Thousands of New GM trucks just showed up at closed Delco plant.....

Thank you for the report! So, he paid at least $20 plus the fee plus his home electricity, so maybe $25 for about 300 miles. A small car can cover 300 miles on 10 gallons of gas, so it would have been $50. To save $25 he dealt with range anxiety, made a 50 mile side trip and missed part of the show. Not quite ready for prime time I’d say.
Patrick

…And at 2.50 a gallon, it’s a wash, with the ICE car winning just due to convenience and time. Maybe that’s why gas is not 2.50 anymore…isn’t that a strange councidence?

 

Another factor is that electricity for EVs currently does not have the plethora of road taxes gasoline and diesel have. Not yet...

 

I can’t imagine waiting 30-60 minutes for a “fill-up” on a road trip.

 

At least here in sunny SW Florida, minimum wage is meaningless. You simply cannot hire anyone for $11.00 per hour. Right now CVS's starting pay is $16 per hour and they are having trouble finding help. $16 per hour translates to $2,560 per month, and that is not take home. The average apartment here in Collier County is $2,252 per month. You have to have at least two people sharing expenses to live here independently at the lower end of the pay spectrum. I am aware that approximately half the apartments will be lower in price then average, but they are mostly not places where you would want to live, and the "average" figure does not include additional expenses such as water, electricity, renter's insurance, etc.

 

My point is that official inflation figures are completely divorced from reality, to the point that a $15/hr minimum wage that seemed so outrageous a few years ago is no longer an assurance that you will get applicants for menial jobs. Official figures don't even take food, housing and energy into account. And God knows those have gone up a heck of a lot more than 8.6%.

And this is not a new thing. When someone tells me what a dollar in 1980 was worth in today's money, I look at those with great skepticism. It is much more accurate to see what that dollar could buy back then and what it buys now.

 

All this crap is about one thing Climate Change, and there are enough arguments here to start a war. I want to know how we going to get rid of the pollution this is going to create, no one give a rats a** about the water that is polluted to death.
How much you all think you going to pay for road tax on those electric cars and who gets to pay the most, dang more problems.

This argument is a big waste of ftime cause in the end both of these auto problems are costing a pile of cash, and we are paying for both of them. You think that electric is going to get cheaper when oil goes away lol NO.

 

And with that, it's time to move on here folks..

JW