California Says Don’t Charge Electric Cars

One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours.

And yet ... I can fill up my gas car any time of the day or night at a dozen places within ten minutes of my house ... drive as far as I want in the certain knowledge that I can fill it up again, in minutes, and be on my way again ... and smile like The Cheshire Cat every time I drive passed one of these ...

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One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours.

And yet ... I can fill up my gas car any time of the day or night at a dozen places within ten minutes of my house ... drive as far as I want in the certain knowledge that I can fill it up again, in minutes, and be on my way again ... and smile like The Cheshire Cat every time I drive passed one of these ...

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Right. Economics. You aren't actually paying the full cost of each gallon of gas. Yet.
 
This comes from people thinking with emotion over intellect...libs feel better when they are told they are saving the planet but they don't stop to think about it or think it through...
CA is about to make even a bigger mistake by placing windmills off shore.....again....not thinking it through....
The big problem with offshore windmill farms is that salt water is horribly corrosive. The maintenance of those windmills is going to be horribly expensive. Even stainless steel corrodes in a saltwater environment.
That's why there is such a large effort in anti-corrosion tech and methods.
I raced sailboats foe decades in saltwater, everything is corroded by it. The navy hasn’t managed to defeat saltwater corrosion despite trying since they stopped using wooden warships back in the 1860s.
 
One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours.

And yet ... I can fill up my gas car any time of the day or night at a dozen places within ten minutes of my house ... drive as far as I want in the certain knowledge that I can fill it up again, in minutes, and be on my way again ... and smile like The Cheshire Cat every time I drive passed one of these ...

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Right. Economics. You aren't actually paying the full cost of each gallon of gas. Yet.

Depending on the state, but in most states, the price of a gallon of gas mostly consists of taxes. If we were truly paying the cost of each gallon ... we'd be paying considerably less.
 
One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours. But then those that believe our future is grounded in coal probably will require an extra measure of guidance.
So you can only charge between midnight and 5AM to get to work and that’s a good thing?

It seems quite normal for electric car owners to charge their cars overnight. Our electric company here in the Arizona desert offers savings for going on a time-of-use plan to encourage usage during off-peak hours.

Time of Use plan
Is that why California has asked all EV owners not to recharge period?

Not according to the article you provided link to: the agency issued a Flex Alert for Thursday from 5 to 10 p.m. to encourage reduced energy usage because of the strain on the state’s grid.

According to the AP there was an additional alert last Friday:
The California Independent System Operator issued a Flex Alert for 6 to 9 p.m. Friday “to reduce stress on the power grid due to extreme heat.” The alert was already in place for 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday.
During those hours, people are urged to set their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher and avoid using washers, dishwashers and other major appliances.


California urges power conservation for second day amid heat
 
Well enough of the I'm smart and Californians are dumb BS. Most electric charging goes on during daylight hours. Currently we have several hydroelectric generation plants off line. We also have a dam under reconstruction that generates oodles of power.
I will not leave this great state as there are no other states that are livable in my opinion. Now europe or mexico would be far better than say georgia.
A dam under construction that creates oodles of power? Would this be a damn that steal water from the Mexican side of the border creating droughts and drying up their lakes?
The dam is under reconstruction and has major generation capacity.
Again, I read that Mexico is short water because the Gringos on the US side have been diverting the water for California energy---drying up Mexican lakes and making impossible for mexican farmers and cartels to grow their crops....creating misery and poverty on the mexican side. Is this what this dam is actually doing?
The dam is at the other end of the state.
 
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One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours. But then those that believe our future is grounded in coal probably will require an extra measure of guidance.
As the population soars--there will be no off peak hours...ergo electric car useless.

That's not true. There is clearly more energy available at night. But it's pretty stupid to tell people they can't charge their cars during the day if they need to.

But clearly you're right on the central issue that Democrats are pushing us to electric cars yet still oppose any sort of energy generation as if it doesn't take energy to charge electric cars
The wind almost always dies off at night and the sun goes down, so the only “clean” energy available most nights is hydro and atomic and California does not have many hydroelectric or atomic plants.
On the pacific coast line winds are always moving.
 
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One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours.

And yet ... I can fill up my gas car any time of the day or night at a dozen places within ten minutes of my house ... drive as far as I want in the certain knowledge that I can fill it up again, in minutes, and be on my way again ... and smile like The Cheshire Cat every time I drive passed one of these ...
Yep, before I'd ever buy an electric car I'd wait for technology advances that make the cost of hydrogen competative. With hydrogen fuel cells this charging of batteries will become obsolete.
 
