Well it's all over the web which a simple search will tell you. depends on insolation and who much is electric energy versus other types of power. Here in Australia it's about a thousand sq km for total electrical load.

Wait what? Then how is 20% of electricity renewable!? Is 40% of America covered in solar panels!? Are you trying to mislead people?

You should had left that solar panel video. All that free electricity paying it self again and again would have been an hilarious backfire to your gas and oil employers Lol 😆 😂 🤣

John, what are the advantages? How about a full story from both sides. Give us the facts and let us determine our opinions.

Double the electricity grid to provide the charging capacity for BEVs. How much to replace the heating with oil and gas with inefficient heat pumps. The UK government wants to fit a million heat pumps a year over the next decade. The UK National Grid says we only have capacity in the grid for 900,000 total.

Yep. John the gatekeeper has to stick to the controlled opposition plan...

Yes! They want peasants to quit driving and be cold in winter and hot in summer, while they fly on private jets all over the world for vacations alot and go in their mansions... If gov really care about env, Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies. And maybe gov should start with gov cutting back since gov is one of the top polluters and energy/oil/gas/and electricity users. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly.

This person gets it.

No, it's a path to freedom by generation your own power and driving with it, as I do with my solar panels and EV. I haven't paid for slave gasoline in several years and pay no power bill. Totalitarian control is when the few oil companies and power utilities OWN your ass.

Bingo! We have a winner. Moving people to the cities is key to this plan. The world is devolving, while some believe it is progressing.

👍. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

Wrong! Listen to politicians. Just because you hear someone's words, that doesn't mean you have to go and jump off of the ledge they just said you need to jump off of. But every once in awhile, you can accidentally stumble upon an honest politician, or a good person who is a politician. And you do it by doing the same thing. Listening.

@@bvegannow1936 or. Stop Desiring or expecting or finding yourself needing anything from the government. Because even in giving that to you, they will screw it up and screw you over.

and bureaucrats!

@@mgtowdadKZfaqSucksCoxks honest politicians either lose elections or are slandered by the MSN..

Correct,they will isolate themselves while the poor suffer.We already see this with crime and immigration,they have armed guards and kicked ilegal aliens from Martha's Vineyard very quickly.

Well enjoy your horse and buggy while everybody else rides by you enjoying technology and actually using their brains. And just remember that over 70% of America's gross domestic product comes from progressive states. But you're probably a loser and don't really wanna hear that.

And they will still fly everywhere burning fuel.

@@lindaprice768 well he is busy running an economy that is about the fourth largest in the entire world. Newsome rocks! And don't forget that over 70% of the gross domestic product in the United States comes from progressive states! Republicans don't know their head from a hole in the ground.

Don't worry, the electric trucks won't have "Truckers" to testify...

Insightful clever comment.

The same thing has been happening with medical care politicians thinking that they are doctors

@@jimcaldwell2755 Don't forget the real doctors that have to agree with those employers that are funding them!

@@jimcaldwell2755 It's totally mercenary: The elites are creating an energy monopoly. It doesn't matter if it works for the people, it just needs to maximize profits for the few... And WAY too many of us refuse to see what's right in front of us.

now the politicians think they are doctors by deciding if a pregnancy should be terminated or not.

I wish all the lemmings would do some research and come to this conclusion. You, my friend,are correct!

youtube and legacy media ensure these educated idiots dont get the info they need lol. Many these days lack the common sense to boil water let alone read an analog clock.

Not about efficiency? More gas huffer babble. Only 12% to 30% of the energy in gasoline is used to move a vehicle, with most of the remaining energy lost as heat. With EVs, over 77% of the energy in electricity is converted into movement when including regenerative braking. Now, your turn. Explain in a coherent way, with evidence, how a different way to turn wheels is some sort of plot for a one world order.

and oils wasnt about control?? they control the world with oil they dictate when your economy goes up and down to suit them

@@headstashmusic3897 How much does mining of precious metals consume fuel and affect the environment? or producing the batteries? or discarding them or recycling them? and how much fuel do you need to create the energy to charge your car? how long does the car even last when the battery goes bad and is cheaper to buy a new one? I could go on and on. I think its time for you to go and get boosted.

My experience also.

Then they will just have to *force* us to buy them. And you know they will.

I am not forced into buying anything.

The cars are crap trucks even worse !

@@deathevokation1017yet

Englishman, Thomas Savery!

@@ThomasLee123 longer ago than that, i believe it was arcemedes. the steam jet turbine, just a prototype to prove theory but still a stem engine.

But not enough appreciation to know his name?😏

@@jswhosoever4533 do you know the inventors name on every product you like??

