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To: Red Badger

Can I ask a stupid question???

Where is the electricity to recharge all of these electric cars going to come from?

I know liberals think you just plug in an electrical cord into an outlet , but they don’t often realize that the electricity coming from that outlet has to be generated somewhere.

I read that, if liberals dreams come true, and we suddenly had tens of millions of electric cars on the road, that our power grid and power plants don’t have the capacity to deliver the electricity needed to recharge all those cars.

We really should think all this through before we jump headlong with both feet into phasing out fossil fuels and gasoline powered cars.


17 posted on 09/07/2017 1:53:06 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Correct on all counts.

The recharging of millions of autos simultaneously would burn out the grid................quickly..............


20 posted on 09/07/2017 1:55:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This is why your light bulbs must change, power company must be given authority to throttle your AC use, etc.

The dirty secret behind all of the other mandates.


26 posted on 09/07/2017 1:59:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Where is the electricity to recharge all of these electric cars going to come from?
Windmills. If the wind blows enough the night before you want to go somewhere . . .

27 posted on 09/07/2017 1:59:46 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Jaguar is lucky to sell 30,000 units per year in the USA. Electrics won’s sell near that many. And, seeing how they are Jags, a high percentage will be immobile a high percentage of the time.


28 posted on 09/07/2017 2:00:33 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Exactly.


49 posted on 09/07/2017 2:21:00 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The EuroLeftist royal presumption is that the Proles won't be driving. They will be assigned seats on public transportation, where they belong.

Anyone with a education in physics realizes that all those kilowatts now being used during the morning commute can't be generated by any conceivable power grid. In the Eurozone, where every village is within walking distance of the next village, has been for the last twelve hundred years, the peasants have always considered cars as a luxury.

I see this as an opportunity for a clever car builder, or a shade trade budding Henry Ford, here in the States. (Contingent on junking the staggeringly massive criminal federal overreach in legislated engineering...)

50 posted on 09/07/2017 2:22:03 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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