[ProtectOurFreedom]

Palo Altans making it "affordable" to charge your $100,000 Tesla Model S by reducing the cost of charger wiring from $800 to $200. Right...people with $100 large to blow on the latest toy/status symbol are really worried about saving $600 on their charger.

To show how silly this is, there are virtually NO new homes built in Palo Alto. The town is 100% built-out; there is no land anywhere.

The kooks on the City Council want to "remove obstacles" to owning electric vehicles. Perhaps they should mandate a minimum annual wage of $150,000 for every resident. Then everybody could afford these luxury toys for the über-rich.

Lastly, this is the same intolerant town that a couple weeks back decided to throw all the people living in their cars out of town.

[lurk]

Collectivism, mandating people to do stuff that they wouldn’t do otherwise.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The nice thing about having the chargers handy is they could be used on the council members’ private parts after TSHTF.

[SpaceBar]

There are fewer actual laws to obey in North Korea than California. Seriously.

[faithhopecharity]

The only land available in Palo Alto to build new houses on is the ‘foothills’ - a very large area but effectively closed to new building by the local politics. SO, this new ordinance will actually impact almost nobody.

ps:
The median single family home price as of September 22 2013 for PALO ALTO is $2,288,918. It ranges UP from there in most of Palo Alto’s immediate suburbs (Woodside, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Atherton, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills).
(I hate to say it, but if anybody is able to secure a building permit in P.A, he can probably afford a silly electric outlet for his car... anyway. A bad ordinance, but not one that is going to hurt millions of people like Obamacare.)

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm wondering....as Osama Obama’s “War on Coal” continues and accelerates,coal being used to generate almost half of this nation's electricity,*where* are we gonna get the power to operate all these toy cars that run on D batteries?

[vette6387]

Palo Alto, if my memory serves me correctly is “buying electricity” from P.G.& E., and “reselling it” to its residents. So the unanswered question is “if everyone in PA has an electric car and they all plug them in after work together, will their “grid” support the load?

[Steve_Seattle]

"To show how silly this is, there are virtually NO new homes built in Palo Alto."

You beat me to it. When libs reign, new housing shuts down in favor of skinny, sub-divided townhouses (at best), and apartments.

[capt B]

I lived on a 19th fl apt in Manhattan. Wonder if they’’ll make the cars small enough to fit into the elevators and the apt’s for charging.

[Still Thinking]

The kooks on the City Council want to "remove obstacles" to owning electric vehicles. Perhaps they should mandate a minimum annual wage of $150,000 for every resident. Then everybody could afford these luxury toys for the über-rich.

Excellent! Anyone earning less than that could be subject to a fine.

[Chode]

prolly a couple council members with dislocated shoulders from patting themselves on the back too...

[depressed in 06]

Seems to be a huge waste where a bicycle rack will do.

[theBuckwheat]

In other news, advocates of “affordable housing” cannot understand why housing costs so much.

[Carry_Okie]

I take it they’ve forgotten about the State of California’s critical shortages in electrical generation and distribution capacity.

[Lockbox]

If my house comes pre-wire for the charger then I don’t need a stinking permit!

[MasterGunner01]

California hasn't built any new power plants in 30+ years and has been shutting down plants at aren't PC enough for the Greenies. California is buying much of its electricity from surrounding states. I'd recommend the surrounding suppliers triple their exported electricity costs to California and bring them face-to-face with reality. Karma sucks governor Moonbeam and your communist Sacramento legislature.