@@maddhatter3564 sure don't...but I don't leave comments about them either...the irony was funny to me. It wasn't serious as shown by the emoji I left with my comment.😜

I’ve come to the conclusion that the government won’t be happy until we’re living in caves again

True. This is what Joey and Kamala have in store for us all.

This is why the government will only pay for 75% of your solar panels.

You're lucky you had other options of heat and warmth. Had those natural gas and gasoline powered options NOT been available, you may not be here to voice your concerns. Thanks for the update. We need options and NOT mandated "electric only" appliances/vehicles.

Most of them are just useful idiots at this point.

And that explains the problem.

As an engineer this made me smile.

I disagree. I think the best line is "we're going to need everything," which includes EVs. The world only has 45 years of Proven crude oil reserves left at current consumption levels. (EIA) Tesla was launched in 2001. It took 22 years to get where we are with EVs and there's a long way to go. Anyone who cares would want to conserve crude as much as possible.

@@IndependentThoughts911 "The world only has 45 years of Proven crude oil reserves left at current consumption levels." Utter nonsense! In 1979, it was predicted that we only had 65 years of oil. In 1999, it was again predicted that we had only 65 years of oil. No one knows how much oil there is, and no one knows what technologies will be invented to locate and extract more oil.

That explains everything

Yeah, if you like BS

John uses simple commonsense to deliver the truth!

You forgot to mention opaque elections with secret proprietary voting machines easily manipulated in either direction in a two party system.

This is why I hold a distinction between a politician and a statesman. Politicians are more or less as you say. Statesmen are those who old the same political positions as politicians, but care more about doing their job than getting reelected (and before anyone says anything, no, JFK was not a statesman). edit: Minor addendum, a statesman might be good or bad at their job, but at the very least, they are actually trying to do their job.

@@whyjnot420 Either way, you’re still gonna run into the problem of the well-intentioned statesman causing more problems than they solve. Unfortunately, good intentions are no shield against bad results.

you forgot "they are elected because they are good at . . . lying and cheating".

hmm, actually it depends very much on which facts fool you the most. For instance the fact that you would need 2x of US area covered in solar panels to produce all the energy used in US, or the fact that 12% of used energy in US is already renewable and if that number is multiplied just by 8, the entire US energy needs would be met; or the fact that specifically for all electricity used in US you would only need 1000 sq.mi of solar panels to produce. ...all are true, but just the first is mentioned in this video. Another easier to understand fact: off grid, with a modest 5kWh solar panel system you would be able charge your electric car the equivalent of 100miles every sunny day for free.

Divide and conquer.

Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

I believe it was Eisenhower who said "whenever I am confronted by a tricky problem, I simply make it bigger".

for politicians to separate people from their money ...

@@JH-ex6mb pull the reverse uno card. Divide & conquer THEM

Well researched meaning talked to one biased expert?

Yes. And, OF COURSE, steal more taxpayer money to pay for THEIR GREED AND IGNORANCE.

I'm sure they'll tell us all we need to forgive each other. Green Energy Amnesty has quite the ring to it, doesn't it?

@@wtfserpico Ring, Ring.., just like Xi Ping?

My Dad told me when I was 13, "the ONLY good politician is a DEAD one". I did not know what he was trying to tell me, NOW I know. :(

They are doing it now with Covid...

You forgot $15 hr to make a BIG Mac 😊

In california they want to take everyone's firearm so they can force the citizens to buy ev's.

I think a Big Mac just went to $20.

i dont like the culture that go to MCd so i learned not to eat that craps it not worth the time to shit it out

Except the illegals and the welfare minorities.

(5:17) _systems designed by bureaucrats instead of by engineers_

Except California basically has no base load requirements any more and hasn't for some years. Its not even a question... its in the data. Have you looked at the duck curves on the CAISO? Particularly in spring? There are periods where traditional base-load-capable sources fall below 3GW of generation with evening ramps that are insane. For example, take a spring day... May 10th 2022. About 27GW of peak demand. 16GW 3-hour ramp starting at 5pm and only 5GW of traditional base-load-capable generation on. Not to mention 80% renewables across the mid-day with non-renewable sources falling to 3GW. That is what the system is capable of doing now. And its doing it essentially without any real base load requirements. The state doesn't even need to carefully match traditional generation sources (mostly natural gas and imports) against load during the peak evening ramp, even though the traditional sources are handling most of the ramp. It just needs to be within a gigawatt or so and the 3GW worth of batteries with what I'm guessing are around 20mS response times take care of the rest. Literally. This isn't the grid you knew 22 years ago.

The ignorance of the populace in general is frightening . Just look how we vote !! Our children and grandchildren will never see the America us older folks experienced ...

