Post by plasticone on Jan 23, 2010 18:34:38 GMT -5
CARTA To Install Charging Stations In Parking Garages For Nissan Leaf Owners
By the time Nissan makes its new LEAF hatchbacks available to Chattanooga drivers late this year, CARTA parking garages will be equipped with charging stations for use by owners of electric vehicles (EV), officials said Thursday. www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_167219.asp
I hope this isn't going to be another taxpayer funded greenie giveaway, but it certainly sounds like it will be.
I have to question who is paying for the installations?
Who will be paying for the coal we need to burn to make the electricity to put into the Leaf at these charging stations?
Are they going to have Leaf reserved parking only near these charging stations? (With the appropriate fines of course for those who do not wish to bow down the green machine and park in their space)
Are they also going to install some gas pumps for me in case I need to get a splash before I go? (Of course I will need a reserved space by the pump)
Explanations that this won't cost us anything because it comes from a Federal, State, or Local Government Grant doesn't hold water because those entities do not generate any funds, they only take mine, call it theirs and pass it out to their favored recipients. In the end I am the one footing the bill.
I am sure may people would be aghast that I would think there is anything wrong with this announcement.
By the time Nissan makes its new LEAF hatchbacks available to Chattanooga drivers late this year, CARTA parking garages will be equipped with charging stations for use by owners of electric vehicles (EV), officials said Thursday. www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_167219.asp
I hope this isn't going to be another taxpayer funded greenie giveaway, but it certainly sounds like it will be.
I have to question who is paying for the installations?
Who will be paying for the coal we need to burn to make the electricity to put into the Leaf at these charging stations?
Are they going to have Leaf reserved parking only near these charging stations? (With the appropriate fines of course for those who do not wish to bow down the green machine and park in their space)
Are they also going to install some gas pumps for me in case I need to get a splash before I go? (Of course I will need a reserved space by the pump)
Explanations that this won't cost us anything because it comes from a Federal, State, or Local Government Grant doesn't hold water because those entities do not generate any funds, they only take mine, call it theirs and pass it out to their favored recipients. In the end I am the one footing the bill.
I am sure may people would be aghast that I would think there is anything wrong with this announcement.
