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Those big massive heavily armored monstrsities are good only for the elite. WH said "If you need a car to run to Walmart, buy a Tesla". Can you afford to buy a base level electric car @ $60,000? Did yo know it takes 8-12 hours to fully charge an electric car? They can only travel 400 miles max! Try driving one cross country. That is if you can find a charging station.
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Lots and lots of folks do not drive across the country. They go to the grocery store, mall, playground, school, church, etc. When they go on vacation, they fly leaving their car at the airport ... or they Uber. Lots of folks do not buy a vehicle to fulfill a teenage wish. They buy a vehicle to do what they need to get done. And, when they need to make a change, the sell the car and buy what they need/want. Back when I was in a urban environment, I bought and used a electric car. It worked very well. Charged it at night and drove it all day. Never needed more than 100 miles daily, so it worked great for me and my wife. When I was appointed to a more rural pastorate, I sold the car ... $500 less than I paid for it. Cost to own and use the car for a year came to 700 ... $500 + $200 road use tax. Cost of fuel ... nothing. My electric bill simply did not change one iota. Weird. But, have always tracked the billing. Just no change at all. City, various parking lot companies, put in charging stations which one could use when in town. Really great! Sincerely. bruce." Unlike most conservatives, libs have no problem exploiting dead children and dancing on their graves." -
The idea is to sell the electric car before the batteries need replacing.Comment
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Thing to remember is the lithium can be recycled good as new into fresh battery packs. Unlike petroleum where once it's burned it's gone except for the pollution, and once a well is dry one has to move on. The trick is to find sustainable ways of producing electricity. Nuclear is a hard pill for some to swallow but we have nothing else to produce the megawatts.Comment
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The village Iowan must know about subsidized ethanol?"The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. UllmanComment
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This "village Iowan", note the name calling Lyman, knows that China is building COAL fired electric plants willynilly. The battery in an electric vehicle can last 10-20 years then has to be replaced. What does a new battery cost? What does the labor to install one cost? Remember too, that oil is used to make more than gasoline. Almost everything in your household was made using some form of oil! So, if oil and coal are outlawed then we are back in the 1700's life style! BTW, airplanes are one of the worst air polluters ever. I live next to a small airport and wondered why all the white surfaces of my house are sooty looking.Last edited by Major Tom; 03-12-2022, 05:37.Comment
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Again, referring to my original post; why aren't government officials driving electric vehicles? They can't be too concerned about "climate" !!Comment
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The Regressive's motto is "Do as I say, not as I do."Comment
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The government officials are chauffeured around in huge black Chevy Suburbans. No battery operated plug and wait boxes for them.
By the way, the ship load of expensive cars that burned also had a shipment of battery operated vehicles that were burning and couldn't be put out. Best park your electric vehicle in the driveway.Last edited by Johnny P; 03-12-2022, 07:07.Comment
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You're blaming Trump for not buying more EVs in the '16-'20 period? Because that's when a lot of government-owned autos in service today would have been purchased.
Democrats in Congress wanted the USPS to retool their plan for the Postal Fleet upgrade to include more EVs. But DeJoy told them to stuff it and so the USPS sticking overwhelmingly with gasoline. It was in the news.
Obviously you don't give a sh*t about the climate personally, and your attempt to paint Democrats as hypocrites falls flat, because had they succeeded, you'd be bitching about their success.Comment
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Who ever made the decision not to buy a fleet of EV's made the correct decision. Maybe through battery technology they will have the versatility of fossil fueled vehicles, but they just aren't there yet.Comment
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Yes, glad you recognized that.Comment
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