>You may need to get your news from better sources, like Wall Street Journal,
>NY Times, Wash Post. The current administration's infrastructure plans call
>for significantly beefing up generation capacity and well as >distribution.
That's true, and if as a taxpayer you are happy to subsidize something
that the free market should be paying for, namely the EV companies and
electric utilities, then bully for you. I however believe that I
should not be subsidizing someone else's indulgence in electric cars
and their infrastructure. I don't believe the U.S. gov't paid out for
the construction of gasoline filling stations 100 years ago. I don't
think they should be plunging the country in greater debt for this
either.
>Just as current capacity is quite sufficient for the current number of EVs, as
>more are sold, so will there be more power. I'll be 80 in the fall; we bought
>a Tesla Model 3 as our contribution to leaving our planet for our
>>grandchildren. It IS much more economical to run and maintain over the long
>term, but it's unlikely we'll be able to drive it long enough for it to pay US
>back. We love the car -- it's quite well engineered. Several >neighboring
>hams, including N6TV, W6JTI, W0YK, W3AB, and W6GJB drive an EV -- mostly
>Tesla, but also Chevy Bolt. All are made in the USA, and all of us are quite
>happy with them. They have STRONG >acceleration, handle well, and are a
>pleasure to drive. My wife is also quite happy with the Prius she bought about
>six years ago.
I do not have any problem with the _idea_ of alternative propulsion; I
have a problem with a method that is way beyond my budget and is
impractical and not entirely proven in some climates. And every
single EV owner I know, has it as an extra vehicle to supplement a
gasoline or diesel car or truck. Not everyone is wealthy enough to
toss away $30K or more for a cool novelty that can't be driven across
the country without time consuming charges and inconvenience.
>Meanwhile, my big Toyota 2006 SUV, bought new in 2005, sits in our driveway,
>with about 210,000 miles on it, not having moved in nearly a year. We're
>keeping for hauling stuff too big for the cars we drive every day. I >loved it
>for all of the 15 years it was my primary vehicle, but it drinks three times
>as much gas as the Prius.
You can blame the incredibly incompetent tax and spend California
government for your gas cost woes along with the current
administration that killed the XL Pipeline, and banned drilling for
oil on Federally owned lands. Gas is up $1 / gallon on average in
U.S. since last December as a result of this.
>Yes, the power must be generated somewhere, but you seem to be ignoring wind
>and solar, both of which are growing strongly and getting cheaper by the year.
Anyone I know who is a professional in the electric utility industry
thinks wind and solar are a joke. That's because they are
inconsistent. They cannot be relied on completely for the needed
amount of power on demand any time. I am amazed at how seemingly
rational engineers and scientists toss away all their faculties for
logic and reason and adopt irrational positions on some pet subject
outside their area of expertise. I don't want pollution, any more
than anyone else, and it is utterly clear that the way to satisfy both
conditions of reliability and zero carbon emissions is nuclear power.
Sadly, people with no technical or scientific knowledge are against
it, as if no progress and improvement have been made since Jane
Fonda's China Syndrome movie. This mentality is dangerous, because it
places unreliable methods ahead of everything else. Hey, we'll have a
few hours of juice every day as we huddle around our space heaters in
the dead of winter, but hooray, it will be all green. No thanks.
>W6JTI lives off the grid in the mountains a few miles from the Pacific in the
>"lost coast" region north of Mendocino. He charges his Model 3 from power that
>he generates from a stream running by his house.
I guess we should all relocate to the banks of inland water bodies.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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