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Next, Pharaoh will demand that the gov't buildings get dibs on the little bit of power we have and force the proles to live in the dark. The same proles who will have to pay for the electricity to the gov't buildings. This will not end well.

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To be upfront, I'm a Tesla driver and proponent of fossil fuels and Nuclear energy.  I know where we get electricity from.  I took a keen interest in your opinion of how electric cars would fair while stuck for 24 plus hours and I have to say that wading through the politics is the hardest part but the reality is the Tesla (not vouching for all electric cars) would do much better than gas cars.  Basically, an electric car while stopped would only have to use energy for warming the cabin and nothing else.  I'll leave this reference here if anyone is interested. 

https://insideevs.com/news/560870/tesla-model3/?fbclid=IwAR3wCsRwUAo40sWsnFzGAzWXjAPDRZOCzJWDAuSJLkLrCqDXeLNLLEevQQw

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I deliberately didn't go down the path of relative energy usage, in part because digging the data was not trivial, but it is a reality that, in such an event, some cars will run out of either gas or battery, and that's the perspective I sought to speak from.

Getting an empty gas car running again takes seconds. Putting enough charge in an EV to get it to a charging destination takes... how long?

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My point is it won't run out.

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Depends on the amount of charge, no? You can't argue that none of them would - if someone had a 15% charge, figuring on a short trip, then someone's gonna be stuck.

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True, there are always outliers to both situations. The article was pointing out that most electric cars are charged at home and tend to depart with a full charge every day. Gas cars tend to be filled up with they are "low" and not daily. Again, I bought my Tesla because I like the car - no other reason ;-)

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I've no objection to electric cars - in a level and competitive marketplace. People should be free to buy what they want, and the market should be free to offer what they want, absent scale-tipping or other government distortions.

It's the "dictate an outcome" aspect I object to, especially given the utter impossibility of achieving that outcome, the enormous amounts of money being and to be wasted, etc, that I take issue with.

This is worth a read:

https://fee.org/articles/41-inconvenient-truths-on-the-new-energy-economy

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One more thing. In the broader sense and longer time horizon, I believe that hydrogen fuel cells are going to be the "final answer." That's barring an "invention" in battery tech.

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