It is a stupid argument on many levels. It takes 5 to 6 kwh of electricity to refine gasoline. An electric vehicle can travel 16 to 20 miles on that much power. So it is close to a wash in that regard, however, refiners make their own power so unless they feed the grid it will still need to come from existing electric plants so it would be a net increase. It take on average 911 kwh a month to run a house and average of 35 gallons a month per person in gasoline use. That would increase you electric use by 175kwh per person or 20%. Since the grid supplies far more power in the daytime than at night and most people charge there cars at night I would say there would not be much impact to the grid. In reality though, all people are not going to switch to electric are once so it will be gradual. It the switched all at once the bigger issue would be out of work petroleum workers.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------From: K O via EV <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/2016 12:55 AM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] confirmation on thie info please This fellows numbers don't seem right to me, but I don't carry stats around in my headaccurate? or not?Phil Boettge The US uses 33% of its electrical capacity for industrial purposes. Of its industrial uses, 16% are for refining petroleum products. So 5.3% of the US electrical capacity is used for refining petroleum.Replacing all of America's cars with all-electric vehicles would increase American electrical demand by 21.7 to 43.4 percent, depending on whether one accepts 6 or 3 miles per kilowatt. So replacing internal combustion engines with all-electric ones would use 4 to 8 times as much electricity as refining petroleumChoose Love, KO I don't shop where I can't charge. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160313/6a331e9b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160313/93d94814/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
