Electric Cars

Now isn't this just wonderful! We now have GM electric cars. You can rush down to the dealership and plop down $41,000 for one. Your friendly government will give you $7,500. (Guess who forks over the $7,500?) It costs $40,000 to make one. Let's see, it costs $40,000 to manufacture, you pay $41,000, and the government gives you $7,500 rebate. Does this make any economic sense to anyone?

Furthermore, it will cost about $2,000 to retrofit your garage so you can recharge the batteries each night. The next day you can drive it only 40 miles without a recharge. That means you better not go further than 20 miles from home, because you DO have to return home to plug it in for a recharge, unless you know where a recharge station is located. Then you have to plug it in for 8 hours to get a full recharge to go the next 40 miles.

If this all sounds crazy, it is. Our government has gone amuck with total ignorance. We have government morons that think electricity comes from the switch or receptacle on the wall. About 85% of the electricity generated in the United States today is from burning coal. Yes, that nasty black stuff that pollutes the air when you burn it. It's an environmentalist's nightmare. A new nuclear generating plant hasn't been built and brought on line to generate electricity in over 30 years. Wind farms generate less than 3% of the electricity demand. Besides, they are ugly and kill birds. Just ask the Kennedys up at Martha's Vineyard.

What happens at six o'clock in the evening when everyone gets home from work and plug in their electric cars to regenerate the batteries? Think BROWNOUT. That ought to be fun. This would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. A horse and buggy can take you about 40 miles, rest the horse overnight, fed it some oats, and ready to go another 40 miles the next day. Where's the progress? Oh, yes, I forgot. We won't have to shovel horse manure, just more government bull s....t.

Hydrogen would be a much better approach to fuel the future. I made hydrogen in my high school chemistry class using a process called electrolysis. Only problem is it used more power to generate the hydrogen than the power realized from the hydrogen. There is an abundance of hydrogen in the world. More effort should be directed to finding a way to economically extract it from sea water. When hydrogen burns the by product is water.

Government doesn't have the answer to everything. They just think they do. They are so full of themselves and out of touch with reality they do dumb things that cost the taxpayers. We have more and more people in government making more and more decisions about more and more things they know less and less about.