Posted on 11/23/2021 12:26:50 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Federal government has turned into some sort of nightmare circus with evil, terrifying clowns running the rings.
Where is the exit!!
Most people can't afford a new car of any stripe.
The man is a lunatic. Period.
He’s out of his mind. There’s no other explanation.
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Um, no.
Gas is down 10 cents a gallon over the past week or two in my area so someone is doing something.
Sale of FJB shirts never been better.
As was ObamaIdiot for gun sales, Bidenidiot is for teeshirt sales..........
Keep it up #notmypresident!
Imagine $10,000 worth of batteries that last for 10 years.
That’s about $3/day, or almost enough to buy a gallon of gas that would make a small import travel about 45 miles.
Uhhhh (quoting Bammy Whammy here)”The price of electricity will necessarily skyrocket.” Get lost, Demo-crats!!!
C’mon man, he’s been sucking off the public teat in Washington since he was TWENTY-NINE years old. That’s right: he’s never held a real job in his life, never really contributed anything of value in terms of creating wealth or creating jobs, etc.
The roads still need to get repaired, so instead of gas taxes there will likely be annual electric car fees.
Go to hell Brandon.........and take the EV’s with you.
Or a used one.
They will put a milage tax to replace the gas tax and you will save nothing....plus you may have to replace the batteries in your electric car
So, is Butt-Head prepared to expedite approval of the dozens of nuclear power plants needed to support all the electric vehicles while actually lowering the carbon farts?
Joe, how are the people living on petrodollars going to pay for things come 2071?
Bidens going to have 57 letters describing him before long, just like the gender folks. LGBFJBSOBPOSESADJOE etc.....
Do I really need to do the math? Assume you have the car for 10 years then your gas savings on the high end would be $10,000. What idiots wants to pay $112,595 for a vehicle to allegedly save $10,000?
According to my math 16 years. That's based on these parameters:
A. Driving 200-ish miles per week, with the old used trucks like I've driven for decades getting 15 mpg (I'm talking real performance, not the sticker performance),
B. Gas costing $3.09 per gallon (when I did the math half a year ago, now it's $3.29 where I live, so it might be more like 14.5 to 15 years now for payoff),
C. Electricity being 13.3 cents per kWh,
D. A replacement EV getting 1.8 miles per kWh (the F-150 EV Ford is promoting for next year is "supposed" to get 2 miles per kWh, but like gas cars the reality is always 10% less than the brochure version),
E. The replacement EV costing $55,000, buying it with a loan at 1.9% interest for 5 years,
F. Both electricity and gas rising with a 3% inflation.
G. Getting an oil change for $60 for now, rising 3% per year, and getting one every 5,000 miles (if you still had a gas car, thus this is savings with an EV),
H. Assuming no difference in repair costs (i.e. my old used gas trucks need repairing every now and then, and I read EV's need their battery replaced in 8 to 10 years which is not as often as I repair my old used trucks, but probably costly enough for that one repair to equal the man gas truck repairs).
After the cheaper EV trucks come out (not the six figure Hummer) and have been out for a year or two I might get one. It'll be the first new car I've bought in 3 decades. But I have a large solar system on my house to try to wean me from the Dims dicking with my monthly budget (their sky high energy prices). IMHO solar works for the individual if you're in an ideal situation, but never works at the utility level where they have to make one size fit all and never do. In my case, with the excess power I sometimes have in my solar batteries (more than enough to make it through the night without pulling from the grid), I m-i-g-h-t get 10% to 15% of my driving an EV for "free" without upgrading my solar/battery system. That's why I crunched the numbers on how long it'd take for an EV to pay for itself with a pessimistic assumption that I'd get 0% miles for "free" from solar.
As much as I'd like to make myself somewhat energy independent (much like Trump made the U.S. energy independent), I'll have to wait and see how well the EV trucks work before I buy one.
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