Future ban on gas powered vehicles?

Well said

 

Have you checked the prices currently ? Buy a new suburban for 100k and it will be worthless in 5 years. Bring the horses back please.

 

I dont know where you all live but here in utah solar is huge. When I lived in west Texas wind was the thing. The sources are there but there would need to be a huge push to make it viable.

In my experience they make goals like this to make a push toward the goal then eventually water down the end goal when it comes time to do so. In the end both sides will be right and wrong. Gas vehicles will still be around and there will be dramatically more evs and dramatically less gas vehicles.

My grandmother who lived through ww2 and the great depression, always used to say things are never as good or as bad as they seem. All of us could learn a great lesson from that.

 

Thats great for a few states but not even close for the entire country grid. Were cloudy 9 of 12 months on east coast.

 

Has anyone notified the other countries ? Last time i was over seas it would blow your mind what they do. They are Generations away from anything remotely green. Remember the wind blows across the ocean. In fact i watched them make charcoal to sell in the market.

 

Anybody in Southern California knows that in the Summer time you are asked to reduce electricity consumption during the day. Are we gonna have to do it at night too when everybody is charging their cars?

Can I avoid being banned if I refer to that moron as Patrick Bateman? He needs a serious wake-up call if he thinks we can increase our power capacity by 2035. Everyone will just hold onto their gas cars, new sales will slump for regular people. He can draw a line at 2035 but I seriously doubt I will live to see the day when gas vehicles are gone, and I'm happy to say that.

 

Yea each state will be different. Even different areas of each state. Point is it will be figured out eventually but its not all the doom and gloom either side makes it out to be.
Gasoline and oil is a perfect example. Theres only a handful of states that can mass produce this for the country but every state has no shortage of gasoline and oil pipelines. Theres a solution to every problem.

 

Wind eats ups such huge acreage for the power generated and the windmills kill TONS of raptors. The fun bit of hypocrisy is that if an oil rig kills a raptor they get huge fines, but "green" energy gets a pass. Solar takes up tons of space as well as screwing with temps in the area because of the reflection.

The truly clean and viable energy source for this kind of stuff is nuclear, but the very environmentalists that scream for the death of fossil fuels are the same ones that have a conniption fit about the dangers of nuclear power. The amount of space for a nuke plant is small compared to what wind or solar would require to match it's output.

On top of this, with the exponential growth of India and China, the USA could go zero emissions tomorrow and it wouldn't even put a dent in global pollution.

Can't have your cake and eat it too.

 

There are also problems created to prevent solutions that are scary. See nuclear power comment above.

 

Its not just raptors its killing in the north they claim the wind farms are changing the jet stream. Perfect.

 

this is all 100% absolute reality. Like it or not.

whenever an expert mentions banning gas powered cars. They aren’t talking about a switch to electric, it’s just about banning your gas powered stuff

 

Seems like many parts of many things are being banned these days, and there's definitely more to come.

With all the ridiculous, goodie bag syndrome, up and coming kids who don't care about anything besides their ultimate social popularity. This popularity has become the "next generation wealth" it seems. If they put half the amount of energy into solving actual problems, that they put into their own vanity, we would have accessible possibilities now, instead of bans

Electric vehicles will continue to evolve as will our consumption of everything the earth has to offer. The biggest hurdle in all this is not weather or not an idea is possible (zero carbon footprint / zero emission factories and vehicles) but that there are ZERO intentions for any of these ideas to be shared, only sold. And because of that, we will only take the smallest of steps so no snowflakes melt, and only smiles are given to those who can't deal with the stress of a negative comment or some bullshit.

I love what I have now (supercharged V8) and really look forward to what is next, (EV, Thorium, hydrogen, future fuelium that hasn't been discovered/invented yet). But no matter what, if things don't change with people, fuel sources will change and change again until the biggest bank account is bigger than the Constitution. That will be here sooner than we think, and then what? We need to tread carefully in the next decades, or we may lose our chance with keeping this planet livable as a real world, not a virtual dreamland with no real responsibility to our Mother.