Brandon Aceto

Yeah, I really hate waste of potential more than anything.

And the amount of money that's been poured into the EV initiative, it's so sad because, like, we talk about all the time about the things that actually would benefit from government subsidies, like, you know, like a home builders initiative or initiative to build nuclear reactors to give us more power for the country.

but we've spent probably hundreds of billions of dollars over the last 10 years into trying to pressure or incentivize companies into building EVs.

And I sent Rob a chart that shows the amount of material that is required to build an EV versus a gas-powered car.

And does this look like a good return on investment, especially when the output of energy is not higher?

Can you explain to us what this means?

So the green circles are the amount of materials like metals and whatnot that go into the inputs of a car.

The black circles are gas-powered cars.

Yes, correct.

It's just, you know, it's not something that I think would be created if the market wasn't being forced to create it.

That's the point, is that the government's putting a lot of pressure on companies to build it.

But it's not something that would be really profitable or a good return on investment, I think, to build if they weren't getting pressure to do it.

We could debate that.

But I almost wonder, since energy matches the population growth, I almost wonder if the government wants to do this to maybe slow population growth because the more energy you have in the country that's free and accessible, the faster the population grows.

So it creates a lot of weird questions why they're saying that we need this to save the world, why they're saying we're running out of oil when we've established that we're probably not.

Yeah.

A lot of them, no, we don't have abundant amounts of it.

And a lot of them, you know, they're in places like China.

They're in South America.

So, yeah, no, it's not readily accessible.