I'm kinda waiting on the lithium mining eco-warrior revolt

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It seems like it's something that, if it were merited, would

Mar 21, 2022, 3:33 PM

be solved by the private market. I mean, Eisenhower didn't pay for every Esso and Gulf station when the interstates were built, they were put in by corporate and individual gas station owners who saw an opportunity.

There's a reason niche companies like Electrify America require heavy subsidies from Volkswagen, and EVGo has a meager stock price....it's a tough business model here in 2022. Add to that the fact that gas stations don't have competition from your home. You don't have a gas pump and underground tank at your house that you can fill up whenever you want.

So right now, there's not a tangibly positive (financially at least) end result to the scenario you describe. There is a scenario where we are throwing a shidpot of taxpayer money at a money losing proposition for the near term.

Just like gas stations make their money off slushies and corn nuts, the EV charging biz is going to have to come up with a value add for people charging....you just don't make enough selling watts.

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has gotten, what, 5 or 10% more efficient over the last century? They STILL, after all that innovation, waste upwards of 70% of the energy in a unit of fossil fuel. Battery technology is ever-evolving, and we'll likely see functional saline battery technology ready for rollout in the next decade. Batteries are a means for storing energy. That's it. And there's a myriad of ways (and substances) that can be used to do it.

There's this reflexive tick that the hardcore fossil fuelers have that obligates them to shit on the idea of building the strategy around what the infrastructure should look like, and get the damn thing rolling. Fossil fuel is not tenable, it never has been, and we simply don't have the luxury of draining American oil fields over the next 20 years, and THEN figuring out a solution when the planet is dry.

may be worse than the cost of filling your gas tank?

Are these charging stations something that can

sounds like a NO

You ought to get a dozen of these

According to my boss you can still fill up on gas for

The most productive thing to come out of my team meeting

The guy in the second vid left the choke on the Honda

THROW MORE TAX PAYER MONEY

I get a kick out of this attitude.

It seems like it's something that, if it were merited, would

Dominion Energy say "hey"

That's sort of my point.....if it were something that bore

I'm kind of surprised they didn't jump on the solar panel

Duke is - they have a whole division in charge

I'd be fine with that. Seems like a standard is merited.

Actually, I take that back.

Not to mention China and Russia controlling a massive

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See, this is what I'm talking about though. ICE technology

Here, give these a scan.

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