We live among a wild-eyed group of fanatics who demand that we immediately stop using oil and natural gas, drastically reduce CO2 levels by closing down our industries, and putting millions out of work, and ending the use of gasoline automobiles, which, they tell us, are to be replaced in short order by electric vehicles (EVs).  If we don’t agree, we’re labelled “climate deniers,” and are accused of trying to kill all Mankind (or should that be Peoplekind?  Or is that also objectionable.  Maybe it should be homosapienskind, or homokind for short, but you can’t say that either, so I guess it’s LGBTQ+kind).  In any event, the Climate Activists (or Greens, Econuts, or just plain nuts) have assured us that if we don’t do exactly as they demand, and now, we have only 12, or 10, or is it 7 years left before the Earth is consumed in fire and all of us are dead.  If that sounds crazy, it’s only because it is.  Most people used to understand this.  When nuts used to walk up and down wearing signs proclaiming the end of the world, we saw them for what they were – Nuts.  I mean, the evidence was right in front of us.  Climate nuts were predicting the end of the world within 30 years in 1970.  For a time, there was talk of a new Ice Age that would kill us.  Then, when that didn’t happen, it was Global Warming.  The problem was that, about 14 years ago, the warming stopped.  First, they published fake graphs to support their cause, and then they renamed it Climate Change.  Whatever they call it, it never comes to pass.  Hence – Nuts.  In our current state, however, the “end of the world” prophets are considered the sane ones, and the rest of us are said to be out of step, dangerous, and fit only for destruction.  Government officials, who once were considered to be reasonable representatives of the public interest, have drunk the Climate Kool-Aid, and are implementing nutty measures to forestall an imaginary apocalypse.  The federal government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize so-called Green Energy projects, which are mostly pork barrel crap.  California and other States have enacted laws which, if implemented, will outlaw the sale of gasoline powered cars within 13 years.  No gas, no diesel, and no hybrid-electric.  EVs only.  Only this, they tell us, will save the planet.  The nuts care not that the planet isn’t going anywhere, that their plans will usher in a world-wide depression and famine, and that, most importantly, it won’t work.  The nuts have decided that they want EVs and only EVs, to reduce carbon emissions.  Every year, they get on their private jets and spew carbon all over the globe, to attend climate conferences, where they congratulate one another on their superior intelligence.  The problem is they’ve missed a couple of important steps. Our Energy and Interior Secretaries have said they want to keep oil and gas in the ground, but they can’t, because oil and gas are necessary to manufacture EVs.  The average gasoline car contains 342 pounds of plastic.  Oil and natural gas are needed to produce plastic.  An EV uses 742 pounds of plastic.  12 years ago, we needed nearly 200 million barrels of oil and 412 billion cubic feet of natural gas to produce plastic.  How much more will be needed for EVs?  Making an EV also requires lithium batteries, cobalt and a number of rare Earth elements, such as neodymium.  Most rare Earths, and 85% of all cobalt are found in China, so they profit from EVs.  China has a lot of lithium too.  We could mine lithium here, but Climate Nuts are against that too.  They don’t approve of mining.  More carbon is emitted to make an EV than in the production of a gas powered car, especially when the components are mined in places like China.  So EVs are not as Green as advertised.  Plus, we’re not alone in the world.  Countries like the UK have EV climate goals too.  A study found that, the conversion of the UK to EVs would require two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper production.  Just for the UK.  We have 9 times as many cars as the UK.  Do the math.   Then there’s that other little problem.  EVs need to be charged – with electricity, which has to somehow be produced.  The nuts don’t want to use fossil fuels, or coal, or nuclear energy to generate electricity.  That leaves wind and solar, and during a miserable New Jersey winter, just wind, and that’s just not enough.   If virtually all passenger cars in Texas were electrified today, the state would need to produce enough electricity to power 11 million more homes.  This added demand would increase electricity consumption by 30 percent.  Costs would skyrocket, and Texas wound up in the dark a couple of winters ago when some windmills froze.  California might require nearly 50 percent more electricity than it currently consumes if passenger vehicles in the state were fully electrified.  Where’s it going to come from?  Oh, and by the way, none of the windmill turbines are recyclable, if the wind blows more than 45 MPH you have to shut them down, and they kill about 235,000 birds a year.  California now has about 15% EVs.  Last week, it got hot and Governor Newsom warned people not to charge their EVs, lest the power go out in 100 degree heat.  So, let’s hear it for EVs – freeze in the winter and croak in the summer.  Plus, as we have seen, there’s no way to produce and maintain an all EV world.  The Climate nut goals are unrealistic, and unattainable.  If implemented, they would produce poverty and a further breakdown of society.  The Leftists know this, and it’s just what they want.  They know all cars can’t be EVs.  The truth is they don’t want gas powered cars or EVs.  They want you dependent on mass transit.  To do that, they have to concentrate people in the cities.  Why do you think the federal government is trying to take over all zoning and is shipping illegal aliens to cities?  The Left doesn’t care about the climate, or the planet, or whether you live or die, so long as whoever’s left votes for Democrats.  The object isn’t clean air, it’s absolute control.  When you’re cold, hungry, and sitting in the dark, you won’t have time to think about what happened to your constitutional rights.