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Old 05-14-2018, 03:50 PM   #1701 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
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.
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.

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