Where does electricity come from?

Don't tell me. Let me guess. It comes from those plugs in the wall, right? It's magic, right?

I hear a lot about electric cars and how wonderful they are because they do not pollute but few people realize they actually run on coal for the most part.

That's because electricity is not magic that comes from plugs in the wall. It comes from electrical generating plants most of which run on coal.

I get tired of people that want to put us in electrically powered vehicles yet don't want to allow the erection of the additional power plants required to supply the juice to run the cars they want everyone to drive.

You can't have both. You either have to allow more power plants to be built or we have to continue to run cars on gasoline or diesel.

Pick one.

Another thing. They are going to have to come up with the technology to allow a car to run about 400 miles or more and then recharge in about ten minutes before electrical vehicles will be useful for anything but local hops. It is either that or you are going to see a lot of electrical cars making long trips with Honda generators tied to their roof racks banging away.




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