In Germany, a ferry is required to cross an inlet of the Baltic Sea called the Schlei. The diesel-powered Missunde II did the job fine. Then bureaucrats decided to save the planet by replacing her with the solar-powered Missunde III:

Missunde III’s glorious solar roof acted like a great sail in the face of those stiff northern winds. Her small electric motors had trouble overcoming the force, such that she took twice as long to cross the Schlei against the wind as her drab and dirty older sister. The Missunde III’s greater weight also placed too much strain on her guidance cables, and she had trouble mooring at the dock.

Trying to get the electric ferry to work entailed environmental damage in a nature preserve.

All the while, the automobiles that normally would’ve ridden the ferry across the Schlei had to take lengthy detours approaching 30 kilometres to the nearest bridge.

This of course produced more harmless but politically incorrect carbon emissions.

In March, after months of no ferry and pointless 30km detours, the mayor of Brodersby-Goltoft, Joschka Buhmann, had had enough. He demanded that authorities recommission the outmoded Missunde II and resume ferry service.

However, since having been sold, Missunde II had been left to rot away, and would require €1.8 million in renovations to make seaworthy again.

But they still couldn’t get Missunde III to work, so…

…the Office for Coastal Protection finally went limping back to the not-so-dim buyer who purchased the Missunde II for 17,000 Euros, and struck a deal to buy it back from him for 100,000 Euros. The Missunde II has been given a new permit to sail until 2028, because nobody believes that the hyper-advanced super-silent Missunde III will be up to the simple task of ferrying automobiles across 100 metres of water anytime soon.

Thus concludes another lesson in green posturing.

On a tip R F.

The moonbats at Phys.org had almost caught up to Scientific American when it comes to subordinating science to wokeness. Then they went and admitted that EV owners sin against their own godless religion by having larger carbon footprints:

A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average carbon footprint.

So it is not transportation that offends the weather but wealth. Don’t worry, leftist politicians have a cure for that.

Despite EV owners being wealthy enough to waste money on expensive green posturing, their playthings are heavily subsidized by those of us who do not. EV manufacturers naturally raise their prices to match the subsidies.

On a tip from Steve T.

While wasting other people’s money on green idiocy, moonbats often spin it as a way to lower costs. For example:

Electric buses were supposed to save money for Maryland’s largest school district. …

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 326 electric buses in October 2022, Montgomery County Public Schools projected the shift would save 6,500 gallons of fuel per day and cut costs by 50%.

Then came reality, prominently featuring mechanical failures:

These mechanical and charging issues resulted in buses not being able to complete their routes 280 times between February 2022 and the end of March 2024. … The average time it took to repair an electric bus was 13 days, according to the report.

As a result, in October 2023, the school board approved the school system’s request to buy 90 diesel school buses “in light of the electric bus shortfall” at a cost of more than $14.7 million according to the report.

Diesel buses are haram in the liberal religion but have the advantage that they work. Plus they save money over electric moonbatmobiles. The report found the electric buses “led to millions of dollars in wasteful spending.”

It is intuitively obvious that electric vehicles are not economically efficient, because if they were, leftists in the government would not need to use subsidies and coercion to get people to drive them. But try telling that to educrats.

On a tip from Franco.

Yet again we see that the batteries used in the electric vehicles Democrats want to force us to drive are not safe:

An 18-wheeler overturned on I-15 South Friday afternoon, causing a 75,000 lb load of lithium-ion batteries to spontaneously combust (because of course it did). Emergency first responders were forced to shut down the freeway, which serves as basically the only efficient ground artery between Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Never mind all the toxic fumes that went into the air.

Emergency responders were concerned about the fire causing the release of a number of deadly toxic chemicals, including hydrogen cyanide, chlorine and sulfur dioxide.

Also never mind the hundreds of vehicles emitting away while stuck for hours in the blistering desert heat in the massive traffic jam this caused. The important thing is that EVs allow Democrats to virtue signal about how willing they are to sacrifice our interests for the environment.

On tips from R F and Steve T.

Here’s yet another reason not to buy an electric vehicle, no matter how much of other people’s money Democrats provide in subsidies. You might get locked inside:

[O]ver this summer alone, there have been numerous reports of people being trapped inside EVs due to dead batteries. In some of these cases, toddlers have been locked inside of sweltering cars.

In one example, on June 20, Renee Sanchez was eager to take her two-year-old granddaughter to the Phoenix Zoo. Early that morning, Sanchez strapped the toddler into the backseat of her Model Y Tesla. After closing the rear door, Sanchez attempted to open the front door. However, it would not open because the battery was dead.

The forecasted high for today here in Phoenix is 116°. Within an hour, the temperature inside parked cars can reach 160° — hot enough to fry an egg. Every year there are tragic news stories about children killed by the heat because they were left in cars.

You don’t need to live in Phoenix to get cooked inside a car. EVs are so infamous for spontaneously bursting into flames that one jurisdiction has mandated fire blankets at charging stations. Imagine getting locked inside this moonbatmobile:

Democrats want to force us into them. That’s all you need to know to steer clear of EVs.

On tips from WDS 2.0 and Mr. Freemarket.

Electric vehicles are such a good idea, they require massive (strategically targeted) subsidies and strongarming from the government to get anyone to buy them. They are so safe that fire blankets are needed at EV charging stations:

The city of Milton [Georgia] will now place fire blankets at its non-residential electric vehicle charging stations. …

Deputy Fire Chief and Fire Marshall Alex Fortner told the council the measure was a “proactive attempt” to limit the damage if an electric vehicle catches on fire.

According to Fortner, cars with lithium-ion batteries can need up to 30,000 gallons of water if they catch fire. That’s 60 times as many as the average vehicle with a combustion engine.

What a great time to buy stock in whatever company makes fire blankets. The Biden Regime is building 500,000 mostly unwanted charging stations at an estimated cost to us of $400,000,000,000.00.

Some might worry that forcing everyone into EVs will burden a destabilized electrical grid that will be under increasing stress as Democrats incrementally impose inefficient green energy. Actually, the reverse is true; the government can use EVs to take energy out of our cars. Naturally, California has been out front on this.

On tips from R F, ABC of the ANC, and Mr. Freemarket.

To the many reasons to resist coercive pressure to drive an electric moonbatmobile, let’s add motion sickness:

Motion sickness in EVs “is a real thing,” said Dr. D.J. Verret, an ear, nose and throat doctor in Texas, according to ABC.

“The brain sets up a model for what it expects in certain situations,” he said. “In combustion cars, you hear the engine revving and know someone is stepping on the accelerator. The car moves forward. In an EV, the auditory and visual inputs don’t fit the model that you are actually moving.”

The result is that those inside feel sick — unless it is realizing they spent way too much on an unreliable, inefficient, dangerous, environmentally harmful glorified golfcart, thereby signaling not virtue but foolishness, that makes them feel sick.

No wonder so many unsold Teslas are piling up in parking lots.

Anecdotally, driving an EV has been blamed for extreme fatigue; debilitating shoulder, collarbone, and neck pain; nosebleeds; nausea; and hair loss. On the positive side, driving one improves the weather according to liberal doctrine, which presumably someone somewhere takes seriously.

On tips from Stormfax and The Great Cornholio.