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To: BenLurkin

I just finished a 2000 mile end of year road trip in my glorious diesel powered RV. There were several teslas strands on the side of the road along the mountain passes and several stranded after traffic was stopped for a couple hours from a wreck. If someone runs out of gasoline or diesel I am sure someone would sell a gallon or two for twenty bucks. But you can’t get a can full of electrons for a battery.


9 posted on 10/08/2024 1:16:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic
My wife and I recently in August did a 3,700 mile journey from the southeast to the northeast and into Canada, then back. The trip up had a lot of meandering and stopping at many family members' homes and sight-seeing. The trip back was a straight 1,740 mile drive from Canada back to my house in the southeast that I did without my wife (leaving her to stay with family and fly home later because she was tired of driving). I did the drive home in 43 hours. If you remove the 10 hours I stayed at a hotel and the 30 minutes I stopped to do work with my laptop, then count it as 32.5 hours to drive and charge for 1,740 miles. IMHO that's pretty decent time without trying to win a race.

Yes it was in an EV, but don't do a trip like that in an EV without doing research. If we had made that long of a trip in another part of the U.S. we'd have to take the gas pickup (because there wouldn't be enough fast chargers). Or if we had done it at another time of the year (driving and charging an EV in the freezing winter up north). But if you have both an EV and a gas car, then before each trip you can research which one is best (and cheapest) for the trip. IMHO that's practical and not falling for the Dims' trap of having to pick sides on EV's vs gas cars.

Of course, the Dim voters who believe that EV's save the world and they should have an EV even if it's their only car and try to force it to be used in all of their driving situations -- those are the ones who have problems with EV's. And the Dim leaders should quit pushing their warmageddon cult and using it as an excuse to force EV's onto us --- like EV's are somehow better for the environment anyway (probably worse than gas cars).

16 posted on 10/08/2024 1:51:35 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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