Thank you for exposing the truth…this trend is an orchestrated move to add more government control and dependence. The economics make no sense, the demand is waning, and the effect on the environment will be a disaster. I’m buying a “spare” gas weed eater so I will have one that actually cuts weeds well into the future 😉. Blessings
the ancient Greeks, inventors of democracy, would elect their officials to one year terms…each officials finances were audited at the beginning and end of their term…if anything was amiss, they would be tried & executed…
imagine what would happen, if, by law, every US Congressman/woman, US Senator, President etc. was by US law AUDITED every 1-2 years by an independent agency.
Imagine what would happen if those audits extended to all family members of such 'elected' official?
Would D's continue to push for Foreign Aid to other C's vs. the Homeland?
What happens when the kickbacks dry up?
M. Waters $4mm House?
N. Pelosi net worth $150mm+?
J. Biden son/brother/family members (grandchildren) net worth tens of millions?
Clinton family $200mm+ (pre election of BC less than $1mm)?
Obama family $40mm+ (pre election less than $1mm)?
Imagine if we were not forced to pay elected officials a public pension for their rest of their lives. When they ran as "public servants" for only a short duration of their lives.
The emperor truly has no clothes. Thank you Andy for explaining the obvious folly of succumbing to the total fantasy thinking that switching to an all electric transportation system could possibly work. Even if we had a dozen Diablo Canyons up and down the state, ( gasp!), the environmental destruction of rare earth mining and distributing the power they would generate makes the scheme impossible.
No one wants to actually do the hard work required to clothe the emperor.
Least of all engineers and people who actually have to make everything work.
Much easier to pass legislation that virtue signals, gets votes, makes people think the emperor has clothes on and the color is green and they fit well 😂
The laws of thermodynamics remain undefeated. The reality is that we do not have the intelligence, resources, production capacity, manpower, grid and most importantly “need” to do any of this.
The entire thing is a microcosm of politically manufactured solutions to nonexistent problems
Great article Andy. Facts speak louder than "feel good" hype that liberals live off of. Oh, also there is some economic reality in the EVs, the politicians and globalist make millions if not billions off us tax payers that are indentured tax payers who foot the bills for these "environmental" scams that do NOT help the environment at all.
Liberals and Repukes that push these schemes, are Never wanting to help the environment! They just want our money and our FREEDOMS!!!!!!!
Volcanos still gonna volcano and the climate will still be a'changin. No matter how many trucks they plug into the non-existent grid.
The gratuitous insertion of "climate change™" as justification for every single ruinous Democrat policy continues. WSJ sprinkles it far too liberally into too many leading "news stories" as well. More mass hysteria for partisan gain. Just stop this over-arching nonsense.
How did we get so brainwashed that one word can now unquestionably drive this partisan agenda? 20 years ago visiting a local Jr Hi stage production, a quick tour of the hallways were covered with student art projects - every single one of them illustrated drowning polar bears or the horrific woes of our poor planet suffering from the perils from "climate change" all amply regurgitated by these pre-teens. In a public taxpayer-supported, teacher union-dominated school.
They were obviously required to teach "climate change" across the curriculum at this local Jr Hi. . We now harvest this highly indoctrinated demographic sub-set as adult voters today. No one has had the power to undo their early politically driven indoctrination. For what ends? Besides government controlled tax payer wealth redistribution.
That must be it! But I guess this conspiracy hasn’t worked very well, or was thwarted by a conspiracy in the opposite direction, because wealth has been distributed towards the already wealthy for decades.
Ira, Color me gob-smacked. I thought the "wealthy" created the wealth and got to keep what they earned after meeting the expenses required in the wealth creation (fair labor, parts, equipment, IRS code requirements, etc). This does demonstrate a fundamental red-blue schism.
Democrats (liberals) think they own the entire money supply and allocate it according to their own whim, caprice and re-election needs. The "government" chooses how all wealth is re-distributed; no matter who earns it, or comes into that earned wealth through inheritance.
On the other hand conservatives believe they own the wealth they create or inherit, and relinquish it only under the strict interpretation of the express IRS code, AND by way of their own long traditions of private philanthropy. God bless them. This way, they retain control over their earned wealth redistributions.
BTW: there is no such thing as "tax cuts to the wealthy". There is only the IRS Code, as written by legislative process.
So to parse out your prior responses, there is pattern:
1. FUD, threats and extortion
2. Personal insults
3. Class warfare
4. ???
