kamala horace started her trip on sunday in gala before flying to tons in the mid week where she met the country's president. horace is the latest top u. s. official to visit africa in recent months with the country making a renewed effort to strengthen its presence on the continent and counter russian and chinese influence in the region. but political analysts should bends and phony, convince, washington renewed interest will bear fruit activities . we have seen historically has been one of them interfere us. you can see the hand of america. 2 militarily, being very anti democratic, if i may put it does way. so they're coming in to africa now with this channel offensive talking about democracy,

i think that it does not for many people, we are able to see through russia and china that he's totally good relations with most african countries because of not only because of the role in deliberation, struggle of the continent. but also that post independence, russia and china continues to provide a lot of technical support, material support, financial support. the most of the african countries will always last for now. but just a reminder for up to the minute developments, do give r t a follow on twitter to ensure you don't need to think about the i

some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. the united states of america is different wherever people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with a little bit of weight about 80 volts. anybody basie? sincerely city in p draw. you look on the book. they insanely submit. cigarettes p color revolutions is one among several means to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them onto the helm of usaa weston, economic interests. people been sad. it hadn't that he did to that grow valley democrats. yeah. new england tunic coral active. so no, we just say low their soft power mary. can. the final goal of these seem

revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore . ah oh, we are in the middle of a global energy crisis and precedent complexity and death economies, markets and policies are being greatly impacted yet despite unrelenting jail, political and economic concerns, governments are still clinging to dramatic environmental policies. i'm scott, i know he is on today's $360.00 view, we're going to look at the steps various governments are taking in regards to a transportation and climate change and the present day impacts. they are having show,

ah, electric vehicles a seem to be the future. but at what cost, and it will actually bring us the green revolution, climate activists promise, or discovery. the push towards evie and some of their hidden cost. you need to know . we bring in our international correspondent roxane, solano. scotty, capitalism has been a driver up consumer products in many countries, allowing you to choose if you have the ability to buy an electric vehicle, the wheel and you can, or if you want or need a gas powered vehicle for whatever reason it is. but in the united states, that choice has been taken away or is about to be taken away. california is mandate in all new passenger cars. light trucks be electric vehicles or plug in electric

hybrids by 2035. in reality, only 16 percent of new car sales in california are these see real emission vehicles? one obvious reason people don't choose electric is the starting price. a basic electric vehicle will run you $30000.00. there are many heating cost. consumers need to be aware of when been forced to switch to an electric vehicle. so where do you charge your vehicle? while many companies and governments have funded public places to charter car, not all of them are free. plus the infrastructure in many countries has not come up to the need. charging stations are not easily found if you plan to do a cross country road trip. and if you don't have time to charge your car out at the more or can find the spot at your local grocery store,

you would want to charge it at night. at your own home. you could plug it into the stand there will outlet, but the charging time is extremely slow to outfit up proper plug in for your vehicle. typically costs between $5700.00. but if you don't want to plan and doing it yourself parts and labor to hire an electrician will cause you of course, up to $2000.00 plus electricity bills have skyrocketed across the globe. so now your footing the be able to charge your car with your homes monthly utility bill. the increase is set to only be between $55.00 and $60.00 a month. fine, that is not that bad. however, a battery for your car alone could cost up to $20000.00 and above. this is start the french from hundreds dollars for a gas powder vehicle. for me, this car, so like the new iphone, every time you update them, the battery drains and the cost difference for an electric vehicle just is not

worth it. broke centers, atlanta for 365. you might see you've got an interesting rocks and all of those things you don't take into consideration when you're actually to dealership by a car. there's a lot of other things you have to worry about. thanks for santa joining me now to discuss is lauren fix the car, coach, sector analyst, automotive energy trends and host at the podcast. total car score one. thanks for joining me today. ok, scotty. it's always great to chat with you. okay, there is so much we could dive in with, but i want to start out with the story from switzerland. you actually, your twitter account actually taught me onto this in the 1st place. there's an ordinance on restriction and prohibition on the use of electric energy. this is just a draft, but at this point, what exactly is it? well, what happened was that switzerland was one of the 1st to say, let's go green. they promoted, there are, there are people that live citizens to buy electric vehicles,

