For around twenty years, cities have been covered by diesel, hybrid orelectric vehicles called SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicle). Sports andutility, they only have the origin: the American 4 x 4. Theseincreasingly large, heavy, long-legged things, stuffed with chips andsensors, are real energy and raw material guzzlers. They representalmost 50% of new registrations and are extremely profitable for theirmanufacturers who try to sell as many as possible.The other side of the coin: they succeed in canceling out all theprogress made by the automobile industry in terms of aerodynamics andfuel consumption. They are much more deadly to pedestrians and non-SUVs.Like an epidemic of obesity, an identical phenomenon is now affectingbicycles. Before, the cyclist on a bike - city, racing, all-terrain -pedaled, strained, sweated, had pain in his calves (and ass), enjoyedthe descents (without hands, sometimes), the landscapes... to arrive atyour destination. With the rise of the electric bike, all that haschanged. Now the electrified and postmodern cyclist can in the city, bypedaling slowly, overtake cars, buses and sweaty cyclists (we still findthem on the so-called "cycle" paths).It's the foot, this bike subsidized by the public authorities in thename of the development of "soft mobility". It's great, this supereco-friendly and ultra-modern bike (with all its on-board electronicsand GPS), and it's the sign that the CSP++ citizen who sets the tone forthe metropolises is actively participating in the only true ecologicaltransition worth having: change everything to change nothing, but beall-electric and recycle your green waste.Thus, the "Speed pedelec" goes at 45 km/h and is equipped with a licenseplate like any motor vehicle. If it has pedals, it's mainly to lookpretty. The goal is to go as quickly as possible without effort ortaking into account the terrain.We find this, taken to the extreme, with the electric mountain bike, amonster weighing between 20 and 30 kg, so heavy that when it breaks downyou cannot push it. It is "a two-wheeled SUV that allows you to crossspace effortlessly (1).»These electric "bikes" are exemplary of the technological dependenceknowingly constructed by the manufacturers (let anyone who can repairtheir hydraulic disc brakes or their electronic/electric gear change atthe side of the road... point out), of the fascination for technologicalinfluence, the refusal of limits, the cult of the energy slave (2).Everything serves to legitimize the forced march towards all-electricnuclear power imposed on us by the State, capitalism and the consumeristalienation of "What is owed to me".Carabosse, the new fairy Carbon-free electricitySeptember 28, 2023, powerful explosion in a customs warehouse inTashkent (Uzbekistan), where cars and electric batteries struck bylightning caught fire.July 26, 2023, a cargo ship carrying 500 electric cars catches fire nearthe Dutch coast. Car batteries are suspected of being the cause of the fire.January 16, 2023, fire in a Bolloré Logistics warehouse, near Rouen,caused by thousands of lithium batteries. For the prefect, RAS. Fordoctors, it is necessary to monitor the health of the firefighters whointervened, due to the release of hydrofluoric acid and other filth.June 19, 2023, four deaths following a fire in the batteries of bicyclesbeing repaired in a store in New York.July 5, 2023, an electric scooter catches fire in a home housingbattered women in Grenoble. One injured.Since January 2023, the Aisne waste treatment union no longer has aninsurer (3). Insurance companies refuse to cover landfills because theycontain more and more objects or waste containing lithium batteries:greeting cards, clothing, toys, disposable e-cigarettes, "smart" hairdryers, connected gadgets... And the lithium in these batteries igniteson contact with water, increasing insurance premiums by 10.At the end of 2022, 38 injured following the fire of a scooter stored inan apartment in New York. More than 200 fires linked to lithium-ionbatteries in "small mobility devices" have been recorded in the citysince the start of the year.The causes: "Short circuits, but also shocks or even excessivetemperatures can cause them to catch fire or even explode (...).Lithium-ion batteries exhibit a thermal runaway phenomenon which leadsto their spontaneous ignition as soon as their internal temperaturerises above a hundred degrees (4).» And this, even if apparently theinitial fire seems to have gone out.For cars, it's the same but worse, because the bigger the vehicle, themore powerful, toxic and difficult the fire is to control. Fortunately,Tesla is watching: "For a Tesla Model S, the manufacturer explains thatit takes "approximately 11,356 liters of water poured directly onto thebattery to turn it off and cool it completely"... Tesla specifies thatin the event of departure A battery fire can take 24 hours to extinguishand suggests "allowing the battery to burn out, under supervision" (5).»The CTIF (International Association of Fire and Rescue Services)explains, in a series of unintentionally hilarious articles, that ittakes up to 150,000 liters of water to put out a Tesla fire, but thatall this is perfectly controlled by digging pits to immerse the vehicle,which limits pollution (6)!So the technological galloping which is authoritatively favoringelectricity over gasoline would pose enormous problems? Lithium and itsbatteries, which have become the Eldorado of the reconversion ofcapitalism and its so-called decarbonization, would pose seriousquestions of safety, pollution and public health? These problems arealso destined to worsen due to the development of all-electricity, theaging of batteries, their lower quality, their abandonment in landfillsalmost everywhere? We don't dare believe it...It doesn't matter, because the company will pay. Or, if we want to saveourselves, let's set fire to Elon Musk, his co-religionists, friends,rascals and competitors.Flying pigsIn his book The Jungle published in 1906 and devoted to the frenziedexploitation of human and animal meat in the slaughterhouses of Chicago,Upton Sinclair has one of the characters say that the only part of thepig which is not used in the slaughterhouses , is his cry.The rubbish of "Sustainable Aviation Fuel" wanted by Europe to allow theaviation sector to green its activities illustrates this again. We arenow manufacturing biodiesels doped with animal fat. They have plenty ofadvantages: better energy efficiency than vegetable oils and a superbcarbon footprint for polluters from above, because "the CO2 generated byall these animals... remains attributed to the meat sector and not tothe airline sector! (7)."These animal fuels are also discreetly integrated into the diesel ofland vehicles. As in 1906, of the pig, all that remains is the cry,increasingly muffled by the screams of the engines.What are veganism and "Halal way of life" entrepreneurs doing in theface of this intolerable situation?Rook and Eugene the JeepNotes1. "SUVization of the bicycle", Ch. Mincke, La Revue nouvelle n° 2,March 2023.2. The energy slave is "a unit of measurement of energy, comparingannual energy consumption with an equivalent of mechanical and calorificproduction that a healthy adult could produce in one year" (SourceWikipedia). It follows the "horsepower" of English steam engines.3. "Batteries set insurers on fire", J.-C., Le Canard chainé, 06/14/2023.4. "Electric cars: a new challenge for firefighters", H.-P. Penel,Sciences et futur, 02/14/2018.5. "Electric cars, future nightmare for firefighters", Korii, 12/10/2020.6. ctif.org7. "A pig in the engine", Le Canard chainé, 09/27/2023.http://oclibertaire.lautre.net/spip.php?article3989_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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