Posted on 11/22/2010 8:31:35 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
Local governments across South Carolina are planning to set up 80 car charging stations as new electric cars arrive in the state.
The State newspaper reported Monday that a nonprofit organization called Plug-In Carolina is coordinating efforts to set up places where vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf can be recharged.
Plug-In Carolina has obtained grants from the South Carolina Energy Office and gotten support from public utilities to help with the projects.
Local governments in Columbia, Greenville, Charleston, Conway, Myrtle Beach, Spartanburg, Rock Hill and Union each plan to install charging stations. The first 40 of them open Dec. 8.
But Plug-In Carolina's Jim Poch says the primary charging place for electric cars should be at home.
Gee, I wonder how much of SC citizen tax dollars will go into helping out the 80 or so owners of electric cars in SC. Bad ideas certainly have legs at all levels of government.
Gee, I wonder how much of SC citizen tax dollars will go into helping out the 80 or so owners of electric cars in SC. Bad ideas certainly have legs at all levels of government.
Gee, I wonder how much of SC citizen tax dollars will go into helping out the 80 or so owners of electric cars in SC. Bad ideas certainly have legs at all levels of government.
How much will the fee be for charging and how will they measure the charge you received.
Time to find out which congress critter’s cousin is the manufacturer.
How long do you have to wait for the charge for these boondoggles for mother eart?
Pray for America
If South Carolina needs 80 Charging stations, Texas will need 714 Charging stations. The article mentioned these will be needed for the Chey Volt. If that is the case, Texas can get by with 2 Charging stations for the Volt drivers in Austin.
We don’t want them to go anywhere else in the state.
Time to come up with an entrepreneurial solution to be built next door to these stations: let’s seeeee.... something that car owners can do for the eight hours that their cars are charging.... gotta think about this one.
These electric cars the volt and the leaf are a joke!
In the end the America taxpayer will get screwed by this somehow someway..
Motels with hourly rates for illicit love trysts.
I dunno, but just gives me a dolla’s worth.
8 hours sleeping.
8 hours commuting.
8 hourse working.
Keeps the riff-raff busy. No time to go to Tea Party meetings.
Extension cord stock as well, lol
They already are getting screwed. Our grandkid’s savings are being drained into GM and thousands of other insane programs as we speak.
How many cars can the average charging station accommodate at the same time? Won’t each car need to be hooked up to the charger for several hours? It won’t be like a regular gas station where you pull in, fill the tank, then go on your way a few minutes later.
Questions for the smug Electric car owners.
1) Who is going to pay for the electric for you car? The tax payer or you?
2) Are you prepared for a huge increase in your monthly electric bill?
3) Are you prepared to admit that dirty energy like coal and fossil fuels are necessary to produce the electric for your fancy new car? Because the overwhelming majority of electric is produced by coal.
Too many of my SC tax dollars, whatever the amount.
Just watch, the distance between recharge stations will be greater than the battery can move the car
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