Short Quiz – Why Do Environmentalists Want To Keep Our Coal-Fired Electric-Generation Plants Running???

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Short Quiz – Why Do Environmentalists Want To Keep Our Coal-Fired Electric-Generation Plants Running???

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Sec. A – General Questions

1. Who was Socrates?

2. Have law schools historically been famous for using “The Socratic Method"? Asking questions to get students to think?

3. Do modern-day students become offended over being forced to think???

4. Will you be offended by the question comprising the title to this Short Quiz because it requires you to think???


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Sec. B – The Focus of This Month’s Focus Book “Volt Rush – The Winners and Losers in The Race to Go Green”

1. Does “Volt Rush” focus on all of the minerals that will be required to manufacture the batteries for electric vehicles?

2. And, for example, who already owns the existing mines for extracting those minerals?

3. As well as the CARBON-POLLUTION COSTS of obtaining them?

4. Is the description of “Volt Rush” reminiscent of President Jimmy Carter???

5. Didn’t Jimmy Carter (a nuclear-engineering graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy) posit while in office that the earth only has a finite amount of oil & gas, as a result of which “peak production” has already been reached and the U.S. (and the rest of the world) will just have to get used to declining production??? And long gas lines???

6. Was Jimmy Carter wrong because new oil & gas reserves were discovered in many new geographic areas???

7. Was Jimmy Carter also wrong because it was only possible to produce a small fraction of oil & gas from existing reservoirs – and nuclear-engineer Jimmy Carter could not conceive that technology could improve???

8. Was Jimmy Carter also wrong because it was IMPOSSIBLE to obtain oil & gas that was locked in IMPERVIOUS rock formations within which oil & gas could NOT move – and nuclear-engineer Jimmy Carter could not conceive of the invention of HYDRAULIC FRACTURING that would pulverize those rock formations thereby releasing the oil & gas???

9. Similarly to myopic Jimmy Carter, does “Volt Rush” assume that all of the world’s minerals for manufacturing electronic-vehicle batteries have already been discovered???

10. Similarly to myopic Jimmy Carter, does “Volt Rush” assume that electronic-vehicle batteries can NOT be manufactured from other more-plentiful minerals???

11. Similarly to myopic Jimmy Carter, does “Volt Rush” assume that A BREAK-THROUGH AS-YET-UNDISCOVERED “MIRACLE MOLECULE” which might turn out to be the most efficient electronic-storage substance – can NOT be discovered/invented??? A “miracle molecule” that can be produced cheaply from other substances that are plentiful and cheap (even in the face of incredible worldwide demand for electric-vehicle batteries)???


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Sec. C – Why Do Environmentalists Want To Keep Our Coal-Fired Electric-Generation Plants Running???

1. Are journalists, such as our author Henry Sanderson, usually UNQUALIFIED to think of the first question an economist would ask – “do environmentalists seem to want to keep our coal-fired electronic-generation plants running???”???

2. BTW, is this also the first thought that would occur to a non-economist owner of high-end stereo equipment who is used to “trouble shooting” using a “with and without” modus vivendi to ascertain the source of the problem???

3. So what does “with and without” teach us vis-à-vis the CARBON-POLLUTION DISASTER that is currently posed BY ELECTRONIC VEHICLES???

4. Every time we have looked at this issue, have we ascertained that the entire electricity-usage of electronic vehicles from the nation’s electric grid IS LESS THAN THE AMOUNT OF THE GRID’S ELECTRICITY THAT IS PRODUCED FROM COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC-GENERATION PLANTS???!!!

5. Does this mean that INTELLIGENT policy makers should BAN ELECTRIC VEHICLES until the last coal-fired electric-generation plant has been closed???

6. Does this line of reasoning also mean that ELECTRIC VEHICLES SHOULD BE BANNED until oil & gas electric-generation plants have been closed???

7. Are politicians reluctant to cause coal-fired and oil/gas-fired electric generation plants to be replaced by solar and wind because of the massive subsidies that are still required because wind/solar are still so UNECONOMC contrasted with the “benchmark” price of oil & gas???

8. Is wind/solar's chasing the “benchmark” of oil & gas a losing proposition because so many oil & gas producers (e.g. Saudi Arabia) have such LOW PRODUCTION COSTS that they can simply reduce their prices to keep wind/solar uneconomic???

9. Has hydro and nuclear always been cheaper than oil & gas???

10. Has hydro always been severely limited by the world’s extreme lack of dammable rivers???

11. Have oil & gas producers (e.g. Saudi Arabia) benefitted from the PUBLIC PREJUDICE against nuclear power???

12. Is nuclear power actually safe???

13. Should the U.S. convert to electronic vehicles that obtain their electricity from a grid powered SOLELY BY THORIUM FISSION???


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Sec. D – Does China Export All 100% Of The Fentanyl It Makes?

1. Does our focus book “Volt Rush” document that most wind/solar equipment is manufactured in China and that China already owns many, if not most, of the mines worldwide for obtaining the minerals necessary for manufacturing electronic-vehicle batteries???

2. Does this foster the SUBCONSCIOUS BELIEF that if China is going “whole hog” vis-à-vis manufacturing electronic-vehicle batteries, then China itself must be planning to use electronic vehicles domestically???

3. Or is manufacturing electronic-vehicles similar to China’s manufacturing fentanyl for the U.S. market – nothing more than providing the U.S. with the means to commit suicide???

4. In other words, didn’t the Paris Climate Accord (and its predecessor, the Kyoto Protocol) exempt China from doing anything until the distant future??? As a result of which, China still brings on stream EVERY WEEK a new monster-size coal-fired electric-generation plant???

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