We probably need to be ruled by engineers for a decade or two …

… to get past all the lunacy.

Electric vehicles catching fire in Florida after Hurricane Ian

Ideology reigns supreme. Never mind all those annoying details.

California asked its citizens to please not charge their electric cars (sorry, we don’t have the capacity) in the same week they proposed eliminating all gasoline-powered cars. We still don’t know how we’re going to dispose of all these batteries safely, where we’re going to get the raw materials to build them, or how we’ll generate the electricity to charge them.

But we’re saving the planet, so shut up.