Welcome to Canada, the land of free roads, cheap gas – and the world’s least fuel-eff

[cropgrower]

A phone that you can hold in your hand does way more than a computer that took 1000sq ft room to fit into 50 years ago.I expect battery technology is going to take leaps and bounds in efficiency in the next few years.

Garbage , Batterys are getting worse , 15 or 20 years ago Tractor and vehicle batterys lasted way longer than they are now

[Guest]

A phone that you can hold in your hand does way more than a computer that took 1000sq ft room to fit into 50 years ago.I expect battery technology is going to take leaps and bounds in efficiency in the next few years.

I always expect you to acknowledge reality , but you never do ?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Garbage , Batterys are getting worse , 15 or 20 years ago Tractor and vehicle batterys lasted way longer than they are now

I'm not sure that has anything to do with the batteries themselves. The amount of parasitic drains on newer trucks and equipment keeps increasing with the added electronics. New batteries seem to last just as long in older equipment without electronics.

And lead acid batteries have little in common with Li-Ion batteries.

[Hamloc]

A phone that you can hold in your hand does way more than a computer that took 1000sq ft room to fit into 50 years ago.I expect battery technology is going to take leaps and bounds in efficiency in the next few years.

The article Chuck2 cut and pasted was all about the need to raise the road tax higher on gasoline to pay for roads. There is no road tax on electricity. Switching to EV’s will make the problem far worse. What is the solution?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The article Chuck2 cut and pasted was all about the need to raise the road tax higher on gasoline to pay for roads. There is no road tax on electricity. Switching to EV’s will make the problem far worse. What is the solution?

While at the same time there will be even more need for even higher road tax to pay for the increasing damage from the increasing weight of the electric vehicles.

[fjlip]

Sock it to EV with high road taxes, parking costs, charger cost, triple or more electrical transmission costs....soon F it, too expensive!

[jazz]

Free roads bad, free health care good, and both suck.

[Hamloc]

Sock it to EV with high road taxes, parking costs, charger cost, triple or more electrical transmission costs....soon F it, too expensive!

A bit of a story. Was looking at my daughter’s electricity bill. She said it seemed a bit high. She was on the variable rate plan which fluctuates with market conditions. The majority of her power she payed 18.7 cent/kilowatt and some of it she payed 27.6 cents/kwh. Long story short with Transmission and Distribution charges all in she payed 35 cents a kilowatt! Holy smokes. Now of course Chuck2 and Newguy will attack Alberta’s privately owned utilities. I guess it could be publicly owned and subsidized. Plugging in the fixed rate I am on the cost would be 21.60 cents per kilowatt. Regardless, with all the bragging Chuck2 does about all the wind and solar Alberta is adding to the grid electricity should be cheap shouldn’t it? Hmmm, in Alberta on the variable rate option which reflects market conditions apparently not!!! Government wrong again!! What a shock🤪

[Hamloc]

You are a carbon copy of chuck. This is his solution every time someone points out a problem in the here and now. Some yet to be developed pie in the sky technology, defying the laws of physics and economics.
Have you considered merging your two accounts into one in the name of efficiency? You both sing from the same hymnal.

Are you sure they aren’t the same person? Both seem to have disappeared from this debate!?

[furrowtickler]

The loony tunes must be at their summer retreat getting new talking points from Trudeau.
They will all magically show up all at once in a few days. Just like before, they all disappear then all show up on here the same day signing the same tune as every talking point from the Feds and MSM . Rinse wash repeat and troll away

Or ……. They all got “sun poisoning” and are in hospital recovering