Austin considers $50 a year, unlimited electric car charging service

The Austin Business Journal ^ | 02/14/2011

[speciallybland]

[NormsRevenge]

Ya know where ya can shove that.. right next to the hydrogen pump. 8-]

[lormand]

Thank God I live in Cedar Park!

[Rightly Biased]

Liberal Mecca of the Southwest.

[bareford101]

obamanation gets his way with using our tax-funded stimulus.. i hope/believe this will be DOA except for a few crazies here

[King_Corey]

We moved to the rural area around Houston, where people understand energy. The nuts were getting close when we left Georgetown. You may need to move farther out. Good luck, and “KEEP THE WEIRD IN AUSTIN”.

[UCANSEE2]

So... what do you drive to get to the ‘charging station’ parking lot, or from the lot to your home?

Or are people supposed to sit in their car for 8 hours in a hot parking lot?

What if you are on empty, and all the pumps are taken?

[swain_forkbeard]

What’s to keep them from bumping it up to $500/yr after they’ve caught enough fish?

[Cicero]

It amounts to another subsidy of rich liberals who drive a Nissan Leaf or a Chevy Volt to impress their envious neighbors. They already get one subsidy from We the Taxpayers when they buy the car.

I guess you can’t call them limousine liberals, in the circumstances. “I have a Chevy Volt for my third car to impress the neighbors” liberals?

[patton]

You are looking at it the wrong way.

Get a Ryder-sized truck, fill it with batteries, and plug it in.

Every couple of days, drive it home and swap out the batteries.

Viola - electricity for your house, $50/yr.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Cool.

I'm going to hook my house up to one.

[All Blue State]

But where do you work? My expectation is that there will be a separate ‘commuter’ tax.

[GeronL]

basically free electricity paid for by the taxpayers.

ugh

[NormsRevenge]

THat’s the spirit of invention. lol

[SecondAmendment]

Here is an interesting trivia tidbit, Austin is not part of Texas, but is actually the easternmost city in California.

The state of Texas just leases the capitol and the University.

[lormand]

...looking at acre+ lots in Liberty Hill. Cedar Park is still solid RED though. Every time I vote, the democRAT table is silent and they look like Maytag repairmen from the 50s.

[The Great RJ]

Gee didn’t Austin suffer rolling blackouts in the last week because the electric grid could not support the demand? So if a lot of tree huggers plug in their electric vehicles won’t that place even more demands on an already over burdened grid? Will the $50 per year cover the actual cost of the power or will the extra cost simply be passed on to consumers?

[Doe Eyes]

Can’t someone in Texas convince a mooslim terrorist to take out Austin? PLEASE!

I take it you supported the 9/11 attacks on New York City.

[lormand]

I work in Austin, just over the border into Travis County. Soon, our office will be moving, and the move will be in Williamson County, aka, Reagan Territory.

The city I live in has a BLVD named after Ronald Reagan, and my wife teaches at Ronald Reagan Elementary. We don't get our electricity from Austin Energy, thankfully.