I look forward to an eventual meeting of the minds. Surely there must be some common ground between us. Do you agree possession of a US passport by all US citizens is one of the most coveted documents on the planet - our one share common denominator? We can work up from there.
The wealthy sometimes participate in creation of the wealth, but almost never create it by themselves. They need working people, other collaborators, infrastructure, education, law enforcement and much more. I say “sometimes” because we have the coupon clippers, heirs and passive wealth accumulators, who contribute little and take much.
Speaking of gob-smacked, that was my reaction to your denial of the concept of “tax cuts for the wealthy.” Republicans can and do gear their tax policy to help certain classes of folks, often those they have paid to win elective office, and you have to don blinders to deny that.
I will buy into your “class warfare” characterization, though without the vitriolic intent you no doubt associate with that phrase, because it is conservatives who have been waging that war from time immemorial, have harmed working people in the process, and have hijacked this country’s conception of that battle, to the injury of working people, and the organizations that promote their interests.
The rest of your list is hot air and tomfoolery. As for US passports, I agree they are valuable, but please don’t start waving the flag and saying we are the greatest country in the world.
Ira, Isn't "democracy" about who gets to write the legislation? The voices of which does swing on a pendulum.
BTW: I am hearing Obama sound bite echos here -someone please check behind the curtain. Thnx.
Wealthy already pay taxes to support your cited elements of government infrastructure. Perhaps we are not getting efficient delivery of those expected government services, if you think some people should somehow be paying more?
So all those elements you claim the wealthy should pay more for, are just part of our mutual compact with each for each other. The wealthy owe no more than what the tax code requires when they use those mutual government services to create their wealth. More power to them. That is the lure of the American Dream. And you want to strike out the engine that made America so exceptional?
I repeat, there are "no tax cuts for the wealthy. There is the tax code as written, by whatever shreds we still have left of our "democratic process". Some times we are the bug. Sometimes we are the windshield. There is no "fair share" and no duty to pay one cent more than the current IRS code allows or requires.
Make your best case why anyone should pay more, and people can vote for a new majority that will stick it to the "rich". This very tired old tax the rich argument that does still get traction in California. But it is also subject to the law of unintended consequences which we are suffering from right now in this state.
Searching for the Golden Mean here, rather than utter destruction of any opposition. I admire the long history of private philanthropy that created a special uniqueness to this very town of Santa Barbara. Tax deductible charitable giving must provide a public benefit.
Don't kill this off this private generosity, demanding only the government decides how the private money gets spent or distributed. Saying thank you to the numerous private donors who "Made Santa Barbara Great" - past and present is a more welcome response. A healthy society can have both: public wealth redistribution and private philanthropy.
I’m not saying the rich should pay more than the various tax codes require. I’m saying change the tax codes so they and corporations pay their fair share. They’re not doing that now, and government is shortchanging us at least on healthcare coverage and public education. No doubt we differ on what that fair share would be.
The free market and especially its jaundiced “trickledown” variation is not an engine for prosperity; it is a recipe for income inequality, wage stagnation, offshoring and pandering to greed, fueled by union-busting.
Ira, we could have hours of fun with just that one statement of yours, and I see you finally played your hand .The lines are drawn, but that shall be for another thread and time. But thanks for sharing.
Ira writes: ........"The free market and especially its jaundiced “trickledown” variation is not an engine for prosperity; it is a recipe for income inequality, wage stagnation, offshoring and pandering to greed, fueled by union-busting......."
According to Ira, conservatives stands for the following:
Both health care and public education are so badly mismanaged today due to government interference, after each getting with hundreds of billions of dollars dropped automatically on both their laps. And all we get are materially declining outcomes. This is not a matter of money, but yet again let's add that shibboleth to your growing list of "progressive" memes.
Both formerly proud institutions (health care and public education) in this country are now poster children for government waste, fraud and abuse. Stop pretending they are not getting their 'fair share". They are wasting far more than they are providing. Clean house. Eliminate the layers upon layers government buffers, than now separate the providers and the recipients.
How is PG&E supposed to afford upgrading our grid infrastructure? Like Andy said, millions per mile for transmission lines. Pacific Gas & Electric annual net income for 2023 was $2.242B. How could they possibly afford it?
How far will that $2 billion in "profits" from this public utility go to replace existing lines demanded by the climate change crowd? Any estimates you care to offer.
