Re: $5.00 Diesel - time to put her up on blocks!


<trader4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You could charge cars mostly at night. However, it's also fair to
assume that a significant portion will have to be charged during the
day. If someone drives a car to work for example, it could very
easily require charging during the day so they could get home.
Particularly given the short range you get with an electric car.
Even if only 25% of the demand were during the day, it's going to
require more generating capacity and more investment in the
infrastructure to deliver it. And there is no reason to believe that
energy is going to be delivered at prices less than what we pay
today. Hydro is pretty much tapped out, because you can't build more
rivers and dams. Wind power is only effective in the right locations
with enough wind and then only when the wind happens to be blowing
strong enough, and isn't necessarily cheap either. A commercial
company recently abandoned plans to build an offshore wind farm off
Long Island because it would not be competitive. Note I'm not
saying wind or alternative energy sources can't play a role here.
I'm just saying they aren't going to come at energy prices less than
what we are already paying.


Nuclear power. It is missing from your list of options. It is a whole lot
cheaper than anything else and emits zero pollution and zero greenhouse
gasses.



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