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One positive is that the cars are charging at night and not during the day. So they are able to more efficiently use the electric generating capacity. But I think if this motivates places to upgrage their electric grid, that is a positive thing.
There has been plenty of motivation to do that for the past 20+ years.....Government has always and will always suck at execution.
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The future is likely to be electric, hybrid, combustion, alternative fuel combustion, and alternatives to combustion that are not electric.
It's all good.
And the value shopper let's all those technologies compete, drive prices down and innovation up and ends up with the good deal no matter how they go, so long as they let competition do its thing isntead of being herded by the forceful hand of government.
Some people just think gas/oil is part of their political belief system and they are required to protect it for some reason. What do you care if people start buying electric cars? Supporting oil/gas isnt a conservative principle even though you may believe it is.
Exactly! I don't know why people want to make this political. I couldn't care less if the future of cars is gas, electric, hydrogen, etc... I just want the best performance I can get for the least amount of cost. Right now, that's gas. But if things keep improving in the EV market at the pace they are right now, I might be trading my diesel truck for an EV truck in the future.
Who on Earth would seriously be opposed to having an EV truck with better tech, more power, mind-blowing acceleration, great range, that costs a mere fraction of a what the equivalent gas truck would cost to operate? That's not conservative, that's stupid.
There is no such thing as an electric car. The electric batteries are storage devices for petroleum-generated electricity.
Not so. Electricity is also generated by nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, and solar. And in the EVs themselves it is also generated by through friction in braking.
Some people just think gas/oil is part of their political belief system and they are required to protect it for some reason. What do you care if people start buying electric cars? Supporting oil/gas isnt a conservative principle even though you may believe it is.
Some people just think gas/oil is part of their political belief system and they are required to attack it for some reason.
A question for those who splash around in the shallow end of the thought pool:
A 40 gal barrel of oil is roughly 3/4ths gasoline & kerosene. The remaining 1/4th is used for lubrication and solvent purposes and other industrial manufacturing applications. Those industrial uses won't go away if we no longer use the major portion for fuel, so we'll still have to pump just as much pertoleum out of the ground.
What do we do with that waste material? Burn it off?
A question for those who splash around in the shallow end of the thought pool:
A 40 gal barrel of oil is roughly 3/4ths gasoline & kerosene. The remaining 1/4th is used for lubrication and solvent purposes and other industrial manufacturing applications. Those industrial uses won't go away if we no longer use the major portion for fuel, so we'll still have to pump just as much pertoleum out of the ground.
What do we do with that waste material? Burn it off?
Electrics will increase when an efficient price point and charging restrictions are met. Other huge hurdles are battery metals and recycling if those industries aren't ”green”. Nobody needs super car acceleration. 90% of noise comes from radial tires.
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