Electric Cars and Trucks; the Death of Oil?

 "Legion" has some thoughts about electric cars and trucks.

 

There are over 275 million cars, and over 2 million trucks on the road every day.  All burning gas or diesel which are derivatives of crude oil.  If we turn our backs on this plentiful energy source and replace it with electricity that is produced in plants run on coal and natural gas, how much is that preserving our "fossil fuel" supply?  The selling of electric vehicles by electric car entrepreneurs is more about creating gigantic wealth than about preserving the environment.  This scheme reminds me of the man-made global warming scam that captured liberals all over the world.  And I thought Maurice Strong had died, but here comes Elon Musk. Some questions:

• If it takes just 1 hour to recharge an electric car, isn't that a new load of 275,000,000 hrs/day on our power plants?  Who will pay to expand the capacities of our power plants?
•. Our highways are full of truck stops to refuel diesel trucks.  Will they have to be replaced by scores of electric truck recharge stations to fuel over 2mill trucks/day?
• If it takes 2-4 hrs to recharge a truck where are all the trucks going to park while waiting their turn in line? How will this effect freight costs?
•.Does anyone other than a millennial really believe that windmills will be the answer for filling the "juice" gap?
• If a recharge will only fuel 200 miles at a time, how long will it take to drive from KC to Chicago?  What will a recharge cost?  How long will it take to recharge and what will it cost?
• if you're a 2-car family, how many recharge "ports" will you need in your garage, and what will they cost.  And, how much will that effect your utility bill?
• Whats to become of Shell, BP, Texaco and others?

These are but a few questions I have, but I'm guessing you will have many more.

One last question(s):  Who is going to pay to destroy or restructure unneeded service stations; pay to expand power plants; pay to build new ones; pay to retrain all the millions of people who will lose jobs associated with gas/diesel industry;  pay to dismantle unneeded refineries;  pay to take farms out of production to be replaced by thousands of ugly windmill farms?   

Who will pay? Of course..WE WILL!

Comments

[Manx]

OK – so I was thinking “If the nasty liberal women in Congress now spouting their filthy mouths not unlike the trashy so-called comediennes littering so-called entertainment get their way and the States go ultra green and electricity becomes manna then where are the buying opportunities?” Whew – what a long-winded sentence. Anyway I had a senior epiphany – COPPER!!!!! Gotta have copper to transmit the power of Mercury since Edison and Westinghouse bankrupted Tesla financially, physically and mentally over his alternative ideas for transmitting electricity.

Hmm, must be some buying opportunities in Cu here in the likes of Butte and Anaconda, MT, Bisbee, AZ and other historic bastions of copper production created by the labor and entrepreneurship of old white men.

NOPE! Copper now comes from shitholes across the world. Guess that will appeal even more to nasty foul-mouthed globalist junior women in Congress.

[Ruwanna]

IMPEACH THE GOTHIC COUPLE!

[Ernie]

Read the window sticker on a Nissan Leaf. It has a range of 150 miles. You couldnt drive from Memphis to Nashville without a recharge. I drove one (105 mi) for a dealer last year and was told not to drive over 45 mph in order to conserve electricity. I won't mention the comments and gestures I received from passing motorists. Wonder how long it'll take to complete the Indy 500?