hi all,

just dropped by to say hi. and to let you know that 2 weeks ago i was stopped behind a nissan leaf at a light.

today, a mitsubishi mi-ev was parked right beside me at the gym parking lot.

this indicates to me that saturation is getting to the point that the average joe is gonna start seeing them here and there.

this is an important stage of the snowball rolling down the hill.

i am here in california, where a large percentage of the evs are sold. so it may take a while longer in other states.

but the image of a fancy golf cart is quickly going out the window.

for all the rest of you, please understand that lack of technology has nothing to do with anything.

if our oil became polluted tomorrow to the point of non-use, the bigwigs would have evs to sell us at a price that we could afford faster than you can blink your eyes.

i was still young and naive during our oil crises. older people told me that we did not really have oil shortages, but i was scared that we might run out, and tried to do my best not to use as much.

i had just started driving. i look back and chuckle at how little i knew about how the real financial world works.

so much of our problems revolve around oil, that we just must simply get off it, one way or the other.

good luck to everyone.

hi chris,

thanks for the nice words. and i dont doubt that you are correct to a large degree.

i know the only way off oil is with bevs. and while i dont read most of the stuff, it is irritating to constantly see stuff about the volt, and stuff about range.

i tried to impart some words of wisdom, for those who were interested.

on the other site, i just can look at the bev progress. that is all i need to know, regarding if and when we get off oil.

as a systems analyst, my job was to design a system to meet the goal. the sad fact is that there is tons of resistance towards the goal of getting off oil.

which is why we have the system as it is, today.

john,

i suspect that even you would be happy if you are wrong.

and i will certainly be disappointed if you are correct.

i will still stop by once in awhile.

since i am not really gonna ever meet you for dinner, i can not make you a dinner bet.

but i am happy to make it a gentlemen's bet.

as i told chris and others, i am sticking to my guns.

and will be more than happy to admit i was incorrect in 10 years, if that is the case, and i am lucky enough to still be alive.

hi robok2,

i was not aware of the northern city until after the long beach downey thing. that went on for over a year.

i simply believe in a high code of ethics in business dealings.

for example, in my personal life, i do not go to store A to get information, knowing for sure that i will go somewhere else to buy.

i dont say that musk is the only business person like he is. in fact, i would not be surprised to find that the majority of big businesses operate this way.

just like politicians - say whatever they need to, in order to get the results they want.

the ends do not justify the means. and it will be a sorry site indeed, if the majority of us humans start adopting/accepting that it does.

jv,

it is not important what sort of car i own.

but a couple days ago, i answered that question to xi, which i have answered quite a few times here.

i have no bias towards any particular car. i want to get off oil, so not interested in cars that burn gas.

i no longer care what sort of format you use, as i have found a site that i prefer, that has an area strictly for bevs, which is what i was asking of you.

good luck with your site.

short-lived in the sense that it is a technology that came out at the same time that a better technology is also coming out.

in terms of time frame, i am keeping to my 10-year prediction between evs and ices.

if evs do improve to that point, hybrid technology will be inconsequential.

again, good luck.

i forgot i was on the Gm Car Reports site

for those of you who have an interest in us getting off oil-

http://www.codaautomotive.com/electric-vehicle-blog/josh-tickell-qa/

you gotta be kidding !! what sort of disservice ?

the "rest of the site's readers" would not be limited in the slightest.

for those readers that were interested in gm and the volt, all they would have to do is click on the "hybrid" button.

that technology is short-lived at this point, and of no interest to me, and i bet many others on this site.

it would be an extremely simple thing to do - just adding another category.

but being the gm fancier that you are, i cant expect anything further from you.

musk lied to long beach and downey, and a northern california city before that.

that is his way of doing business.