[rlmorel]

I personally have zero problem with “electric cars”, electric planes, or anything else. I would readily buy one on its own merits.

What I have a problem with is people telling me I need to compromise and buy a vehicle that can only go a third of the distance I would go in a gas powered car, and to do even that I can’t have the AC or heating running, and the car is half more expensive and my tax dollars are propping it up too, all because we have only 11.4 more years until the world ends due to global warming!

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, I pretty much agree with that right now.

In three years some of these cars will be going 500 to 1000
miles on a charge.

Some of them will be charging up in 15 minutes or less.

Beyond that, upkeep will be a lot less also.

If you toss in automated driving, they’re saying it will
reduce a lot of accidents, save lives, save insurance companies
a lot of money. We’ll have lowered insurance payments.

Look, I don’t buy into all of this. I have heard some pretty
good presentations on what is happening.

Academically speaking, there is one hell of a lot of potential
here.

Leaving Los Angeles and powering up in Texas sounds pretty good
to me.

Lets face it. They are going to jack up the cost of gasoline to between $5-$10 bucks per gallon.

There’s not much we can do about it.

[A Navy Vet]

What most people don't understand, is if we completely do away with oil, their everyday products won't exist. There are thousands of products that partially depend on oil by-products. Think of everyday products that rely on plastics. The technology doesn't exist economically as yet to replace plastic.

Ask these enviro-weenies to look around just where they're sitting and see how much is made of plastic. As I sit here in my office, my computer, printer, modem, router, desk lamp, headphones, cord connectors, telephone, glasses, etc., consist in part of plastic. That's a short list.