Posted on 02/10/2022 10:06:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
“...but where does he think the electricity for these stations come from??”
Fossil fuels of course. And they have to be constructed by using fossil fuels ... all the way up the supply chain. What would these environmental watermelons do without fossil fuels to make their attempts at utopia a reality?
The bigger reality is that they are building the infrastructure that will outlive any GOP COngress or POTUS. Kind of like public housing, or public radio, ... it will never go away.
Future civilizations will look at the ruins of electric charging stations and wonder how they worked without electricity.
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The connector will be gone in 24 hours.
Yup. Try finding a gas station that has a functioning air hose to inflate a leaking tire. People vandalize anything that is unattended. I've seen a number of charging stations in grocery store parking lots, maybe two or three years after installation, that were unusable - not because of vandalism, but lack of maintenance. The exposure to UV light makes the LCD screens darken to the point where the controls/input options are illegible.
And four charging stations every 50 miles. No thank you. I'll stick to gas for now.
True enough. Most buyers have electric cars as second cars, mainly for local use.
Actually whether one thinks electric cars are good or bad doesn’t really matter. They are coming. And Biden’s administration will claim the credit for making it happen.
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EVs are not practical for long interstate trips with todays technology. But, if you think of them as souped up golf carts, they make some sense for local light duty use.
The Villages in Florida is the model, assuming the grid can handle it.
That's the ticket, and add a $1/gallon surcharge on gasoline to discourage use and finance the electric chargers. /s
“assuming the grid can handle it”
We need to put tens of millions of electric vehicles on the road—and then we will know if the grid can handle it!
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If it cannot handle it, the good news is that the deplorables will suffer the most, so no big deal.
:-(
I see a market for an electronic version of the gasoline can and siphon hose on the horizon.
Great idea—wonder if locals can run some wires and charge their houses....
Welcome to the third world!
This is going to be like the Obama “Green Energy” Con where Democrat-favorite companies put solar collectors on every telephone they could find. Don’t see those around anymore.
Charging stations that government will have the kill switch.
We won’t be doing nearly the amount of distance travel as we currently do.
Government will designate areas where charging stations are allowed and I’m sure they’ll have no-go zones—for the environment of course.
There will be no future convoy protests...
Hornswogglers, Four-flushers, Snake oil salesman.
Folks I remember when gasoline had to be hand pumped into a gas bowl then gravity fed into your car. Things change, count on it.
Think of it as a boost for nuclear power because barring some new physics that is all that can possibly power this utopian world. Battery tech will improve as will everything else we now know. Unless of course we choose to devour our selves then all bets are off.
The Biden Administration is actually OK with rising gas prices. It is part of the "Green Strategy" to make gas more expensive to force people into electric cars and mass transportation. They don't care about the economic pain that is being inflicted on the public, which disproportionately impacts the poor and middle class.
The massive investment we have in the internal combustion engine and all of the logistics to support it will not go away overnight. Let the marketplace determine the speed of the transition and the necessary logistical support.
Let the Biden Administration claim credit for the disaster. It will take decades. For starters, our current electrical grid can't support it.
A must read: Energy Utopias and Engineering Reality by Michael Kelly
Come on now, you know inflation is the lowest it has been in 100 years.
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