Re: EVs Pure Electric Vehicles

Thanks for adding some number sense to my reply to the post asking for inexpensive EV's. I knew there had to be a vast difference in the total cost of owning and operating an EV compared to the average new car or truck. I just wish the auto industry would resign itself to change as quickly as possible. I think many alternatives are already available here in California. I feel the pain of the post from Texas because I am from there. I chose to change careers twenty years ago when the oil industry job I had went away with reductions in national decreases in prospecting for oil. I have always suspected that the majors wanted to control the price of oil by limiting our country's supply. You may not be aware that there were 33 different oil companies ten years ago here in California. Now, there are only 11 or less, and in that same time no new refineries have been built. In fact, in Texas, in my home town of Port Arthur, the onetime largest refinery in the world (that my father worked at for almost 50 years) which was a TEXACO operation, has been in the possession of a Saudi oil company for almost ten years now.

The seeds of change have been sown, but the herbicides are powerful. Powerful people can crush anything, but not everything if enough of us use our buying power to support green alternatives.

I happen to be related to a person featured in the "Who Killed The Electric Car" movie. His role is in developing hydrogen fuel at Shell. I had my first job twenty-seven years ago doing seismic data processing. My former father-in-law is an oil prospector in Texas. My father worked for Texaco for almost fifty years in shipping refinery products. I have a basic degree in Physics. I have worked for the last twenty years with medical physics specialists in various places fighting cancer with selective doses of radiation. This is how I came to be here in California. I hope to support green technology as it emerges here in California with my own spending habits. My wife and I now own a Honda Civic Hybrid. I would like to own a Phoenix SUT as my next vehicle. We may have an ability next year to purchase one when they go into mass production. I believe that CNG cars and trucks with plug in hybrid electric motors could be a much better alternative to gasoline/electric hybrids. THAT technology is already available. Someone just needs to get the two together.