to go to electric appliances. and of course, the country decided to shut down their power, which they get much of their power from france and germany. but what are the happening, what, or with russia and ukraine? they were no longer getting fuel from russia, because that was part of their agreement. now they're in a bind, everyone's gone electric problem is that when it comes to charging these vehicles, you need to charge them at night. or just like you are just reporting on our outside station. well, because of the shortage of electricity, they're asking their citizens to raise the temperature, the refrigerator's, not wash clothes and washers. in other words, go back to the old way of washing them and i think, and they're also telling them to turn their temperatures down. so they're not using as much heat and even downloading videos uses too much electricity. they want them to download them and enter definition rather than high definition. and worst of all, if you've got an electric vehicle, they don't want you to charge it or even to drive unless it's an emergency that is

a level 3, and they're right on the edge of reaching that level 3 emergency. and that's the problem because they can't get power from france and germany. they don't have their power, then nothing's getting charged and nothing is getting electricity. and again, we're already starting to see this in california. it's going to start spreading around the world. well, that's what i want to talk about and i find it so funny because i am sure there are still commercials for electric vehicles running every other, auto mirabelle commercial, even in switzerland. so it's kind of like the double. what are we supposed to do not to do? but you mentioned california, are we seeing other countries or areas outside considering the same type of policies? because switzerland is not the only country with an energy crisis right now. that is correct. we're starting to see this in italy, in france and spain. and what's interesting is trying to just made a deal with them that they're going to be doing being drilling oil from there. and of course, that will then be owned by china, which makes them very powerful, so will no longer be beholden to the middle east. if we decide to go with an all

electra plan, we'll so may be home to china, not just for the cobalt, because they own almost 90 percent of the mines. but we're also going to go home to them because russia and china are going to own the bulk of the mind, fossil fuels, which we don't want to do here. but this is a massive problem. again, the government has these great ideas just like they want to remove gas powered stoves and they want to go all electric. you're not thinking about you and i and how it affects us on a daily basis because it's ok for them to do what they need. when it comes to us, we have to buy the $66000.00 on average electric vehicle, higher insurance rates, and come up with electricity as that gets more expensive. and we're noticing big changes already in california. they've got tons of weather issues and the 1st thing they do is tell you don't use the power it's so funny. how does such a disconnect between the people that are making the policies and the people that actually have to abide by them. but you think the policies that are being created will have any sort of impact or cause hesitation if it is not the sticker price

alone by potential buyers of electric vehicles. i almost feel like it's, it's major peer pressure that's happening by all the car companies that you are good, some point organ have any other choice except an e b. if you want to buy a new car, well, there's a lot of reality to it. all the media is hyping mass check out of electric vehicles . the truth is across the entire country, only a 6 percent electric vehicles in the united states. that's a lot less than other countries and in california is coming as close as 18 percent and sales for the last quarter. but in reality, it's not as high as the mainstream media make. first push, but you have to remember car manufacturers are in a catch 22 if they don't produce electric cars, they can in the state of california and 17 other states. but in addition to that, they will be fine by the 8 if they don't produce electric vehicles. that's a problem. so they're producing these vehicles are taking a loss in every vehicle. so they're trying to sell more, and i'm hoping that they can at least get some cash flow and give you an idea what's going on in the auto industry. in 20192020 we sold about