Many people are deliberately ignorant because knowing implies the need for action. Others, are knowledgeable, but afraid to act.
Across the world, millions have taken to the streets, sometimes violently, to support the wholesale conversion of all the world from fossil fuels to wind, solar and batteries to serve the needs of 10 Billion people.
I don't recall seeing even a smidgeon of that number of people protesting in the streets across the world in defence of a different view, and opposition to the absurdities of the current path we are on, especially in California, where the collapse of the all-electric world is likely to occur first.
Yes, where nuclear in all of this? Although, environmentalist are against nuclear too. They want to shut down the Diablo plant and no technology upgrades either.
Thank you, Andy - terrific column. I just wish someone would explain to me why electric transportation for us hoi polloi will save the planet but the hoi oligoi still get to bomb the hell out of any country that displeases them.
Any assessment of carbon emissions associated with a product needs to look at its whole life cycle, from manufacture to scrapping.
An EV has an 80% higher carbon footprint to build than a traditional car.
The mining of minerals include lithium, cobalt, and nickel that requires using fossil fuels to mine those materials and heat them to high temperatures. This does not include the effects of fracking and slave labor used to mine these materials.
Most EVs are charged overnight when there is no green energy to charge them, meaning they are using “fossil” fuels to charge them.
The avg EV requires 30 kilowatt-hours to travel 100 miles — the same amount of electricity an average American home uses each day to run appliances, computers, lights and heating and air conditioning.
It takes about 80,000 driving miles to break even on the carbon footprint. And that does not include the disposal of the old battery.
An EV battery has a 10 year lifespan. After which the toxic chemicals battery goes into a landfill poisoning the ground. Less than 10% of the battery is recycled.
And a new carbon intensive battery has to be installed at great expense to the owner.
The used EV market is dying as people realize a 6-7 year old car will require expensive new batteries in a few years. Per our local dealers they will not take a used EV in trade unless you swap brand for brand.
So why is the government forcing them upon you?
Just saying EV are not as green as you think they are. I love them, but between their high expense to buy, the large carbon footprint and limited range they are not right for everyone.
well said…people should also think about their health when considering purchasing an EV…buy an EMF meter (good ones are less than $200), take it to the dealer & do some measurements & find that EMF levels are beyond the level considered to be healthy…then take measurements at the EV charging stations and find that EMF levels are multiple times the safe health range minimum…then think about sitting on a EMF battery pack for hours at a time…not good
some members of the public have attributed a diffuse collection of symptoms to low levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields…reported symptoms include headaches, anxiety, suicide and depression, nausea, fatigue and loss of libido…
1 major volcanic eruption creates more green house gases than all of human activity in one year.
Just in the State of Calif. you never see the green house gas production by nature prior to the industrial revolution (aka tar pits, oil leaks and gas leaks)..... So you first have to subtract that from all formulas.
Actually 1 volcano does not create more green house gasses than all of human activity in a year. I picked any old year - so it was 2020. This is what I found. You're off by a two factors of 10. Annual Volcanic Emissions: The combined annual CO2 equivalent emissions from all volcanic activity are about 0.3 to 0.4 Gt.
Annual Human Emissions: Human activities in 2020 emitted approximately 36.3 Gt of CO2 equivalents. Science is Basic.
Remember the smart meter controversy and how many people were concerned about EMF back then?
Nowadays people are more concerned about the smell from pot farms than the EMF coming from their EV that they have to drive at least 12,000 miles/year to break even on the carbon footprint in 6-7 years. 240 hours per year sitting in the EMF field.
"The beat goes on," sung by Sonny and Cher, will continue in California until the voters send a different set of characters to Sacramento.
Thank you for exposing the truth…this trend is an orchestrated move to add more government control and dependence. The economics make no sense, the demand is waning, and the effect on the environment will be a disaster. I’m buying a “spare” gas weed eater so I will have one that actually cuts weeds well into the future 😉. Blessings
There is no problem in California that can’t be made worse through virtue signaling.
Every politician should be required to take a math test before running for office
Also a common sense test
Politicians come up with an idea and run with it before evaluating all aspects
And why is government in business. What happened to entrepreneurs and not taxpayers opening up new businesses
the ancient Greeks, inventors of democracy, would elect their officials to one year terms…each officials finances were audited at the beginning and end of their term…if anything was amiss, they would be tried & executed…
imagine what would happen, if, by law, every US Congressman/woman, US Senator, President etc. was by US law AUDITED every 1-2 years by an independent agency.
