> What I love about the electric car people is that they think the current rate they pay for electricity will never change. <
And they don’t understand that everything they need (groceries, household goods, etc.) is trucked in. And those trucks ain’t electric trucks. So when gas goes up, necessities go up too.
It’s called the Brandon Effect.
"Look at California where they are over $0.40 per Kwh and have rolling blackout when demand is too high."
I'm in 100% agreement with you. The Dims are idiots, especially with their "green" energy ideas. That's why I bought a large solar system for my house to at least partially remove my budget from experiencing the effects of Dim policies and them trying to force us to tithe to their Greta Gaia god. In the past year I provided 55% of all the electricity I consumed in my all-electric house. My wife and I are thinking about replacing one of our gas cars with an EV to give us a hedge against sky-high gasoline prices too.
Solar is not more efficient than natural gas or oil, nor is it as dependable as electricity produced from fossil fuels. But one thing solar has that other power sources don't have: I produce it, therefore I control it. Not the Dims who are scared of cow farts and keep jacking up energy costs. The cost for my solar system will pay for itself in the 10th or 11th year (and that's assuming only a reasonable 3% inflation rate of power rates). If I get an EV and drive it ~200 miles per week, and upgrade my solar system like I'm thinking I would to produce about 90% of all the power we consume (including the EV), it'll all pay for itself on about the 12th year (again assuming only 3% inflation rate of gas prices).