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Re: Electric Vehicles, in favor of? or disapprove?
Not I said the pig.
30 mile range for a $50k car with the top speed of a snowmobile (and probably not nearly as much accelleration)? I'm betting the cost per mile (or KM) isn't THAT much cheaper than gas by the time you pay your electric bill. And guess what - all that electric doesn't come cheap either. If we were to overnight make all cars electric we wouldn't have nearly the electric capacity to accomodate that kind of vehicle battery recharge load on a daily basis. So that means building more electrical plants. With Solar and Wind being rough to make work economically or environmentally for various reasons that means water, coal or nuclear. Coal and Nuclear not being so much better for the environment than gas is, that means really water. So who's going to build the hydro dams, move people out of their houses on the lake so that the water can rise? Look what an environmental disaster that's been in Yangtse China.
I'd work on cheap clean electric power before I'd work on gas -> electric conversions. We need sustainable fusion then this whole thing just goes away. Gas would have to be a WHOLE lot more expensive before it becomes a significant portion of anyone average wage earner's budget. Until it does - it really has no impact on Joe or Jane Q Average. If it did would they be buying SUVs to tool around the city?
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