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Originally Posted by PontiacBixler
No one has thought about the consequences yet of what CJ THUNDER just said....
If people think that they are going to be able to go somewhere and just plug in without paying anything for it, they are going to be sorely mistaken.
You really think your employer is going to soak up the cost of recharging your car for you to come to work and go home??? You really think malls and stores are going to make outlets available for people to recharge their cars on the mall's dime?
Some places do already offer outlets but only for engine block heaters which don't take as much juice as these cars will need.
Don't be surprised if they make a toll based parking area that you have to pay a pretty penny to recharge a battery at the simplest of places.
People seem to forget that they have to pay for electricity sometimes when they make purchases. All these people also went out and bought widescreen HDTVs that actually use more juice than their old tube-styled TV's and now wonder why their bill each month went up by $10-$30 in some cases.
Just wait for the backlash when people's monthly bills go up over $200/month more because they now plug in their cars at night or their raises at their jobs are smaller than previous years because of added cost from outlets out in the parking lot.
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A lot of the big employers are starting to encourage the use of green technologies. IBM here in RTP, NC have preferred parking for electric vehicles. They even offer free electricity to charge up the vehicles. I wouldn't be suprised to see more business that have campuses or own their own buildings.
I think your doom and gloom about huge electricity is a little premature. Also, if my electric bill only went up $120/month, I would still save money as I spend $160 or more in gas. As more and more plug-in vehicles come on the market, I'm sure the electric companies will come up with a way to let them charge up cheaply, because most vehicles would charge at night during a period where energy producers have to "vent off" the extra electricity that is produced.