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To: Tell It Right

You just suck the joy right out of all my lame humor attempts.


24 posted on 11/29/2022 8:42:47 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
My bad. I should have picked up on that since I'm equally bad with humor. LOL

My wife and I like or EV car ... and we like our ICE pickup too. I wish the Dims would let us pick our cars with the free market instead of pushing mandates and tax incentives onto us. I think EV cars bring something to the table that some consumers can like more than ICE cars. But an EV pickup isn't ready for prime time yet unless you have a regularly defined large pickup daily chore that's always moving a load a short distance.

For example, if your work requires a fleet of trucks to move cargo or equipment daily, and always some of those trips are within a 50 mile radius, then I can see it being worth it for part of your fleet to be EV trucks (to save on gas and oil changes, and maybe have the extra power needed for the extra heavy loads as long as none of them are long distance hauls). But those are rare situations where only a few people would benefit from a truck like that.

EV cars are different, especially in a marriage where you need 2 cars anyway and one of them is an ICE pickup. For the kind of trips that an EV won't cut it, we have an ICE vehicle. That gives us the freedom to have an EV for the car to do most of our driving in to save on gas and do most of our driving for free (with our large solar system and battery storage for our house). It's not a 100% free driving and free power for our home kind of situation where we can go off-grid. But it moves the needle in our energy dependency enough so that I worry very little now about the Dims' stupid energy policies making it too expensive to live the kind of lifestyle we live as we head into retirement.

31 posted on 11/29/2022 8:55:30 AM 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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