The problem of peaker plants was solved in Australia with huge batteries reserves. California is building battery reserves that will dwarf the Australian ones. All that excess solar and wind power that doesn't get used can be stored to take the place of spot spikes in energy usage when the sun is down and wind isn't blowing. Golden age is already here. We just haven't gotten to the middle where everything is gold.

And those battery storage facilities are pretty expensive for the power they store. Yes, it is better than nothing and should be used as a bridge to the future, when better electrical storage means become available, but the cost to extract, refine and produce the battery active material to build storage batteries will be pretty large and it will damage the environment. Digging ore from the ground always does.

When "Science" becomes God, you know you are in for quite the propaganda-fueled ride!

I liked the part when the girl threw soup at a painting and saved the planet

I agree with this statement, but it doesn't justify the MANY inaccura ies in the video. We should be using accurate facts unlike the nuts he's attacting, not equally stupid exaggerations like he has in this video.

@@justoncheney7172 What are the inaccuracies?

Got to love people who don't see anything wrong with huffing exhaust fumes.... They're definitely the more educated ones, amiright? Lol

Ya well this is what you get when no nothing children are in charge of running the country!! 🙄😡

@Advanced Driving Yes, the most idiotic claim in this video is that we need to cover the entire U.S. with solar panels to meet our energy needs. The true number is a tiny portion of one of the 50 states. Anyone with a fully electric car and home does not need to even cover their entire roof to meet the energy needs, let alone their entire yard, let alone the entire expansive empty space in the country.

We could easily fix this problem by "plugging in" all the eco-activists into the Matrix that could provide free electricity to the rest of us while they "live" in their computer created fantasy world.

@@dmacm looking into it, I found estimates all over the place.

@Advanced Driving Pick a time slot?!?! I don't want to take time to "schedule" a time to charge my car. What if my plans change? What if I have something important come up? When I need power I want it on my schedule not the charging station! And have you been on the major hi ways lately? They are busy busy busy, with thousands of cars across the nation traveling our great interstate system. They aren't charging at home. Charging at third party chargers is inconsistant and very slow. If the charger even works at all.

your an engineer and you couldnt spot the falsifications in this?

@@socoj2 like what?

@@Zure467 I would tell you to read my comment but I think it's just better if I copypaste it there for you to easily skim through it: =*=*=*= The majority of the claims made here against renewable energy are disingenuous at best and some are outright lies. A few examples: · 1. The solar panel claim is completely false. The most the US grid has demanded in an hour is 720 gigawatthours. Even in winter, which is obviously the season with the least sun, an average square meter of US land will get around 3kWh energy/day from the sun (on summer, it's more like 8 and the numbers are obviously higher for sunnier states like Arizona). 3kW/h per day is 125 Wh. Now, accounting for the fact that solar panels harvest around 15% of the solar energy they receive and even accounting for the fact that some space would have to be left for other infraestructure to support solar (let's be quite pessimistic and say only 75% percent of solar infraestructure area is solar panels), the total area required would be: 720,000,000,000 Wh / (125 Wh/m^2 * 0.15 * 0.75) = 51,200,000,000 m^2 = 51,200 Km^2. And the US is 9,834,000 Km^2 big. In fact, Texas alone for example is 695,662 Km^2 big. So, even if we put ourselves at the worst-case scenario (record demand in december with innefficiently placed and badly located solar panels), all the solar panels required to cover the demand would fit in 0.5% on the US or like less than a twelfth of Texas. I've just checked and my result agrees with studies such as a 2013 study by the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL), which estimated (with 2013 efficiency numbers) that the area required is around 55,037 Km^2. Not that you would want to do that, it would be stupid to only use a single energy resource and call it a day, but it demonstrates how big of a lie the statement was. Solar is more than efficient enough to be viable · 2. No person that actually knows something about energy will tell you that we need to cover all of our storage needs with lithium-ion batteries. Batteries work well on a small scale (like phones, laptops, housing appliances, cars or maybe even as backups for homes). Despite of that, they are really innefficient and expensive on a larger scale. There are other methods (like gravity-based water pumping, electrolizers or air compresion, just to name a few) that are much better suited for the task of storing large amounts of energy, and those are the ones that would be used as energy storage and taken into account in a clean electrical grid. · 3. "But wind and solar are so unstable and that makes them unviable". Wind and solar, are not the only CO2-free tools that we have. In addition to the energy storage already mentioned, nuclear and hydroelectric energy (and with less importance, geothermal energy) provide a stable stream of electicity at a competitive cost while generating practically no CO2 emissions. Studies such as N. Sepulveda J. D. Jenkins et al. (2018), "The Role of Firm Low-Carbon Electricity Resources in Deep Decarbonization of Power Generation" have concluded that combining renewables such as solar and wind with energy storage (like the ones mentioned in 2) and with these stable sources of power would be confortambly be able to cover 100% of the elecricity demand while producing practically no CO2 and while not raising the costs of electricity. In fact, given the war in Ukraine, how OPEC is jacking up fossil fuel prices and other geopolitical factors that won't fade away soon, we'd be much better of if our main source of electricity weren't fossil fuels. Renewable electricity prices have now been consistently cheaper for many years, but specially now. And there's many more things that I've seen being wrongly claimed in your videos, but this one was the straw that broke the camel's back, almost nothing contained in it was based on reality, but in a false imaginary world taht we don't live in. If you want to keep making content like this, fine, you can do so, but know that you are simply promoting lies and false information to your audience. It's never too late to accept a mistake like this. I personally also think that electric cars aren't a good solution for transporting people, but because cars themselves aren't a good option and have never been (that's another thing that the US doesn't get). In my opinion, you are defending the right thing but based on completely wrong premises and information. Electric cars won't solve climate change, they probably won't even help that much at all. But don't defend that with lies; you are just making it easy for those that think they are useful for dealing with climate change (or at least they say so in order to appear 'green' or for personal or monetary gain) to defend their (quite wrong) position. =*=*=*= That should clear it up

