LtE's 18/11 - Saturday Edition

CP TB GCB - To comment on “High-voltage hatch”, 18/11
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For a “cute and affordable” electric car’s 80kW/h battery to recharge from 10% (8kW/h) to 80% (64kW/h) in half an hour requires an input of 112 kilowatt-hours worth of electricity, (“High-voltage hatch”, 18/11). 

With electricity now so expensive, the typical household has cut their use to one kilowatt per hour, meaning the electric car is taking 112 homes worth of electricity from the grid while it’s charging. 

Each electric car added to the fleet requires an increase in generation capacity.

Electric cars are typically recharged after work when the input from solar panels is effectively nothing. It’s also fairly common for the wind to drop in the evening. 

That leaves only dispatchable electricity generation. 

The only consistently reliable forms of dispatchable generation are coal, oil, and gas – all demonised by the same people who promote electric cars. 

Without coal, oil, and gas, there’ll be no way to recharge a proliferation of cute and affordable electric cars.

If we assume that the people pushing EVs while demonising hydrocarbon fuels aren’t complete idiots, we can only conclude that their plans don’t include you driving your cute and affordable EV.

Jennifer Short
Edge Hill

The Editor
The Courier Mail

Almost nobody believes that Annastacia Palaszczuk is the brains behind the state ALP branch of the UNiparty, (Premier’s legacy on the line, 18/11).

That won’t stop the UNiparty machine throwing her under the bus as sacrificial scapegoat for the now-obvious failures of UNiparty policies.

They need to distract the proletariat from their own anti-Australian machinations and a blood sacrifice is a reliable way to do that.

Annastacia Palaszczuk doesn’t have a legacy beyond being willingly complicit in the UNiparty’s planned destruction of formerly successful free-market capitalist democratic societies.

Once Annastacia has been deposed, the next UNiparty functionary will continue the destruction in accordance with the plans of nameless, faceless, unelected foreigners.

To stop this endless cycle of destruction and distraction we must get the UNiparty out of our parliaments and elect people who are prepared to expose those unelected foreigners.

(140 words)

Peter Campion
Tolga