The future cost of RV stay

time2roll wrote:

MikeRP wrote:
Ok folks this battery craze is just that crazy. So let’s talk about getting the material to make the batteries. Look at the size of mining operations needed to find the metals we need now for these batteries.

The world is changing.

Didn't even think about the mining ops for battery materials AND coal for this all to work.
time2roll, when's the last time you got a stormwater permit, much less a mining permit?
Better keep Trump in office for the next 20 years and get him to shut down the EPA if you think new mines are going to get approved in droves...or at all.
(Maybe we can mine elsewhere and muck up someone elses countries?)

N WI, where I call "home". Mining industry tanked due to permitting.
Latest attempt, even the governor pulled some strings and did some questionable stuff to get it through. Still tanked....no mine.
Job I built in the Arctic, took over 5 years to get permitted just to build a few bridges and 5 miles of 2 lane gravel road with virtually zero temporary or permanent environmental impact save for the narrow patch or tundra covered by gravel.
Here in WA, you can't even work in waters of the state more than 2 months a year, legally, and just removing fish barriers (undersized culverts) that were mandated by the govt to be removed due to lawsuit from the tribes typically takes about 2 years to permit, again something with zero permanent environmental detriment.

Again, I don't profess to understand what all needs to be done to convert the majority of the transportation industry from fossil fuels to electricity, but I'm enough of a realist to know what is probable and what is a seriously costly, time consuming, improbable uphill battle.

Prolly why I don't like Subarus and coexist stickers!