It's almost here... Whoo Hooo! You can stop and charge up your plug in hybrid every 40-60 miles on fast charger, only 20-30 min each time to get an 80% charge. Can you see the sarcasm dripping from my words?

This article says it costs $1.32 million dollars for the project. Another article said to build eight charging stations along the Southern part of Interstate 5 will run $700,000. But don't worry, that's only stimulus money... its free. The article says there's only about 50 cars in the whole state that can use these, but if we build them they will come! No mention about how much energy is used or how slow these cars will go driving over the mountain passes. Or if you get caught in a winter storm as a friend did last week. How will you keep your car idling to stay warm? He was stuck in traffic for 6 hours. I'm really glad he had an internal combustion engine to keep from freezing while he waited for the accident ahead to be cleared and get going again. We probably have tens of thousands of cars and trucks going up and down Interstate 5 every day. Even if the charging stations were running non-stop, 24/7 they wouldn't service enough cars to be significantly measureable.

Welcome to the future... and what some hope to be the death knell of our beloved hobby.

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