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The world is ruthlessly promoting an electric-car industry that is a hothouse flower and will need massive and continuing subsidies from buyers and users of gasoline-powered cars.

Buy on the rumor, sell on the news!

1 posted on 04/10/2019 7:41:40 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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And anyone expects success out of this propped up and failing model? The only winner is Elon Musk who pockets millions of dollars.


2 posted on 04/10/2019 7:47:28 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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I understand how people think electric cars are pollution free, the wave of the future, etc.

But don’t understand how exactly we are supposed to accomodate millions of electric cars.

In many places, the electricity to recharge electric cars is generated in coal fired power plants. So the electric car is not really fueled in a pollution free manner.

If we suddenly had tens of millions of electric cars in this country, recharging constantly, it would severely strain our electrical grid. The grid as it exists now could not absorb the demands of so many electric cars recharging.

And there have been problems with the batteries in electric cars.

Bottom line, is that those who are virtue signaling by having an electric car, are still using fossil fuels in many places when they recharge. They still need to buy their carbon credits from Al Gore to feel good about themselves.


3 posted on 04/10/2019 7:48:42 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Technologies come and go, but the internal combustion engine has not met it’s equal yet. Sure, there will come a day, solar turbines or hydrogen, but I believe that the internal combustion engine run on gas or some gas derivative will be around for the rest of my lifetime...


4 posted on 04/10/2019 7:57:29 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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Coal powered cars are NOT eco-friendly...

...but leftists believe “electric” cars ARE eco-friendly.

Leftists cannot see past the AC outlet on the wall to ascertain the source of the electricity.


13 posted on 04/10/2019 8:39:49 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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The only thing there should be government subsidies for is third and fourth (and +) children of intact natural born citizen mother(real female XY) and father (XX) families.


15 posted on 04/10/2019 8:43:27 AM PDT by arthurus (ag)
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can read this WSJ article here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/bbeyer/get_ready_for_a_pileup_tesla/


21 posted on 04/10/2019 10:30:47 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Tesla was never going to be a success because the hard part of building a marketable electric car is the car part, not the electric. And the other manufacturers — who already have build quality nailed — were always going to “Preston Tucker” him as soon as he threatened their market share.


23 posted on 04/10/2019 6:13:27 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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