Anyone remember the Carter years?

[rothschild]

This is the last goddamn thing I'm worried about for our country right now.


Exactly. People are starting to purchase electric cars. There are quite a lot of Teslas in this area. I was so suprised when I would drive to Seattle and back how many were traveling over the mountain passes.

At the end of 2020 there were just over 1.3 billion electric cars on the road in the U.S. Stats for WA state over 50,000. CA has over 75,000.
Texas has just a little more than Washington even!

Philadelphia paid one million dollars each for a fleet of buses that couldn't make it up hills, the batteries couldn't handle that or the heating and cooling on the bus. Many just stopped working and people ended up walking. Electric cars should not be fully electric and should be hybrid at least until it's figured out how to charge them and how to make them more reliable without burning up when charging in peoples garages.

I would worry more about blackouts and power surges, at least gas vehicles are dependable to a certain degree more than purely electric vehicles. When power plants get shut down for the social justice warriors out there they don't even think of where the electricity will come from.

Good points, Mag, but I would also add that we might want to upgrade our antiquated power grid before investing gazillions into things that will depend on it, including shielding to protect it from EMP attacks.