17300000 vehicles. last year for 2022. we only sold 13700000. so that's a loss of about 4000000 cars. to put the money to that, the average profit from manufacture selling to a dealer is about $10000.00 a car. that's millions of dollars and loss. and when they're losing money, they've got to try and come with ways to make up that might. so the federal government stuff in it, we'll try to help you with that. $7500.00 tax credit, but they would lose that money. so car manufacturers raise the price by $8000.00. it's just crazy. so the money you think you're going to lose, you know, again on the $7500.00, you actually is a total wash. now there is a tax credit for used cars, but if you look at the restrictions and the maximum amount you're allowed to make, so few cars are going to comply. laura, it almost sounds like extortion i had wanted by the u. s. government to saying if

you want to sell your car, you have to do this even though we know it's going to cause trouble to your company, you're going to have to anyway in other countries. do you know of around the world that are having the same for the policies? mercedes benz is a german, well, it's supposed to be a german originally country in our other country having the same sort of policies put in place. yes, your note for germany, since you discussed that the number one person place that sells or the industry that hires people that are citizens of germany is the auto industry. so as audi and b, m w and mercedes, volkswagen group start making everyone go electric, they not realize we've got a problem. if we go all electric, we need less employees, things we're going to sell less vehicles. and that's a problem because then they're hurting their own economy. so we're starting to see that some of the politicians in germany are waking up to realize this is not going to work. we're not going to freeze out our citizens, so they're starting to fire up and nuclear power plants are certainty. use coal again because they know it's not going to work in their particular case and it

doesn't work. so again, this is typical, the green policy sounds great on the surface. sounds like you're helping everyone, but in reality, the wheels are starting to come off the bus. when you notice, companies like toyota, mr. toyota, who is the ceo of the largest car corporation. the world says, this is not going to work. we have to have a mix. and b, m w. bavarian motor works at a germany is saying the same thing. we're going to offer hydrogen. we're going to offer plugin hybrid. we're going to offer gas powered. we're going to offer a lot of different choices people because they want to stay in business. they have people that need jobs, but also they realize that the grid cannot support in any country where everyone is 100 percent electric. it just cannot happen. the grid is not able to support that. thank you. learn don't go away because everyone can see this conversation. after the break, we will continue our conversation with lauren fixed and discuss how economically freely the electric vehicles market really is. and if it's really about freedom and control

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here with us a personal number of years with, with oh, well come back, we're discussing the push for all evie all the time. let to bring back lauren fixed the car, coach and host of the podcast. a total a cart score or laura and howard cox, who is the founder of the affair. fuel campaign i said the u. k. call the the beta max of transport and says the deadline for movies are going to lead to an economic

disaster. so from your perspective, do you see electronic vehicles really be an asset in this fight against damage being done to the environment and worth the damage that it could potentially and it looks like it's doing to the economy? well i think that no one really looks at the cradle to grave as we call it in the industry. so where do all these raw materials come from? much of that comes from mind those minds come from cobalt. there's been tons of studies done whether it be from the b, b, c, even joe rogan had a guest who was talking about the impact to the environment. he actually went and visited some of these mines. and you can see these are people that are out there, barefoot, digging up cobalt cobalt is very hazardous to humans. and you've got cadmium, lithium, mercury, neo dining i'm. there's 7 rare earth minerals that all are in mind that are owned by china for the most part. much of the mineral rich area is in afghanistan and because of belt and wrote wrote initiative, china's already made a move to say it will help build your roads in your infrastructure. but we want

those bare earth minerals. so again, they will own more of it than we do and we don't mind that stuff here because it is hazardous to the environment. so as this is all baked together to make a battery, some batteries are recyclable, some are not. i've covered that on my car, coach report youtube channel, but i will tell you what people don't realize is not recyclable. so those batteries will stack up in salvage yard, just like solar panels and why it all sounds great on the surface. 10 years from now you and i are going to be having a conversation about the environmental impact and the disaster it is. and the fact that there is no one who can completely take all that and recycle it. now redwood materials has been working on it. they've got some of it down but they can't get all of it. and this is a massive problem because what is left behind is hazardous and you can't put it in the water, you can't send it to the moon. and these are problems. i mean even elan must is well aware of this and he has said that electric vehicles are great, but they're not the only answer and i think will end up in the end with some sort

