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With all the Jasmine Revolution turmoil
By Pirks on 2/3/2011 11:02:26 AM , Rating: 0
it becomes clearer and clearer that religious Islamic Iran-like states are looming all over the Middle East so the sooner the US turns to all nuclear all electric economy and transportation - the better. You Americans should stop sponsoring radical Islam movements profiting from your oil imports, FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, 'cause these guys won't think a second when they build a Bomb, and you know it. So pray that your President is quick enough and you stop sponsoring Islam A-bomb builders soon enough. They may not be able to quite seriously penetrate your missile shield, but even if one Islamic A-bomb falls on just one American city killing all those infidels, you know... will you feel better?

ELECTRIFICATION OF AMERICA IS NOT FAST ENOUGH. We're talking survival here guys, so push your President to do it FASTER! Or it will be too late. 9/11 was just an early warning, the REAL war with Islam is yet to come. Be prepared.

By mmcdonalataocdotgov on 2/3/2011 11:32:43 AM , Rating: 2
Talk to the guys that drive pick-ups and SUVs to desk jobs in the city, and paste Support Our Troops ribbons all over them. Now that is some tasty irony.

Right after 9/11, there were a lot of anti-drug commercials that said if you buy drugs, you directly support terr-rists. Of course they meant opiates from Afghanistan. But they also should have had anti-pickup truck and SUV commercials with the same message.

RE: With all the Jasmine Revolution turmoil
By Pirks on 2/3/2011 11:38:25 AM , Rating: 1
Campaigning against trucks and SUVs is useless waste of money. What DOES make sense though is massive government support of the nuclear energy industry and auto industry EV efforts, dedicated support of the trail blazers like Tesla, Westinghouse and stuff like that. This will make all those SUVs and trucks electrical too. THEN they can wear their support troops slogans proudly.

RE: With all the Jasmine Revolution turmoil
By Nutzo on 2/3/2011 12:07:54 PM , Rating: 2
The government doesn't even need to subsidize nuclear power, they just need to get out of the way.
How about fast-tracking approval for nuclear power plants?
Instead we have a ban on new Nuclear plants out here in California, and the left is trying to shut down the ones we currently have by putting even more regulation on them. They have already passed a law that forbids using lake or ocean water to cool the plants, since a few fish might die (totally ignoring the increase in plants/fish due to the slightly warmer water). This will increase the cost of electricity again.

How about drilling for our own oil? During the 70’s we imported about 30% of our oil, now it’s over 60%.
Instead we have our two senators out here pushing for a complete ban on oil drilling of the coast.

If you want people to switch to electric cars, you need to offset the higher cost with cheaper electricity. Instead the left out here is doing everything they can to raise the cost of electricity. The higher rates will kill any cost savings.

By Pirks on 2/3/2011 12:29:07 PM , Rating: 1
Yeah, both fast tracking and helping with loans, guarantees and stuff. If the US government has no guts to spank your Cali environuts... you will lose to China and Islam sooner or later

By mmcdonalataocdotgov on 2/3/2011 12:33:28 PM , Rating: 1
I thought you had a Republican governor all these years.

But I agree with you: more nuclear. I think you guys need to gerrymander the electorate out there to allow one celebrity to every 1,000 citizens.

RE: With all the Jasmine Revolution turmoil
By Nutzo on 2/3/2011 12:53:17 PM , Rating: 2
Just another Rino who signed one of the worse environmental laws in the nation. The costs to implement it are going to double energy cost over the next 10 years, driving out the few remaining manufacturing jobs.

Now we have something even worse, a old 60’s leftist in charge who wants to raid the local taxes and extend the largest tax increase in the states history for another 5 years. Everything Brown has proposed so far has one thing in common, and that's to protect the government union workers that bought and paid for his election.

He’s trying to blackmail the Republicans into voting to put the tax increase on the ballot, because he says he wants the people to be able to vote on it. Yet he refused to do his job as AG to defend Prop 8 when the people voted for it.

If it wasn’t for the weather and the beaches, this state would resemble a ghost town by now.

RE: With all the Jasmine Revolution turmoil
By Pneumothorax on 2/3/2011 3:04:07 PM , Rating: 2
Yup, GAS was probably the worst kind of RINO. Gotta love his backdoor deal to get Nunez's (a former DEMOCRAT assembly speaker) son's sentence commuted in the last hours of office.

Back to the topic, I already pay $0.31 per kwh as I'm in the top tier pricing already(CA has TIERED electrical rates) so an electrical vehicle will just add to my electrical bill. So the volt for example costs roughly $12 to drive 100 miles, while my 335d (which can be bought for <$40,000 with discount) costs me about $10 per 100 miles. (calculated with diesel at $3.50 per gallon)

By hathost on 2/6/2011 4:37:04 PM , Rating: 2
How do the calculations work out when you use a faster charging station since they have different ones available?

you need to offset the higher cost with cheaper electricity

By hathost on 2/6/2011 4:33:03 PM , Rating: 2
That is hilarious because the government is doing all it can to stop nuclear developement and nuclear power plants. Then if you DO actually make it through all the red tape you then will spend the next 20-30 years doing environmental impact studies and fighting lawsuits from eco-terrorist groups that will try and shut you down. Then if by some MIRACLE you do actually start building there will be some small paperwork error caused by the government that they hadn't noticed before or new regulations that drive up costs so much that you have to drop the project after dropping billions of dollars with nothing to show for it.


The best support the government could have is to ease useless regulations, promote stability, stay out of businesses, stop trying to influence the business markets, sit back and let the market work itself out. If a business is not behaving properly then it will fail by the informed choices of consumers and not nanny state policies of the fed's.

