Now that pure electric cars are real, Tesla, Fiskar, Nissan Leaf.
I just read an article that they are going to put a new demand on the power grid.
Then I thought back to our ice storm two winters ago when that grid didn't function for a week.

uhmm yeah boss, it's looks like I'm going to be late for work.
The power went out last night and I don't have a enough charge on the battery to make it in to work.

 

Keep thinking. They had a "green car" event down here at the Ritz Carleton. They brought in Teslas and other electric cars. There was a dead Tesla in front of my business. It made it 7 miles.

But don't worry a solar battery charger with 100sq ft of panel will only take a month or two to charge it up.Then if you're lucky you can go 100 miles. That's about what an ox team pulling a covered wagon could go.

fltsfshr

Drill baby drill. Employ Americans on the rigs. Develop N Dak Montana and the largest oil reserve in N America.

 

Never thought of that Jerry. Reminds me of back in '98 when the ice storm hit here and I was w/o power for 8 days, many in the area were out for 3+ weeks!
Levi

 

"You just keep thinkin', Butch -- That's what you're good at." [Famous semi-fictional cowboy]

And here in Florida and other southern coastal areas, of course, there's the little problem of Big Winds that blow through now and then, taking out power lines for periods of up to a month.

We've had an awful lot of our eggs in the fossil fuels basket; you'd think if we're going to trust some other basket, we'd have learned to make it mighty strong.

Nah.
HPH

 

What did you folks expect? It was a government idea! Drill baby drill! Jerry what were you doing thinking about electric cars at 3 AM?

 

the problem is engineers never stop thinking even if we want to...there just ain't no off switch.

 

What we need is John Campbell's inertial drive and then we can tap the motion of the universe. (any Sci Fi fans out there?)

But like other alternative energy sources it hasn't been invented yet. So in the meantime.

Drill Baby Drill

fltsfshr

 

I almost got run over by a Prius yesterday can't hear the freakin' things run. Ironically it was at the gas station.

 

 

I have a more immediate question. Our roads are built/maintained with funds from the "road use" tax on motor fuels. How are we going to collect road use tax from plug-in vehicles?