At least you admit that there is a problem with the electric grid not being able to handle the current needs for the citizens with their toys and even their necessities. So people drive their EVs to work, and need power to get home, but should not be allowed to charge them while they work now?
So the citizens needs to pick their times to use their electricity, while knowing that Ca. has already had serious issues with the electrical grid, creating brown outs and blackouts. They have surely had a long time to correct this problem,
I thought we lived in a developed country. You are accepting the notion that if people do not go without electricity, the public officials will and can just take it away from them. Nuts, Howabout you demand that your officials fix the grid and if not vote them out or recall them.
And now we know that the state of Ca is banning gas appliances, which people cook with. But the citizens have no real choice if your wish to eat at the normal times but to burden the grid even more as people are forced to abandon their gas appliances and buy electric appliances. .
So as the push to dismantle our current power sources is taking place, which cannot keep up with the current needs now, Ca. is a long ways without a good and credible plan as they phase out well known and dependable energy sources if the bans of comfortable creature comforts such as gas appliances to cook their food continues to take place. Whats next to be banned or altered, probably electricity for gasoline pumps every other day of the week?
In 2021 Ca got 17 percent of its energy from solar, according to the Ca. Energy Commission. But the state cannot produce enough electricity now with alternative sources of energy, working with conventional means.
Now expand that to the national policy, and you expect the country to prosper using just solar and wind turbines? Our food sources are dependent on fossil fuels and if you want stuff on the shelves at your local grocery store, fossil fuels are essential to plow and plant the fields and them essential to harvest , process it and then bring it to you.
The country is getting the cart before the horse throwing away billions on charging stations. As we are constantly told, technology continues to change. So will this current policy and equipment be outdated in a couple of years when all these supposed EVs hit the road?
The average working class, which many here cannot relate to cannot afford to buy brand new cars of any type, which also requires people to install charging stations these days if your premise is that the owners charge their vehicles only overnight. Life is just not that simple.
Rental apartments currently do not have chargers in every parking space either. Its nice sounding when the leaders push this ev agenda. But not even a single handful live the talk. I guess I had better shut up and move along.
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