What will you do when GM goes all electric?

[onlinebiker]

GM and other manufacturers are saying that they will quit production of light vehicles with internal combustion engines - and only build electric ones.

What will you do?

I plan on pulling the plug on commercial power and running off grid. 

I will convert my water heater (largest user of electric) to gasoline. I will run the house off the batteries and inverter - running the gasoline generator once a week to fill up the 500 gallon water tank in the barn and charge the batteries. I will install another solar panel to help extend battery capacity.

And I will continue to drive my gas powered cars.

Because - supply and demand will put gasoline under a buck a gallon - and electric prices will be 3 to 4 times what they are now.

[Brian37]

Yes, because fuck the planet, you are the only one who lives on it.

[arewethereyet]

Yes, because fuck the planet, you are the only one who lives on it.

Says the man who doesn't drive...but calls cabbies who do drive gas engine vehicles.

[HappySkeptic]

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?

[Nay_Sayer]

Shed a single majestic tear that I can't rev up a good old American muffler cloud and laugh at the ozone, No longer will I be able to give the proverbial middle finger to earth for being so lame and not having enough paved hwy for my double wide 3mpg special issue Hummer.

CURSE YOU ELECTRICITY, DAMN YOU STRAIGHT TO HELL EDISON AND TESLA!!!!!!

[Brian37]

Yes, because fuck the planet, you are the only one who lives on it.

Says the man who doesn't drive...but calls cabbies who do drive gas engine vehicles.

I knew someone would bring that up again.

I am not a survivalist first off. Secondly it isn't up to laypeople to change things, it is up to the powerful CEOs and shareholders and governments worldwide. 

And for your INFO read the title of the thread. GM's heads are finally getting the message, OLB wants to cling to the past. 

And FYI the amount I transport in a car now is far less than when I did drive every day. I can't leave no footprint, but I am most certainly leaving far less of one than now that I don't have to work.

When I was working I drove 5 days a week. When my mother was in her late stages, I was driving 6 to 7 days a week. Now that I don't have to work travel is 3 maybe 4 times a week, and mostly only 1 mile to the store. That is far less auto use and gas.

[arewethereyet]

Says the man who doesn't drive...but calls cabbies who do drive gas engine vehicles.

I knew someone would bring that up again.

I am not a survivalist first off. Secondly it isn't up to laypeople to change things, it is up to the powerful CEOs and shareholders and governments worldwide. 

And for your INFO read the title of the thread. GM's heads are finally getting the message, OLB wants to cling to the past. 

And FYI the amount I transport in a car now is far less than when I did drive every day. I can't leave no footprint, but I am most certainly leaving far less of one than now that I don't have to work.

Whoopdefuckingdoo!

I gas up about once every three months.  I drive a relatively small car and emissions restrictions are tight here in TX (despite the gas industry here).

I do work...because I am not a bum.  I just work from home and only go to the office once a week.

Husband works 2 miles from home.  Everyone who drives isn't leaving a bigger footprint than you are.

If you can make a special trip to the store just to get batteries because you are too damn lazy to walk across a room, your concern for burning fossil fuels is something you overstate.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Says the man who doesn't drive...but calls cabbies who do drive gas engine vehicles.

I knew someone would bring that up again.

I am not a survivalist first off. Secondly it isn't up to laypeople to change things, it is up to the powerful CEOs and shareholders and governments worldwide. 

And for your INFO read the title of the thread. GM's heads are finally getting the message, OLB wants to cling to the past. 

And FYI the amount I transport in a car now is far less than when I did drive every day. I can't leave no footprint, but I am most certainly leaving far less of one than now that I don't have to work.

When I was working I drove 5 days a week. When my mother was in her late stages, I was driving 6 to 7 days a week. Now that I don't have to work travel is 3 maybe 4 times a week, and mostly only 1 mile to the store. That is far less auto use and gas.

Or you could purchase an electric car of your own and leave even less of a footprint. Or, since it’s only a mile to the store, you could get a golf cart.

Boru

[onlinebiker]

I knew someone would bring that up again.

I am not a survivalist first off. Secondly it isn't up to laypeople to change things, it is up to the powerful CEOs and shareholders and governments worldwide. 

And for your INFO read the title of the thread. GM's heads are finally getting the message, OLB wants to cling to the past. 

And FYI the amount I transport in a car now is far less than when I did drive every day. I can't leave no footprint, but I am most certainly leaving far less of one than now that I don't have to work.

When I was working I drove 5 days a week. When my mother was in her late stages, I was driving 6 to 7 days a week. Now that I don't have to work travel is 3 maybe 4 times a week, and mostly only 1 mile to the store. That is far less auto use and gas.

Or you could purchase an electric car of your own and leave even less of a footprint. Or, since it’s only a mile to the store, you could get a golf cart.

Boru

Or walk.

Or bicycle.

...

And enjoy the rolling blackouts.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Or you could purchase an electric car of your own and leave even less of a footprint. Or, since it’s only a mile to the store, you could get a golf cart.

Boru

Or walk.

Or bicycle.

...

And enjoy the rolling blackouts.

Kinda funny how 37 wants to do fuck all regarding the changing energy picture, but rakes YOU over the coals (pun intended) for making plans to cope with it.

Talk about a steaming pile of hypocrisy.

Boru