With oil prices falling through the floor, and confirmation of just how much electricity prices are going to rise in the next few years, it is time to look again at the comparative costs of electric and conventional cars.
I’d tell you more, but I don’t want to give the plot away. But here’s a hint – it’s “as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
A very good Blog. I am surprised that these British commenters are that much more technically proficient then the ones in this hemisphere. Must be the educational system. They write well also. Not once did they descent into political bloviation, but kept on topic and explained things very well! I was a little disappointed however, that they did not get very deep into the upstream hidden ecological costs.
With gas prices dropping there wont be no dumb news story of some bunch of idiots who helped a idiot freind move all their belongings from their old place to their new place on their stupid bicycles
The fate of the electric car was pretty well decided in the early 20th century by Henry Ford and others. Still liberals are predisposed to favour bad over good, communism vs capitalism, any religion vs Christianity, wind and solar power vs nuclear, and so on.
For the majority of Canadians in a vast, harsh climate, motorized golf carts make no sense whatever; still it doesn’t prevent leftists from advocating them. Time for CBC to run “Who Killed the Electric Car” again?
I’m “shocked”.
It won’t stop the true believers, however.
Despite the fact that temperatures have not risen for 15 years and that there are more Polar Bears today than 50 years ago, and that there is enough oil in the ground to run N America for 400 years, it has not stopped the Gorebal Warming radicals.
The real issue with these anarchists has less to do with ANY concern for the environment but rather the envy and hatred towards capitalism.
The added bonus for the leaders of these hapless followers is that the leaders themselves become as rich as any of the corporate heads that they hate so much, prime examples being Suckzuki, Egore and their ilk.
What I’ve be looking into is these parking spots around town (Victoria) that have an electric car charger installed at them. From what I can find out through the website is you don’t have to pay to charge your car. So does that mean we subsidize their fuel costs too?
http://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/community/sustainability/environmental/climate-change/climate-action/electric-vehicle-charging-stations.html. Oops link is here.
As many commentators here have already mentioned for the last few years the electric car is a non-starter in North America. The problem being that the LIV’s especially here in Canada are lining up to vote for a party that is committed to a petroleum free country by the end of this century. Unfortunately those of us who live in reality are being outnumbered by the Greens, the NDP and the Liberals who feed their voter base a ‘Pollyanna’ like reality. As we have seen it has worked in the US and there is no reason to believe that in the upcoming election next year that it won’t work here. The LIV’s have no concept of reality and therein lies the problem.
Apart from the fact these eco clown cars have an inherent zero economic value
in wintry countries possessing their own adequate hydrocarbon reserves, there
is the small matter of electrical infrastructure. The massive amounts of money
required to build out an almost entirely new electrical system to cope with
charging these vehicles if they were ever to reach a substantial majority is
truly mind boggling.
Fortunately it is all just a sideshow designed to fleece the gullible.
”Does that mean we subsidize their fuel costs too?” In a word, YES. We don’t call it the left coast for no reason.
Some of those electric cars are so small looking you would’nt want to drive one on the Interstate Freeway becuase you’ll end up as a smear on the asfualt
Electric cars are purchased by greenwashed lieberals. If more die because they can’t survive accidents or get stuck in the snow and freeze to death, then what’s the problem? It’s merely Darwin cleaning the shallow end of the gene pol.
The electric car charging stations (2) at Centennial Beach in Tsawwassen both have some type of charge payable by credit card. This requires either a wireless or wired line to process cards. The connection to CC processors is not free.
To be subsidized someone has to be using the service. No one is, so it can’t be a subsidy. It’s just throwing away tax payer money.
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