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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is common sense to not embrace battery powered cars.

1. Global warming is a lie, so the mandates are premised on lies.
2. EVs are more expensive - w/o taxpayer subsidies it would be obvious
3. Range and recharging are completely impractical for many


17 posted on 12/12/2022 7:00:48 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: rigelkentaurus
  1. Global warming is a lie, so the mandates are premised on lies.
  2. EVs are more expensive - w/o taxpayer subsidies it would be obvious.
  3. Range and recharging are completely impractical for many.
    I don’t disagree with anything you say. AGW is highly speculative, and to the extent it happens to be real, IMHO remediation can keep up with it more economically than Biden’s approach, which in any event can’t work because China alone is stamping out coal-fired power stations like cookies, so on a global basis you’re spitting into the wind.

    On the expense front, the Tesla approach has been well conceived - start with top-dollar sports cars, and migrate downscale as it becomes practical to do so. Biden, by inducing monopoly behavior by the oil companies (telling that the end of petroleum is neigh, thus precipitating the end of efforts to increase or even maintain production), has jacked up the price of gas and especially of diesel fuel. Still, reportedly subsidies only account for 12% of Tesla’s profits.

    To the extent that prices remain elevated, and to the extent that a given vehicle is used intensively but not in a mode where recharging time is a problem, I can see the economics working out as long as the batteries don’t need replacing as frequently as one might fear. I can envision their being practical in mountainous terrain; if you’re climbing and descending in a big way, the regenerative braking could easily be a factor, not to mention being easy one the brakes.

    The crazy thing is that by buying Twitter and exposing its dirty laundry, Musk has alienated his natural “green” base. If you give the devil his due, tho, there is a case for buying Tesla stock while it’s down. I might put a toe in that water myself.


    57 posted on 12/12/2022 7:33:00 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (A jury represents society. It presumes the innocence of anyone the government undertakes to punish)
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    To: rigelkentaurus
    "It is common sense to not embrace battery powered cars."

    Can the electric grid handle the increased energy demand due to recharging EV's? Some places are already on the brink of overload, a few million EV's won't help much.

    82 posted on 12/12/2022 8:16:55 AM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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