Hilo gas prices continue to fall

[JWFITZ]

Thanks for the link Charles, I've now read it. I have to say that I'm made very uneasy by the lack of information in the article and I'd have to see a great deal more information before I felt I could strongly assert anything about what was learned there. The CO2 figures especially make no physical sense at all. I'm made pretty skeptical when it's asserted that a 600 cc micro car gets worse gas mileage than my Toyota Tacoma fully loaded, and it's compared to a EV that burns hardly any more electricity than my table saw. It doesn't add up, until one factors in the reality that there is a great deal of subsidies and grant money out there for alternative tech, and it's generally given away by political sorts who are technically illiterate.

I guess I'd say if state of the art EV is getting that good, there's really no point trying to promote it. You'll see EV formula 1 soon, and everyone will eagerly jump at the chance. The fact is, however, it just ain't so.

I'm not new to EV design. I raced EV kit cars in my teen years and knew the workings of all that stuff and it's limitations as well as any. Nothing has changed much in tech since then. I've also been involved in EV conversion for sailboat auxiliary. There are those who choose to do so, but rarely even in those cases is it a very sensible--in terms of efficiency, proposition. Storage is the key. Batteries are expensive, and there's a lot of non-renewables in those renewables.