United Kingdom puts their EV push in reverse, will U.S. follow?

The All-Electric Vehicle utopia has been delusionally pitched for quite some time now. There have even been policies implemented in the United Kingdom, and here in the United States, to all but ban gas powered combustion engines, and even gas stations. Places like Ford have pledged to even have all their vehicles be electric by 2025.

But after taking a step back and seeing the actual realities of the situation, the UK has taken their foot off the pedal. Prime Minister RIshi Sunak recently delayed what would be a ban on the sale of new gas or diesel vehicles, due to begin at the end of the decade.

Energy expert David Holt says their reasoning for doing this was very simple.

"There is insufficient infrastructure, not enough grid capacity...insufficient charging stations across Europe and the UK," he says. "EV's cost more on average, about $15,000 to $17,000 per vehicle, and replacing the battery...is almost as much as a new EV."

The UK in their announcement cited the move to all-electric as an 'unaffordable cost' to families.

Now, whether you want, or do not want an EV, either is fine. Owning an EV does not make you superior, and not owning an EV does not make you a bad person. But the incessant pushing of these policy agendas is a problem.

"These aggressive mandates...they just are not realistic, and there is no way we are actually able to do it with the existing grid...knowing how much we rely on China too, and knowing the cost," he says.

Reliance on China is a major key here, as they essentially control the minerals and materials needed for electric vehicle battery production. That is something the UK, beacause they have actual logic, sees as a problem.

Here in the United States, the push for this is almost entirely political, and largely driven by climate activists. Their persistent cries and pushes for their delusional utopia might be the undoing of their own ideas.

"If they continue this, the backlash on the EV market is going to be the problem. Consumers will just say they no longer want EV's," he says. "This forced mandate on the market, when it is not ready, is only going to damage EV's as an option, and certainly hurt consumer pocketbooks."

In plenty of cases too, they are essentially a snake eating their own tail, with their agenda directly hurting their own cause.

"We are seeing where these push for mandates are actually doing the opposite of what they want, and harm our environmental progrss, rather than help," he says.

They will never admit it, but there is a very reasonable middle ground, which we can call 'logic.'

"There is a way to do this with conventional vehicles, EV's, with oil and natural gas...and wind and solar. We can do all these things and meet our enviornmental goals still," he says.

But the crazy climate change activists will just keep marching to the beat of that drum, no matter how wrong it is, or how ill-informed they may be.

"They do not understand energy politics and the industry...we can meet our goals without getting rid of oil and gas, and without pushing EV's down people's throats," he says.

So, in conclusion, until the United States gets some logical thinking, no we will not be reversing our EV thinking anytime soon.