What do you all think of Electric Vehicles?

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Just remember that they're not powered by unicorn farts and rainbows - they use ELECTRICITY, which comes from...well, that depends on where you live and your local power plant.  But when I hear snowflakes talking about them, they see the upside and none of the downside, and forget that charging them uses electricity...like coal-power, or nuclear-power, or whatever.  They seem to think that electricity is magic or something.  Oh, and then to set up a charging station in your home is fairly expensive; and then to charge it up isn't exactly free either.  If you live somewhere like CA where electricity is quite expensive, your will will go up substantially to do this.

Once I left CA, it was SHOCKING to me how expensive electricity was.  It's like 1/6 of the price here in SC.  We pay about ⅓ of what we used to, in a bigger house, with more weather extremes (we previously lived in San Diego and didn't use heating or A/C for at least half of the year); and we had a huge amount of solar before, and it's still SO much less expensive here.

I think that most people who buy these vehicles understand that they're going to be spending a bit more money with at least a bit more inconvenience factored in.  They see it as being pro-environmental and worth the cost.  The production of electricity is not without its problems but overall it's a cleaner alternative to gasoline powered vehicles.