the blantant miss statement that if we covered the entire US in solar panels it would only cover half our energy needs. Was an erroneous report put out by EPRINC then corrected but they never pulled hte paper so people like Milis can run with false information and people never check it.

@@adrianv.v.4445 All this doesn't matter as co2 is not a problem and not likely to be any time soon there's no climate catastrophe comming soon due to global warming, just natural cycles that we should adapt for and have plenty time to so.

something=everything

The truth is the anticlimactic deniers are holding the country back at great harm to the US. Luckily we helped fund Tesla or we would be even farther behind. Less than 6% of new cars in the US are EVs but the climate change / science deniers are having a conniption! BTW China is a 36% of new cars and Europe is over 19%. But people like John Stossel think they are some kind of conspiracy. He is too dumb to know he is trying to harm our country.

@@gregkramer5588 Fool. Your govt is taking all of your freedoms from you based on lies which you obviously believe. Tell me, why hasn't the ocean levels buried the coastlines all over the globe? Why do they manipulate climate data to obtain an outcome? Why are carbon levels barely above where they were hundreds or thousands of years ago when testing ancient artifacts? Truth is you're being manipulated and it's YOU who is causing the destruction of the world as we know it. Do some research of the strip mining needed if everyone were to drive electric vehicles. Of vourse feel free to respond but do not expect me to reply, people like you are lost causes and won't realize they've been duped until it's too late. Oh yeah, govt screws up everything they touch. If they didn't then why do they have to make back room deals and pass laws under the dark of night? It's because they can't pass them on merit because they are based on bologna. Good day.

Loved with a coal furnace as a kid. My oldest brother and I had the job of hauling out the klinkers to the alley. Where we had to jump up and down on them to crush them up. My youngest brother lives in the house now. Alley is still in good shape. True recycling. Coal to klinkers to roadway.

Loved with a coal furnace as a kid. My oldest brother and I had the job of hauling out the klinkers to the alley. Where we had to jump up and down on them to crush them up. My youngest brother lives in the house now. Alley is still in good shape. True recycling. Coal to klinkers to roadway. Oh, also from southern Illinois. 64 years old.

Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

@@bvegannow1936 I'd love to grow my own food, except that's what we call a "farmer" . It is a full.timr occupation

With this logic they would have stopped making cell phones in the 80’s and flat screens in the 2000’s just because they started out expensive. Technology adoption follows falling cost curves until its affordable for everyone. Read Crossing the Chasm to understand this better.

@@drewgoodman7932 Cell phones and flat screens weren't mandated by govt. They were chosen by the market.

@@bvegannow1936 Who is stopping you from growing food on an acre of land? Must be California or Oregon.

and also many extremely dangerous chemicals are used to make solar panel, in China NO regulations are followed to dispose of those extremely dangerous compounds

@@pablopicaro7649 Every time you hear about solar panels becoming cheaper, just know that it’s a lot cheaper to dump chemicals into waterways and force children to work in your factories than hire Union workers in the US.

Economies of scale-as China mass-producing anything the price per unit goes down. Outcompeting China is impossible without actual will to invest billions in local production and resource extraction. Instead they're invested in purchasing panels and getting kickbacks, and to lobby these decisions.

@@VladK-1 it’s also impossible due to the restrictions countries like the U.S. have on energy and other environmental agency restrictions that don’t exist in China. Which allows their startup companies to be more profitable (on top of cheap labor and tariff rates) at the get go, before taking into account of the resulting economies of scale.

