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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. Remind me again how the batteries are all
Sun May 15, 2022, 12:53 AM
May 2022

"green" and no pollution or excess carbon happens when they are produced.

Of course, people who live in places like Los Angeles, and only drive 60 miles at a time, are not at all bothered by the limits of how far an electric vehicle can go. But for many of the rest of us, who need to drive much farther (for me, it's the nearly 750 miles from Santa Fe, to Overland Park, KS) and don't really want to spend several hours recharging a battery when filling up a gas tank takes maybe five minutes.

Not to mention, the EVs are all vastly more expensive than I would every pay for a car. My current vehicle is a 2017 Honda Fit, purchased in 2018 for a bit under $20k. I am constantly astonished at the amount of money people are apparently willing to pay for a car. Me, I always pay cash, always have. That's actually a nice, limiting thing. It means if I don't have the cash, I don't buy the car. Or, more to the point, I buy what I have the cash for.

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