Imagine what would happen if those audits extended to all family members of such 'elected' official?
Would D's continue to push for Foreign Aid to other C's vs. the Homeland?
What happens when the kickbacks dry up?
M. Waters $4mm House?
N. Pelosi net worth $150mm+?
J. Biden son/brother/family members (grandchildren) net worth tens of millions?
Clinton family $200mm+ (pre election of BC less than $1mm)?
Obama family $40mm+ (pre election less than $1mm)?
Disguised under book deals?
our political systems are rotten to the core…
Imagine if we were not forced to pay elected officials a public pension for their rest of their lives. When they ran as "public servants" for only a short duration of their lives.
Love it. Absolutely. But would definitely need to apply it equally. The Democrats should be prosecuted just as much as the Republicans.
One way of cleaning house!
Funny that you only list Ds with large incomes and net worth.
my mistake…it’s both Rs & Ds…
This is not about R v D.
This is about preserving our way of life.
If America falls, the World falls.
Patriots on guard.
https://time.com/collection/great-reset/
The guy who wrote this article would fail a chemistry test.
The emperor truly has no clothes. Thank you Andy for explaining the obvious folly of succumbing to the total fantasy thinking that switching to an all electric transportation system could possibly work. Even if we had a dozen Diablo Canyons up and down the state, ( gasp!), the environmental destruction of rare earth mining and distributing the power they would generate makes the scheme impossible.
True
No one wants to actually do the hard work required to clothe the emperor.
Least of all engineers and people who actually have to make everything work.
Much easier to pass legislation that virtue signals, gets votes, makes people think the emperor has clothes on and the color is green and they fit well 😂
The laws of thermodynamics remain undefeated. The reality is that we do not have the intelligence, resources, production capacity, manpower, grid and most importantly “need” to do any of this.
The entire thing is a microcosm of politically manufactured solutions to nonexistent problems
Great article Andy. Facts speak louder than "feel good" hype that liberals live off of. Oh, also there is some economic reality in the EVs, the politicians and globalist make millions if not billions off us tax payers that are indentured tax payers who foot the bills for these "environmental" scams that do NOT help the environment at all.
Liberals and Repukes that push these schemes, are Never wanting to help the environment! They just want our money and our FREEDOMS!!!!!!!
Good info.
Thank you for explaining the problems clearly.
Volcanos still gonna volcano and the climate will still be a'changin. No matter how many trucks they plug into the non-existent grid.
The gratuitous insertion of "climate change™" as justification for every single ruinous Democrat policy continues. WSJ sprinkles it far too liberally into too many leading "news stories" as well. More mass hysteria for partisan gain. Just stop this over-arching nonsense.
How did we get so brainwashed that one word can now unquestionably drive this partisan agenda? 20 years ago visiting a local Jr Hi stage production, a quick tour of the hallways were covered with student art projects - every single one of them illustrated drowning polar bears or the horrific woes of our poor planet suffering from the perils from "climate change" all amply regurgitated by these pre-teens. In a public taxpayer-supported, teacher union-dominated school.
They were obviously required to teach "climate change" across the curriculum at this local Jr Hi. . We now harvest this highly indoctrinated demographic sub-set as adult voters today. No one has had the power to undo their early politically driven indoctrination. For what ends? Besides government controlled tax payer wealth redistribution.
That must be it! But I guess this conspiracy hasn’t worked very well, or was thwarted by a conspiracy in the opposite direction, because wealth has been distributed towards the already wealthy for decades.
Ira, Color me gob-smacked. I thought the "wealthy" created the wealth and got to keep what they earned after meeting the expenses required in the wealth creation (fair labor, parts, equipment, IRS code requirements, etc). This does demonstrate a fundamental red-blue schism.
Democrats (liberals) think they own the entire money supply and allocate it according to their own whim, caprice and re-election needs. The "government" chooses how all wealth is re-distributed; no matter who earns it, or comes into that earned wealth through inheritance.
On the other hand conservatives believe they own the wealth they create or inherit, and relinquish it only under the strict interpretation of the express IRS code, AND by way of their own long traditions of private philanthropy. God bless them. This way, they retain control over their earned wealth redistributions.
BTW: there is no such thing as "tax cuts to the wealthy". There is only the IRS Code, as written by legislative process.
