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To: hoosierham; I want the USA back; central_va; JudgemAll; PIF
Folks; I'm just the messenger. Yes, I am interested in how this unfolds, but I'm just an old motorhead who doesn't want to switch over to electric during my lifetime even though I like some aspects of the lower (far lower) maintenance E-Vehicles need vs the thousands more moving parts of the internal combustion engine (ICE). I don't "worship" technology but I don't shrink from it either. I use it. My smart phone is used for two things; making/receiving calls and showing people pictures I have stored on it. On rare occasions I will use the wifi part of it to read Free Republic when I'm out of town for a short time.

I would rather see these changes coming so I can adapt if necessary than get hit broadside. Of course I probably won't have much control over how it affects me either way and because I live in a fairly rural area; I don't expect it to affect those who live here for 30-50 years. Those in the cities though can expect it much much sooner. Especially places like L.A. where the smog is so thick it's like smoking a pack of cigs daily just living there. L.A. is a bowl so the smog just lays there until a strong enough wind blows it up and over the mountains into AZ or out to sea depending on onshore or offshore wind patterns.

When it happens; the transition from fossil fuels to electric won't be life changing. It will simply be different; an adaptation. Kind of like going from beepers to smart phones. In a way, for the sake of our FRiends in the L.A. basin, I do hope it happens sooner there than elsewhere in the USA. It would be the perfect petri dish to find out how it would work elsewhere. In a small way; CA could be a leader again in this experiment if it worked out and they could all breathe clean air again. It would still take a minimum of 10 years to transition; probably 15 and low income people would need to be subsidized.

46 posted on 10/15/2017 9:48:41 AM PDT by Boomer (The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
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To: Boomer

Again where is all that power generation coming from? Do you see large scale building of nuclear power, massive coal or gas fired power stations? No.

So even 20 years down the road there still will not be enough power on the grid to power all electrical vehicles. And where does all the rare materials come from to build the batteries? Child slavery in Africa - who supports that?

Pipe dream of enviro-wackos, is all, being foisted on the rest of us.


48 posted on 10/15/2017 10:37:56 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: hoosierham; I want the USA back; central_va; JudgemAll; PIF; Steve Van Doorn; Jim Noble; Bob434; ...
Here is a good article NOT in favor of rushing into e-vehicles. Worth the read as well.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/10/jerry-reynolds/stop-the-electric-car-insanity-2/

49 posted on 10/15/2017 11:28:39 AM PDT by Boomer (The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
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