With a battery life no better than that of the battery for the first electric car in 1898 it is no wonder it’s going nowhere.
I get a kick out of the fact that Toyota is non-union.
As far as the CBO goes, when has idiot boy ever listened to them anyway?
I don’t even have an electric toaster.
He has no idea where money comes from. Like a lot of our leaders, he thinks tax money is “free”.
The article had some interesting things to say, particularly about the high average fuel mileage quotas forced on the automotive industry.
When I read it, my first thought was of Cuba and South America, where the only vehicles available are several years old, held together only by the ingenuity of their owners and the availability of scrap wire and baling twine.
So if the mileage standards aren’t met, will the car makers be forced out of business?
Anything that has to be plugged in, when many people do not have an accessible plug for a car, is unusable and therefore a total DUD!!!!
Let’s assume for the moment that Obama gets everything he wants (gag). Now, we have
1. Widespread use of electric cars
2. Reduced production of fossil fuels
3. Closing of many, if not most, coal-fired power plants
Seems to me that there’s a problem here. If we have millions of people plugging in their electric cars, and less capability to produce electricity, what’s going to happen to the power grid? Yeah, I know, wind and solar, wind and solar. Of course, it’s not a problem that wind and solar can’t come anywhere close to meeting our power demand WITHOUT the widespread use of electric vehicles. Sure, the power generating capability will just magically appear once people start buying electric cars, right?
Business decisions made by self aggrandizing narcissistic politicians make for failure.
As usual, liberals never let a little thing like total and utter failure get in their way. Especially if they are not personally on the receiving end of said failure.
I remember back in 2009 there were a lot of folks here in Central Kentucky who were extremely upset when Obama and his gang didn’t give any funds to a group that was trying to set up a NiCad battery factory near Glendale. Now everyone is talking sour grapes about how glad they are that the factory didn’t come in and that the property is still available for a future factory.