This from JC…takes the cake

INDIAN GIVER

Occasionally I wonder whether the jabs have caused widespread neurological damage, and articles like this one make me even more suspicious. San Fransisco Bay Area’s ABC 7 ran a story last week headlined, “PG&E CEO proposes using electric cars to send power back to grid to prevent blackouts.”

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I am not making this up. Pacific Gas & Electric’s CEO Patricia Poppe (if that’s her real name) has reportedly come up with an “unconventional” idea to prevent blackouts: using its customers’ electric car batteries to suck excess power back into the grid.

That used to be called “Indian giving,” but I’ve been told that term is on the banned list now. I will try to use “Indigenous American giving” instead.

So-called “reverse charging” is already a feature of Ford’s F-150 Lightning, and General Motors has announced all of its electric vehicles are expected to follow suit. The “feature” is described as a way to let people use their electric cars as a giant battery if the power goes out or something. Because why would they need to drive anywhere?

Don’t worry! The government is here to help. California’s Senate Bill 233 would make bi-directional charging mandatory for all new electric vehicles.

And they’re planning on it, you bet. It’s already underway. According to someone named “Kurt Johnson” of “the Climate Center” — and what do you want to bet the Climate Center is government-funded? — Kurt said, “There are 125-plus vehicle-to-grid projects going on globally.” Kurt explained the rationale: people’s cars are “a gigantic unharnessed, untapped power source that can be used. Most vehicles are sitting parked, unused 95 percent of the time.”

In other words, your car is their resource.

True, Kurt, the vehicles are sitting unused — because they aren’t being used yet, dummy. Most people expect to be able to drive their charged-up electric car right when they need it, like when they experience a sudden and unexpected “brief illness” and need to go to the hospital or something. Or even just realize they’re out of hot pockets. Or whatever.

PG&E’s Patty Poppe explained that, if it can pull this program off, it plans to “compensate” people for taking back the power it previously supplied to charge their cars. So here’s how it will work. You’ll wake up and discover you can’t go anywhere because your car’s charge is below 10%. But you’ll get a thirty-two cent credit on your electric bill. And you get to brag that you’re saving the planet. They might even send you a vanity bumper sticker you can put on your undrivable car’s spotlessly-clean bumper.

I wonder if they considered what will happen when all the electric car owners plug their empty cars back in after the blackout, all at the same time. I guess PG&E will have to ration charging, a little at a time, so some people won’t be able to use their high-tech electric cars for a while until it’s their turn. Brilliant.

Gas cars don’t face the new threat of Indian-giving power companies. Just saying. Govern yourselves according