Comments on: Electric cars upend CA politics

By: Spurwing plover

Spurwing plover — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 23:40:10 +0000

The perfect car for california liberals the Flintstone car just uuse your feet

By: GoneCA

GoneCA — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:02:47 +0000

In reply to Ronald Stein. And it is all of those CA taxes on the gallons of gasoline that is subsidizing the Cloud economy ie: wind, solar, and poofmobiles. a totally false economy is totally FALSE.

By: Caveman51

Caveman51 — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:39:34 +0000

Many of California’s current problems are caused by a population explosion that is overwhelming our infrastructure and availability of affordable housing. Ironically the coastal elites may be a doing us a favor with their draconian laws that no one will want to live here anymore. But the further irony is that the people who would be most likely to leave are the middle class and small business people, leaving Califonia’s heavy tax burden on the coastal elites.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:45:30 +0000

The taking from one and giving to another via legal plunder (theft by law), once started leads to socialism and escalates from there to paraphrase Frederic Bastiat in his book “The Law”. After the first legal plunder, other are asking “where’s mine” and seek to get their “fair share”. And on and on the legal plunder goes. Solar panels, no problem. We’ll take from those who can’t afford it and give to others (subsidies). And on and on it goes until…there is no money left to legally plunder. Bastiat, a Frenchman, warned the world back in the year 1850. No worries though, our politicians are smart? Society must wake up.

By: Ronald Stein

Ronald Stein — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 13:44:28 +0000

Even with all the incentives, California is home to 100,000 electric vehicles, the most of any state. The other 97% of California’s 30 million vehicles that DO NOT run on electricity or other alternative fuels rely on fossil fuels. Our mobile society is consuming 40 million gallons a day of transportation fuels. Sounds like a lot of gasoline, but it equates to about a gallon per day per vehicle!

The California population is projected to increase from 38 million to 50 million by 2050, along with an increase in vehicle registrations from 30 million vehicles to 44 million vehicles.
And in the years to come, even with more registered vehicles and more mileage to be driven, fuel consumption is projected to remain about the same due to ever increasing fuel efficiencies.