From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Biden's Electric Car Fiasco Is Already Causing An Economic
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:13:08 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-12-28 13:58, JTEM wrote:
> pothead wrote:
>
>> I don't have a problem with EVs but rather with mandates attacking
>> fossil fuels and ICE cars forcing
>> people at some point into EVs. Like CA is doing for example.
>> I also am against government rebates for buying an EV.
>
> If they had mandated an NG pump at every gas station the air
> quality in all our most crowded cities would already be
> improved, and our "CO2" emissions would be lower.
You get that "NG" stands for "natural gas" and that natural gas is
mostly methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6)...
...right?
>
> People want to do the right thing. People care. But EVs are
> not a replacement for gasoline powered cars.
>
> On one tank of gas we could go from Boston to Fort Lee NJ,
> down to Hoboken and then back to Boston (in heavy traffic)
> with a stop off the highway in Connecticut for a steamed
> cheeseburger.
>
> Yeah. They're weird in Connecticut. Steamed burgers are a
> thing there...
>
> It was an over 400 mile round trip.
>
> We did this on Thursday:Â A 13 hour, three state tour,
> though we took the subway into Manhattan for a few hours
> while the car sat in Hoboken..
>
> Still. Try that with any EV.
<https://www.kbb.com/electric-car/longest-range-electric-cars/>
And did you do a "13 hour, three state tour" with no breaks?
If the car was sitting Hoboken for a "few hours"...
...couldn't you have been charging an EV while that was happening?