Comments on: Waxman-Markey lays groundwork for electric vehicle mandate

By: markdsweet

markdsweet — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:33:33 +0000

This is just another plan to remove you from the ability to move freely. You are much easier to control if you have to use public transportation. And it is very difficult to create a weapon out of an electrical outlet. You are being, restricted, for your own good.

By: henrychance

henrychance — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:00:14 +0000

We do have nuclear. Our technology is new and safe. Pres Bush commissioned an aircraft carrier recently in the name of his father. It’s nuclear reactor is safe enough for the Navy. It is outside the reach of people walking with picket signs and is was certified outside the scope of the land based regulators.

By: sbartsch

sbartsch — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:28:30 +0000

But Electricity (in the form of coal burning plants) is BAD. And at the rate of 1 per 30 years, nuclear is not an option. Wind and Solar are inefficient and unreliable.

Pray tell, what are we plugging our electric cars in TO?

By: henrychance

henrychance — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:27:38 +0000

This will not work. Driving 1.5 hours and waiting for a 3 hour charge means we won’t buy the car. Running the a/c and slow traffic hurt the range. There are not any honest numbers out there on what a “rapid charge” will cost. The only price we have is that a fast charger for the home may be 1,500 dollars plus electricity. If a charge station charges a toll of 25 dollars, that would be cheap. A 7 dollar car wash is 20 cents worth of water. Along a new shovel ready interstate, the parking lots would need to be huge to contain hundreds of cars waiting for their 3 hours of charging.

By: glenncz

glenncz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:13:42 +0000

oops, 45 mpgallon.

By: glenncz

glenncz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:13:12 +0000

Electric cars are complete insanity! My neighbor has a nice Toyota Yaris that gets 45mph and costs $12,000.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=108501
Wind turbines will never power our grid, they wouldn’t even work in Texas.
http://nofreewind.blogspot.com/2009/05/texas-wind-doesnt-work.html

By: nigelf

nigelf — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:38:59 +0000

But they will make us do this because they know what’s best. Remember, democracy means you have the right to choose, even if the choice you make is wrong.

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Electric vehicle mandate « The TRUE Cost of "Cap and Trade" — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:22:27 +0000

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