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Originally Posted by MIKZ28
Change is good. Technology is a great thing that has made all our lives easier. But when it is forced upon us before it is economicaly viable I must disagree wth it. This is tearing the country apart and hurting the people most who can not aford it. Plus spending our hard earned tax dollars just to try to advance a technology is also wrong. Most of these so called green technologys are not possable with out government subsities. Until we can advance green energys technology to the point where there can be a profit in it we are shooting ourselves in the foot. Let technology advance at it's own pace and we can all be happy.
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Well put!
Just for giggles last night I did some cost/savings estimating. I figured a equally equipped ev truck will cost north of 60K. Figure in sales tax and I would be pushing 70k. And I feel I may be a little conservative on that price. For my particular situation, it would take almost 7 years to break even if fuel cost $20.00 a gallon. And that's not factoring in any charge rates or upgraded charging port...nothing. And since my wife works from home more now, it would take even longer for her to see any return going with a ev which she doesn't want either thank God. And on top of that, I have had discussions with insurance agents and they strongly believe that car and home insurance rates will go up as well due to how unstable these huge battery packs in the ev can become without any warning and next to impossible to extinguish.
