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carry a boat in your boot!!!
1 posted on 11/05/2022 4:53:48 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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The whole EV endeavor is filled with things like this.

I heard a discussion some time back, a motel owner, who wondered how he was going to have to handle this.

“Because I run a business in which travelers driving cars stop to stay overnight on journeys, will I be expected to provide charging stations for every vehicle whose owner gets a room for the evening?”


2 posted on 11/05/2022 4:59:39 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: sodpoodle

Take the batteries out of the EV and use them for your trolling motor.


3 posted on 11/05/2022 5:05:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: sodpoodle

This malarkey is a threat to democracy! /sarc

In reality, they’re fine with us all simply riding bicycles or taking the bus.


4 posted on 11/05/2022 5:10:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Yeah but if everyone had EVs there would be no more hurricanes, no more tornadoes, no more storms, no more hot or cold weather it would be 70 degrees and sunny all year round everywhere, UTOPIA!!!


5 posted on 11/05/2022 5:11:51 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: sodpoodle

Ahhhh! Yes.
Mirrors the conversation I had with my lib-in-laws a year ago when they bought a VW ID4 EV.
Feelgood BS flying in the face of common sense and basic economics.
I ask questions that make them squirm.
Fun in a childish way because they both have “grad” degrees and were very successful.
They sure don’t like hearing the real story on EVs from battery production to final resting place.
I try not to be too brutal. Elderly, brain-washed, white liberals can snap when presented with documented facts.


6 posted on 11/05/2022 5:17:33 AM PDT by SakoL61R
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Damn son... If it's a hurricane all you need is wind power to charge your battery. Problem solved.


7 posted on 11/05/2022 5:18:53 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Hello! Long extension cord! 🤣

Can you image the long, long line to recharge an EV when hundreds need to use the same super charger Station....

12 posted on 11/05/2022 5:28:38 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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I don’t think you can evacuate the 2.7 million people of Miami-Dade county, especially since there are another 3 million people in the way in Broward and Palm Beach counties.


13 posted on 11/05/2022 5:30:38 AM PDT by FarCenter
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For what it's worth, here's how easy it is to find EV chargers in Florida that are at least 120kW (read: can charge my EV in 15 minutes). Imagine how many more chargers there would be if the government got out of the way and let the free market dictate who can make money from chargers.

https://imgflip.com/i/6zmby8

14 posted on 11/05/2022 5:35:41 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Every time a hurricane is headed for Houston, most of them evacuate to my location.
After the hurricane passes most of the gas stations have signs up - "Out of gas".
16 posted on 11/05/2022 5:41:00 AM PDT by red-dawg (They're going to have to pry my gasoline powered car from my cold, dead hands.)
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Related thread on Electric busses:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4106416/posts


17 posted on 11/05/2022 5:46:20 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly, carry tweezers.)
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This article is absolutely right. The insane politicians are setting us up for a big disaster.


18 posted on 11/05/2022 5:46:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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Florida has lots of thunderstorms, especially with a hurricane approaching. Equip every EV with a self-inflating balloon and a long metal wire.


19 posted on 11/05/2022 5:52:03 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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There were a few reports here just after Ian stating battery cars that got flooded during the storm began to catch fire when the batteries began to corrode from salt water intrusion.

More here:

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/commercial-auto/floridas-electric-vehicles-are-catching-fire-after-hurricane-ian-426452.aspx#:~:text=Eight%20electric%20vehicles%20(EVs)%20have,resold%20vehicles%20also%20causing%20fires


20 posted on 11/05/2022 5:52:05 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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Perhaps (note the word) EV’s would have had time to evolve along with the supporting infrastructure if the federal government didn’t have it’s thumb on the economic & regulatory scales. But what they have chosen to do, in effect, is to shovel trillions of dollars at an immature technology that requires scares materials and can not be supported by the electric infrastructure now or even a generation into the future.

When the automobile was developing there were steam, electric and internal combustion models. The ICE won out. There are reasons why that happened if anybody cared to look.


22 posted on 11/05/2022 6:07:17 AM PDT by Tallguy
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Also how do you drive an EV AFTER the hurricane hits when electric power is down, sometimes for a couple of weeks or more?


23 posted on 11/05/2022 6:09:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (YouTube is Trying to "Fortify" Another Election)
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Biden says I can use my EV to power my house.
That dude is one dim bulb!


24 posted on 11/05/2022 6:10:43 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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‘Fossil fuels’...LOLOL!


26 posted on 11/05/2022 6:17:48 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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Why in the world would you want to replace fossil fuels? They are a gift from God, and allowed mankind to accelerate his development, address starvation, allow us to travel wherever and whenever we want, etc. EV’s will eliminate ALL of that.


31 posted on 11/05/2022 7:18:45 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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Easy solution for you gasoline-addicts: Bring a spare battery, just like what I do with my electric bike on long trips.


33 posted on 11/05/2022 7:38:08 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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