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byhwstar ( 35834 ) writes:
Was to to have a way decouple from the petroleum supply chain and its volatility. An electric car coupled with rooftop solar and suitable battery storage is a good way to declare your energy independence. (Battery storage with zero-export will become more essential as utility companies lobby for laws to eliminate net metering)
The current administration wants us to be totally dependent on the petroleum supply chain. The introduction of synthetic fuels will not change this. You'll still have to be each week to fill up your gas tank to go to work either way. That's exactly where they want you to be.
Additionally, I have doubts that the production of synthetic fuels will be done in a way which will help the environment. The profit motive will get in the way of this.
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byKernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) writes:
The current administration wants us to be totally dependent on the petroleum supply chain. The introduction of synthetic fuels will not change this. You'll still have to be each week to fill up your gas tank to go to work either way. That's exactly where they want you to be.
I spend more on coffee than gasoline. Is that a conspiracy too?
byhwstar ( 35834 ) writes:
Mot a conspiracy it is a fact. It's just the way the American alliance between business and government works. It has always been this way. Whey do you think they ripped up the tram and trolley tracks after World War 2? Is was to make cities more car-friendly and to force people to buy cars and gasoline instead of using public transportation. In Europe, they didn't rip up the trolley and tram tracks, and they tax gasoline at a much higher rate to incent people to use other forms of transportation.
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byKernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) writes:
Is was to make cities more car-friendly and to force people to buy cars and gasoline instead of using public transportation. In Europe, they didn't rip up the trolley and tram tracks, and they tax gasoline at a much higher rate to incent people to use other forms of transportation.
People like the freedom of cars. Europeans obviously don't care as much. Not sure why they find it shocking not everyone wants to be like them.
The current administration wants us to be totally dependent on the petroleum supply chain.....(in Europe) they tax gasoline at a much higher rate to incent people to use other forms of transportation.
Both seem like examples of government meddling to me. I know I speak for a lot of people when I say I would much rather buy gas than share public transit with a bunch of sketchy strangers.
A lesson in finance: Anything which is engineered to be a recurring revenue stream works against your personal interests.
So like a bus pass then....
Or rather more like electricity, natural gas, water, internet, cell phone, insurance and all my other recurring bills. I'm happy to live in the deve
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
People like the freedom of cars.
People also like the convenience of other forms of transportation, where they are available. What is or is not available is only partially determined by what is in people's best interests, or even what they ask for.
life is perfectly good as is.
Everything is always changing into something else.
byKernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) writes:
People also like the convenience of other forms of transportation, where they are available.
Sometimes I ride my mountain bike in the summer, but the car is more fun.
Everything is always changing into something else.
Yes. Life in 2125 will be as different from today as today is from 1925, but I won't be here so I concentrate on enjoying life as it is now.
byshilly ( 142940 ) writes:
I don't mean to be funny, but you are inviting the classic questions: don't you have kids? And if you do, don't you care about what world you bequeath them?
byKernel Kurtz ( 182424 ) writes:
I feel sad for the kids of the future, climate change is the least of their worries. I'm just happy to enjoy all the freedoms they will never have.
bymarkdavis ( 642305 ) writes:
>"A significant reason I bought an electric car was to to have a way decouple from the petroleum supply chain and its volatility."
For me that was a smaller reason than the ability to skip having to go to gas stations, have something powerful, quiet, and easy to maintain.
>"The current administration wants us to be totally dependent on the petroleum supply chain."
I think it is more they want people to continue to have choice and an if that choice is petroleum, it should be as cheap as possible and for t
byTom ( 822 ) writes:
Was to to have a way decouple from the petroleum supply chain and its volatility. An electric car coupled with rooftop solar and suitable battery storage is a good way to declare your energy independence.
This. I've started with solar. Now that in good weather I produce more than I consume, I'm thinking about adding storage next. Once you have solar power with storage, an EV or at least a plug-in hybrid becomes a logical next step.
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