@@grantduke318 Democrats and RINOs have been slowly strangling our sources of energy for decades. Nuclear reactors would solve many of these issues but that is just one more thing, those who have a blood lust to control us, have killed off.

EVs plummet in value faster than ICE just buy a 3 year old vehicle for 70% discount

And then replace it's batteries for $30,000.

why do you think ABC wanted him gone?

Be skeptical of everyone including Stossel. Think for yourself as difficult as it is.

I have solar panels on my house and my electric bill is less, but I don’t think I can plug in a car.

@@tyronmegawatts6580 I'm bit of a petrol head, crotch rockets of my youth to 'old fangled' BMW M3 with screaming 9k revving V8 today. Petrol is still crucial and I hope to be able to afford it in 2030, but for the 1st time since the automobile took American streets, the cost per mile changes, will drop by 4X (roughly--depending on local petrol vs electric costs) and you just plug in at home happy to never visit a gas station nor oil change or other maintenance. Mid class and lower will be chief beneficiaries of reduced transport costs.

@@tyronmegawatts6580 IDK your situation but I expect to power home and BEV off roof solar for new home build here in N. Commifornia sun.

Yup. They'll also still be eating high end steaks while we "enjoy" our veggie burgers.

95% of all EVs are still on the road, the other 5% made it home.

​@@williamfreeman6935 you will have nothing and we'll be happy?

They can break pandemic rules too 😔

@@williamfreeman6935 The world population has more than tripled in my lifetime. Keep breeding then way we are and a larger part of the population will need to be on veggie burgers.

Utopia* not dystopia

@@redgrengrumbholdt2671 He said it right you read it wrong.

But I don't understand it. Why would it be easier to sell an " an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic" than a better version of real life?

I know... to think people could fly or go faster than a horse is literally.... oh wait, science overcame those problems 😊

yes without a major breakthrough battery tech is close to its peak.

@@mj8495 The difference is that none of those violated any laws of Physics. I've seen arguments just like this dozens of times and it is fallacious.

My simple idea is spin the battery, compensate 4 weight,

​@@mj8495Science based on those laws of physics,none of which were violated.Your point was?

Dar - We love they way you folks run your elections. LOL. 🤣

@@skippylippy547 Chaotic beaucracy at its best 👌

It's like wind farms. Apparently about 3 in 1,000 windmills just burst into flames each year - though that is almost never mentioned. Look when taking a road trip, you'll see charred ones.

Where was this 2 week battery fire?

@@1KentKent In Chandler, AZ at a SRP project site with AES Battery Warehouse

Windmills and solar panels are only good for smaller populations. Very small populations. Why do you think the great die off has been enacted.

sounds familiar! We had a whole city near me without power for two weeks. Generator installs blew up after that fiasco (my husband’s an electrician). People were struggling after the first week, thankfully communities helped each other out. But there is no excuse for leaving people without power for that long in a state like CA.

I live in SWFL, when Hurricane Ian hit the electric went out all over. No pumps. No traffic lights. It was total chaos. It was great for me cause I ride an ebike and didn't have to wait at the intersections for minutes like usual

Yeah they don't tell you that for the safety of linemen working on your wires during a blackout, your grid-tied solar panels are shut off unless you have a battery back up for the whole house.

"We wouldn't have been able to do that with solar arrays and battery banks." Huh? If you had solar power, you could not only run your household electric, you could charge your eV as well. During the "snowpocalypse" in Texas a couple of years back, when power went out for days, we had no problem running our household electric and charging our Tesla. I can't figure out why you think someone who uses solar power would give a damn if "PG&E" (or any other power company) cut power since we rarely or never use grid power? For people who have solar, the local "grid" is nothing more than a place to sell excess capacity and maybe use as a backup. And I'm not sure what any of this has to do with generators? You can have a generator with or without an eV. I've got two Teslas and two gas generators.

Definitely!👍🏿

As a kid I couldn't wait to see his segment on 20/20 w Braba Wawa.

Did you say Leg End?

Here here

A national treasure

@@ilovepinktacos I'm not in NJ, I'm not even in the same country (or for that matter, hemisphere), so don't tell me what's true or not in my life please mate

Sorry then, mostly people who watch as Stossel are in the North America. But then again, poor infrastructure is not good for EV cars, hence I purchased a Tesla and they infrastructure is the best so far. I get at least 200 miles per 80% charge. I think you buddy had a Nissan leaf that gives only 30 to 40 miles per charge. They would need to think about trip planning if they were to make a road trip in a EV vehicle. Have a great day.

