Horses were going away because of battery electrics, and had it not been for the bicycle industry, we would have been driving BEVs all these years.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Mar 18, 2020, at 3:28 PM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: >> I am amazed at how wrong we were. We always thought that the scarcity of >> Oil would make the consumer price so high that EV's were inevitable. >> >> Now the reality is that the price is so low that it is not economical to >> frack or drill for it. >> >> Eventually, the price will be low because no one will take it. (but then >> the ICE owners will just keep on going...) > > Remember, gasoline was chosen as an ICE fuel a hundred years ago, precisely > because it was useless for anything else, and thus *cheap*. > > People won't stop using it until it is no longer cheaper than the > alternatives. But due to a century of mass-production, there is a lifetime > supply of old ICE cars, and old wells, refineries, factories, and businesses > that are already paid for that will just keep on churning them out for the > rest of our lives. > > Horses did not go away just because ICEs came along. > > Lee Hart > -- > If you would not be forgotten > When your body's dead and rotten > Then write of great deeds worth the reading > Or do these great deeds, worth repeating > -- Ben Franklin, from Poor Richard's Almanac > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
