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[hckynutjohn]

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@Foxxee wrote:

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@Foxxee 

Must be one that froze up, was that in Texas where they froze? Just shoot a few gallons of WD40 on it and it's good to go? 

Clean? Ever smell your hands after spraying that stuff? Talk about polluting!

hckynut 🇺🇸

[ValuSkr]

Ummm, there are other ways to generate electricity.  Renewable energy is the wave of the future - fortunately.  

[hckynutjohn]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

Ummm, there are other ways to generate electricity.  Renewable energy is the wave of the future - fortunately.  

@ValuSkr 

And they are, Coal/Nuclear and? In what century of the future? Better tell those States that have already had brownouts because of their overloaded electric grids.

When it's 100+°, the future doesn't mean much to most when it comes to AC on or Off. Guessing they prefer On, now, not the future.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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[mimomof4]

I do find it ironic how EV and Wind Turbines are supposed to be saving the environment - yet both require considerable impact to the environment.  Wind Turbines can NOT run without fossil fuels.  

No one wants to think about what it takes to make the batteries for EV.  Strip mining destroys the earth to gather the minerals needed to build the batteries.  Basically - Oil is bad and destroying the Earth but destroying the Earth to build batteries is OK.  It cracks me up.

EV are also generally not affordable for most nor are they family friendly vehicles.  

[azgal]

I think it's a bad idea to put all your eggs in one basket.

Requiring all vehicles to be electric is not a good idea.

A lot of the west's electricity is provided by hydroelectric power. How reliable will that power be with the drought ?

What will happen if the first responders vehicles are all electric and they can't charge them. Let alone the average person. 

[Group 5 minus 1]

@hckynutjohn : Hubbs agrees w/ you!

[PamfromCT]

Change is always a difficult process.  No, I am not ready to buy an electric car.  But I am glad to see forward thinking to combat our climate crisis.  I suppose there might be some who want to deny that, but years of statistics do not lie.  

Well up in years now,  but my DH was one of those scientists involved in our first manned trip to the moon.  And return.  That was once thought to be impossible.  Many years in the planning and toil, with a magnificent outcome.

On a funny note, our DS and family named their latest dog “Apollo” to honor my DH.

[Love to Run]

Doesn't anybody fact check what they see on FB? Sheesh.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/12/13/fact-check-claim-errs-calculating-electric-...

[Johnnyeager]

The average American is exceptionally uninformed as to how electricity is actually generated.

Coal, oil, natural gas are essential to the viability of their electric vehicles. 

[Nancy Drew]

The average American is woefully uninformed on this subject. Case in point. AES has a power plant in Huntington Beach California and the people voted in politicians who wanted the old power plant closed for environmental reasons. But ooopsi those same politicians have given a yearly extension for 20 years now because they have NO long standing, no non problematic alternative despite investing in clean alternatives, and they do enjoy their electricity. So either the climate citizens assume their city came up with some clean energy that the rest of the world doesn't know about or they don't care because their guy was voted in despite no change and they still get electricity. The only reason I know this is by someone on the inside certainly not main stream media.