Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan was shocked to find out that electric vehicles are worse for the environment than their gas-powered counterparts.
In a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the titular host, said he had just seen that the environmental impact of electric cars “is actually worse overall than the environmental impact of a traditional combustion engine.”
“Is that true? Because that sounds crazy,” he questioned.
Rogan said that he had driven his Tesla Model S to the studio the same day, and admitted to loving it.
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“It’s ridiculous,” he said about the vehicle. “It makes other cars feel stupid.”
“They feel dumb, because they don’t move like that that thing. That thing moves like it’s teleporting.”
One of Rogan’s production staff then helpfully pulled up a 2022 study by Emission Analytics, which the Wall Street Journal cited in an opinion piece on Sunday.
According to the research, which Rogan learned from a New York Post article, EVs “release more toxic particles into the atmosphere” than gas powered vehicles.
The study pointed out that most vehicle-related pollution comes from tire wear, rather than tailpipe emissions.
Tires are made from synthetic rubber, which is a derivative of crude oil, and put 1,850 times more particle pollution into the air than exhaust, when they deteriorate.
As electric vehicles are 30% heavier than standard gas powered cars, and their batteries alone produce 400 times the amount of particle pollution than their gas predecessors.
According to Nick Molden, the CEO of Emissions Analytics, EVs deliver a 50% reduction in CO2.
“But you have this downside of EVs that increases particle pollution,” he explained.
“Air pollution is about what we breathe and the health effects.”
Molden also noted that tires consist of “a lot of nasty chemicals,” which “goes into the soil and water, affecting animals and fish.”
“And we then go and eat the animals and fish, so we are ingesting tire pollution,” he detailed about how humans are directly affected.
Rogan’s discovery that EVs aren’t as environmentally friendly as they are advertised to be comes on the heels of Biden’s new federal regulation to phase gas-cars out of production.
The newest piece of the White House’s green energy agenda is a rule that will require the vast majority of U.S. cars to be EVs or hybrids by 2032.
“Three years ago, I set an ambitious target: that half of all new cars and trucks sold in 2030 would be zero-emission,” Biden announced on Wednesday.
“Together, we’ve made historic progress. Hundreds of new expanded factories across the country,” he promised.
“Hundreds of billions in private investment and thousands of good-paying union jobs. And we’ll meet my goal for 2030 and race forward in the years ahead.”
According to Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, the new rule is “inflationary” at best.
“You wipe out gas-powered cars and stick EVs in, that is inflationary. You get nothing but higher prices for everything across the board,” he pointed out.
His guest, John Carney, noted that EVs are already causing a squeeze on American’s finances.
“A lot of people have been noticing that auto insurance is way up,” he remarked.
“The more you get [of EVs], the higher auto insurance comes out because EVs are very expensive to repair once you get in a wreck.”
Carney said American’s can expect to see insurance races continue to skyrocket.
“I’m told by people in auto insurance that that’s been one of the drivers of why auto insurance inflation is so high because it’s so much more expensive to repair a car today than it was 10 years ago,” he reported.