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Originally Posted by Blackbird45
I get you want what you want, but EVs are going to replace ICE if you like it or not. Companies are investing billions do you really think they are just doing this for the climate. Sothern Electric just started up one of their nuclear units last month and another one will probably go online by the first quarter of 2024 at a cost of nearly $30 billion. Do you think they did this because of the climate. What come first in this country is profits and if climate benefits it a bonus. No matter what argument you put up, profits will trump it.
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It sounds like you are offering up capitalism as your basis for saying that EVs will REPLACE ICEs. If that were truly the case, the government wouldn't need to be spending billions in subsidies for EVs, solar, etc. BTW, I have zero objection to EVs. In fact, I own an electric golf cart, do you? (and I had to spend $1500 to replace the batteries after 5 years.) I just don't want to have to pay for you to have one (via tax dollars) because YOU choose life over money. Which means you were the one asserting climate/polution was the reason for Evs.
I thought, could be badly mistaken, was that the thread was actually about the hypocrisy of a government official having a gas vehicle block the charging station (preventing others from using it) so that she could have immediate access to it when she got there on a traveling boondoggle (oops, roadshow) showing at awesome EVs are and how easy it is to travel with them.
If we are making predictions, I predict EVs will not outnumber ICE cars for more than 20 years. Unless the government continues down the path of making me pay for something that you claim is for the profit of the corporations.