Folks, I have said it before and I will say it again; electric cars are a good idea but they are not anywhere close to being ready for mass use yet.
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It’s all about distance. Think about it this way. Say you are planning a trip across the country, and you are going to use a regular car.
How much do you really have to worry about when you are going to be able to find a gas station?
Shoot, when my wife and I last drove from Michigan to Florida for the season, we figured that as long as you had the money for gas you would have to be a stone moron to run out of gas in this country.
Now, take the electric car. Sure, you see those charging stations every now and then but they aren’t exactly in plentiful supply.
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If you were to take a trip across the country in an electric car, you would have to plan every last minute of your trip around wondering if you were going to be able to find a charging station before the battery ran out.
Added to that, you have to sit for a good while at one of those charging stations.
I mean, electric vehicles are all well and good for short distances if that is your choice. But nobody should be forced into using an electric car.
I personally have an electric bike that I use to go to the store near the house; but I am certainly not riding to Michigan in that thing.
The Biden Administration has been trying for the past couple of years to get people to adopt technology that is not fully ready for the purposes they intend it to be for.
States are beginning to rebel at this notion of replacing every car on the road with an electric one.
Virginia is one of the states that has the sense to see that this is something that at this point, as I said earlier, is nothing more than a good idea.
I mean, it’s fine if you want one. Some people like to eat asparagus. I hate asparagus. But if you were going to pass a law telling me I was required to eat it, then we would begin to have problems.
The government needs to stay out of things that are at the end of the day supposed to be personal choices.