Posted on 10/31/2012 6:12:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
For centuries, the role of Judge has carried with it a solemn duty to uphold justice, the law, and to ascertain which facts are true, and which are not.
So when a journalist in Carmi, Illinois spotted a Second Circuit Judge charging his electric car at Wayne County Courthouse, they ran a story claiming Second Circuit Associate Judge Mark Stanley was misappropriating public funds to charge his car.
Except he wasn’t.
As the CourierPress reports, the local news article caused enough outcry to force Judge Stanley to appear in front of the entire Wayne County Board last week to explain his actions.
The charges? That he was using public funds to charge his $39,995 Volt, while residents of Wayne County were struggling with $4-a-gallon gas.
Sadly for the newspaper, and thankfully for the County Board, the explanation given by Judge Stanley was far from salacious.
Upon buying his plug-in hybrid, Judge Stanley had approached the local Sheriff to ask for approval to install an outlet to charge his car at the courthouse.
2012 Chevrolet Volt Charges Approval was granted, and Judge Stanley then made arrangements with the County Treasurer to pay for the power he used to charge his Volt, ensuring no public funds went to refueling his car.
At 87 cents for a full charge, once a week, the agreement was made that Judge Stanley would make two payments per year to recompense the Wayne County Courthouse for the power he used.
To ensure he wasn’t accused of stealing, Judge Stanley even offered to pay double, something he replicated at every other courthouse he visits in the Second Circuit.
Once everything had been explained--and proven--Wayne County Board members were more than a little embarrassed.
“Uh, I didn’t know you had an arrangement with the sheriff,” said County Board Chairman Gary Sloan. “Oops.”
Judges, it seems, while upholders of justice, can suffer exactly the same conflicts when trying to find somewhere to charge their electric car.
Nissan Leaf has [ optional ] solar panels on the roof.
I don't see where he personally paid for electricians to install outlets at each courthouse. Something like this should have to get approval by someone else than the sheriff. Did the taxpayers of the county approve? Agree that something isn't above board there.
Where did you learn math? I see no lie.
I corrected my math hours before you posted this comment.
About 6 cents per kwh of capacity. The Volt battery is 16 kwh. If fully discharged it would be 16 x 6 cents or 96 cents. In practice the engine fires up when 30% capacity remains. You would never face charging more than 70% of 16 kwh unless you ran out of gas. That means 70% x 16 kwh = 11.2 kwh. 6 cents x 11.2 = 67.2 cents. A full charge will take you 40 miles.
(But I can see where an owner would pay extra to have the car charged at, say, 4x the normal 220v outlet rate. But not THAT much more! Wonder what the maximum “C” charge rate is on the Volt (will look up tomorrow).)
I looked at a volt the other day. They plug in to 110 volts.
A home charging station would have a high capital cost. This would be more cost effective since other drivers of EVs could use the charging station as well.
Again, WE (collectively) learn nothing.
Yes the Submarines used to run on electricity while submerged.
We all know that there are few charging stations in the middle of the Pacific so they had DIESEL engines to ‘charge the batteries’ but had to surface to do that.
So ‘we’ invented NUCLEAR SUBMARINES to save costs and operate more efficiently.
Now these idiots want it both(?) ways.
No foreign oil.
No gas driven engines.
No Nuclear fired plants.
No coal fired plants.
No oil drilling domestically.
Run coal companies out of business.
So they get their ‘beloved’ electric auto and trucks but yet have no contingency plan to operate them.
Almost as bad as when they finally get the 84” TV screen invented and in use, people think it is COOL to watch TV on a cell phone.....
Go figure.....
Charge the Chevrolet Volt in 4 hours with the Chevy Volt SPX Voltec 240v level 2 charger or in 10 hours using the provided 120v car charger.
Running a 220 line ain’t cheap.. hell just the damned copper line is outrageous anymore.. Ran maybe 25’ of it last year and the cable ablone was close to $100.
I would hope the judge paid for its installation.
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