An incomprehensibly, incomparably, extortionate number of dollars will be needed
to see local grids, transformers, power stations and transmission lines completed
to provide the power to feed the millions of roadside and homebound charger stations
to meet the eight year goal that half of all new cars sold to be electric across the nation.
And yes it will be costly sayeth our Energy Department, excess of 125 billion needed
and many more dollars than that for larger infrastructure upgrades to be completed,
and all that only to support a meager ten percent more electric cars to be on the road.
Plus costly new rules for specialized steel for new transformers to carry heavier loads.
We’ll need grid upgrades far north of trillions of dollars, imports of nickel and copper
and other assortments of minerals and metals for electrical upgrades all to be proper.
So I ask – where be the wise wizards who’ll make this all happen? They’ll all be hiding!
When things go bad the plan will be to simply draw less from the grid. Ration your driving!
(The Random Poet:05282023
www.therandompoet.com)