffer from anxiety and depression because they think AOC is right and the earth really is going to implode in 13 years.  

So my Case Against the Electric Car goes something like this:  if we are all dependent on electric cars and the government has total power over the electrical grid, they can turn your ability to get to work, the grocery store or your Mom’s house off on a mass scale, very quickly if they don’t like what you are saying, doing or thinking.   

Therefore, while I completely admire the Tesla for what it is, I shan’t purchase one and will rely on developing technology that will make the internal combustion engine cleaner and more efficient, not narrowing our opportunity to travel about freely in the name of a political virtue.  The threat of a tyrannical government has never been higher than in the past 5 years.  We saw the democrat party collude with the media and started burning and looting our cities, then unleash a global pandemic in order to manipulate their way into power.  Don’t for a minute think that they wouldn’t turn your cars off if you step out of line and challenge them.