Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 03, 2023, 12:17 PMThere is not enough copper and lithium to do it.  More than the imaginary money you correctly predict is needed.  Imaginary metals anyone?

Indeed.  Also hard to figure where they are going to find, train and pay all the additional linemen, tower builders and technicians given the already critical labor shortage throughout the economy.  Recruit retired Boomers and add training programs in high school along with the CDL classes?  Retrain the laid off geeks from Silicon Valley?  Will K-Dog leave the Warehouse and exchange his steel toed boots for pole climbing spikes?

Where are they going to find the still solvent banks to finance the construction loans and EV loans and credit worthy customers to hand these loans out to?  I do not think the regulatory delays are the real problem here, but politicians will use that as the spanking monkey in the blame game.

Given the lofty goals for a carbon free transportation system about a decade away in 2035, my WAG would be about 5 years until the mismatch between electric supply and further expansion of EV transport becomes impossible.  A reality check will ensue and the false promise of a techno solution will be apparent even to brain dead J6P.

Of course, we have quite a ffew other problems to negotiate before we hit the 5 year mark, so we may already be swimming in shit anyhow.

RE