of hybrid version that gives us a call 40 architecture giving you really good performance, better fuel economy, and there's going to be some form of gasoline or synthetic gas, which portion volkswagen group been working on them working with a ramco, which is the middle eastern company in already haven't being produced. there's testing it right now. it's a little pricey, but they've already had a vehicle drive, a 1000 miles. that was just an everyday vehicle and you should be able to pump it into your tank. that may be the answer, synthetic fuel. interesting or back in the united states, california, they just mandated trucks and buses where the engines made before 2010 our band. this just seems like an absolute joke. i was like i was reading the i knew when i saw this. 70000 vehicles are effected applies to trucks that are also trying to enter into the state of california. are we even at the point where e v technology can handle the load at the same capacity as their gas powered

predecessors for an 18 wheeler? no, it makes absolutely no sense to look at the 18 wheelers that are out there that have that, that are battery powered. the charging takes forever. it's a massive load on the grid. and what you're also noticing when you're looking at the cyber truck or some of the other brands that are out there that are starting to deliver. the biggest problem is what they just mandated as of the 1st of 2023. you cannot have a vehicle that's all been 20. so what is it done is all these truck trucking companies and companies have gone to other states to purchase as many as they can to replace for older vehicles because they want to be able to do business. and what that is done is cars be used, car market for big trucks, you get stream way expensive. you have to remember that when you see a tractor trailer on the road, that body might be really old, even from the 70s or eighties. and the drive line might be replaced. but in many cases, those engines are still good at 20 can are good for 340500000 miles without a problem because they're diesel, which is what they call a compression motor. now this is

a problem because when you're telling people they can't do this and they're actually ticketing for this. this is a problem. all you're going to do is slow down the supply chain which is already broken. and you can thank people to judge for that here in the us. he doesn't know what he's doing. i'd be happy to tell him that personally effective if you could figure out what's going on. and he was put there because he had the skills we wouldn't be in this predicament. we're in right now. absolutely. control looking at california is having these rolling blackouts during droughts and when he conditions, how can legislators actually expect people to go fully electric? if there is no way to charge their car during fire season. right, and then it's a problem soon as there's a fire, the 1st thing to do is shut down the power and that makes sense because it could actually spark another fire. so from the fire standpoint, it's safer, but if you've got an electric vehicle and you went to charge it it and you didn't get to charging it. maybe you are work. maybe you're out in about one, they shut it down. whatever is in your vehicle. so you've got so that's why a lot of people that it went, all electric are not realizing this doesn't work. it also doesn't work when you're

having trouble flooding what's going on right now in santa cruz, california, and that area also didn't work in buffalo, new york, when we had tons of snow where i'm based. and if we were waiting on electric while i'd still be waiting for an electron cloud today, there, why can't i go about talking about that? one thing that you brought up, which is about freedom and control. and that's not only 9 states and in countries across the globe right now. if everything you're doing is reliant on energy and the government can have control of whether you get that energy. why should people be really afraid that that's a possibility, that why there is this push about having everybody be based on electric? they want everyone based on wind and solar, which is even worse because of electricity can also be used with gasoline or nuclear power. they don't want either one of those, and some countries are starting to wake up and realize that they need to have some sort of green energy. nuclear power is one of them. it's just not subsidized. so all the companies go where the subsidies are currently. it's wind and solar, that's not enough. it can only support 18 percent of our grid. and we saw that we

haven't been texas when they had that ice and snow storm and they were without power for quite a long time. and their number one product that comes out of texas is where you. so without crude oil, you don't have many of the derivatives to make all the plastics and everything that we touch and live with every single day. but it also means you don't have what's called base load power, and if we don't have baseload, that's the problem. and that's the real thing that the government doesn't understand. i don't know who's running their energy department, but they really need to talk to some people who know what they're talking about. because what baseload, you can use wind and solar as a side. but it certainly can't be the only answer you have to have more than that. and natural gas is one of them. and they want to reduce that. and if they do, people that have gas stoves, which includes me, won't be able to use them cuz they don't want us to. and if you talk about new york state where i am our current governor, just like hello fornia one that natural gas. no, we're burning fireplaces, they just one is cold and freezing and basically to be beholden to the government and everything they're willing to give us whenever they are much like what happened

