RE: What will you do when GM goes all electric?
January 29, 2021 at 6:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2021 at 6:41 pm by onlinebiker.)
(January 29, 2021 at 5:50 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(January 29, 2021 at 5:05 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: You do make a point about electricity costs. There isn't the generating capacity nor the electricity grid infrastructure to support every family charging one or two cars every night.
Time-of-day pricing, and smart systems that spread load (i.e. tells each house system when to charge the car) can partly solve the problem, but I don't think it will work fully.
To environmentalists -- how is that "don't flood my river" and "no nuclear in my back yard" going?
So, I just checked it up.
Quote: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. residential customer uses approximately 909 kWh per month of energy, or around 10,909 kWh per year.The average gallon of gas puts out an average of 33.41 kWh. Doing the math, that’s less than a gallon of gas per day on average. That seems doable, and Given Biker’s apparent quest to be like Ron Swanson without any redeeming qualities, I can expect him to use less.
However, it just seems impractical and needlessly spiteful. And looking at the conclusion you reach that gas prices are going to go down to $1 per gallon and electricity prices are going to go 3-4 times higher than they are now, I have to admit: I don’t think it’s going to reach that point for a long time.
Even if GM is discontinues production on gas-powered light cars today (and not by 2035, like they actually announced) that still means that the gasoline-powered cars in operation are still going to be in operation, guzzling gas and contributing to the world’s carbon footprint and further depleting the global supply of oil until they break down, especially considering that I haven’t noticed any claims that other car manufacturers, like, for instance, Subaru or Volkswagen (or, fuck, the other two members of the Big Three, Chrysler and Ford), are doing the same. And given that advances in renewable energy are happening all the time (and even becoming less expensive), I’m not even convinced that in the time it takes for the vast majority of cars Americans drive to become electric, electricity prices are going to go up 200-300%.
It looks like, for all the talk you’ve given about supply and demand, you seem to have forgotten the whole “supply” aspect.
Where exactly is YOUR "clean energy" going to come from?
You aren't going to get it with windmills and solar panels - despite all the cheery, optimistic blathering we are deluged with......
Last year we used 4 TRILLION kilowatt hours in the US....
Do the.math..
FYI - A newer nuclear power plant with no problems can generate about 5,000,000 mwh if run 24/7/365....
See the scale of the problem yet?
