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Fair enough. Youre in a special situation. Seattle is close to refineries and the incoming alaska oil. Gas will still go over $10 a gallon in our lifetime and I
by thghtihadanacct 5y ago
Fair enough. Youre in a special situation. Seattle is close to refineries and the incoming alaska oil. Gas will still go over $10 a gallon in our lifetime and I bet your van smells like, well, burning fossil fuels.
Electric grids dont need to handle the load to charge cars if we all help support the grid (geothermal, solar, hydro, etc). Its possible, we just like the hand-wringing that goes along with 'its so hard'.
- ThomPete 5y agohydro and geot is only available certain places, solar is intermittent. not even close to be able to handle the need of all these cars coming online, futhermore the use of cobber in electric cars is many many many times a normal car. We will be in for a rude awakening with this misguided focus on unreliables.
- tomcam 5y agoMy van smells deliciously of cedar
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoUgh, Seattle has really expensive gasoline and we get squeezed by refinery shutdowns all the time. I’m not even sure most of the oil we refine still even comes from Alaska anymore, their production has been tanking for awhile now while oil sands production from Canada has been increasing. Washington state has plenty of hydro, but it’s a west coast market for the energy produced (surpluses can easily go to California) so our electricity prices are increasingly normal. A lot of wind production along the Columbia river, however.