That is indeed good news about electric cars. Isn't it just? I feel like I've heard about them my whole life, and it's always seemed 'just around the corner'. I hope they're right that we are finally getting there.
We would have gotten an electric 2 years ago when we got a new car but there is no place to charge it as we are in an apartment. Yeah, we were talking about it when we had the family garden party thing last week - one of my sisters-in-law lives in Scotland and her husband was saying how an electric car would be no good until the distance improved - everywhere is far away. Which is similar to a lot of places in America where the distances are vast. As you say, the infrastructure needs updating massively.
However if I were a gas station owner, I wouldn't be building new ones just now. *snort* Yeah, that's be like investing in beta-max...
OPEC, however, is not going quietly and transportation is only 30% of oil consumption, so there's still a lot more to be done. Alas yes. :(
And on a different axis the growing economic loss to oil supplying countries is going to lead to more political instability in areas that are already volatile. Yeah, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Let's hope we manage to get there before we destroy the planet.
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Isn't it just? I feel like I've heard about them my whole life, and it's always seemed 'just around the corner'. I hope they're right that we are finally getting there.
We would have gotten an electric 2 years ago when we got a new car but there is no place to charge it as we are in an apartment.
Yeah, we were talking about it when we had the family garden party thing last week - one of my sisters-in-law lives in Scotland and her husband was saying how an electric car would be no good until the distance improved - everywhere is far away. Which is similar to a lot of places in America where the distances are vast. As you say, the infrastructure needs updating massively.
However if I were a gas station owner, I wouldn't be building new ones just now.
*snort* Yeah, that's be like investing in beta-max...
OPEC, however, is not going quietly and transportation is only 30% of oil consumption, so there's still a lot more to be done.
Alas yes. :(
And on a different axis the growing economic loss to oil supplying countries is going to lead to more political instability in areas that are already volatile.
Yeah, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Let's hope we manage to get there before we destroy the planet.