little incentive<\/a>\u00a0to recycle.<\/p>\nYet the E.V. manufacturers are marketing heavily to the disability community without publicly acknowledging the downsides.\u00a0\u00a0A person who uses a manual wheelchair could certainly use an E.V., especially since it is easier to plug in something than handle a gas pump with limited dexterity.\u00a0\u00a0An E.V. can be modified to use a ramp or lift for an electric wheelchair\u2013user, certainly.<\/p>\n
The problem is the same battery that powers the car would power the lift.\u00a0\u00a0If the battery dies, it might not be possible to get the driver out of the car safely.\u00a0\u00a0The dangers of breaking down in any car, electric or not, are different for a person with mobility challenges.<\/p>\n
Further mimicking the story of Chicken Little are people who prey on those prone to folly.\u00a0\u00a0Along the way to chat with the king, Chicken Little and friends meet up with the sly Foxy Loxy, who lures them into his den for his own evil purposes while offering to go tell the king on their behalf that the sky is falling.<\/p>\n
Likewise, the people who want to sell E.V.s do not discuss the limitations of the battery or the ugly truth behind how the batteries for the car are made.\u00a0\u00a0The cost is also often dismissed.\u00a0\u00a0Most people, especially those with disabilities or in minority communities, are priced out of electric car ownership.\u00a0\u00a0This blatant discrimination is unacceptable.<\/p>\n
What’s going to happen in the coming summer, when predicted brownouts occur because the existing grid cannot handle the needed electricity to power homes and offices, let alone electric vehicles?\u00a0\u00a0It will be a telling vision of the future when the proposed transition to electric is complete.\u00a0\u00a0Not everyone owns his own generator to charge vehicles when solar and wind can’t produce the necessary energy.<\/p>\n
Chicken Little and his friends came to their senses once they reached Foxy Loxy’s den and thwarted his plans for them.\u00a0\u00a0As a nation, we need to come to our senses as well and ask the hard questions about the moral implications of turning a blind eye toward slave and child labor used to create the batteries needed to fuel the\u00a0green utopian dream \u2014 not to mention fossil fuel industry workers who will lose their jobs, and cities that will be left gutted by the abandonment of factories that cannot be retooled to manufacture E.V.s.<\/p>\n
Policies need to change so that technological advancements and market demands drive the energy and transportation vision of tomorrow \u2014 not woke environmental policymakers.<\/p>\n
When the government decides which kind of cars can be driven, and what our energy sources should be, only the elite few win.\u00a0\u00a0The average American in flyover country will lose every time.<\/p>\n
Melissa Ortiz<\/a> serves the National Center for Public Policy Research as the organization’s senior adviser for the Able Americans Project<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Melissa identifies as a “happy warrior” and is enthusiastic about driving a dialogue between people living with disabilities or chronic illness and policy-makers across the political spectrum, especially conservatives. This first appeared at American Thinker<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicken Little, a beloved character from children’s literature, was famous for his frantic warning that the sky was falling because an acorn fell and hit him on the head. He convinced a small group of friends to believe him, and they set off \u2014 all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,718],"tags":[675],"yoast_head":"\n
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