in some other countries like greece or north korea? well, you know, it's not just in the us because the un has set up a blueprint or achieve a more sustainable future for all which includes the replacement of fossil fuel vehicles. is this even viable? and you mentioned before concerned a lack of infrastructure in many 3rd world countries and what actually need to be in place for countries transportation line to actually be fully electrically powered. well, the only way to go full electric, you'd need to have quite a few nuclear power plants, which a lot of people don't want. well, then there's no other choice than to go with coal or natural gas that they don't want to do either of those. you're kind of putting yourself in a pickle and remember the car manufacturers are being fined billions, if they don't do this so they're going to follow suit whatever the governments want . they don't have a choice because they can easily hurt their business and they're, they are unable to their shareholder. so it's easy to explain millions of dollars a lot of billions of dollars and losses. and that plus the fact if you look at the whole globe and what's going on, car manufacturers are in

a tough situation. we as consumers, buy what we want, what's end up with the result. this is consumers are keeping their cars longer on an average of 15 years. a lot more people are buying their cars off of their lease and say, forget it. i'm just going to keep what i have. i don't want to car the connected. i don't want a car that could possibly be shut off or not allow me to charge and you start thinking about the controls. they can put it in place if they wish to. that's a problem. and we noticed that in the infrastructure bill that passed in 2021 and you'll start seeing that in some of the, the small but always there with the big print gives a small print ticket. the way there's a lot of small print in those bills. and you really need to sit down and read them . of course, most people won't because i don't even think people that voted for it. read it because it's easy just to pass them along because there's some sort of aramark in it for whatever they want. the result is you is the consumer are paying the price, not just an electricity, but also in the ability to get what you want. and you may not be able to do that

for much longer if they have their choice, the world economic warm and the un. they want you to have cars. they want you to live within 15 minutes every do you need. and you can either walk or take a bike and that does not work for most of us. and that does that seem very realistic, but that's why we have people like you learn, fixing your podcast around to keep us informed. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. now a few weeks ago my husband, i actually rented a hybrid vehicle just to see what life is like with an electric vehicle. now due to a lack of finding, charging stations which were actually operational. my husband, i made the entire 1200 mile trip using the gasoline engine just 40 hours that our area was forced to drive it rolling blackouts after extremely cold temperatures cause a higher than normal demand on the energy grid. when it happens to energy provider divided the area into parts identifies and removes critical infrastructure like hospitals and water treatment plants from the regions. and then begin the process

of switching out power on a rotational basis and time increments as needed. now that should be alarming, not only because of the lack of being able to care for the energy needs in the present, but it reminds us that energy companies can target individuals or groups of people and see their power. now imagine the government being able to have this control and direct to the energy companies on who and who cannot have power, frightening thought. and why there is a fear regarding what happens when the major component of a society become based on elements solely under the control of someone else. the ability to travel both for leisure, necessity is one of those major components. putting that much power in one entities hands. it's not only a rational, but it's actually dangerous. there is nothing wrong with wanting to help the environment and it's very sad if the most powerful in office we're taking advantage of the good nature of people in order to gain more power and control of others.

with more information coming out about how non environmentally friendly, the electronic vehicle industry is, yet there is no relinquishing on rules and policies. governments are aggressively putting in place. i worry this force conversation is more about gaining power by summer rather than actually trying to save it and scale he's and this has been your 360 view. thanks for watching. ah ah, ah, we have this to be on tenderness from united states. we'd exported it now to the world because the multinational corporations and we've been damaged to believe that babies need to be nurtured in care for love. and so you've got a whole bunch of traumatized people all over the world with post traumatic stress

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