Our electrical grid is on the verge of collapse as it is. Imagine what will happen when everyone plugs their car in at 5:30-6:00 pm after work.
We've got other things to worry about in regards to our infrastructure before the government starts making dumb *** mandates that manufacturers can't meet due to the technology available today. The battery technology just is not there yet. The only way this could be viable on a large scale in the present day would be to have large photo-voltaic cell arrays everywhere someone parks their car during the day that could be tapped into. The cost would be astronomical and really only feasible in the southwest where we have buttloads of sunshine.
Our bridges, dams, levee's, power grid, water and sewer systems are on the verge of a third world country's. Why in the world we don't take every able bodied person on unemployment and welfare, pay them a couple bucks more an hour, train them and rebuild our country I just don't know. I'd do it and be damn proud of it.
It sure makes more sense than throwing money at failing mortgage/insurance companies so the CEOs can blast around in their private jets and rape the companies, shareholders and employees for millions in bonuses. I thought that's how capitalism is supposed to work? The company fails because it was mismanaged and another company that is not mismanaged reaps the benefits of additional customers?
Ok, I feel better now. :)
