Posted on 09/11/2023 6:41:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
There may come a day when America and Americans are ready for electric vehicles. Today is not that day and it seems like we’re not even close. Nonetheless, the Biden-Harris regime and state-level Democrat tyrants across the country are bent on trying to force us into them, which is why Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm took a PR trip with an NPR reporter in tow.
When they made the decision to invite journalist Camila Domonoske with them on their four-day trip, they didn’t expect the headline to be, “Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy“.
According to the article:
But between stops, Granholm’s entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present. Like when her caravan of EVs — including a luxury Cadillac Lyriq, a hefty Ford F-150 and an affordable Bolt electric utility vehicle — was planning to fast-charge in Grovetown, a suburb of Augusta, Georgia.
Her advance team realized there weren’t going to be enough plugs to go around. One of the station’s four chargers was broken, and others were occupied. So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.
That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?
In fact, a family that was boxed out — on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle — was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved: They called the police.
Clearly, it’s not what NPR was expecting nor what the White House was hoping to happen, but kudos to the radical left-wing state-run outlet for not killing the story.
A family with a baby in the sweltering Georgia heat were victims of White House privilege. It’s truly disgusting that they would be so desperate for positive press that they would cause harm to this family for the sake of good optics. Thankfully, those optics have been upended.
Regular people don’t have advance teams to reserve charging slots for them. But even without the advance team causing problems, this story would have highlighted the idiocy of the green push onto a country that has nowhere near the proper infrastructure for mass adoption of electric vehicles.
As Nick Arama from Red State noted, we may not have even heard about this story if the family hadn’t accelerated their grievance:
Good for the family who wasn’t taking that nonsense and called the police on them. The police couldn’t do much, however, because it’s not illegal to do what the Secretary’s team did. But realizing they had a potential PR nightmare on their hands, they “scrambled to smooth over the situation, including sending other vehicles to slower chargers, until both the frustrated family and the secretary had room to charge.”
Americans need to see how low the White House is willing to go to try to prove EVs are good. They tried to manufacture good optics. Leaving a family with a baby to suffer in the Georgia heat ain’t it, chief.
Basically, I'm agreeing that a heat pump can't work well in very cold weather, especially older heat pumps (as you put it: "many moons ago"). The heat pump would warm the home in the fall and spring when it's do-able by a heat pump, and do so sometimes with free power if they have some pico wind turbines (assuming it's do-able when I get there and study the specs).
The problem can be solved. It will only take more money. You just don’t believe hard enough. Tap your heals together three times and you can be back in Kansas or Michigan or Canada or whatever hole you crawled out of. /s except for the hole you crawled out of part.
I am not the first Freeper to gloss over articles and comments, LOL. I sort of hinted at the issue, but my point is can the elderly recover the cost of major upgrades before they pass on.
I won't know the numbers until I get there and study the specs like I did my own situation when I went solar and did other home improvements to my home. My energy project is paying for itself on about the 11th year (assuming a reasonable 3% inflation rate on energy costs). Obviously, the Dims are trying really hard to make my energy project payback sooner.
If my family members live outside the nursing home as long as their parents, they probably have 15-20 years left. And they have no debt: their plan is to leave their homes to their heirs. But I don't know how much power they consume per day and how that changes per month (i.e. in the summer in Alabama our power consumption skyrockets, I'm sure that's the opposite for them up north). Nor am I sure how gusty the wind is (i.e. what percentage of days will the wind blow at least 6 mph to turn a pico wind turbine). So I don't have enough data to do a recommendation.
But I will NEVER have an EV..car/truck.
Can’t get a fast charger because the Energy Secretary had a gas powered vehicle occupy the spot?
Make way for the Energy Secretary you peasants!!
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