An EV??????`

[Gator6x4]

I don't think they are. Because if they are, we have bigger problems than running out of gas. Everyone would die overnight because there would be no more plastic, something widely used and completely necessary in medical devices. Plumbing, cooking, the roads we drive on, sex lube, caulk, cell phones.

Then you look at the fact that 5 million homes in the US alone use home heating oil as a heat source in the winter. Without home heating oil, millions would die every winter. There is no gas, and asking most of those people to heat with wood would be very difficult. Converting to electric heat would be obscenely expensive, both for the conversion and and for the actual heating.

"Millions of years ago, algae and plants lived in shallow seas. After dying and sinking to the seafloor, the organic material mixed with other sediments and was buried. Over millions of years under high pressure and high temperature, the remains of these organisms transformed into what we know today as fossil fuels.

Petroleum

Petroleum, or crude oil, is a fossil fuel and nonrenewable source of energy.

www.nationalgeographic.org

"Do we have 100 years of oil left?


World Oil Reserves

The world has proven reserves equivalent to 46.6 times its annual consumption levels. This means it has about 47 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves)."

World Oil Statistics - Worldometer

Amount of Oil left in the world based on proven gas reserves and current global consumption levels. World Oil reserves, production, and consumption by year and by country, imports, exports, charts and list.

www.worldometers.info

When we pump the oil reserves dry there will not be any more oil. Oil will be like Dinosaurs something that used to exist.

 

[Gator6x4]

Tesla's Mega Supercharger Counts on Diesel Generator | Sept 2023 Blog.

From SF Gate: “But as with many Tesla-related things, there is a secret, thinly obscured by an Oz-like curtain, at the Harris Ranch Supercharger. Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger’s main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that has helped power Tesla’s footprint.”

I hope there is a diesel power plant close by if a main Tesla Charge is Station is at the Harris Ranch. Nothing like needing gas or electricity and being told there is a system wide power outage sorry. Most Gas Selling Convenience Stores today also have Generators. The five P's are,
1.Prior Planning.
2. Prevents
3. Piss
4. Poor
5. Performance.

 

[Gator6x4]

That sounds a bit like building a new gas station, but overlook the installation of tanks to store the fuel in.

As far as I know, there isn't readily available electricity everywhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/lukpf2

Nope, electricity and phone is available almost anywhere in the US. Upvote

38 answers · Top answer: Even the Amish have access to some modern tech.

Electricity is like gas available but not free.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Nothing like needing gas or electricity and being told there is a system wide power outage sorry. Most Gas Selling Convenience Stores today also have Generators.

Well, there's a difference between relying on generators for occasional outages and having them be the constant source of electricity.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/lukpf2

Nope, electricity and phone is available almost anywhere in the US. Upvote

Sure, electricity is technically available almost everywhere.

All it takes is to run power lines from where it is to where it's wanted. Getting it to large parts of the roads around here could involve several miles of stringing lines through the woods or over farmers' fields (if they're lucky), or over mountains.

That isn't exactly cheap, not even compared to burying tanks for gas stations.

 

[wawajake]

Petroleum reserves are running out. Petroleum prices are increasing. Cases of COPD are increasing. Car manufactures can make and sell ICE vehicles. They can’t make ICE’s vehicle’s using 50’s technology.

Are we to wait until we no longer have air to breathe and carry a oxygen generator strapped on our back to make breathable air before we do something.

Boy did you ever swallow the koolaid ! And even have expanded the exaggerations further than most extreme zealots......sorry for your confusion .

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Depends on the enforcement policy or procedure attached to them.

A mandate is not a law.

Yep, we see masses of people living in fear of mandates not realizing they are needlessly increasing their risk for heart attack, cancer, stroke and dementia.

Tilting with imaginary windmills can needlessly shorten ones healthy life span.

We baby boomers are between the ages of 60 and 78 today. At 78 we are not buying much outside of healthcare. Long before the last baby boomer dies 30+ years from now EVS or their successors will rule the day and we will be traveling by self driving robo taxis instead of buying our own cars.

Hopefully in a few years we will see our first grandchild and live to see them graduate from college. The added safety of driving a Tesla was premeditated as was getting FSD for the safety of the wife, myself and others.

Like they say, if you aren't planning to live, you're planning to die.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Sure, electricity is technically available almost everywhere.

All it takes is to run power lines from where it is to where it's wanted. Getting it to large parts of the roads around here could involve several miles of stringing lines through the woods or over farmers' fields (if they're lucky), or over mountains.

That isn't exactly cheap, not even compared to burying tanks for gas stations.

Maybe this will help you rest better.

The US now has an actual plan to connect clean energy to the grid

The US Department of Energy has just released its first-ever roadmap to speed up the connection of more clean energy to the grid.

electrek.co

 

[wawajake]

Yep, we see masses of people living in fear of mandates not realizing they are needlessly increasing their risk for heart attack, cancer, stroke and dementia.

Tilting with imaginary windmills can needlessly shorten ones healthy life span.

We baby boomers are between the ages of 60 and 78 today. At 78 we are not buying much outside of healthcare. Long before the last baby boomer dies 30+ years from now EVS or their successors will rule the day and we will be traveling by self driving robo taxis instead of buying our own cars.

Hopefully in a few years we will see our first grandchild and live to see them graduate from college. The added safety of driving a Tesla was premeditated as was getting FSD for the safety of the wife, myself and others.

Like they say, if you aren't planning to live, you're planning to die.

Your hilarious Gale, you remind me of Johnny Carson's Carnac skits.

 

[DarkBlack]

Tesla hits a 52 week low today
Yay