Posted on 02/14/2011 1:24:43 PM PST by speciallybland
Austin City Council members this week will consider charging Austin electric car drivers $50 a year to boot up their batteries from any Austin Energy plug-in.
The proposed rate would apply to Austin Energy's "Plug-in Everywhere" program — a network of public charging stations for electric vehicles. The city would offer a $25 six-month subscription for unlimited service, including sales tax. Without the subscription, it would cost about $2 per hour of charging.
Austin Energy is installing more than 100 public charging stations throughout the city by the end of this summer. The Coulomb Technologies Inc. stations are being paid for in part through federal stimulus grants. Each pump costs about $700 to install.
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“I take it you supported the 9/11 attacks on New York City.”
No, but Austin is more liberal, and Texas is a good state. Removing Austin looks like a win-win.
Actually, use the city powere to crack water into hydrogen and pressurize it in the back of the truck.
Then you can us the H2 to produce home electricity.
Save a fortune on batteries.
Honda makes an H2 generator that runs on city power...
It will even fit in a smaller truck.
More wealth redistribution.
Use tax money from people who can only afford to drive used clunkers to subsidize electricity to charge batteries on $40,000 greenie status cars.
Hah. That would be a concern if were an honest business. This is going to be paid for with other people's money from the start.
So, yet again, taxpayers are going to end up subsidizing the Greenies.
Will $50 cover the cost of one charge?
My lib sis lives in Cedar Park.
If these stupid local and state governments are going to start giving away high-amperage electricity (which is what these subsidies amount to), I may have to retrofit my ‘78 F-250 4x4 with an electric motor on its transfer case and batteries in the bed.
Why stop at retro fitting your own. It sounds like a lucrative business venture.
STOP asking intelligent questions!! Don’t you know they’re trying to save the planet here??
More rolling blackouts coming to TX.
Hard core lefty enviro-nazi drives a Volt from his 3,000 sq ft house in westlake hills, exits mopac onto cesar chavez blvd to get to his government job downtown, and plugs it in.
The money he saves allows him to buy bigger gro-lights for his hydroponic pot farm he keeps in his second floor game-room.
My “electric car” questions are:
When no one pays “gasoline taxes” anymore, then who pays for the government-built and maintained roads, and how does the government get its money for them?
And, how can electric cars even be allowed on the government’s roads without some system of collecting “fuel taxes” for roads from electric cars?
Or, do “all electric” cars lead us to a “Libertarian” road solution of ALL roads operated as toll roads?
You may have a point. But I was just savoring the thought of the liberal sneers when I drive my 7000-pound giant pickup truck up to the charger next to their pissant little Priuses :-)
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?
It’s very likely they haven’t thought that far ahead heh.
Time to build more coal burning power plants.
Hey Austin, Where do you get the fuel to supply these green recharge stations?
Nevermind, don’t look at the man behind the curtain.
These will probably go the same way as the useless, broken emergency call boxes that were laid out every mile of interstate 95 here in MA during the 70’s -80’s.
Good God! These green-fools make my head want to explode. Fools!
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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