Conservative commentator Erick Erickson commented recently that out of the 96,000 electric vehicles in Florida, there will be exactly zero media stories on stranded EV owners unable to charge their vehicles in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia. It doesn’t fit the corporate narrative, and corporate media can find that one disabled not-binary trans athlete in a haystack if they wanted to.

Erick is right. You won't hear about Florida EV owners unable to evacuate for the same reason you won't hear government incompetence caused the Maui Wildfires. You also won't hear about all the Florida electric cars bursting into flames. Apparently, when batteries get wet with salt water, they get as firey as a peaceful protest in 2020.

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Patrick Olsen of Carfax says, “The salt water that is flooding can get into the battery and dry there and once it dries it creates what federal safety officials call bridges between cells and that can lead to fires and those fires can come anywhere from days to weeks later and once an EV catches fire it is incredibly difficult to put it out."

Something learned the hard way last year during Hurricane Ian.

I'm sure there will be a government fix for this. Either the Hurricane Idalia Relief Act is going to have massive government spending on EVs in lieu of providing relief to those affected by Hurricane Idalia. Or, Democrats will stick with old reliable. They will draft the "Fight Crime Act" that won't find crime, sneak trillions into that bill, and then claim Republicans don't want to fight crime when they vote against it. Democrats could go with "Inflation Reduction Act 2: Electric Boogaloo." But that might be too obvious.

As of this writing, there are no reports of gas-powered vehicles spontaneously combusting. Though, because they were gas-powered vehicles, Floridians were able to drive them outside of where the Hurricane hit. There is a chance that may have had something to do with it.

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