@@ilovepinktacos No problem, thanks for your kind and considered response, you have a good day too. I'm in Australia, my friend was driving from Canberra to Melbourne, my house is about 50 miles from Melb. I don't know what car he has. I'm also not sure what my daily cost of electricity is, but my wife has an app that showed the big spike

@@ilovepinktacos 200 miles on 80% charge ? How many days would it take you to travel 500 miles ?

@@ilovepinktacos yeah but teslas are the luxury cars of electric cars, not everyone can afford them

Thank you for your rational, clear informed response. Two term limits. First term office Second term life imprisonment

I agree with you 100%,these know all government policy wonks,almost all of them Democrats, need to sit down and shut up,and let the people who know what they are doing,actually producing electric power, run things,most of these policy wonks have never had a real job producing anything,and are least qualified to speak on anything.

@@hubertwalters4300 Thank you Hubert :)

I agree. ignoring experts, our "leaders" have unnecessarily put us through pain over and over.

"Fossil fuels (coal, oil and NG)" are making up all kinds of lies, bad policies, and even outright threats to avoid fighting pollution and to maintain their huge profits. I'm from Texas and have personally seen the damage to our atmosphere, water, soil, agriculture, and infrastructure that the petroleum industry does

True. At least a hybrid would make more sense than electric for many, but ya. They want peasants to quit driving and just be cold in winter and hot in summer, while they fly on private jets all over the world for vacations alot and go in their mansions which probably use way more energy than average americans... If gov really care about env, Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies. And maybe gov should start with gov cutting back since gov is the or one of the top polluters and energy/oil/gas/and electricity users. Especially regarding wars and military. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly.

You may consider it earlier if it ends up costing you $400 to fill up your tank. The free market will decide, and the future is indeed electric, regardless of what any politician wants.

@@jimmaag4274 IF it were left up to the free market (which it's not) the future would most certainly not be electric.

That would be an amazing amount of power to transfer to a battery in 5 min.

@@jimmaag4274 the free market? You obviously don’t have any idea what that term means considering there hasn’t been anything remotely resembling a “free market” regarding electric cars. Government subsidies allowed Tesla to exist at all, rebates allow for the somewhat decent sales numbers and the social/political pressure campaigns have all but shamed any who point out that this isn’t the best solution.

80's too, but not as boldly as he is now- he was more reserved then.

@@jackson5116 He was restricted by the network then.

It's funny, I wasn't truly aware of media bias until the late 90s, and even then I thought Katie Couric was a good journalist, but I always knew Stossel was different. When I watch him I knew I was about to see some truth bombs.

and what did it cost him to re-charge.......lots of complaints about that where I live

Not to mention the time waiting around to charge

​@@davesevens7286Or finding a place with either a pull-through charger so you just can power up and go or enough space to disconnect and park your trailer (always fun!) so you can back your truck into a charging space.

I saw that too. He didn't realize the power drain it would have on the battery. Btw, have you seen the 9k lb EV Hummer?

​@@chfpontiac5849As a matter of fact, I think he may have mentioned having to unhitch to go charge.

They unverstand very well. They plan on owning it themselves and gouging forever.

They no exactly what the plan is and it's not to replace it's to remove entirely for the average man

AL Gore🤡

Politicians survive on catchphrases and willful public ignorance

pollyticians undersdtand nothing about nothing - except what is required to garner votes - end of!

Yes!

This is condescending elementary view of subject. ECONOMICS will rule and that's proven to be BEVs, simply a matter of pennies per mile. Doesn't matter if you disagree the market place will tell the truth. Relax, let it play out.

@@Mrbfgray The point of this issue is that our politicians aren't letting the market place set the standard. In California, where I unfortunately live under the dictatorship of a Democrat supermajority with Far Left ideologies, only electric vehicles will be available by 2035 while the power grid infrastructure can't handle the few EVs we have on the road now.

@@mmurph2686 Yeah like when the scourge of air conditioning was released on the USA, massive increase in grid demand over a decade. I imagine we can continue to survive change for the better.

@@mmurph2686 The political climate is abysmal here in Commifornia. The 3035 mandate is a joke, the transition will happen before then anyway but tyrant Newsom will claim credit for what he had nothing good to do with. No one will want a new ICE in a few yrs. The grid will adapt just as it did when air conditioning was adopted over a ten yr period requiring 30% more electric. I intend to power everything off my own roof as will many.

Precisely

@@ReconditeDeity 2A says: Try it, prick. Watch what happens.

I would love to see some math to back up your statement. Similar to this video, no references and no math don't cut it with me.

Absolutely

Politicians, because so many are scum of the earth lawyers, think because they write laws, they can write laws to repeal the laws of physics.

