Off The Publisher’s Desk – 6-2-2021
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What can you do for your country?
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, his 1366 word inaugural address, the first delivered to television audiences in color, is considered one of the best presidential inaugural speeches in American history… “And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
Now, it’s not what we can do for our country, it’s when is the next stimulus check coming?
The Democratic Party sure has changed, in so many ways, since President Kennedy delivered that speech on January 20, 1961. That party is leading the way to abolishing the Second Amendment, attacking the First Amendment, packing the Supreme Court, and rigging the election process. For some reason, they think that we can’t fend for ourselves and that only the federal government can take care of us.
They want the federal government to take over early childhood education so they can control the curriculum and brain wash our young children into their liberal view, that the populous does not have the brainpower to take care of their own.
President Biden wants to take away our ability to make choices. Choices in health insurance, where we live, where we travel, we must cover our face, where we send our kids to school, and what we drive.
He wants us to drive electric powered vehicles. I looked over the Internet in an attempt to find some cost to plug in your electric vehicle. In Car and Driver an article appeared penned by Duane Sayaloune of YourMechanic.com that stated that it takes 7.2 kWh/hour to reach full charge in an average electric vehicle at a cost of $6.86. The story did not say how far that charge would take you. I am assuming close to 300 miles and if your car got 30 miles per gallon, it would cost close to thirty bucks worth of gasoline. I know that the original cost of the electric powered vehicle is higher.
Now, brings me to a couple of things that are on my mind that are negative to owning that electric powered vehicle. First, can we generate sufficient electricity with the power plants we now have to power all the vehicles on the road today? Or, will we have to build more power plants, install more windmills, and solar panels. Remember, those power plants are now burning coal and gas. So adding more plants like that will push more bad stuff into the atmosphere.
The next is that the rare earth metals that are needed to build the batteries that are powering these electric vehicles are being dug out of mines, outside of the U.S. I have been told. Those mines are in Africa and China. I have also heard that we have some of these metals in the United States, but our new president wants to ban mining so we will have to depend on some foreign country for those materials.
Some of the medals are lithium, cobalt, neodymium, and dysprosium. I don’t know if they are rare earth metals, at least not as rare as gold or platinum. Seventy percent of the world supply of cobalt is produced in the Congo where an estimated 100,000 people, including children as young as seven, using hand tools, dig hundreds of feet underground without any oversight and safety measurers.
It takes about a half million gallons of water to produce a ton of lithium. But, the U.S. has some of the world’s largest reserves, but only one mine in Nevada, is mining less than two percent of the world’s annual supply. Neodymium is needed for making strong magnets for the electric motors. And, of course, China is the leading producer.
So it is China that we will be dependent on for all of us to get into that new electrical vehicle and I am sure that the price of all these elements will increase as the demand increases.
So for me, I think I will hold on to a least one-gas guzzler V-8 powered machine, but I may have to buy some large storage tanks from a government forced closed filling station, so that I will have sufficient gasoline on hand for the rest of my life.
The accompanying cartoon of those “Friends” are not our friends when it comes to making choices.
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton