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Washington Post columnist George Will’s April 12 column, “Biden’s impossible dream: Any car you want, as long as it’s an EV,” is intentionally misleading.
Will takes the fact that U.S. electric car conversion will only mitigate a global temperature increase by 0.023 degrees as proof that such conversion is negligible. It is not. It is only a part of what is needed for the planet to mitigate such an increase.
The world is a very big place. Apparently, Will has forgotten what it was like to travel from one end to the other of a large metropolitan area when all the gas guzzlers were out there smogging up the air. That word “smog” was a terrible thing.
Will does not win on this one. The end of the gas-fired automobile can be seen on the horizon, and his misleading argument is not going to save it.
The electrical engine was not something dreamed up by Joe Biden. Will’s attempt to place the president square in the middle of it is also terribly misleading and beneath him. The international complex of automobile manufacturers was not listening to the pleas or demands of one single U.S. president when it decided that the time for the electric vehicle has arrived. The days of big oil are about gone.
