Councilmember Evan Glass is out with his “Earth Day Edition” of the “Glass Gazette” — his e-newsletter to MoCo residents (those who subscribe).
In it, the Councilmember, re-elected “At Large” for MoCo in 2022 (and who kept his “At-Large” designation by adding a spoiler ballot question in 2020 to defend against a sensible ballot initiative called Question D), makes a number of false / fake claims about climate change, electric vehicles and what MoCo government’s policies are doing to combat local pollution and litter.
It can best be described as fake news.
Here is the money excerpt in the “newsletter” / propaganda piece that caught my attention:
EVs aren’t “the future of transportation” as CM Glass is asserting here. No central planner can predict what the “future of transportation” will be. There are any number of ways personal transport can go — and indeed the world’s largest auto manufacturers don’t share his bold, overconfident assertion that EVs are the “future of transportation”.
Neither do consumers, even on the “left coast” of the USA (per Daniel Leussink and Abhirup Roy at Reuters):
When Tony Le set out with his wife to buy a new car last year, he looked at Tesla and other all-electric models. In the end, the 37-year-old Modesto, California, tech worker opted for a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid due to worries over getting stranded with a purely electric vehicle, a dead battery and no charging station in sight. “Sometimes I want to play with the electric vehicles just based on the speed and torque. But for practical use… it just didn’t make sense,” said Le, who often drives to Washington state from California for work.
Does CM Glass pay attention to global business news? To recent headlines like the one below?
Evidently not. Regardless, his clear love for President Joe Biden’s EV and energy diktats do not change the reality on the ground — the majority of the American people want affordable, reliable personal vehicle transport – they’ll take EVs, hybrids, gasoline, diesel, etc. EVs also aren’t “cleaner” — at least not when it comes to tire particulate pollution. We’ve covered that extensively in prior posts. What is interesting is that further into the “newsletter” sent by CM (or his staff), he goes into why a community group dedicated to stream cleaning is so important and how we need to “protect our watersheds” and surrounding parks from litter and pollution. More EVs on MoCo roads mean more tire particulate going into watersheds, because of the much faster rate of tire degradation. Just the reality, right now until tire technology improves. Cleaner watersheds or a few pounds of “carbon reduction” in the atmosphere (while China builds coal-fired plants). That is the policy choice. There is no “free lunch”.
For the amount of taxes and nickel-and-dime fees MoCo residents pay, we definitely deserve a healthy, pollution-free local environment. Who wants their kids around dirty water and parks? There is a ton of litter along roadsides and it needs to be cleaned up — and the offending people should be fined when caught. It would just be refreshing to get actual facts and trade-offs discussed by a “green peace” promoting CM… not pure propaganda and fake news.
Related posts:
More Tire Toxicity in MoCo? Why the “EV Push” by MoCo is a Push for More Toxic Tire Pollutants in Our Local Ecosystem
Cobalt Red: Is MoCo Government’s Obsession with Promoting Electric Vehicles Helping Fuel the Congo’s Cobalt Mining Tragedies?
CM Kristin Mink’s “Masks 4 America” Nonprofit Likely Contributed to Staggering Litter Problem with “COVID Trash”