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I am much looking forward to electric cars. No pollution. Few moving parts. I don’t have to screw around with oil changes or leaks in the cooling system. No motor drone. You get a wonderfully quiet ride. TONS of torque and fast 0-60mph times and quarter mile ETs.

Bring it on! I can’t wait!

That said, we are going to need a hell of a lot more nuclear powerplants and a huge infrastructure for recharging these cars away from our homes, before electric cars have a snowball’s chance in hell of being practical.

I don’t fear a conversion to electric cars at all, but powering them with coal-fired powerplants is pure idiocy.

Beyond that, we have centuries of oil in our shale deposits yet to exploit, a mature infrastructure for delivering fuel for internal combustion engines. So I can’t see any mass movement to electric cars in the 25 or so years left in my expected lifetime.

But I don’t fear electric cars in the least. Bring them on. Instead of gorging the banks on public debt via Stimulus bills, we should have spent that money on 75 or 80 new nuclear powerplants and the construction of a network of electrical recharging stations nationwide.

Furthermore, I would buy an electric car in a minute if it was fast, sporty and fun. I have a 5 mile drive to work over city streets, averaging 30 miles per hour. Even a 50 miles range would let me commute all week without plugging in.

This won’t work for most people, who have much longer commutes. As I said above, we need nuclear power plants and a delivery infrastructure before this can be widespread. But my unique conditions mean I could use an electric vehicle to commute in and if it was affordable, fast, sporty and fun, I would have no problem giving up my Chevy pickup for a fast, quiet, reliable alternative. No motor. No tranny. No clutch. These cars have to be dirt reliable, long lasting, and cheap to maintain.

Bring it on, I say. Just don’t FORCE people to buy them. That is where the lunatic fringe liberals and the communists like Obama go wrong. They don’t offer a choice, they issue commands.

If they can build a electric car where it can get at least 200 miles before you have to recharge it, and can recharge it in 15 mins, and make it affordable, then, I am all for it.
At this point in time, electric cars make good sense using it in city driving where you got stop and go traveling.
For long trips... not practical unless it can give you at least 200 miles.
Don't forget, no matter how much we come dependent on green machines, there will still be a need for lubrication that we get from petroleum... unless they can come up with some kind of way to reduce friction.
The Meannie Greenies can not overcome the law of physics.
No matter how you look at it, there will still be a need for the internal combustion engine for a long time.

... and a huge infrastructure for recharging these cars away from our homes, before electric cars have a snowball’s chance in hell of being practical.

AND, how long will it take to recharge them? AND, what motel will we be staying at while we wait for that recharging?

Nobody talks about this!