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Uh, you really think electricity will get cheaper, after ALL costs are considered, going green?

That would require an enormous breakthrough in storage technology. Yeah, fabulous new batteries with wonderful reliability are just around the corner — for the last few decades. I’ll just say I’m “from Missouri” and will believe it when large scale production has proven itself for a few years.

Then the cost of the grid rebuild has to be included too. Heck, we haven’t even made much progress in hardening it against the next Carrington Event.

I may be a bit prejudiced too, because I believe in not putting all my eggs in one basket. Several years back we had a massive ice storm. My family was luckier than most, as we only had two extended periods without any power, and numerous shorter periods. (Feeds from two different lines on our property, and I have a couple long heavy extension cords.) But, just up the road from us, people were running generators 3 weeks later. I had a 5000w generator that really got a workout. But no way could it have additionally handled charging an EV.

Anyway, once the roads were marginally safe, whenever we got down to ~10 gallons of gasoline, I’d make a run to town to get more gas. The gas station had a generator to run the pumps, inside lights, registers, etc. The supply of gas to the station was via trucks running on diesel.

If our entire energy infrastructure had been electric, we’d have been in deep trouble. Perhaps we could have escaped in an EV on the 3rd or 4th day, but we’d have lost most of the plumbing in the house, the well, and most of our animals. That gasoline / diesel infrastructure was our lifeline.

>> Uh, you really think electricity will get cheaper, after ALL costs are considered, going green? <<

Yes. I understand when you say, “Yeah, fabulous new batteries with wonderful reliability are just around the corner — for the last few decades.” That’s why I start with “50 years of lies about the feasibility of solar power make this hard to believe.”