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If the power grid goes down hard roughly 270 million Americans will die in the first year.

A few because they can't charge their electric cars, and many because without power they can't get gas or diesel fuel pumped into their cars and grocery trucks.

OTOH, if demand for electricity goes up due to more electric vehicles, the market will respond by expanding and improving the electrical infrastructure to provide for it.

Or would you prefer to raise taxes and impose government mandated [hyper sarcasm quote]engineering[/hyper sarcasm quote] solution (think the universally successful government exercises in social engineering as the model).

Why, they could put Al Gore, the man who brought us the low flow toilet, in charge of the whole project!

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>> “If the power grid goes down hard roughly 270 million Americans will die in the first year.” <<

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Year?

How many millions do you want to die in the first day due to the immobility of their electric cars?

I can go 1000 miles on full tanks in my 3/4 ton pu.