One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours. But then those that believe our future is grounded in coal probably will require an extra measure of guidance.
The "best time to 'due" certain things? My God man, get a freaking grip!
Boo! Boo!

I love ya man, but spell checking the internet? Please, that is trolling
That's not spelling, you doofus! I have never see anything that stupid since I read a liberal post!

Oh, wait! That poster is a liberal. I guess that passing the GED was a matter of good guessing.

Spell checking posts are lame and trolling.

I always say to Democrats their standards only apply to others, mine don't.

How's spell checking the internet going anyway? I don't see any evidence you're getting very far
Do you not know the difference in a spelling error or word choice?

An example of a spelling error would be "werd choice". An example of word choice would be a "spelling era".

I do if someone is writing a real document where they repeatedly edit their writing. Not on a message board where hopefully people take a pass at editing but don't have to be perfect.

Not to mention that auto-spell checking confuses it. Auto-spell checker changes my words to the wrong word all the time. I usually catch it, but not always. That doesn't mean I don't know the word.

Even if they don't, spell checking is still lame and trolling. Democrats write so much stupid content. Spell checking is not necessary

Exactly, spell checking on the internet is petty.
... says the person with a middle school education!
 
One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours.

And yet ... I can fill up my gas car any time of the day or night at a dozen places within ten minutes of my house ... drive as far as I want in the certain knowledge that I can fill it up again, in minutes, and be on my way again ... and smile like The Cheshire Cat every time I drive passed one of these ...
Yep, before I'd ever buy an electric car I'd wait for technology advances that make the cost of hydrogen competative. With hydrogen fuel cells this charging of batteries will become obsolete.
Hydrogen cells do not produce electricity but serve as a transmission capability. It takes more energy to make hydrogen than you get from burning it!
 
I raced sailboats foe decades in saltwater, everything is corroded by it.
No doubt. The key is to slow the corrosion.
But the best primer to deal with rust....was outlawed because of VOC's that are released into the air while drying...the EPA outlawed it to stop the destruction of ozone holes...remember them?...you don't hear about ozone holes anymore....but we didn't change course and say rust primer can be used again.....why?....
Because your beloved government does not work that way....once something is outlawed it stays outlawed...
 
One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours. But then those that believe our future is grounded in coal probably will require an extra measure of guidance.
As the population soars--there will be no off peak hours...ergo electric car useless.

That's not true. There is clearly more energy available at night. But it's pretty stupid to tell people they can't charge their cars during the day if they need to.

But clearly you're right on the central issue that Democrats are pushing us to electric cars yet still oppose any sort of energy generation as if it doesn't take energy to charge electric cars
The wind almost always dies off at night and the sun goes down, so the only “clean” energy available most nights is hydro and atomic and California does not have many hydroelectric or atomic plants.

Yes, but wind is a small amount of the power too. Certainly wind does vary through the day. Most power however doesn't, you don't ramp up and down coal or gas plants through the day. So they have more capacity at night.

California is really fucked up though since they flat out don't have enough power, they are like a third world country, and they do it themselves
 
One doesn't need to be an Einstein to figure out the best time to due certain things is during off-peak hours. But then those that believe our future is grounded in coal probably will require an extra measure of guidance.
As the population soars--there will be no off peak hours...ergo electric car useless.

That's not true. There is clearly more energy available at night. But it's pretty stupid to tell people they can't charge their cars during the day if they need to.

But clearly you're right on the central issue that Democrats are pushing us to electric cars yet still oppose any sort of energy generation as if it doesn't take energy to charge electric cars
The wind almost always dies off at night and the sun goes down, so the only “clean” energy available most nights is hydro and atomic and California does not have many hydroelectric or atomic plants.
On the pacific coast line winds are always moving.

Always moving doesn't mean they always produce energy at the same rate. It's not binary
 
Do you not know the difference in a spelling error or word choice?

An example of a spelling error would be "werd choice". An example of word choice would be a "spelling era".

I do if someone is writing a real document where they repeatedly edit their writing. Not on a message board where hopefully people take a pass at editing but don't have to be perfect.

Not to mention that auto-spell checking confuses it. Auto-spell checker changes my words to the wrong word all the time. I usually catch it, but not always. That doesn't mean I don't know the word.

Even if they don't, spell checking is still lame and trolling. Democrats write so much stupid content. Spell checking is not necessary

Exactly, spell checking on the internet is petty.
... says the person with a middle school education!



Insulting people's education as an argument is as petty as spell checking on the internet
 

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