????? Hi from Pete Amar in Fort Pierce on the central East coast. Some municipalities run their own utility companies, such as Fort Pierce, Vero Beach, and Lake Worth. So it should be viable for some municipalities to offer pay as you charge outlets. For others that really want to offer charging, I imagine that prompting from the highest city or county officials might help to convince the local power provider to install a charge system or enter into some type of an agreement with the city or county.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????? Bye from Pete Amar. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 2:42 pm Subject: [FLEAA] reselling electric > > Hi Michele and All, > > I believe only utilities can sell > electricity in Fla so you might want to check that out > before buying meters. Of course I don't think the electric > company will mess with those whom give them their Ok to do > business. Or since they are the only ones, shame, reqire > them into putting charging outlets in various places. > Generally for quite a while the cost of > charging EV's until there are more of them, is not going to > be worth the cost, hassle to collect it. If an EV charge > point spent more than $10/month on it's electric, probably > much less, I'd be surprised. > In my last, next EV I get 100mile range > on $1.10 of electricity. Cities generally pay less by about > 1/2 of that for electric, not worth charging for in the next > say 5 yrs. By then the law should be changed and enough EV's > to make charging pay for it's equipment, labor, bookkeeping. > Jerry Dycus those laws were written by utility companies to keep people from doing business. I think there could be a way around it. If the electricity was stored in batteries or collected by the sun you could argue that you have already purchased the electricty so therefore can do with it as you wish. Software and music companies had in there EULA that you could not resell the software or music. This was argued through the courts and the courts determined that if you purchase something then you have the right to do with it as you wish. Yes the arguement can be made that you could not resell the electricty that is constantly coming into your house/business but then again, you are buying the electrons so once they pass the electric meter you should be ABLE to do what you want with them. Heck, the electric company says that they will only repair the electric lines up to your meter, and after that is the property owners responsibility. So the electric that passes the meter should also no longer be under control by the electric company and the person should be able to do with it as they chose, even to sell the electrons that were legally purchased from the electric company. _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
