Posted on 05/13/2016 4:15:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
Electric cars are great for eliminating oil from transportation, because very little U.S. electricity is generated by burning petroleum. But electric cars may or may not help the country combat climate change—and it all depends on where the electricity comes from.
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What it amounts to is a street-legal golf cart.
A neighboring county, one of the fastest growing and most conservative counties in the country is going to Compressed Natural Gas for the county vehicles. Including patrol cars/SUVs, county highway vehicles, etc. All county trucks are now fitted for and used for plowing snow.
Talked to the survey crew from the Surveyors office today about their new F450 service type truck.
5.5 mpg with a range of a whopping 80 miles in a county of over 400 square miles.
It really doesn’t much matter what kind of power plant it is. If they manage to raise the percentage of electric cars to anything approaching a significant number, the electric grid will collapse.
We’ve known of the looming crisis in getting something done to modernize the grid and nothing has been done. Electric cars just bring doomsday closer.
Wait ‘til your electricity gets browned out on a hot humid summer evening or a bitterly cold winter night - and look over at your neighbor’s politically protected electric car getting charged. It will be open season on greenies.
Glad I looked. I have that same picture I use when people talk about their “clean” cars. GMTA
And almost half of the energy is lost in transmission from the power plant to the home.
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