• EV are going to hurt everyone wallet

    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 23 09:27:43 2023
    whether you buy one or not.

    "true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying $17.33 per gallon of gasoline."

    When ICE owners pay for a gallon of gasoline, the report says, they are paying for the "entire infrastructure to refine, transport and market that gasoline."

    "When an EV owner connects to the electric grid, how much are they paying for the extra generation, transmission, and distribution costs that they are imposing on the grid, and will those embedded costs rise over time?"

    PG&E just received approval for their next year rate structure that amounts to a 400$ annual increase for the average utility bill.
    They largely pointed to "infrastructure" investment as the reason for this fat increase.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Fri Nov 24 09:13:11 2023
    On 11/23/23 11:27 AM, ScottW wrote:
    whether you buy one or not.

    "true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying
    $17.33 per gallon of gasoline."

    Well, they have a long way to go to catch up with over a century of
    fossil fuel subsidies.

    When ICE owners pay for a gallon of gasoline, the report says, they
    are paying for the "entire infrastructure to refine, transport and
    market that gasoline."

    "When an EV owner connects to the electric grid, how much are they
    paying for the extra generation, transmission, and distribution
    costs that they are imposing on the grid, and will those embedded
    costs rise over time?"

    Report = back-of-the-envelope math

    Jalopnik is on it:

    https://jalopnik.com/fossil-fuel-think-tank-electricity-costs-17-per-gallon-1850990794

    The author refers to your third paragraph as "outright lies," continuing:

    "A gallon of gasoline is directly subsidized in a number of ways. Some estimates indicate the American taxpayer populace is spending around 20
    billion dollars per year in direct fossil fuel subsidies...

    The national security costs of reliance on foreign oil are extremely
    expensive indirect subsidies to internal combustion engine cars. The
    health and medical costs of poor air quality are some pretty huge hidden
    costs to gas and diesel vehicles."

    What "extra generation" do you mean?

    Since you didn't cite the origin of this "report" I'm not surprised you
    didn't name the authors or their oil industry-funded think tank.

    PG&E just received approval for their next year rate structure that
    amounts to a 400$ annual increase for the average utility bill. They
    largely pointed to "infrastructure" investment as the reason for
    this fat increase.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/pg-e-utility-bills-in-california-will-soar-to-help-pay-for-wildfire-protections/ar-AA1k3HSE

    "PG&E said 85% of the increase was to improve safety in its gas and
    electric operations."

    By "infrastucture," PG&E means burying or installing protective covering
    on power lines.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 24 09:02:49 2023
    On Friday, November 24, 2023 at 7:13:17 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 11/23/23 11:27 AM, ScottW wrote:
    whether you buy one or not.

    "true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying
    $17.33 per gallon of gasoline."
    Well, they have a long way to go to catch up with over a century of
    fossil fuel subsidies.
    When ICE owners pay for a gallon of gasoline, the report says, they
    are paying for the "entire infrastructure to refine, transport and
    market that gasoline."

    "When an EV owner connects to the electric grid, how much are they
    paying for the extra generation, transmission, and distribution
    costs that they are imposing on the grid, and will those embedded
    costs rise over time?"
    Report = back-of-the-envelope math

    Jalopnik is on it:

    https://jalopnik.com/fossil-fuel-think-tank-electricity-costs-17-per-gallon-1850990794

    The author refers to your third paragraph as "outright lies," continuing:

    "A gallon of gasoline is directly subsidized in a number of ways. Some estimates indicate the American taxpayer populace is spending around 20 billion dollars per year in direct fossil fuel subsidies...

    The national security costs of reliance on foreign oil are extremely expensive indirect subsidies to internal combustion engine cars. The
    health and medical costs of poor air quality are some pretty huge hidden costs to gas and diesel vehicles."

    What "extra generation" do you mean?

    Since you didn't cite the origin of this "report" I'm not surprised you didn't name the authors or their oil industry-funded think tank.
    PG&E just received approval for their next year rate structure that amounts to a 400$ annual increase for the average utility bill. They largely pointed to "infrastructure" investment as the reason for
    this fat increase.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/pg-e-utility-bills-in-california-will-soar-to-help-pay-for-wildfire-protections/ar-AA1k3HSE

    "PG&E said 85% of the increase was to improve safety in its gas and
    electric operations."

    By "infrastucture," PG&E means burying or installing protective covering
    on power lines.

    They already had a fat rate increase to bury some main high voltage lines.
    They got the money...but the lines remain overhead.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Fri Nov 24 12:56:54 2023
    On 11/24/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Friday, November 24, 2023 at 7:13:17 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 11/23/23 11:27 AM, ScottW wrote:
    whether you buy one or not.

    "true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying
    $17.33 per gallon of gasoline."

    Debunked.

    PG&E just received approval for their next year rate structure that
    amounts to a 400$ annual increase for the average utility bill. They
    largely pointed to "infrastructure" investment as the reason for
    this fat increase.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/pg-e-utility-bills-in-california-will-soar-to-help-pay-for-wildfire-protections/ar-AA1k3HSE

    "PG&E said 85% of the increase was to improve safety in its gas and
    electric operations."

    By "infrastucture," PG&E means burying or installing protective covering
    on power lines.

    They already had a fat rate increase to bury some main high voltage lines. They got the money...but the lines remain overhead.

    The kindest way to read this uncited claim is to assume you remember the
    PG&E proposed increase from February of last year and think it already
    went into effect.

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