Posted on 08/02/2015 2:29:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who’s going to insure this fiasco?
And these people vote!
I give it less than an hour before the first one gets a poop hand-smear somewhere inside it.
Sheesh, guy, that was 78 years ago and was a myth even then! Great Depression economics made it unaffordable to expand with the population. San Francisco was a geographically limited area, so it kept the streetcars! You are beating the 6-7th generation dead horse here. If you've got more than one neuron, rub them together!
Surely you know the answer to this...
The recharging is all done from nuclear power plants?.
Past is prologue...
This. Barry’s new “sweeping” carbon regs. Energy prices go up. The middle class is once again torpedoed and those with the “free” cars will get to fill up with the juice for free and electric rates for cooling/heating skyrocket. Just as this Administration has planned.
Those that can do something to stop Barack, either won’t or can’t.
I have an EV, a LEAF. Here’s what I think will go wrong...
Someone won’t plug it in. Next person won’t recharge it before borrowing, they’ll just drive - and run out, leaving out on the road wherever it stops.
The chargers are expensive, and hardly robust to wanton abuse. They’ll get run over or cables just yanked out. Easily damaged, slow to repair. Think pay phones (for those of us old enough to remember them, and who know why they’re history).
They’ll get stolen. Many of the batteries are nothing more than a cubic yard of AA rechargeables. There will be a black market for expensive parts like motors.
They’ll get trashed inside and out, no personal incentive to care for it or the next driver or the prior user’s mess.
They’ll get wrecked in bad driving. The extremely high torque is fun to abuse, and ruins tires fast (my first tires, rated for 65k miles, lasted 17k without abuse).
“Privilege” is the natural rewards of good behavior. There’s a reason some subcultures don’t come by EVs easily.
I’ve been to Koreatown.....and you’re right.
We're getting a fleet here in Indianapolis for a similar deal. Although instead of the (pretty reliable) Leafs, we're getting Bollores made in France! That should be even more fun.
Uh, why don’t we give them low emission bicycles?
Or golf carts
Dayum
Uh, why don’t we give them low emission bicycles?
Or golf carts
Dayum
It's LA. Everything is a long way from everything else. In particular they give examples of the household servants from the 'hood commuting to where the beautiful people live.
Well why don’t they just go full Dr Zhivago and let the poor move into the houses where they now mow the lawns and clean the pools?
Then they don’t have to commute
I’m guessing NONE of the beautiful people in LA would sign up for that part. They just want to send YOUR tax $$$ to these folks.
No bureaucrat has bought her a refrigerator?
When you just give someone something for free, don’t expect them to treat it as if they had worked hard to get it. I expect these cars will be trashed in short order, as well as be used to commit crimes.
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