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To: Tell It Right

I agree with that as well. They can disconnect you from 3000 miles away and you’ll have no means to travel the country to get to them.


9 posted on 01/23/2024 6:17:42 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: Jonty30
They can disconnect you from 3000 miles away and you’ll have no means to travel the country to get to them.

Unfortunately, the "kill switch" legislation was for all new cars, not just EV's. But I was talking about the Dims making regulations to limit how much power you get for charging or powering your home (think social credit score for getting more than X kWh per month). If they want to do that they have one point of access they have to control: your local power utility. But if they were to try to do the same kind of thing with gasoline they have to implement it with many gas stations you can choose from, all supplied from a handful refineries (not many refineries, but more than one unlike most of us having having only one power utility).

One reason my wife and I have both an EV car and an ICE pickup is because I want security through diversified energy dependency for our transportation. If the Dims make gasoline hard to come by or too expensive: we can do most of our driving in the EV (which we do now, including long trip driving). If the Dims make power hard to come by or too expensive: we can do most of our driving in the ICE pickup, especially long trip driving. If the Dims make both power and gasoline hard to come by we'll still do local driving in our EV on most days (since our home solar makes our home energy independent on most days, including charging the EV).

17 posted on 01/23/2024 6:36:51 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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