Pennies vs $70-ish for the same miles...It's a no brainer. Plan on the tax incentives disappearing soon.
Posted on 08/18/2013 10:38:44 AM PDT by ckilmer
Charged by what? Closed coal plants? No nuke plants?
Replacing gas-guzzlers by coal-guzzlers.
Thought of another way, if gas was $4 per gallon, it would save Tesla owners a collective $367 million, or about $733.94 per year.Yeah, that's great, as long as they have free electricity to charge the battery.
I keep predicting that this guy will fail.
Hmmm. Maybe time to rethink that.
He keeps hanging around and making progress. If I’m counting right he is selling his car at about the same rate that GM is selling the Volt.
And replaced them with inefficient coal (via electricity) burners?
How will the government make up for the expected loss of gasoline tax revenue?
If that many cars were “taken” off the roads by Tesla, we’d immediately see the states and Fed’s enact a pay-by-mile tax to replace the lost gas tax revenue. I know that is part of their, (Government) plan. Get used to having to have a transponder follow your every mile...the parts are in place now to make it happen in all the Western States. Just need the political will.
By installing tracking devices on your car and charging you per mile. They're already on it.
So the ANNUAL SAVINGS are 1/4 of ONE DAY’S TOTAL FUEL USE. That’s 1/1460 or 0.07%, and isn’t significant.
Except for the most part, I’m guessing Teslas are not really “replacing” anything so much as they are being “in addition to.” There may be a few die hard purists but for generally I would guess the folks buying these are getting the Tesla as 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th cars for the novelty of ownership, or short mileage trips. It may be fashionable to show up for the Oscar,sor your Sierra Club fundraiser in your Tesla, but I doubt that it’s the actual, serious daily driver for most owners.
Fool’s gold. There’s no such thing as a free lunch or free electricity.....
Except for the most part, I’m guessing Teslas are not really “replacing” anything so much as they are being “in addition to.” There may be a few die hard purists but for generally I would guess the folks buying these are getting the Tesla as 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th cars for the novelty of ownership, or short mileage trips. It may be fashionable to show up for the Oscar,sor your Sierra Club fundraiser in your Tesla, but I doubt that it’s the actual, serious daily driver for most owners.
I am amazed that so many people still think electric cars are environmentally ‘friendly.’ They create huge carbon ‘footprints’ before they are even driven and they need electricity to run. How the hell do these greenies think the electricity is made? By wind?
Wind? Solar? Magicial Unicorns?
Convert those BTUs (or whatever your preferred unit of energy/power) consumed by your average car times half a million and put that load on the power plants and wait for the brownouts to commence.
And then, wait for 20 years for new technologies that may or may not work, or the enviros or the “not in my backyard” liberals to fight bringing online any other source of energy other than windmills and solar which are completely inadequate for suppling the power/energy gap.
Pennies vs $70-ish for the same miles...It's a no brainer. Plan on the tax incentives disappearing soon.
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