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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
How are we supposed to use less power while at the same time adopting electric vehicles or plug in hybrid?
Places like where I work use some where around 400,000 to 500,000 KwH per day and they are a model of efficiency, most of the motors are on drives, for a cost of around 8 to 10 million dollars and maintenance cost of 20,000 to 50,000 dollars per years.
They're not going to use any less power.
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For me,what I'm hearing from the climate scientists,is that we need to stop burning fossil fuel.
EVs are a way to have mobility while having the potential for a zero carbon footprint.
My home is zero carbon.My car could be.
I drove a Model S P100 last Friday.It could have been running on renewable electricity.Pick your poison.A guy had driven in from Florida,to Kansas City,making 4-stops to recharge.
I had stopped in McAlester,Oklahoma for a meal on the way to Fayetteville,Arkansas,the departure point for Missouri.Had I been in the Tesla,I could have been charging while I ate.
If the Pentagon bought every American family a Tesla it would probably save taxpayers billions in the long run.Part of our $700,000,000,000/year military budget is to protect foreign oil shipments into US port facilities.
Sure,Rome wasn't built in a day,and every day we waste arguing,is just more money down the drain (up in invisible smoke).
Gas is predicted to be $3/gallon by Memorial Day weekend.An 11% increase.
On Memorial Day,the price of a kilowatt-hour will not have changed.