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Letter to the editor ... in Alabama

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by bwilson4web, Jul 11, 2019.

  1. bwilson4web

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    Dear Editor,

    An EV owner, I appreciate the need to fund our roads. However, EVs do what ordinary, gas and diesel cars and trucks fail . . . support President Trump's coal initiative. As many know, EVs move their CO{2} emissions to the nearest coal fired, power plant but home electrical bills are down, reducing the need for coal.

    Our State needs EVs to counter how LED lights and and efficient appliances that have decreased electricity demand. Coal fired plants are shutting down because there is less demand. Fortunately, an EV can easily add enough to electrical bills to more than make up for the lost loads of older, less efficient appliances. So lets have more EVs, especially from those who support Trump's plan to add coal jobs.

    The 'Bambi lovin' EV owners join Trump supporters with EVs to pay higher electrical bills and thus support coal job recovery.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    A different problem because during the business day, the EV is not home to absorb the energy. Yes, solar helps the home owner's bill but so too do LED lights and efficient appliances. A solar home is perfectly happy to have a gas/diesel vehicle as the EV won't be there.

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    It was meant to be humor ... but aside from the failed wisecrack some people do work from home. Not too dissimilar, I get home around 1:40pm leaving a good 4 hours in the summer to absorb a charge, & usually over produce PV - so that my reverse running meter offsets the forward running later in the evening. Then there are the many shift workers, not leaving the house till 2 in the afternoon, and the vampires of society, graveyard shift. They too, are robbing the coal industry. Then there are retired people which I hope to be in a couple years. Speaking of the business day, have you seen how many big box stores, Nordstrom, Kohl's, Costco, walmart ect, that have PV on their roofs? Depriving the poor coal miners? Not to mention lots of the public schools around here? See? I have blown fresh / renewable wind into the sails of my humor. We need to find a way to make coal driven sailboats.
    (grins)
    Humor aside, I do understand the need to explain things in single syllable words to our (all too often) lowbrow politicians.
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    Sometimes I forget that some folks have no sense of humor:

    Your thread Letter to the editor in Alabama was deleted. Reason: political posts not permitted
    Yesterday at 8:00 PM
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    From another forum.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    Coach Tuberville for Abalama Senate is both political and humorous.

    Get those truck tubes out on the river, painted up with

    Tubers for Tuberville!!!
     
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    Less a brand than a direct porting of AUBURN sports goodness to highest levels of US Legislation. River tubers could make this happen because Doug Jones only has some rapper song that most radio won't play.

    I apologize to BobW for ruining his perfectly good thread. To a degree.

    BobW, you have an intriguing notion but it needs to be marketed much higher.
     
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