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Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid
Mike writes "Recently San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland unveiled a massive concerted effort to become the electric vehicle capitol of the United States. The Bay Area will be partnering with Better Place to create an essential electric vehicle infrastructure, marking a huge step towards the acceptance of electric vehicles as a viable alternative to those that run on fossil fuels." Inhabitat.com has some conceptual illustrations and a map showing EV infrastructure, such as battery exchange stations, stretching from Sacramento to San Diego — though this is far more extensive than the Bay Area program actually announced, which alone is estimated to cost $1 billion.
I bet 6 months after installation the left-wingers in SanFran realize that they don't have the electric grid & sufficient generation capacity to keep the cars on the road.
I remember the rolling blackouts in 2001 that drove California electric utilities bankrupt.
the car was like heroin for the usa
well, it seems the romance is over. we're hung over with gridlock, polluted air, and oil-funded latin american gasbags/ russian neoimperialists/ saudi wahabbism
but the usa is less densely populated than japan or europe. their adherence to rail more than us makes sense. don't poopoo our poor rail planning: our population density sealed our fate
but times they are a changing. rail is going to come back strong. our romance with the car is over
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Shut up. Just shut the hell up. You have literally NO CLUE what the hell you are talking about. And yet you spout off anyway. Your envy of people who have actually achieved *success* in their lives, has blinded you to the NEED for the financial rescue package that our ELECTED representatives (we are a democracy, remember?) worked overtime to pass.
It was NOT about bailout of rich bankers, who -- if you're interested in the truth -- have NOT come out of this unscathed. They have gotten fired, seen their firms go down in flames, or seen their pay reduced SIGNFIGANTLY. It's not a case of someone having to "move into a smaller mansion" as you put it. And I totally resent your framing of it as a "bailout". It was a financial rescue and liquidity provision package, NOT a bailout. And it bailed YOU out, as I will explain in terms simple enough for you to understand.
Here's why we did the rescue: A bunch of banks packaged mortgage products together under a very elegant (and beautiful imho) design that nicely divvied up the risk and reward based on the unique, individual needs of various parties. At the same time, they have their own debts to pay off. At any given moment, however, their money isn't in cash: it's in complicated financial instruments.
But no problem, right? They just sell the instruments for the quick spending money to pay off the debts. Oops -- now, because of BASELESS fears, no one wants to buy the instruments at their FAIR market price, so now they're insolvent.
Does that make any sense to you? Going into bankruptcy just because you have to unload assets at fire sale prices, WELL below what they are TRULY worth? No one should have to deal with that. That's why the Treasury's plan was to simply step in, pay the FAIR market price, that no one else is willing to, so they can keep the credit system from freezing up.
And as Paulson explained, it worked. We averted a major crisis, in which people wouldn't have been able to take out loans for mortgages, cars, consumer credit products, and even PAYROLL.
Yes, it was that bad.
So please, shut your damn mouth and stick to a topic you actually understand -- like computers. And please leave the finance system to the professionals.
this is cool. You know, most of the rest of the ChristianWalmartMicrosft States of America can't stand this stuff. And that's fine. I hope California can just gracefully say adios to the other 49, best wishes, etc. Kind of like how Singapore parted ways with Malaysia when they realized Singapore was doing all the heavy lifting there.
Unlike certain people, I don't get all my information from Michael Moore and his wannabes. Just doing my part for Team Reality.
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
Because bikes suck.
They require more time, require your wmployer have a place to change, require you don't need to carry much, are more dangerous*, can't pick up very many people, can't get groceries, impracticable in an emergency, require good health.
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