You can say exactly the same thing about Mustang drivers.
Posted on 04/19/2022 1:19:50 PM PDT by devane617
It’s pretty easy to understand actually. It’s like direct taxation vs indirect taxation.
No shortage of people wanting to stick it to corporations who just pass on added taxes to consumers. But if people see a nickel and dime tax increase added to a bill they notice it and scream.
People see the price at the gas pump increase 40% or more and want to take action. They see that extra cost. Why don’t they just scream at democrats? educational systems and successful MSM propaganda. They have become conditioned to feeling guilty in gasoline cars. In their minds the Al Gore chickens have finally come home to roost.
Electric car energy prices will get buried in with the rest of their electricity with no easy way to know how much their electric car costs.
The dems are smart in that this move to electric cars will more centralize energy which is easier for them to control and throttle.
Stupid is as stupid does.
“It seems tempting, but I don’t feel like taking out a mortgage just to fund battery replacements every 5 years.”
ROTFLMAO!
Batteries are warranted for 8-10 years to still have a useful capacity.
Batteries may outlast the car.
Just a thought, but EV’s just use batteries which only store energy, they have none, so it takes coal, hydro, nuclear or gas powered energy.
If we all switched to EV’s, what does the laws of supply and demand say will happen to electricity availability and pricing?
You don’t suppose it would go up, do you?
In other words, it uses up other sources of energy and will end up being just as expensive as gasoline, to say nothing of how ‘green’ it is to mine lithium and get rid of old batteries by the millions.
You can say exactly the same thing about Mustang drivers.
“If we all switched to EV’s, what does the laws of supply and demand say will happen to electricity availability and pricing?”
FALSE PREMIS!
We have a free plug in in our town...Wait till they have to pay.
high gas prices equals high EV sales - that is what the green agenda is all about.
Yes, many EV’s can be plugged into a standard 110/120v plug. Charge rate is pretty slow though.
BULLCRAP
Carter era redux. The sheep panicked and demand for econo-boxes skyrocketed. Two years later there was an excess of those little things.
Uncle Joe told the it’s a good way to save money.
Not me, l am ordering a car with a V 6 next month while l still can. I’d get a V8 but the extra cost is just too much.
Every year I make at least 1 sometimes 2 cross country trips.
This would not be possible in an electric vehicle.
In the 1970’s, there were plans to build massive solar power satellites in space to cover all the electricity in the USA. It was a 50 year plan with development from 1980 to 2000 and the satellites would have been built from 2000 to 2030. It would have given lots of people jobs, but Carter was told by the nuclear industry to abandon the idea and not approve it. And did the nuclear industry step to the plate and build plants instead? No, they did nothing. So unfortunately the nuclear industry is to partially blame for all of this as well since they tried to stifle competition but did nothing to fill the space.
Not to mention environmental concerns ironically
Well, Tesla sold just over 930,000 cars in 2021 alone. And with new Giga Factories in Texas, Germany, and China, they are on track to sell well over a million this year.
As I said, we've reached the knee portion of the curve.
A no-BS assessment from a regular Irishman on why EV’s are a bad idea for normal people who have schedules and responsibilities to follow:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-M9Z6F18Vk
I 100% agree with that fear. Which is one of the reasons I put a lot of solar panels onto my roof 11 months ago plus some battery storage in my garage. That was with power rates going up a lot already (as well as natural gas rates, but I switched my nat gas appliances to high efficiency electric ones to make my house all-electric). Since I installed it about 57% of the power I consumed came from solar -- I bought the other 43% from the grid. Basically I no longer worry about nat gas rates (except for how they impact power rates because power companies have to buy nat gas for some of their plants). And I worry about power rates half as much as I used to.
It's not a save the earth thing. I don't believe that BS. It's a save my budget from Dims and their energy polices thing.
I average 2.9 hours per day where my home batteries are fully charged and the excess power has nowhere to go (thus I'm thinking of getting an EV to have somewhere useful for that power to go and give me free miles). I've already decided if I get an EV I'll also upgrade my solar system and make it about 90% free power (both for my house use and charging the EV). It'll pay for itself on about the 12th year, assuming 3% inflation rate of all energy costs (by avoiding them I save more each year because I avoid energy costs that are more expensive each year). That's assuming having to replace an EV battery for $10K on the 10th year, but also not having to buy another used car every 7 years for $10K (like I've done for decades).
I wish as free American citizens we didn't have to think about bureaucrats making our energy expensive and not dependable like it is in 3rd world countries like California. But Dims do what Dims do, so I decided to do what Americans do and solve the problem myself.
I have had one for seven years and 60,000 miles
1. It’s fun. The acceleration off the line is really nice.
2. I know where electricity comes from. You seem to imply that everyone buys one for environmental reasons.
3. Required maintenance is much much less than ICE cars.
4. I actually spend less physical effort charging at home than if I were to go to a gas station
5. I like my ICE cars too and use those for trips.
6. It’s nice when gasoline prices spike, or there is a disruption to gasoline supplies regionally.
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