Sparks Are Flying

A rare moment in politics is when both sides agree on an issue. It's pretty rare but we have one in the adoption of EV. One side wants to do it to save the planet and the other to reduce need for foreign oil. Yes the means are different but the end is the same and that is what matters.

The Senate got together last week and put up nearly $4B for EV adoption including a plan to get 400K cars on the road in the next three years. Not all folks are happy about this (see Wash Post article previously in this Blog). Interestingly enough some folks in the auto industry are worried that they will now be responsible for upstream emissions (what comes out of the power plant) since their cars will be getting fed from the grid instead of the pump. That's a fair fear on their part as they are already getting hammered on MPG standards as it is. No reason to believe it won't come up in the future. Hopefully when EVs become more of a standard then an exception the Senate will not be struck by selective memory.