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By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” Always Remember That The cosmic blueprint of your life was written in code across the sky at the moment you were born. Decode Your Life By Living It Without Regret or Sorrow. - ONE DAY AT A TIME - Remember the days when you pull in a gas station and two or three guys would approach your car and ask you what you needed? While one asked the another cleaned your windshield and the third checked your tires. Then while you waited for the gas to be dispensed. One of the attendants would ask you if you like a tea or coffee. They ask you if you like your oil checked... It was a three ring circus of sort of service. Or how can you forget the gas stations that with every fill up they give you a free collectors mug and or glass. Those were the days. I remember the days when cars came out that took diesel. They were marketed as the game changer in fuel economy. They came and gone. Remember the 8 track tapes? You had to rush out and buy the latest player and the new high sound quality tapes.... They cam and gone. Today, the new diesel and 8 track tape fad appears to revolve around EV cars. With all this fuzz over the environment we are being led down a rabbit hole of misinformation... Buy EV it is good for the economy. So much so that it is becoming a political war cry. Ottawa has mandated that by 2035, all new vehicles sold in Canada must be emissions-free. In two years, 20 per cent of all cars sold must be zero emissions. It has laid out a road map of how to get there, but critics have said it’s unrealistic. According to Statistics Canada’s most recent data, EVs accounted for three per cent of light-duty vehicle registrations in 2022, up from 2.3 per cent in 2021. The total number of road motor vehicles registered in Canada was 26.3 million in 2022, and light-duty vehicles accounted for 91.7 per cent of that figure. Great stats. But let’s look at the writing on the wall. Here in Durham. During the summer are we not asked not to turn on our air conditioners due to grid over load. Specially if you live in the border of Oshawa and Whitby along Thornton. An area that has more brown out, and power failures during the summer than any other area. Now if we are to all have EV’s in the future. Where are we to plug them in. Are we to assume that a solar type of car charging station is in the cards? Governmnent is always quick to jump on the political band wagon without reading the writings on the wall. Can you read? I can. I see that EV will soon become another pet rock, 8 track tape and or a revolutionizing idea like diesel was supposed to be.