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To: MtnClimber

Yes. Limit movement.


14 posted on 02/27/2023 6:01:43 AM PST by Theophilus 7
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To: Theophilus 7; MtnClimber
Yes. Limit movement.

I 100% agree. Which is why my wife and I have both an EV car and an ICE pickup.

Wait. How does that give us more freedom of movement? Well, for starters, being married we need 2 cars anyway. Thus instead of seeing it as a mutual exclusive decision (either EV or ICE) I saw it as mutual inclusive (we could get one of each) and have the best of both worlds. Since it was time replace her car we replaced it with an EV car. In the future when gasoline will be hard to come buy again (like it was not too long ago) and/or too expensive to use a lot (IMHO it still is), we can do most of our driving in the EV. Likewise if the Dims make power hard to come by or too expensive, we can do most of our driving in the ICE car.

Thus, we have a diversification on our energy dependencies, at least as far as transportation goes. Thus, the Dims have to restrict both sources of energy to effectively limit our movement.

Last but not least is our large solar array and home battery storage making our all-electric home almost energy independent (buying 20% of my power from the grid, the rest is free from solar, including charging the EV). The end result is my wife and I drive a lot more local driving than we used to because the miles are literally 80% free.

35 posted on 02/27/2023 6:38:08 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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