The electric vehicle craze is an insight into our age.  

And our age is filled with concepts and ideas that have been bought into by people, who become zealous with it.  

And the danger of that is along the way the truth is discarded in a desperate desire to cross the finish line.  

And the finish line is the victory of getting your ideology accepted by the mainstream.  

Climate change is your best example.  

But electric vehicles aren't bad either, and in their own way, they are part of the climate change story.

Electric vehicles haven't worked, and it's important to know that because they are argued by many to be new, and an emerging technology, when they are not.  

The original electric vehicles go back to the early part of the 1900s, and what stopped them taking off was the fact recharging was an issue, and the fact you could take 50 litres of this thing called petrol and drive for hundreds of miles on it.  

The same premise has not changed, the same problem is still an issue.  

And that's before we get to all the debates around batteries, contents of batteries, where they come from, the mining involved, and the disposal of said material.  

And given we have the same issues over 100 years on, the debate now is moving towards artificiality.

The fact is they're too expensive.

The argument over the environment on its own doesn’t sway enough people, so they want to raid the taxpayers' coffers, which is why the surveyyesterday said 75 percent of people would need a subsidy.  

This, for example, is what has driven the orders for the Tesla Model 3, the so called affordable electric vehicle. It's not affordable, it's just heavily subsidised.  

Here it's $85,000, which is not remotely affordable.  

It's less affordable than a Mercedes, in fact it's less affordable than many Mercedes, or BMWs, or Audis.

It is true, probably true, that as more competition arrives, they’ll become cheaper.

And if they do, and if more people buy them, that’s great.  

But the big picture is missing, the big picture that is so often pointed out.  

What about the petrol tax? What about the cost of roads? What about the strain on our power grid?

All of those are real and present issues and yet, no one is offering answers.  

Why?

Because the answers involve the truth, they'll tax power, power will become more expensive.  We will all pay for this in the end.  

But they don’t want to say that, because they know it will scuttle their agenda.  

And their agenda as to whether electric vehicles are actually the answer has long gone out the window.  

Having drunk the cool aid, electric vehicles are the answer whether they're the answer or not.  

And we are now at the stage whereby any amount of hype, bollocks, and invented fact will do in order to sell the electric snake oil.