@@Dedread 1st, you’re not smart enough to understand the math. 2nd, the videos that support what you believe don’t show any math either, it’s just your confirmation bias pretending that they have some kind of objectivity. 3rd, if you actually cared for the environment, you‘d do the research yourself instead of whining that nobody is good enough to educate you.

Yes, you are right !.

Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies. Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly.

Yup. Only brainwashed, low intelligent, uneducated idiots think that c02 controls weather patterns and makes them more intense. Yet, they have no factual evidence/proof to support their claims. Just another case of the hysterical blind leading the blind.

And when one of them rips through a solar or wind farm etc, the results will be intense.

Bad weather is no sadder than it's always been. What is really sad is that all the chaos and destruction being caused by switching is making things worse.

@@bvegannow1936 Sounds good in theory, but reality is it would be very inefficient. Also, many plants can't be grown all year, if at all depending on one's location. 180 million households would require 180 million acres or 281,250 square miles (an area larger than Texas). That doesn't include roads and other overhead that would likely double that. Not realistic for everyone to own an acre of land. If anything, the future is denser living, larger scale agriculture, and synthetic foods (ie. lab made meat).

Exactly!

But unfortunately depending on the teacher it won't happen

Classrooms are government propaganda centers. They won’t be told this.

Unfortunately, the programming have been to effective and this country is too deep into the stupid category to listen to alternate information. Did you see what happened last week? Millions of people voted for high prices, inflation, crime ridden neighborhoods, killing their parents/grandparents, ruining their businesses, sexualizing their children and all of the craziness happening. The western world will have to learn the hard way.

@@MichaelBushey Already have.

Couldn’t have said it better

Bravo !

Oil and gas can be controlled too.

@@hoboonwheels9289: Yes it can, like right now in the USA where the government has sabotaged oil production. Which is an attack on the US citizens since energy costs have increased across the nation. All while billions of dollars are laundered in the name of "renewable energy". Cheap energy helps bring prosperity.

I think it's just cascading stupidity and greed. But yeah, it all leads to authoritarian rule and deprivation for the average person.

That's funny because when Tesla came on scene nobody was on board with them. Not even the government. Now legacy auto manufacturers see the demand for them and all the sudden now it's a government agenda, derp

Oil is a single-source energy medium with a fragile, delicate global supply chain. Maybe if we drove cars that didn't burn the stuff, we'd save lots for other things...

How do I make non centralized gasoline for my car?

Power plants are already centralized. The future direction is more distributed generation via solar on the roofs of houses. For most people, a full solar roof can provide most of the energy needs of both their home and vehicles.

@@paulrybarczyk5013 Uh, did you watch the video? "I'll come in to work tomorrow...unless it's cloudy."

@@ep4169 you could still drive into work, Because the house would still be connected to the grid. It would just need way less power from it, and probably none in the summertime.

@@ep4169 Newer cars can go 300-500 miles on a charge. So a cloudy day won't stop me going 80 miles to work, and I can work at home. It also won't stop my two son's 2 mile drive to the university or my other son's 6 mile drive to his job. But the price of the electric vehicles is out of sight. I typically buy used, but a battery with 8 year warranty isn't dependable.

And It's crazy that in this age where everyone thinks they're so smart, with smartphones at our fingertips, the same people elect the dumbest people to lead them. Nuts!

I don't think so they thought that Iron Man and the Terminator where powered by batteries when it clear that it is nuclear power both are Reactors, which is all we need because it is most energy dense fuel that we have.

@@southcoastinventors6583 I agree, but keep in mind that Thorium reactors are INHERERENTLY so much more safe than uranium reactors, and therefore can be scaled down to neighborhood or larger sizes, rather than the incredibly expensive region-wide reactors we have ubiquitously. Again, Thanks for your great work, John. (I sailed with your father in Chicago a few times; Shields are great vessels. ...not sailing anymore, btw..)

Even worse, accountants and hedge fund managers.

True but depends on chemistry, 2nd gen LFP are significantly better.

Imagine a gasoline tank breaking….

@@waywardgeologist2520 Thing is, we know how to keep gasoline from igniting. Preventing a gasoline fire is a lot easier than preventing spontaneous auto-ignition of a lithium battery.

@@dafunkmonster There are billions of batteries not auto-igniting. Problem is more the Runaway decomposition and burning that is difficult to stop

@@pablopicaro7649 There are hundreds more batteries auto-igniting than gasoline cans auto igniting.

I imagine a battery farm fire that turns into a natural disaster when fire fighters can't put it out. Imagine how dangerous all that energy would be coming out all at once.

Really? You must be a shill.

Two words one company. Dominion/smartmatic, never again will the people win. We use the machines used in Venezuela to make it a socialist paradise.