So to parse out your prior responses, there is pattern:
1. FUD, threats and extortion
2. Personal insults
3. Class warfare
4. ???
I look forward to an eventual meeting of the minds. Surely there must be some common ground between us. Do you agree possession of a US passport by all US citizens is one of the most coveted documents on the planet - our one share common denominator? We can work up from there.
The wealthy sometimes participate in creation of the wealth, but almost never create it by themselves. They need working people, other collaborators, infrastructure, education, law enforcement and much more. I say “sometimes” because we have the coupon clippers, heirs and passive wealth accumulators, who contribute little and take much.
Speaking of gob-smacked, that was my reaction to your denial of the concept of “tax cuts for the wealthy.” Republicans can and do gear their tax policy to help certain classes of folks, often those they have paid to win elective office, and you have to don blinders to deny that.
I will buy into your “class warfare” characterization, though without the vitriolic intent you no doubt associate with that phrase, because it is conservatives who have been waging that war from time immemorial, have harmed working people in the process, and have hijacked this country’s conception of that battle, to the injury of working people, and the organizations that promote their interests.
The rest of your list is hot air and tomfoolery. As for US passports, I agree they are valuable, but please don’t start waving the flag and saying we are the greatest country in the world.
Ira, Isn't "democracy" about who gets to write the legislation? The voices of which does swing on a pendulum.
BTW: I am hearing Obama sound bite echos here -someone please check behind the curtain. Thnx.
Wealthy already pay taxes to support your cited elements of government infrastructure. Perhaps we are not getting efficient delivery of those expected government services, if you think some people should somehow be paying more?
So all those elements you claim the wealthy should pay more for, are just part of our mutual compact with each for each other. The wealthy owe no more than what the tax code requires when they use those mutual government services to create their wealth. More power to them. That is the lure of the American Dream. And you want to strike out the engine that made America so exceptional?
I repeat, there are "no tax cuts for the wealthy. There is the tax code as written, by whatever shreds we still have left of our "democratic process". Some times we are the bug. Sometimes we are the windshield. There is no "fair share" and no duty to pay one cent more than the current IRS code allows or requires.
Make your best case why anyone should pay more, and people can vote for a new majority that will stick it to the "rich". This very tired old tax the rich argument that does still get traction in California. But it is also subject to the law of unintended consequences which we are suffering from right now in this state.
Searching for the Golden Mean here, rather than utter destruction of any opposition. I admire the long history of private philanthropy that created a special uniqueness to this very town of Santa Barbara. Tax deductible charitable giving must provide a public benefit.
Don't kill this off this private generosity, demanding only the government decides how the private money gets spent or distributed. Saying thank you to the numerous private donors who "Made Santa Barbara Great" - past and present is a more welcome response. A healthy society can have both: public wealth redistribution and private philanthropy.
I’m not saying the rich should pay more than the various tax codes require. I’m saying change the tax codes so they and corporations pay their fair share. They’re not doing that now, and government is shortchanging us at least on healthcare coverage and public education. No doubt we differ on what that fair share would be.
The free market and especially its jaundiced “trickledown” variation is not an engine for prosperity; it is a recipe for income inequality, wage stagnation, offshoring and pandering to greed, fueled by union-busting.
Ira, we could have hours of fun with just that one statement of yours, and I see you finally played your hand .The lines are drawn, but that shall be for another thread and time. But thanks for sharing.
Ira writes: ........"The free market and especially its jaundiced “trickledown” variation is not an engine for prosperity; it is a recipe for income inequality, wage stagnation, offshoring and pandering to greed, fueled by union-busting......."
According to Ira, conservatives stands for the following:
1. jaundiced trickle down wealth distribution
2. free market is not an engine for prosperity
3. income inequality
4. wage stagnation
5. off-shoring
6. pandering to greed
7. union-busting
Conservative fundamentals in fact are:
1. Protection of private property
2. Rule of law
3. Fair and competitive markets
4. Limited government
Both health care and public education are so badly mismanaged today due to government interference, after each getting with hundreds of billions of dollars dropped automatically on both their laps. And all we get are materially declining outcomes. This is not a matter of money, but yet again let's add that shibboleth to your growing list of "progressive" memes.
Both formerly proud institutions (health care and public education) in this country are now poster children for government waste, fraud and abuse. Stop pretending they are not getting their 'fair share". They are wasting far more than they are providing. Clean house. Eliminate the layers upon layers government buffers, than now separate the providers and the recipients.
