Re: Electric cars are THE FUTURE
Alan Browne <[email protected]> Sun, 16 May 2021 15:39:38 -0400
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On 2021-05-16 13:04, BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
> On 5/16/21 12:45 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
>> On 2021-05-16 12:13, BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
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>>>
>>> Only in the BIG CITY downtown areas... NOT for the real world.
>>
>> BS. I live in the 'urbs and electric cars are an ever growing fraction
>> of the cars here.
>
> FRACTION being the key word.
No. Ever growing are the key words.
>
> Hot summer days in a traffic jam with no air and no heat in the winter
> make them unlikely for commuter vehicles. But in around town traffic
They have a/c and heat. In the winter that draws you down up to 50% -
but still 100km+ days are fine - esp. if you can charge at work.
> they may be popular for short trips.....The Marxist impulse in the
> Democrats has them trying to make those golf carts every thing to
> everyone as Communism tries to force "the one size fits all" on all
> people.
Nobody's forcing anyone as you suggest. It's choice.
>
> That never works.
>
> Like solar and wind... that Marxist-Democrats try to make into a one
> size fits all, but the truth is that in the city the grid is probably
> more efficient, while out in the country the better idea is probably the
> personal solar/wind and personal well/septic rather than trying to lay
> electric and sewer/water lines over large areas of low population, the
> same with communications.
Again you're tilting this as some phoney ideology.
Well guess what: climate change is real and it affects everyone the
same. We need, desperately, to reduce carbon output.
>
> One size/type doesn't fit every situation. So why would one energy type
> be a miracle cure for all situations?
Never said it did. But it certainly fits an awful lot of not in the big
city use cases - far beyond the take up so far.
Face it: fossil fuels are on the outs. The impact has been big over
the last 20 years as solar wind costs come down and the next 20 years
will see very big changes.
Face it - the BS of the past was BS in the past and it is stinkier now
more than ever.
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