Lets increase fuel prices so high everyone will buy electric vehicles. So let me get this straight. I cant afford $5.00 gas, so i better spend $60.000.00 to buy an electric car. And then realize my electric bill rises to an equal cost of the $5.00 a gallon gas. But at least i can virtue signal until my heart is content. And after all that is what is most important.
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In order to install the charging station in my building, condo owners are required to have a $1million insurance policy against damage to the building.
So let me get this straight, in order to not pay $5.00 a gallon for gas,
I am expected to:
pay to have a charging station installed,
pay for a $1m damage policy,
buy a $50k car,
pay for increased insurance premiums,
and then pay the increase in my electricity bill for charging it.
Which by the way, will be much higher, because muh! energy prices!
Get fucked!
Yeah, and they will add a recycling charge to dispose of it too.
We are setting ourselves up for rolling blackouts, or the collapse of the electric grid if this transition to EVs is done too quickly. Also, the sticker shock people will feel to truly build out the system to handle this additional load will far outpace what people are going to be willing to pay… but by then it’ll already be too late to go back. Source: 20 years as an engineer for an Electrical Utility
"Let them drive Teslas."
~ Colbert Antoinette
Keep in mind this about electric cars, there is no such thing as an old cheap clunker. You can buy a 1985 Buick for $1000 and drive the hell out of it. But old batteries just don't hold up. Think of the battery life of an old laptop. Not gonna work.
Exactly… depreciation is not a curve with these, it’s a cliff! Even worse we don’t know yet what the true disposal cost will be.
Plus enjoy the 160 mile range, and6 hrs of down time between charges. How's that for a road trip!
Liberal logic. An oxymoron if ever I heard one.
Exactly, you know this whole climate crisis is bullshit when in the race to become carbon neutral we buy cars that will eventually build up in landfills once the battery runs out.
Mmmm, yeah, that's about right.