The electric car is not now, nor has it ever been, about what “works”. Nor is it even about what the diarist reports as what “might work”. It’s about what our betters say MUST work, without regard to such blase things as market forces, range, reliability, and so on.

All of the so-called “green” solutions were tried over 100 years ago, and were found wanting for an emerging world power; But, today’s Green Statists don’t want to sustain a “world power”. This is why the creaky, fan-blade Prairie windmill is so iconic–, and so antique.

…They’ve never worked for anyone beyond maybe operating a water-well when the aquifer was thirty feet down.