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Originally Posted by redmt
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We were without power for 500+ hours in 2021.
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That is the whole issue with trying totally electrify rural American. I grew up on a farm - dairy farm - and several times a year we would have to milk the cows by hand. It wasn't fun. I know I couldn't plow one acre with an electric tractor let alone 160. Range is improving (if you pay for it) but I knew people out in the middle of Nebraska where an electric vehicle wouldn't make it one way to the nearest town. I'd wager that's true in Texas even with the better range.
Yes, you could do a generator (do you have one?) but I saw that California is outlawing gas powered generators because they are unregulated polluters...
I know how to summarize this. The politicians that are pushing this new agenda aren't paid to think. And they clearly aren't seeing the big picture.
Sure it will happen - every technology ever invented has been retired by a newer bigger, faster, better, cheaper one. But the electrification of transportation just isn't ready for prime time. Keep the government out of it. The places where it makes sense will adopt it. And it'll flow to the others when its time. Don't make it "law".