On Fri, 21 May 2021 09:28:19 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/21/2021 12:38 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2021 21:49:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/20/2021 9:25 PM, Joey wrote:


"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message


Planes and automobiles had massive advantages over what they replaced.

EV dont have even a single advantage over an ICE.
The lower fuel cost per mile doesnt even pay for itself
even if you get the fuel for free from your solar panels.

Of course they do, you are not thinking of the future. Now you do
mention free electricity from solar panels, that is a start. What will
be the situation with gas/oil in the next 10, 20, 50 years? It will be
more expensive and harder and harder to find.

There is a finite amount of oil. When should we come up with
alternatives? Every car or truck that is fueled by other than oil
leaves a bit more to make the transition easier.

There are 1.65 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as
of 2016. The world has proven reserves equivalent to 46.6 times its
annual consumption levels. This means it has about 47 years of oil left
(at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

We have been hearing about running out of oil for 50 years and we keep
finding more.
I also wonder if your boss is going to buy and maintain $15,000 worth
of solar panels for every parking spot?
Hope you don't have a cloudy day or you might not make it home.


He'd not need any solar panels. Where I worked I'd be able to go 4 days
on a single charge. OTOH, the company was based on plastics, a by
product of oil so there would be no more business.

We will some day run out of oil. Fortunately, some visionaries are
working on alternatives.

Unfortunately commutes are actually getting longer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/07/nine-days-road-average-commute-time-reached-new-record-last-year/

Covid may shade that a little since working from home became more
common but that pendulum has swung a number of times in the last
quarter century as stay at home workers start getting less productive
and management opinions flip flop. We were starting a work from home
initiative in 1996 went I retired. It lasted a few years. Then they
pulled people back in.