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Duke Energy urges electric car owners to stop using charging stations after fire
WSOC TV ^ | 11/09/11

Posted on 11/11/2011 4:51:26 AM PST by Libloather

Duke Energy urges electric car owners to stop using charging stations after fire
Updated: 1:37 pm EST November 9, 2011

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Duke Energy officials are asking customers who own the company's electric car charging stations to stop using the product after a house fire in Mooresville last month.

A representative from the company has confirmed to Channel 9 that an email was sent to about 125 customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Indiana who have the same type of charging station installed in their homes.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charging; duke; electric; fail; fire; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greencars; greenfail; thegreenlie
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Anyone know how much the bill would be from just one charge? I'm trying to figure out the price of saving the planet.
1 posted on 11/11/2011 4:51:28 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I own Duke Energy stock. Maybe I need to take a hard look at that outfit.


2 posted on 11/11/2011 4:55:43 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'm sticking with Herman. No more second terms!)
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To: Libloather
after a house fire in Mooresville last month.

So electric cars increase global warming?

3 posted on 11/11/2011 4:56:47 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Yes, and you can lose the mortgage in operating costs.


4 posted on 11/11/2011 4:58:18 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Libloather

Another green idea that goes belly up.


5 posted on 11/11/2011 4:58:35 AM PST by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: Libloather

I always laugh about the liberals embrace of electric cars.

The car batteries need to be re-charged, and the electricity to re-charge these batteries often comes from coal fired power plants. So arguably, if we had millions of electric cars on the road, we would need to sharply increase generation from fossil fuel power plants.

Have any liberals calculated the carbon footprint of re-charging electric cars???

Or do liberals think we can generate enough power from solar, windmills, and ocean waves????

Do liberals know where electricity comes from? I think they over simplify this issue. Yes, an electric car itself operates pollution free, but its power has to be generated somehow.


6 posted on 11/11/2011 5:01:21 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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If your house burns down because of your electric car, does it count against your carbon credit total?


7 posted on 11/11/2011 5:01:22 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: Libloather

I heard this on Rush’s show yesterday and laughed my butt off when I heard it...


8 posted on 11/11/2011 5:01:46 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Libloather

So, If you can’t recharge your electric car, what you have is an expensive paperweight!


9 posted on 11/11/2011 5:01:48 AM PST by reg45 (I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
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To: Libloather

The Leaf has a 80-kW motor and 24-kwh battery. The voltage is 440V.


10 posted on 11/11/2011 5:02:27 AM PST by Perdogg
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Do liberals know where electricity comes from?

The socket?

11 posted on 11/11/2011 5:03:44 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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If your house burns down because of your electric car, does it count against your carbon credit total?

If your house is made of any vinyl or plastic then no. A house made of only wood and wood products and it burned would be a carbon neutral event.

12 posted on 11/11/2011 5:04:09 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“...pollution free...” might be a stretch...battery disposal seeems to be a significant issue.


13 posted on 11/11/2011 5:04:48 AM PST by jennings2004 (Cain: An American.....not an African-American....this prioritiy resonates with me!)
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Good to know!

We need to march on Detroit and get them working on that car that runs on...love!


14 posted on 11/11/2011 5:07:46 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
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To: reg45

You can still use a standard plug-in.

It just takes longer.


15 posted on 11/11/2011 5:07:52 AM PST by Jonty30
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To: Libloather

It’s supposed to be just a couple of bucks.


16 posted on 11/11/2011 5:08:18 AM PST by Jonty30
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To: Libloather

It’s supposed to be just a couple of bucks.


17 posted on 11/11/2011 5:08:22 AM PST by Jonty30
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To: Darkwolf377

In Belgium, yes.


18 posted on 11/11/2011 5:08:53 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Libloather

Duke Energy in Charlotte is largely nuclear powered. Green energy!


19 posted on 11/11/2011 5:09:55 AM PST by gitmo (Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
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Another green idea that goes belly up in flames.
20 posted on 11/11/2011 5:13:10 AM PST by C210N (zer0 - a Marxonist spreading the flames of obamunism wherever he goes.)
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