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the fifteenth. Nick Miles, who runs a fabulous business helping people decide what
to buy, how to fix their cars, what to do to take care
of them insurance wise. All kinds of things are there at our autoexpert dot
com. I noticed that the Department of Transportation has announced millions, hundreds of
millions of dollars in grants to support EV charging infrastructure, which has been one
of the things Nicky, you and I have talked about the fact that there
aren't these places across the country. So now the taxpayer is going to support
electric vehicles by putting up charging infrastructure stations around the country or at least paying
for them. There are forty seven projects in twenty two states. The emphasis
is on rural areas, underserved communities that for the most part don't want these
anyway, Seventy five hundred EV charging ports will come out of this, So
that would lead me to believe that costs ten almost ten million dollars, actually
more than ten million dollars if you do the math right for no, is
it ten million or one million? For whatever? It is ten million in
funding for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to build charging stages for people
living in multi family housing. Maryland Clean Energy Center is getting ninety ev charging
stations. Northern California gets fifteen million, Energy Northwest in Oregon gets fifteen million.
Up in Alaska they get one point four million. I don't know,
I just you know, this coupled with all of the hoopla at CEES last
week about electric vehicles and you know what there I was just talking to Holland
Cook, who was there last week helping us on our program understand what was
going on. You know, the concern they say they have for the environment.
Okay, So anyway, I'm off on a tute here, as I
have been on a number of things all morning. What's your read on all
of this? Well, it still comes down to that fundamental problem, Doug,
of the fact that if we reverse engineer this a little bit and look
at what would it be like if you could not transport gas to a gas
station and you had to run it in lines to the gas station, and
that's basically what you have to do with electricity. So anywhere you have electric
vehicles that need charging, you have to run cables there, and that's where
all the money is. And because the United States is so big, and
I think I might have said this before. If I leave my house on
the west coast of the United States and I fly east, and my sister
leaves her house in London and she flies to towards the United States, we
meet in New York. And that's how big America is. With the whole
of the travel time, I can't get out of America, versus the fact
that she can get across Europe, across Spain, across all these countries and
get to across Iceland and Greenland or and get to the United States. So
it's so massive that it just doesn't seem to make all that sense to dig
trenches and run new cables to power something that we're already powering with a different
energy source. And now we're learning the electricity may not be as environmentally friendly
as we first thought. It's still toxic with all of the waste. Until
they invent new ways to do these cars, we just seem to be just
adopting what Europe is doing and Asia is doing, and it probably isn't a
good idea. Well, it's followed the bouncing ball thinking and it's getting behind
something. Okay, this is a great movement. It's we have in our
philosophical point of view that is to save the atmosphere, keep things clean for
generations. As far as that goes, and there's a certain amount, there's
a certain limit to it, but there's a certain amount of truth to wanting
to keep the atmosphere clean or benefit maybe a better word than truth, is
a benefit obviously for all of us. And you can see how the air
in Los Angeles has changed and gotten much better over the years because of things
actions that they've taken there on cars. And so is that necessary everywhere?
Not if you're not in a really congested area like Los Angeles or New York
or Chicago or Saint Louis or any dal you know, the cities are not
spread out as much, so you do have that problem the highways, and
it's just it's kind of sticky. Yeah, go ahead. There are better
choices, Doug, And a lot of times we're choosing something because it benefits
a small group of people, not because it benefits the nation. For instance,
hydrogen is a lot better choice in a lot of places because we can
make that ourselves. We sport it in trucks, it's safe, it's efficient,
and it technically uses electricity as well. So ultimately, why aren't we
pushing hydrogen and putting all this money into that, which would be a much
better resident The farmers have it on tractors, trucks, Some trucks have it,
but it's been used more in farming than anything else. Great point,
hydrogen instead of electric. Let's think about that and where it goes in the
future. Nick milesroexpert dot Com is his website. The next Stefan Good Day
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