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Originally Posted by rsmurano
IMO, hybrids are a joke. You get 20+ miles on electric power? So you are paying a premium for a car that gets you a few miles per tank let alone the cost of maintaining a hybrid.
Somebody is wrong, gas prices are going lower, much lower. You can’t claim a blip for a day means much in gas prices. I’m paying < $3 a gallon and that includes all taxes which EVs will be starting to pay road taxes in the future and no subsidies.
Electrical grids: I worked at gas/electric utilities for over 32 years and the country gets very little power from hydro dams. 99% of the power our utility provided was from hydro but that is rare. Our utility started making new power generation plants using natural gas, wood chips, fuel cells, and nuclear. Currently, all talk and all investors putting big money into this country are for power plants to produce energy for our new AI server farms that are coming online, not EVs. Most of them will be nuclear or gas. Wind and solar generation is a joke, they are so inefficient, ugly, needs so much space to get so little power. Nuclear Fusion is the ultimate way to produce power but not there yet.
EV byproducts are hazardous to the environment. Their batteries require hazardous waste methods of storage that can pollute aquifers in the future.
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IMO renewable E85 cost more per gallon than regular E10 to make and you get less energy which means less MPG. If government didn’t subsidize Ethanol it wouldn’t be cost effective to manufacture it. Plus drives up price corn which had down stream effects on food especially beef. One of many reasons this country 37 trillion in debt.
now shall we talk about farm subsidies? Another pig in pork IMO of course..