You love series with vague, sweeping statements with no mathor references to back up their words?

Food transport emissions r nearly half of direct emissions from road vehicles reportedly. Gov should Let everyone use an acre to grow their own food/live on. Ban farm subsidies.

Donkeys🤔 your too nice. DUMocrats. The left Ruined America . spread the truth.

@@bvegannow1936 yes. Let’s take advice from some one who spells “are” as r. You’re so intelligent…. 🙄

No matter how many times you try to explain that to people like Greta, they'll refuse to believe it. Electric cars can be very beneficial in certain applications & really help out but only an idiot thinks everything can run off wind & solar right now. Small cheap electric commuter cars charged from rooftop solar panels (& backup wall charger) is a great idea for saving gas money commuting to work. But not for an electric snow plow that needs to run 48 hours or trying to tow something cross country in an electric truck with no tow range.

@@michaelbrinks8089 just producing the battery costs more pollution than making an entire ICE vehicle including running it for 4 yrs

Yikes! Global warming means no snow! What?!

@@douglasolsen6861 it's Global Warning!

Oh well mabey we'll have to keep some diesel powered vehicles for a while, der, that's pretty rare, but most trucks have to stop regularly, and most cars don't travel more than 100km per day. So we shouldn't try to get rid of all the polluting vehicles cos some trucks have to run for a long time???

You would think but the greenies say this is not fact. When you mix politics with engineering you get politics.

They don’t.

The country currently has 2.1 million EVs on the road that consume .2 of a percent of US electricity. Estimates of all cars being EVs shows there only needs to be a 15% to 20% increase in the grid. That's very doable over the next few decades. Electric motors are 3 times more efficient than gas engines and cause a decrease in net energy consumption. And most EV owners charge their cars at night at times of low demand on the grid, and if incentivized by pricing that will continue. It's all about peak demand, you know.

Me too, my friend. Regardless of what Elon says, the EV has no wide spread application in the future of transportation.

@@ThomasLee123 My Model Y has reduced my fueling costs by 75%. Electric motors are 3 times more efficient than gas engines. Plus no oil changes, no transmission fluid changes, no spark plug changes, brakes last 150,000 miles because most braking in is done by regen, no friction brakes, etc., etc. No wide spread application for EVs? I see no widespread application for gas cars in the future.

Are you Scotch-Irish? Like Andrew Jackson or John McCain?

Two words one company. Dominion/smartmatic, never again will the people win. We use the machines used in Venezuela to make it a socialist paradise.

And where did those old batteries end up?

@@dreamweaver1603 Who knows, maybe Africa?

Wow

I can't honestly believe that Cali is really going to stop selling gas cars, there's like no way that'll happen without people going to other states to buy them.

go watch TONY SIBA - Clean Disruption of ENERGY.

erpi - I'm so sad you live in SoCal. Why are you still there? We moved out of California long ago.

@@skippylippy547 Oh, if I had the money I would move to Hawaii in a heartbeat. But being a working poor I have to hang on to my job in SoCal. Love my electric cars though. They have been working great for me.

@@jackson5116 You're not even allowed to go to other states. To register the car in California, it has to be emissions compliant, which means no gas cars. Also, it's not just cars, the state also planning to ban ICE commercial vehicles and small ICE power equipment.

Maybe you could answer this question then I am, really asking. Question guys. I google how big an area solar panels needed to power the usa Google say small part of ONE state You say Entire usa only half the power needed. Which is correct.I am asking how to even calculate it. They say MW then KW and I not sure how to even go about calculating the answer. Hard to tell anyone that when google says i am wrong,

@@dc9mm2 Solar Panels are Toxic . . . "The land on which they were placed is no longer suitable for agriculture. Or for people to live on.” “Toxins from the solar panels, and the associated mechanical and electric equipment will have leached into the soil for 25 years. Thus, when more farmland is needed to grow food, the massive areas covered by solar panels are not a candidate.” And solar farms, like wind farms, do eat up the land. They need 450 times more ground than nuclear plants, and about 100 times as much as generating stations fueled by natural gas. NOTE: Neither Wind or Solar . . . Save the amount of Emissions & CO2 that was used to Create them . . . the more you build the LARGER the Deficit!

Why are half the comments here censored? Is Google censoring, or Stossel? It's annoying! 😡

According to Elon Musk (who is usually right about engineering issues), the entire USA could be powered by a 100km x 100km square of Solar panels located in a sunny part of the USA. Google that topic for an analysis of the math.

@@paulrybarczyk5013 That's about 62 Miles x 62 Miles . . . . the heavy metals & Toxins would leach out of the panels and make the area unusable for human occupation after a decade.