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Gdetrailer
Jul 19, 2019Explorer III
Lynnmor wrote:joebedford wrote:
I'll buy an EV when the range is improved (we live in the country). I hate the pollution I'm producing with my gas car and diesel truck (soon to disappear). Where I live, the electricity to charge the EV does NOT come from burning fossil fuels.
Please tell us where your electricity comes from. I am on the northeast power grid and understand that there is every type of generation supplying it, none of which is completely without negative impact.
You won't get a straight answer because most EV users or under the illusion of grandeur thinking they are "saving the planet" (IE "less pollution") or getting a "free" ride (IE free or low cost electricity) on other peoples backs.
Yeah, right now the EV owners are getting a free ride in the form of tax breaks (when buying AND by not paying road use taxes)and they plug in for free at any outlet they can find open.. One day, that WILL come to a screeching halt (I can easily see some sort of energy monitoring device which WILL track and BILL YOU for electric used and road use taxes in your future)..
They do not believe that their EVs pollute just as much if not MORE than a ICE vehicle, but they do pollute and someday down the road your kids, grandkids, great grand kids WILL be PAYING DEARLY for the mess that the proEV crowd is creating when there are heaps and heaps of spent EV batteries dumped all over the world..
Lithium technology EV batteries are not recycled and most likely will never be recycled due to the extremely high cost of recovering the materials. It simply is not worth recycling when new materials are cheaper than the not cost of tearing down and splitting out all of the base materials.
Electricity is not "free", someone must pay for the POCOs to generate, distribute, maintain power. In addition POCOs MUST ADD ADDITIONAL powerplants to be able to supply the extra demand, then the distribution system must now be updated for the extra demand..
This all costs money, where does this money come from?
Government?
Consumers?
Business?
Well, Government doesn't in reality make a product to sell(unless you want to consider yourself as a product of the Government), no Government takes in workers wages in the form of taxes, the more "subsidies" for POCOS to update the grid, the more taxes the Gov must collect.
Consumers and Businesses, yes, they BUY the electric which helps the POCO to pay it's workers and bills and turn some sort of profit.
Each EV plugging into the grid IS affecting EVERYONE in a negative fashion in one way or another by generating more power plant pollution or eventually with industrial waste of spent batteries disposal..
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