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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
No... statistically, most of the most wasteful driving is carried out by 85% of the country's drivers around urban areas, and these are the people those assumptions are targeting. No one ever said every single vehicle in this country needs to be electric.
Exactly. And your comments about renting are spot-on. I do that now, whenever I need a larger vehicle for hauling something. Renting will even allow people in Texas to use more electrics, and rent when they need to. Most Americans could do the same... and the old excuse of "what if it's not available exactly when I need it?" is exactly that... an excuse. Americans are very familiar with altering their schedules to deal with other people's timetables, and they can do it here, too. If I can do it, it won't kill you.
People who haul and handle heavy equipment regularly should obviously be using the appropriate vehicles for that... but using those same vehicles for light-duty transportation is inefficient and, in most cases, unnecessary.
Even in Texas.
(Hey, you guys wanted all that land! If it costs you more to drive around on it, who's fault is that?  ) |
We're not complaining about the cost of driving, but the attitude that we can't have the access to do so to fit somebody else's opinions....