Posted on 08/08/2012 5:55:34 PM PDT by NCjim
One electric-car owner got so angry about internal combustion engine (ICE) cars taking car-charging parking spots, he made a video.
If you drive an electric car, it's nice to know that if you're making a trip to the mall or a regular spot that you can charge up your car while you're running errands.
Well, it's nice until you get there to find that some ignorant soul has parked their gas-guzzler in the space, preventing you from charging.
Unfortunately, it's a trend noticed all too frequently by Santa Monica-based reader Kelly Olsen, who shot the video below to demonstrate just how many spaces are being hogged, in a trend he dubs "ICEing"-- in other words, being displaced by vehicles with Internal Combustion Engines.
The video shows cars at three business locations near to Kelly's home, which all use ECOtality Blink chargers. Not a single car featured in the video is a plug-in, but all are taking up plug-in spaces.
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LOL. Some buildings at my previous company had a 2 level parking lot, lower (covered) area for compact vehicles, others on top, exposed to the elements. Our attitude was if you want a shady place to park in the summer get there earlier. No one paid attention to it.
Electric car owners are handicapped, even if they can’t admit it.
No, everyone pays for it.
Remember the opening in “Cool Hand Luke”where the Paul Newman character used a pipe cutter to de-head the parking meters? That’s what I’d like to do to these electric car charger spots. Prisons have cable TV, nutritious meals, no work requirement and free lawyers to help you, so going to the pen for this may not have the outcome Newman had.
So, who’s paying for the electricity? The shop owner? No, it’s the rest of us.
$400 fines to follow if ya park in one of those spots, without the proper state regulated placard.
Do remember the scene. We have that movie in our stash of old films somewhere. Going to find it so we can watch it this weekend. Thanks for making the connection. Whomever wrote that movie script had to be capable of looking into the future. Or maybe it’s true, there really is nothing new. Been there, done that issue.
welll..
The outlets where installed with tax incentives..
The electricity is paid for by the stores in the mall who in turn charge that cost to their customers...
So charge for “free” you need to be a freeloading liberal moocher who just plugs in and window shops and pays no taxes.
Thank you.....thank you very much!
A local hospital has parking spots reserved for the handicapped, for low emissions vehicles, for carpoolers, and for doctors.
I’ve complained to them that it’s discriminatory, but they don’t see how. So, I park my 95 Blazer in the the low-emissions section every chance I get.
around here they post signs that say “electric vehicle only” I always park in them. Some are closer to the store than the handicap spot.
There is no fine for parking in them so the heck with um.
Plus every car since Ford came out with the model A has had some form of electric system in it.
Take the battery out of any car and thus removing the power source from the electrical system. The car is as useful as a discharged leaf.
I used to have a Hybrid 1950 Ford Pickup. It used both Gas and Oil.
I figure it burned a quart of Oil with every Tank of Gas.
I was ahead of my time 40 odd years ago.
I wish I had a 1970 Caddy with a 500 CID engine or any 1960’s/1970’s era “land yacht” to park in those spaces. B-)
First I can remember was in late 50’s and gas was $.19 a gallon. Haven’t a clue what oil cost but do remember they always checked it for me while my car was filling up with gas and they added whatever was needed. Ah - the good old days.
My dad had an old pickup that was a real oil burner and he always carried extra oil with him. We used to tell the kids that running out of gas was a whole lot easier to deal with than running out of oil.
Your recollections give a whole new meaning to the word hybrid.
My Dad owned a Flying A Gas Station back in the 60’s but he never gave me a break on anything. LOL
When gas hit 30.9 cents a gallon, his customers complained. My Dad made .03 cents a gallon. He also gave out Blue Chip Stamps to bring in business.
I wonder how we were able to eat.
We bought gas from Mr. Johnson at the Phillips station. Mrs. Johnson made the best homemade strawberry ice cream ever. You could buy a double cone with 4 dips for $.10. He was also the best mechanic around but was so busy that it was hard to get in to get anything done.
Your dad probably made as much at $.03 a gallon as stations make today and had a whole lot less stress and certainly a lot less government interference in his business.
It’s not really the electricity, it’s the “reserved” parking spot that’s probably worth more.
This is equivalent to the stickers that allowed Priuses to use the HOV lanes in California. It was infuriating to watch some stinking Prius with one driver using a lane and cruising past other drivers where everybody else had to have multiple passengers.
Yet another set of well-to-dos angry about not receiving “their” subsidy.
They just need to get LOOONG extension cords.
Hey, I just had a thought. Is it possible to unplug someone else’s charging car from the charger? That would be fun! I imagine the designers have made that impossible for various reasons.
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