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Originally Posted by defrey12
Noticed your comment “distance & changing times”…not the issue, and EVs will undoubtedly be MUCH more inconvenient—2hr charge time to go another 200 miles. That’s a great idea for long trip vs a 10 minute fill time and 400 miles for ⛽️. The real issue is the fact that the power companies MUST STILL BURN SOME SORT OF FOSSIL FUEL to make electricity! Unless you’re in the west where hydro-electric rules. But those states still have to purchase more from coal burners (yes, they had to switch back from natural gas due to Washington’s interference) to meet their demand. Bottom line: There’s a worse carbon footprint for building and powering electric cars than sticking with what we know, and making it better. Oh! And don’t even get me started on what to do with the batteries once they wear out, which they will. Are we going to shoot them into space? THEY ARE CONSIDERED TOXIC WASTE by the EPA so they’re not going in land-fills. And what about the strip mining for lithium (required for those batteries) in South America and other places throughout the world? Go ahead…look it up. You could put many small American towns in those craters. But those things seems to matter not to “the enlightened”…EVs alone are NOT the cure. They have a place—inner city commuting—but outside of that application, they just are not practical and convenient—values close to the American heart. Just a lot political posturing and back room deals.
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Water in southwest drying up, too many lawns and golf courses in desert, not to mention overpopulated. They had to create new intake on Hoover dam to supply Las Vegas, cause the one the built way back when sticking out of water by several feet. Even Denver trying to steal water from plat river form Nebraska water rights. If the had any brains in southwest desert They would outlaw grass lawns and plush golf courses.