I stand corrected. They *were* going away.
- Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:07 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who said horses are going away ? > https://imgur.com/a/THSzeLu > > Peri > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Mark Abramowitz via EV" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Mark Abramowitz" <[email protected]> > Sent: 18-Mar-20 4:23:07 PM > Subject: Re: [EVDL] more: How Coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting EVs ... > >> Horses were going away because of battery electrics, and had it not been for >> the bicycle industry, we would have been driving BEVs all these years. >> >> - Mark >> >> Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone >> >>>> On Mar 18, 2020, at 3:28 PM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: >>>> I am amazed at how wrong we were. We always thought that the scarcity of >>>> Oil would make the consumer price so high that EV's were inevitable. >>>> >>>> Now the reality is that the price is so low that it is not economical to >>>> frack or drill for it. >>>> >>>> Eventually, the price will be low because no one will take it. (but then >>>> the ICE owners will just keep on going...) >>> >>> Remember, gasoline was chosen as an ICE fuel a hundred years ago, precisely >>> because it was useless for anything else, and thus *cheap*. >>> >>> People won't stop using it until it is no longer cheaper than the >>> alternatives. But due to a century of mass-production, there is a lifetime >>> supply of old ICE cars, and old wells, refineries, factories, and >>> businesses that are already paid for that will just keep on churning them >>> out for the rest of our lives. >>> >>> Horses did not go away just because ICEs came along. >>> >>> Lee Hart >>> -- >>> If you would not be forgotten >>> When your body's dead and rotten >>> Then write of great deeds worth the reading >>> Or do these great deeds, worth repeating >>> -- Ben Franklin, from Poor Richard's Almanac >>> -- >>> Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, http://www.sunrise-ev.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >>> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html >>> INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >>> Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html >> INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >> > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