👏👏👏
How is PG&E supposed to afford upgrading our grid infrastructure? Like Andy said, millions per mile for transmission lines. Pacific Gas & Electric annual net income for 2023 was $2.242B. How could they possibly afford it?
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PCG/pacific-gas-electric/net-income
How far will that $2 billion in "profits" from this public utility go to replace existing lines demanded by the climate change crowd? Any estimates you care to offer.
Many people are deliberately ignorant because knowing implies the need for action. Others, are knowledgeable, but afraid to act.
Across the world, millions have taken to the streets, sometimes violently, to support the wholesale conversion of all the world from fossil fuels to wind, solar and batteries to serve the needs of 10 Billion people.
I don't recall seeing even a smidgeon of that number of people protesting in the streets across the world in defence of a different view, and opposition to the absurdities of the current path we are on, especially in California, where the collapse of the all-electric world is likely to occur first.
Good article Andy.
Where’s nuclear?
- Stable, reliable energy source
- Low greenhouse gas
- High energy density
- Reduced air pollutants
Surely we can find a way to mitigate its 2 main problems - waste disposal and uranium as its fuel source.
Yes, where nuclear in all of this? Although, environmentalist are against nuclear too. They want to shut down the Diablo plant and no technology upgrades either.
Thank you, Andy - terrific column. I just wish someone would explain to me why electric transportation for us hoi polloi will save the planet but the hoi oligoi still get to bomb the hell out of any country that displeases them.
Any assessment of carbon emissions associated with a product needs to look at its whole life cycle, from manufacture to scrapping.
An EV has an 80% higher carbon footprint to build than a traditional car.
The mining of minerals include lithium, cobalt, and nickel that requires using fossil fuels to mine those materials and heat them to high temperatures. This does not include the effects of fracking and slave labor used to mine these materials.
Most EVs are charged overnight when there is no green energy to charge them, meaning they are using “fossil” fuels to charge them.
The avg EV requires 30 kilowatt-hours to travel 100 miles — the same amount of electricity an average American home uses each day to run appliances, computers, lights and heating and air conditioning.
It takes about 80,000 driving miles to break even on the carbon footprint. And that does not include the disposal of the old battery.
An EV battery has a 10 year lifespan. After which the toxic chemicals battery goes into a landfill poisoning the ground. Less than 10% of the battery is recycled.
And a new carbon intensive battery has to be installed at great expense to the owner.
The used EV market is dying as people realize a 6-7 year old car will require expensive new batteries in a few years. Per our local dealers they will not take a used EV in trade unless you swap brand for brand.
So why is the government forcing them upon you?
Just saying EV are not as green as you think they are. I love them, but between their high expense to buy, the large carbon footprint and limited range they are not right for everyone.
well said…people should also think about their health when considering purchasing an EV…buy an EMF meter (good ones are less than $200), take it to the dealer & do some measurements & find that EMF levels are beyond the level considered to be healthy…then take measurements at the EV charging stations and find that EMF levels are multiple times the safe health range minimum…then think about sitting on a EMF battery pack for hours at a time…not good
some members of the public have attributed a diffuse collection of symptoms to low levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields…reported symptoms include headaches, anxiety, suicide and depression, nausea, fatigue and loss of libido…
1 major volcanic eruption creates more green house gases than all of human activity in one year.
Just in the State of Calif. you never see the green house gas production by nature prior to the industrial revolution (aka tar pits, oil leaks and gas leaks)..... So you first have to subtract that from all formulas.
The examples abound.
Actually 1 volcano does not create more green house gasses than all of human activity in a year. I picked any old year - so it was 2020. This is what I found. You're off by a two factors of 10. Annual Volcanic Emissions: The combined annual CO2 equivalent emissions from all volcanic activity are about 0.3 to 0.4 Gt.
Annual Human Emissions: Human activities in 2020 emitted approximately 36.3 Gt of CO2 equivalents. Science is Basic.
Remember the smart meter controversy and how many people were concerned about EMF back then?
Nowadays people are more concerned about the smell from pot farms than the EMF coming from their EV that they have to drive at least 12,000 miles/year to break even on the carbon footprint in 6-7 years. 240 hours per year sitting in the EMF field.
And per consumer reports a modern car will last 200,000 miles. https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/what-is-a-reasonable-life-span-for-a-modern-car-a4678774857/